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I live on Long Island and most of my friends married in their mid 20's. We were the first of our group to get married and gifts from friends and family ranged from 100-500 per couple. These were all cash wedding gifts, not including actual "shower" gifts, those were mostly around 50-100. Since we were the first to get married it made it easier for us going to subsequent weddings, we basically gave what we got with a few changes here and there. I would personally never base my gift to a couple based on what I think they were spending on their wedding. To this day the biggest wedding gift we have given (500) was to a couple that got married at city hall. They are very close friends who were very generous to us when we got married. Since they didn't have a "wedding" we didn't have to rent a tux or any of the other stuff if we were in the wedding so we gave a nice gift. They had also just bought and were remodeling a house and we knew the money would go to good use. It's all situational for me.