Comments on: How to Survive Wedding Season Without Going Broke

By: Weekly Roundup: Garden Update Edition | Frugal Dad

Weekly Roundup: Garden Update Edition | Frugal Dad — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:42:17 +0000

[...] April and May are the beginning of wedding season and that
means wedding gifts. Lending Club shares some ideas on how to
survive wedding season without going broke. [...]

By: Nicolle

Nicolle — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:53:28 +0000

Here's two great options: 1) Get together with a group of wedding
goers and add your cashes together for a gift. 2) Make something
for the happy couple. A scrapbook of memories or a mini-photo
album. At my Aunt Peg's wedding, one of her friends snapped a photo
of the kiss and stopped at a kodak kiosk on the way to the
reception to crop and print. She had already purchased a plain
photo mat and a calligraphy pen. She passed the mat and pen around
at the beginning of the reception for everyone to write their well
wishes on. When the mat was full, she inserted the picture and set
it on the gift table. Her total coast? $15.00 Total time involved:
30 minutes. The picture still sits in the living room.

By: Karyn

Karyn — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:11:17 +0000

In addition to the cash idea is the gift card idea to one of the
places they registered. Shopping sprees, no matter how small, are
appreciated. In terms of 'off-registry gifts that pretty much never
fail', gift certificates to their favorite restaurants are nice. If
they are moving into a new place, it takes awhile to get the
kitchen moving, and free easy food is welcome. Another option is
putting together a care package for either the wedding night hotel
stay, or their honeymoon trip. Inexpensive things like Munchies,
and Doritos! and chocolate are usually perfect, because odds are
they didn't eat enough at the reception. Put those in a simple
basket with two champagne glasses, an inexpensive bottle of bubbly,
two votives, a book of matches...and we have a winner. Honeymoon
carepackage includes everything in the Mini-travel isle, plus lots
of simple snacks, gum, bug repellent (depends on destination), ear
plugs, etc. All the stuff they forgot to bring.