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Originally posted by notfarnow
Rick, we did that at our wedding. It's not as easy as I thought it would be... my wife and I had to really drive the message home.
Word of advice: some people will insist on giving, so we listed a few favorite charities on the wedding invitation that they could donate to. Makes it easy for them, and saved us getting stuff we didn't want or need.
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Yeah, I figured as much. Since it's almost only family coming, I doubt they'll be hard to convince. My folks said they'd give my fiance and me $10k to do with whatever we saw fit, pay for the wedding, honeymoon, whatever. If I were a billionaire, I would not do this wedding any differently than I'm doing it. It will run us under $5k for everything and that's with about 30 guests and a ceremony in Valley of Fire State Park near Vegas. The only non-family who are coming are a few friends whose weddings I also attended. I figure they'll handle my batchelor party and we'll call it even. My grandmother will probably throw some money our way, which I won't turn down. But I really, really do not want to get handed gifts at my reception, I don't want to carry anything home or on my honeymoon with me and I will write thank you for coming notes, not thank you for your gift notes.