https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 23 Apr 2026 02:48:57 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-what-was-the-largest-wedding-gift-you-received#post-178069 Mon, 04 Jun 2012 10:51:13 +0000 oliviaoblivia 178069@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Aside from my parents paying for most of the wedding, we got a few over $1k gifts. The biggest gift overall came from FIL a sizeable downpayment for a house we have yet to buy, </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-what-was-the-largest-wedding-gift-you-received#post-178064 Mon, 04 Jun 2012 10:49:06 +0000 HLK208 178064@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My parents paid for $8k of the wedding but the largest actual gift was our china--Vera Wang, 8 settings. Very generous!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-what-was-the-largest-wedding-gift-you-received#post-178045 Mon, 04 Jun 2012 10:40:39 +0000 His Barista 178045@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our largest gift was from a high school friend of mine. He gave us $300. Other than that I think most stayed on like the $50 range. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-what-was-the-largest-wedding-gift-you-received#post-178027 Mon, 04 Jun 2012 10:36:31 +0000 Mrs. Pen 178027@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>oooooh my freakin' lanta,,, I thought it was rare and amazing that we got $500 from DH's parents and grandparents. some of you got $7k gift?! We got about $2500 in cash. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-what-was-the-largest-wedding-gift-you-received#post-178015 Mon, 04 Jun 2012 10:33:42 +0000 Alivoo01 178015@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My parents paid for our flight to our honeymoon in Hawaii. My MIL and favorite aunt gave us $2k each. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-what-was-the-largest-wedding-gift-you-received#post-177207 Sat, 02 Jun 2012 21:45:26 +0000 Costello 177207@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My best friend gifted us a dj for our reception. It was very generous and greatly appreciated. We think she is just the best! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-what-was-the-largest-wedding-gift-you-received#post-177192 Sat, 02 Jun 2012 21:26:26 +0000 cyndistar3 177192@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Wow... bunxh of rich people here lol! Our largest gift by far was the $500 that his grandparents gave us. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-what-was-the-largest-wedding-gift-you-received#post-177182 Sat, 02 Jun 2012 21:11:37 +0000 mrsjyw 177182@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Each of our parents gave us $8 - $10k for wedding costs. MIL gave us $3k as her gift to us. One of my aunts gave us $1k. One of my dad's friends (who we don't know very well) gifted us $500. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-what-was-the-largest-wedding-gift-you-received#post-156561 Sat, 12 May 2012 09:26:42 +0000 daniellemybelle 156561@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Minnie_Girl: That is such a good point about help from family and friends! That was very true for us as well. Thanks for the reminder about what really matters! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-what-was-the-largest-wedding-gift-you-received#post-156510 Sat, 12 May 2012 08:24:00 +0000 Minnie_Girl 156510@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My parents contributed about 5K and my sister/BIL took care of the rehearsal dinner. My grandmother insisted on paying for half of my wedding dress. DH and I covered the rest of the wedding and the honeymoon.</p> <p>We also had an $800 check from the rich aunt and uncle, haha. </p> <p>Ultimately, I think biggest gifts people gave to us were their time and willingness to work on projects! We had so much help from family and friends! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-what-was-the-largest-wedding-gift-you-received#post-156422 Sat, 12 May 2012 04:09:23 +0000 GrapeCrush 156422@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>One of DH's parents friends gave us a $200 gift certificate for a B&amp;B. And a couple people gave us $200 cash. Most were between $50-$100 though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-what-was-the-largest-wedding-gift-you-received#post-156411 Sat, 12 May 2012 03:11:07 +0000 pastemoo 156411@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My grandma got us 6 place settings AND the day after lunch, but she pretty much wanted to give us the universe. Our next most expensive gift was a coffee machine I though not one could afford ($200+)</p> <p>On average gifts were 15-50 for our generation and 50-100 from older generations. :) It was pretty impressive--we were surprised with how many gifts we got! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-what-was-the-largest-wedding-gift-you-received#post-156400 Sat, 12 May 2012 00:26:06 +0000 PitBulLover 156400@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My dad gave us $7500 for the wedding and my in laws covered most of the rest of it (probably $15K+) </p> <p>The largest gift we received from a guest was $756 from DHs aunt and uncle. Sounds like a random number but the number 18 is significant in Judaism (7+5+6) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-what-was-the-largest-wedding-gift-you-received#post-156291 Fri, 11 May 2012 19:50:51 +0000 daniellemybelle 156291@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh man, I hope that you all didn't vote taking your family paying for the wedding or wedding related expenses into consideration! I meant gifts from guests. Sorry I didn't clarify that. My parents paid for our wedding in entirety, and DH's parents paid for our honeymoon.</p> <p>Still, a lot of you got some VERY generous gifts! That's so amazing of your friends and family to help you get started like that. In total, I think we had about $5K in cash, and we spent almost all of it on our honeymoon. I really wish we had saved it!</p> <p>@mrskc: 30K?!?! WOW! That would seriously change our lives!</p> <p>@Mrs. Stroller: That would have SLAYED me. Seriously, I would have died from joy.</p> <p>@Chillybear: That's a pretty neat story! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-what-was-the-largest-wedding-gift-you-received#post-156287 Fri, 11 May 2012 19:29:50 +0000 yoursilverlining 156287@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Biggest monetary gift was that my MIL surprised us and ended up paying for our honeymoon, which was just under $10k.