How much do you typically give for wedding gifts these days? It’s been a few years since we’ve been to a wedding, so I’m not sure the standard anymore. I believe we would give $100/pp a few years back ($200 as a couple). For reference, we are two working professionals with well paying jobs.

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I think this is wildly based on location and how close you are. where do you live?

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sorry i know this is delayed. i’m from philly but live in nyc now. my starting gift is typically 150pp, if it’s a couple that only me or my fiancé really know we maybe do 250 total instead of 150pp, completely different ball game when it’s a close friend and that can go up a ton (we gave either $400 or $500 at a philly wedding last year but we both knew both of them extremely well) and one of our closest friends just got married and we gifted 3x that. id say from what i generally see 150 for a single and $250-300 for a couple is average without taking the rest into consideration

Search the search bar and you’ll get a lot of answers. I got married last year and the average was probably $100 per person, maybe slightly less.

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I give what I anticipate the cost of the meal would be + 100$ pp

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Maybe it’s 150$ per meal so I give 250$

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This whole equivalent of the meal thing need to stop. I have no idea who came up with that. Are you going to cover the bar, too? What about tax and tip? Would you really gift your best friend less because she is having barbecue and beer and wine versus an aquantaince who is having a sit-down black tie dinner eith open bar?

The couple is not inviting people to recoup the cost of the wedding in gifts. All that said, I would think $ 200 to $250 is in range. You might also look at her gift registry.

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SC1 Oh, no expectation of others to do that. My expectation is that you come, you have fun, and drink as much as you can (open bar) without ruining the wedding. Gifts are a plus :)

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I order off the registry??? I am in my late 20s and single. Gifting a dual income couple who each make as much or more than me $100 seems like a lot

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Just recently married, that seemed to be the range of what we got from non relatives. We also had a wedding where at least 60% were traveling far enough they spent the night. Not sure if that matters, but it does up the cost of attendance. Although thinking about it, I don't think there was any real difference between in town versus out of town gifting.

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