My grandma used to wad up a fiver and throw it at me.

I will take any monetary gifts that you deem unfit.

Just the tip in reverse I guess...

Nexus 7 is a great e-reader, and a sick tablet for $200. Setting the color to sepia is very easy on the eyes.

No. Yet another disappointing year.

Lol the money as a regift was more of a philosophical statement rather than a comment on the appearance of the bills.

Also auntisocial hahaha

crisp bills may be standard for a birthday or something where the person is not receiving that many gifts, but for a wedding where the couple is getting a hundred gifts they are not going to remember who gave them crisp bills and who didn't.

That you can sit in a pool with a book and not worry about an errant splash ruining your book is a pretty powerful advantage over an ereader.

Also it was my main motivation for buying a zillion books on abebooks this summer.

Truth.

I got like 50 wedding presents. One was cash.

Am I unusual here? Do most peoples weddings play out like 'Goodfellas'?

Last wedding I went to I gave them the money all in singles

Your guests suck

Looking back, the best part of getting married was opening envelopes.

Cultural, imo. We had a small registry, so friends and probably 80% of my family got us "stuff". My wife's family was probably 90% red envelopes. It's just how they roll (but virtually all of them have attractive daughters, so we'll be giving all that money back over time).

Oh, I didn't actually have any guests. Just an address where people could send presents.

Also, if you're going to leave cash, don't make it something stupid like $35. That guy is still remembered and mocked to this day.

I think this is a regional thing. All the local weddings I've ever been to (NJ) the bride winds up with a big bag of envelopes and the stray gift or two. The weddings I've been to in Maine and Minnesota were the exact opposite; I almost felt like I should have snuck out to a store, bought something with the $$$ and come back.

If you're going to go the oddly specific cash-gift road, you might as well hand them a bow-wrapped box. As they thank you, pull out a hammer and smash the box to the ground. While everyone looks on in horror, clear away the torn fragments of box and wrapper, say "Ta da!" and reveal that the box contained a piggy bank.

I would be much more amenable to the Kindle if its refresh rate wasn't that of a potato. I read fast, mother****er, keep up with me.

North East and maybe west coast? , particularly Italians/Catholics and Jews its "mostly" cash. Unless the Bride and Groom specified a registry they wanted you to buy from. Even then there is usually a "smaller" envelope attached of some sort.

If you invite people to your wedding and they get you a "gift" you didn't at least somewhat specify , cross them off your "future kids Briss/baptisim" list cause your getting stiffed there too.

True Story sisters wedding was in Maryland married a "down home" kind of guy most of his family is from central Penn. She had one pile from his side of the family , box gifts like cheap ass coffee makers and toaster ovens , the other side was our family, all envelopes. It was pretty funny frankly.

That's such an odd amount, he probably remembered at the last minute and that's all he had in his wallet.

I'm a west coast Jew and no one gave us money as a wedding present.

You make them bring there gifts so they feel SHAME wen they show up with that new flatware with pictures of all the 1983 Milwaukee Brewers on them.
Hold them ****ers accountable!

This ones to easy...

Too.

And, yes, but you said Jews.

They did give presents, and at least as good as my schicksa wife's family.