</p> <p>We paid for our wedding entirely ourselves. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-what-was-the-largest-wedding-gift-you-received#post-156247 Fri, 11 May 2012 18:14:14 +0000 Mrs. Sunglasses 156247@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We don't have registries here... people bring cash gifts.<br /> The biggest amount we got was from my dad and step mom. 5k.<br /> Then my mom 1k + my wedding dress and on average we would get 200$ - 250$ per couple. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-what-was-the-largest-wedding-gift-you-received#post-156241 Fri, 11 May 2012 18:06:28 +0000 Witz 156241@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We got $1,000 from each of our parents, and my parents paid for our wedding. The next most generous gift was $500 from one of DH's groomsmen. Most of the gifts from our close friends and aunts/uncles were around $100, but the rest were mostly around $25 - $50. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-what-was-the-largest-wedding-gift-you-received#post-156202 Fri, 11 May 2012 17:01:55 +0000 Meridian 156202@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Stroller: OMG, that sounds freakin AMAZING!!!!! I would have passed out from happiness!!</p> <p>We got some generous cash gifts. My relatives in Taiwan pooled their funds and gave us $7K. And then our best man gave us $1K. My cousin and his wife also gave us $1K and we were SO shocked... and even more shocked when the check bounced!! Hahaha... of course we were too polite to reach out to them and mention anything, and we thought maybe they would notice on their end. Nope, never heard anything, haha! </p> <p>The funny part is, we thought it was the $1K check from our best man that bounced, so we sheepishly asked him about it, and he said it cleared from his bank. It was then when we realized it was my cousins (who are in their 40s, so not "young" cousins or anything). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-what-was-the-largest-wedding-gift-you-received#post-156187 Fri, 11 May 2012 16:39:35 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 156187@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My DH's parents bought our tickets for our honeymoon and paid our all-inclusive fee for our resort, about $4,000 together. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-what-was-the-largest-wedding-gift-you-received#post-156181 Fri, 11 May 2012 16:35:11 +0000 Andrea 156181@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My parents helped to pay for part of our wedding. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-what-was-the-largest-wedding-gift-you-received#post-156178 Fri, 11 May 2012 16:32:59 +0000 mrskc 156178@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We got a VERY generous gift from my husband's grandmother and family in Taiwan of 30k. My husband tells me it's tradition there to give large sums of money as wedding gifts. It's sitting in our savings and it's really helped us build our savings account. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-what-was-the-largest-wedding-gift-you-received#post-156170 Fri, 11 May 2012 16:26:42 +0000 cyneswith 156170@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Blast. I voted, then I remembered that someone gave us a $500 check. Other than that, the biggest gift was a $99 set from Williams and Sonoma. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-what-was-the-largest-wedding-gift-you-received#post-156160 Fri, 11 May 2012 16:17:04 +0000 mediagirl 156160@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Stroller: what???? That IS insane! Holy cow... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-what-was-the-largest-wedding-gift-you-received#post-156145 Fri, 11 May 2012 16:05:17 +0000 Mrs. Stroller 156145@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>A family friend bought us everything off our Williams-Sonoma registry. It. Was. Insane. Everything else was in the $100 range. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-what-was-the-largest-wedding-gift-you-received#post-156140 Fri, 11 May 2012 16:03:27 +0000 PawPrints 156140@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We got one huge cash gift of $1000 from a relative, but for the most part our gifts were like yours. Mainly $50-100, with maybe 10 gifts that were over $150 or so. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-what-was-the-largest-wedding-gift-you-received#post-156131 Fri, 11 May 2012 15:44:52 +0000 winniebee 156131@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My parents paid for the wedding and also gave us all of our china and a cash gift....the china and cash gift were in excess of $2,000.</p> <p>In terms of wedding guests, my MIL's financial planner gifted us $600 cash. That was a huge gift! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-what-was-the-largest-wedding-gift-you-received#post-156123 Fri, 11 May 2012 15:35:28 +0000 plantains 156123@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our parents gave us a chunk of money towards the wedding. They also gave us a cheque for $7000 on the wedding day. That was the gift we received. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-what-was-the-largest-wedding-gift-you-received#post-156060 Fri, 11 May 2012 14:58:56 +0000 heffalump 156060@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My parents gave us a very large amount of money and said spend what you want on the wedding, keep the rest. We used half of it, and the other house helped us buy our house. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-what-was-the-largest-wedding-gift-you-received#post-156023 Fri, 11 May 2012 14:29:08 +0000 Mrs. Jump Rope 156023@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My parents gave us a specific amount of money toward our wedding, and said anything we didn't use was ours as a gift. </p> <p>We came under budget, and they kept their word. We were given a very generous cash gift. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-what-was-the-largest-wedding-gift-you-received#post-156017 Fri, 11 May 2012 14:20:15 +0000 Dr. Pepper 156017@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We got a $600 bed beth &amp; beyond gift card for our dishes from DH's dad and $500 cash from my parents. We had about 8 $150 checks from family but most gifts were $20 to $100. My parents also gave us $15,000 cash to pay for the wedding and DH's dad gave us $1,000 cash. We were told we could keep the money for something else if we didn't want a big wedding. Sadly, we spent most of it. </p>