bridal shower question

[4424]

hi all. how much do you typically spend on for a shower gift? is it the same as the wedding gift or a little less? thank you! i've never been to a shower before so i dont really know what goes on besides opening gifts!

[ladymelissa]

Any gift is whatever you want to give or can afford to give. I generally spend a little less on a shower gift though.

[Goin2thechapel]

I try to spend less on a shower gift and more at the wedding. Go by her registry. If she has very expensive things on it, think about a giftcard. Remember, only spend what you can afford!!!!

[shawnsgirl]

I have to agree I always go with the a less expensive shower gift off of the registry and if there isn't anything on the registry that I can find for a nice wedding present I like to give a nice cash gift for the wedding gift. By the time the wedding is over who doesn't like extra cash in their pockets right?

[Kacie_bride]

It really depends on what you want and can do. For me it also depends on how well I know the person and how close we are. For instance, I am more likely to spend more money on my best friend than maybe just an acquantaince.

For my wedding most people just got me a shower gift (if they came or where invited to the shower) and not a wedding gift. Only a few gave both. Many of the people who came to the shower gave a gift at the shower and money at the wedding.

The last wedding and shower I went to I spent about the same on both gifts, but that was because it was one of Justin's childhood friends and he was close to them.

[BriansBride07]

I tend to spend more on the wedding gift and less on the shower gift. Lot's of times I will give them $ for their wedding and a gift for the shower.

[SaralovesMike]

I agree with Christina. A gift off the registry for the shower and money for the wedding.
Also for the wedding gift we usually spend a little bit more. An example: for my cousins wedding we gave them a gift card to Home Depot for $50 (all they wanted since they just bought a house) and for the wedding we gave them $100 cash.

[kevinsbride2B]

I tens to sepend a little less. In the past I ahev gone in on gifts with friends and bought them something more expensive from the registry.
I also (depending on who they are and who they are to me) try to get them something a little more personal then say a toaster. For my girlferiend who got married, all the friends and family were buying the appliances and so on. So I wanted to get somethign a little more fun. So I got her a nice Margarita set with a bottle of tequila, a punch bowl set with a bottle of rum, and a nice shot glass/ liquor set with a bottle of Zambuca. She called me after she got hom from teh shower and thanked me up and down. And I wrapped the presents and placed them inside of a heavy duty laundry basket that again she could use. I went in on this with my Mom and my cousin. So the price was broken up, yet she got soemthing that she wouldn't have necessarilly gotten at the wedding or from anyone else.

[woohoo2me]

wait you get shower plus wedding gifts??????? wow!! lol i guess i would spend less, i dont know i didnt know there was two lol

[WhiskeyGirl]

I've read that a shower gift is EXPECTED but that you aren't actually required to give a wedding gift.

For me, I base it on what is affordable and how well I know the couple. :D

[dwbride]

There isn't a certain about that you are required to spend. It depends on what you can afford.

[mariaandmanish]

hi all. how much do you typically spend on for a shower gift? is it the same as the wedding gift or a little less? thank you! i've never been to a shower before so i dont really know what goes on besides opening gifts!

For tho most part, if I know the couple has registered, I will get two things from their registry that I can afford, and that's that. I will try to get one thing that seems more special than the other, and give the more special one as a wedding gift, and the other as the shower gift. If there's no registry, I just try to get something personalized or meaningful. Of course, that all depends as well on how well I know the couple getting married! DH always gives money, though, as the wedding gift.

[tara4dolphins27]

i would say i would spend less on the shower gift and more on the wedding gift. But i would only spend what you can afford.

[katieandalex]

I usually spend a bit more on the shower than I do the wedding itself. I usually buy a gift for a shower and give cash or a giftcard for the wedding. Thats what most people did for mine. I got a ton of gifts for the shower and for the wedding most people gave cash, which was nice for the honeymoon.