The Wedding Gift
June wedding season is here. Perhaps you brides and grooms out there are wondering: Will your guests be able to afford anything on your registry?
Brides.com and the Associated Press set out to find out in a new poll released this week.
Good news for you soon-to-be newlyweds: An overwhelming majority of the 1,000 random people polled across the country said they are still giving gifts to brides and grooms. In fact, 90 percent of respondents who had attended a wedding recently bought a gift.
The most popular price for a wedding gift was $100 to $199. The next popular price was $50 to $75.
That said, 70 percent of the respondents thought that the couple should not expect a gift from all their wedding guests.
Wedding guests were more frugal when it came to celebrations leading up to the wedding. Only 10 percent said they bought a gift for the engagement party and 37 percent for the bridal shower.
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Nancy Trejos
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June 16, 2009; 12:00 PM ET
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Another good question to ask your Small Change readers is whether they make decisions to actually ATTEND those weddings based on financial concerns. For example, out-of-town weddings can get expensive, when you add in the airfares, hotel and the price of a gift. My guess, based on a non-scientific survey, is that people are declining out-of-town wedding invitations at a higher rate.
But I'd like to know what other Small Change readers have to say.
Other opinions? Or examples? Write in, folks!