One of the biggest “no-no” on a wedding invitation is asking for gifts – the only worse thing you can do, is to ask for money. These days this etiquette seem to have been discarded completely. I’ve received quite a few wedding invites lately, and all of them asked for money, instead of gifts.
Personally it would make me extremely uncomfortable asking for anything whatsoever on my wedding invitation, which is why we didn’t do it. It feels asif you’re inviting the guests, but with a hidden agenda?
Surely everyone knows that they’re welcome to give a gift if they want, but putting that smack in the middle of your wedding invite is just a bit too forward for me. Its like asking your guests an entrance fee?
We’ve only invited people who we really WANT to attend our wedding, and we didn’t invite them because we thought they’d give us nice prezzies! Instead we look forward to spending this incredibly special day with the people who we love. Our friends, and our family. Because we really want them there for their company.
Here are some folks who agree with me: Lifestyle @ iAfrica
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Blatantly asking for gifts might be considered bad. yeah i agree. but most of the time, people will ask, “where are you registered?” so sometimes it’s just easier to leave an extra piece of paper in your invitation with the location where you’re registered.
Sometimes it saves time.
I don’t think now anyone invite people just because they want to share their special day with them, the truth is that everyone looks for big gifts. It’s natural everyone likes gift so there is nothing wrong in expecting gifts in your marriage.