Wedding Gift Amount Deemed Insufficient

PhoneCardLady

I was in the dr's office when I heard this, this morning.  My jaw fell like E F Hutton.  Apparently the bridezilla had not made a budget for her wedding and went WAY over....

Peledreamsofrain

I dunno, if I recieved a message with a passive aggressive question like this, I'd be tempted to pretend to miss the point and answer the question.

In this case, I'd list everything that I found substandard or that in my estimation went wrong or was lacking about the wedding. Hey, she asked.

annathy03

Hahaha, that's great Pele! I think I'd be too mad to respond. Also, wedding cost aside, who the blazes gives $400/couple at a wedding? I'm curious how many other guests from that wedding got a similar message. I've certainly never gifted that much and would be shocked to receive that amount from anyone, let alone everyone!

thisismynickname2

Not only do I live among "cover your plate" believers, one coworker of mine actually said "Well, we always give $250-$300 as a couple because when we get married we know we'll get it back." Um.  Well how about we just stop giving each other gifts so the money can just stop changing hands already?

A friend's then-future MIL threw her an obnoxiously large bridal shower that she didn't want (she's incredibly shy and introverted), with people she didn't know (all from MIL's neighborhood) because the MIL had to attend all her friends' daughters' showers, so now it was "her turn".  She gave the friends' daughters gifts and now the friends had to give her future DIL gifts.  Sigh.