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Originally Posted by DubaiSis
Let's face it, wedding gifts are all about the money, so getting it in dishes or godawful lavender EMBROIDERED bath towels (with our names, so no, I couldn't return them for cash) or one of 4 picnic baskets, it's about helping you set up your marital shop which costs money. In a lot of places, the bride and groom get almost strictly cash, so at least funding their honeymoon feels a LITTLE more personal.
I try to make quilts for family and close friends, but of course that's not something you can do for just anybody! But it's financially cheap and they remember it forever.
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Yeah the anti-cash thing is a pretty western or perhaps at this point purely American sense of 'tackiness.' It's sometimes
the traditional gift.
If someone got snippy over me not buying them a gift from their registry, I'd be offended, but I don't much care otherwise. I give gifts that I think people would enjoy. If they tell me what they do enjoy, well all the better, I at least have something to work from.
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