Crate And Barrel Gift Registry Wedding
How to ask for money instead of gifts for your wedding?
Me and my fiance’s primary goal is to save enough money for our own place. We wish to have our guests give donations of money to maybe a mortgage bank under our name, but are not sure about how to do this. We are both Chinese and it is within the guidelines of our culture to receive “red envelopes” that contain money during major celebrations like Chinese New Year or Weddings, but we don’t want to offend any of our guests that may not understand our request. So, I have 2 questions:
1. How do I word this on our wedding invitations (do I include something like “We would like your contribution to our wedding gift to go toward our dream house.”?)
2. Is there another way to go about this or is this just not a good idea? Honestly, we really don’t need anything from Crate & Barrel or any of the other registries and I don’t think it makes any sense to register and then return everything later for money.
Please help. I’m really at a loss as to how to approach this.
Traditionally you are never supposed to mention gifts on the invitation. The best method is to let your wishes be known to your family, and they can let any guests who ask know that you prefer monetary gifts. If you don’t have any registries, though, there really won’t be anything to worry about. Generally items off gift registries are given as bridal shower gifts and guests give money at the wedding anyway.
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