as we can't fit gifts in our cases to travel home?
2007-02-20 18:05:42 · 17 answers · asked by shadow 2 in Family & Relationships ➔ Weddings
Get family and close friends to pass the word.
It worked for me.
Good Luck and Congratulations x
2007-02-20 18:22:16 · answer #1 · answered by tinkerbell 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Plain and simple there is no polite way to ask for cash. Etiquette dictates that you do not mention gifts anywhere on an invitation. While gifts are customary or traditional at weddings, guest are never obligated to give one.
To reduce the chance of getting gifts, don't register. Let your bridal party and family know that you would prefer monetary gifts. The only "polite" way to ask for money is by word of mouth.
2007-02-20 20:21:15 · answer #2 · answered by Just Jess 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when I got married my husband and I said we would appreciate money rather than gifts so we could buy things to make our home it would have been money they would have spent on gifts anyway so nobody minded
I would go with what Mark R said ...........
since we are traveling abroad we prefer to recieve money to help us start a better life this helps to lighten the load on our suitcases and our minds as we begin our marriage
2007-02-20 18:56:40 · answer #3 · answered by friendofb 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What about sending out an announcement that you cannot transport items home due to flying regulations and customs' issues and then tell everyone that you have set up an bank account for an alternative to gifts? (And of course, set up the account and include those details with your announcement) Then when you're ready to return home you can take a cashier's check with you - I'd leave the account open a while, though, for the late "gifters"
2007-02-20 18:09:55 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
In the invitation you could ask that they choose to add to a "down payment fund" (or some other financial goal), donate to a favored charity on your behalf, or provide gift cards for UK companies. But it's nice to provide them with the option of giving you something personal or traditional as well... some of them are going to do it anyway, so it's smart to make plans ahead to ship stuff back, etc.
2007-02-20 18:10:45 · answer #5 · answered by imnotachickenyoureaturkey 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i've got been to lots of small city weddings that have been cheeky for specific, yet one element all human beings had replaced right into a money container for human beings to adhere in money for the couple. I hated doing this to those I knew abused drugs, reason I knew it relatively is have been the money might bypass. in the experience that your travellers won't be in a position to do a registry on line, then in line with danger you may return the presents and hget the money in the previous going abode or have a kinfolk member there return them for you
2016-10-02 11:53:18 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
since we are traveling abroad we prefer to recieve money to help us start a better life this helps to lighten the load on our suitcases and our minds as we begin our marriage
2007-02-20 18:08:09 · answer #7 · answered by Mark R 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
at the bottom of the invitation just write gifts and next to it a little picci of an envelope
2007-02-20 18:09:52 · answer #8 · answered by looby 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
send them thank you cards or invitation card s...and say it in there in ur own words..i think that would be alot easier , otherwise i cant think of any other polite way to ask for cash...congrats and goodluck..
2007-02-20 18:54:27 · answer #9 · answered by Wow 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
at a wedding I attended impromptu, the bride and groom were dancing with the guests for a dollar a dance (each), my mother told me it was a way to ask for money with out actually saying it.
2007-02-20 18:15:08 · answer #10 · answered by LatterDaySaint and loving it 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