Bridal Shower Gift

pittpoint1119

A college friend of mine is getting married in May and her shower is on Saturday. Another close friend of ours will be going to the shower as well and asked if I wanted to go in on a shower gift. We are both planning weddings, paying off school loans, and searching for jobs since we just graduated with our masters degrees with that being said we don't really have much money to spend. We wanted to know how much we should roughly spend about. We have to drive about 2 hours to the shower from our home town, as well the wedding is in the same location. We weren't sure how much to spend without seeming cheap. Some of the things she has on the registry are preety pricy to say the least. We all went to undergraduate together and have stayed in touch as we all went to different graduate schools.

Kristin789

Maybe $50 gift ($25 each).
This might give you more of an idea of how much people spend:

http://community.thenest.com/cs/ks/forums/thread/64164517.aspx?MsdVisit=1

Avion22

I think going in on a gift is a great idea.   $50 ($25 each) sound reasonable to me.  You can either do one big item in your price range, or lots of little items.  Maybe you could do a utensil crock with all of the utensils she's registered for and maybe a cook book with recipes you think she'll love?     Or a set of wine glasses and a nice bottle of wine?

jessicabessica

She will (hopefully) just be appreciative that you made the trip for her shower and won't care how much you spent on the gift.  Just spend what you can afford, even if that's one $20 item.  You can also "dress up" your gift by getting creative with presentation and personalize it a bit--wrap it in a colorful kitchen towel, attach a cute cookie cutter to a cookbook, etc.  

hoffse

In my circle $25/person is pretty typical unless the guest is a very close friend or family member of the bride.  I would be thrilled to get things in that price range at my shower, and I've been registering for things in that range to make it easy on guests.  If she has a lot of expensive things, I'd probably do $50 combined like Kristen suggested.

LeiselEB

Just figure out what each of you is comfortable spending, add that together and buy a gift around that amount. 

I'm aware of how much everything on my registry costs, but I'd never judge someone for buying one of the less expensive gifts. I'm sure the bride won't be tallying how much everyone spends as she opens her gifts- at least I hope not

lopezalonso

I would say 50-75 each. I always spend around 100 on a shower gift but that's the norm here in northern NJ.