I work in Purchasing and I manage contracts/pricing on raw materials for a large manufacturer. I've worked with one of my suppliers for about 10 years now.
He called yesterday and wanted to give me a wedding gift. The gift would be partly personal on his part and partly from his company. He wants me to use $500 however I want, but is hoping that I take my extended family to a nice dinner. All I have to do is call him with the place & day and he'll call in with his credit card number to take care of the bill. He also mentioned something about putting it towards my catering bill if I'd like.
Holy cow! $500!! That's unbelieveable! But here's the problem...my work has a policy that I don't think is enforced all that strictly about taking gifts over a certain amount and $500 is definitely over that amount. For a number of reasons, I'm already job hunting and am trying to leave my current employer.
I don't know if I should take him up on his offer. What would you do? $500 would take care of ALL of my catering bill! My wedding budget is only $2500 and that includes our family moon after. $500 is a big part of my entire budget. But that policy is looming over me. I don't have any co workers that I trust enough with this information to ask their advice.
Ironically, the night before this conversation (the night of our flood) FI and I were talking about calling off our 'big' wedding and just going down to the courthouse because of all the non wedding expenses that are popping up and we could really use that money elsewhere. I prayed that God would give me a sign on what I should do. The next morning, I get this phone call from my supplier. Is it the sign I was looking for?? Not sure.