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by **Trent Steele** » Thu Sep 03, 2009 15:12:38

Jeff:

What is an appropriate amount to spend on a wedding gift these days for a mid-30s lawyer whose fellow mid-30s lawyer friend is getting married?

I'm thinking $200.

by **swishnicholson** » Thu Sep 03, 2009 15:22:25

I would just like to say that I have absolutely no memory, for good or ill, of anything anyone gave me at my wedding, and don't recall ever having any awareness of this beyond the time I opened the box or envelope (maybe during my participation in writing thank you notes, but I don't recall this either).

Oh wait, I do remember that my parents gave us too much money and one of my running friends and his wife gave us a copy of Where the Wild Things Are, for reasons I still don't understand, especially since we didn't have kids until 3-4 years after this. But we read it until the covers fell off after we did.

by **jeff2sf** » Thu Sep 03, 2009 15:39:32

Dear Trent,
Thanks for writing. I'd say 200 dollars is appropriate, unless you're friendly enough to know about some hobby he's passionate about or the party is jhoya's friend in terms of an extravaganza (in which case you may have to raise it up to 250). He has a rough idea about your salary and you have a rough idea about theirs. Let's cover costs and maybe a little something for their troubles.

Regards,
Jeff

by **td11** » Thu Sep 03, 2009 16:01:31

so many girls. so so many.

by **Barry Jive** » Thu Sep 03, 2009 16:08:38

Where we're going, we don't need roads.

by **Houshphandzadeh** » Thu Sep 03, 2009 16:23:04

It sucks that the YOU PLAY. TO WIN. THE GAME. speech used to be really funny but now it's just a Bud Light commercial.

by **Bakestar** » Thu Sep 03, 2009 16:46:55

Is cash ever an inappropriate wedding gift? I don't remember the last "gift" I gave at a wedding. It's just been straight cash for awhile now.

Also of note is the sliding scale of gift expectations. For various reasons, my wedding-going experiences have been split about 50/50 between NYC metro area weddings, and Central PA weddings. The gift expectations are much more modest with the latter, but so too are the accommodations concurrent with each locale.

by **Grotewold** » Thu Sep 03, 2009 16:58:54

Bakestar wrote:Is cash ever an inappropriate wedding gift?

I guess if it's a sibling or friend you're really close with, you could be a little more thoughtful/creative.

But then again I would have loved to just get cash from everyone.

by **lethal** » Thu Sep 03, 2009 17:06:11

There's no better present than cash in the amount that you would've spent on a gift anyway.

by **Barry Jive** » Thu Sep 03, 2009 17:06:47

Houshphandzadeh wrote:It sucks that the YOU PLAY. TO WIN. THE GAME. speech used to be really funny but now it's just a Bud Light commercial.

even worse. it's Coors Light.

by **Trent Steele** » Thu Sep 03, 2009 17:20:43

jeff2sf wrote:Dear Trent,
Thanks for writing. I'd say 200 dollars is appropriate, unless you're friendly enough to know about some hobby he's passionate about or the party is jhoya's friend in terms of an extravaganza (in which case you may have to raise it up to 250). He has a rough idea about your salary and you have a rough idea about theirs. Let's cover costs and maybe a little something for their troubles.

Regards,
Jeff

Sage advice.

by **MrsVox** » Thu Sep 03, 2009 17:25:43

I giddy with excitement over my new (to-me) home office... Vox moved his into the never-used dining room. I took over his office, took out the doors, blocked the opening with an old baby gate, and painted it Hershey-bar brown.

Picked out a long table-like desk at Ikea today, and set it up with BabyVox's help (he hammered in the little pegs).

It sits off the family room, so now I can "work" without the kids touching my stuff, but I can keep an eye on everything (this was one of the problems the doors caused).

I may never leave.....

and tonight when Vox gets home I'm stealing the bookcases from the kids' bedrooms... (because they match my desk and don't work well in their rooms).

giddy giddy giddy

by **MrsVox** » Thu Sep 03, 2009 17:28:21

Did I mention that I i'm finally using my iMac that I never get to use, instead of my six-year-old, hand-me-down from Vox laptop? And that I have hard-wired network connection?

by **Bucky** » Thu Sep 03, 2009 18:37:42

td11 wrote:so many girls. so so many.

by **Wizlah** » Thu Sep 03, 2009 18:51:04

kruker wrote:On the opposite end of the spectrum, I love everyone from the UK. Also, Wiz and his countrymen are officially my favorite people in the world

I don't call many of ye canadians.

Just saying.

by **td11** » Thu Sep 03, 2009 19:33:26

Bucky wrote:
td11 wrote:so many girls. so so many.

don't tell me you didn't see 'em the other day, bucky.

town full of amy adams, i tell ya.

by **phatj** » Thu Sep 03, 2009 20:34:41

Wait, Wiz is Canadian?

by **td11** » Thu Sep 03, 2009 20:36:10

no, he's not from the UK, you dork

by **phatj** » Thu Sep 03, 2009 21:00:46

sick burn

by **jerseyhoya** » Thu Sep 03, 2009 22:46:52

I had big intentions to put Carra in the fear itself thread but then the Marlins won by a lot

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