Wedding Gift Etiquette Guide

[rob62521]

SmartMoney article on Wedding Gift Etiquette Guide:

The Wedding Gift Etiquette Guide (Deal of the Day: Personal Finance) at SmartMoney.com


Having been invited to a couple of weddings of distant family -- one gal was a cousin's daugher whom we had never met -- we bought her something from the registry and sent it before the wedding which was almost a year ago and we still have not received a thank you note.

[ScrimpAndSave]

That is odd...but does it really bother you?

[vsjhoc]

It drives me crazy when I give a gift to a "young person" and don't get a thank you note, or the note I get is so terse and impersonal that you just know that a parent nagged them into writing it.

Am I old fashioned?

[FrugalFish]

Yeah, that really bugs me when someone can't be bothered to send a thank you note for a gift- especially when they could sure send the announcement/invitation out quick enough!

I sent a wedding gift to my mom's ex's DD a few months back. I'm very disappointed to have not gotten so much as a 1 line thank you card. It's not necessarily the whole propriety thing either- if they don't acknowledge it, how do I know that they even got it? If they didn't get it, I could have filed a claim with Fed Ex. It seems awkward to contact them to ask, so I haven't.

Makes it hard for me to buy the next gift, unless it's someone I'm very close to.

[rob62521]

It's gratifying to know we aren't the only ones who are disappointed when we don't receive a thank you note. That's not the reason we gave the gift, but it would be nice to have some appreciation shown.

[Mamaw]

An invitation to a wedding of someone you have never met also burns me. I received an invitation to the wedding of a neighbors daughter from another marriage. Didn't know she existed. She didn't live on this street.