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As a parent, did you give your child(ren) a gift from the registry, or did you give a gift independent of the registry?

As a child getting married, did your parent(s) give you a gift from your registry or independent of the registry?

I would consider contributions towards the cost of the wedding to be a gift.
 
Paying for 1/2 my wedding was my gift from my parents (and I really appreciated it!)
 
We had a honeymoon registry, so getting something off the registry was the same as giving cash, for the most part.

But my parents just cut us a check. They also gave us money for the wedding (which we ended up not using and just putting into savings). They were very generous!

I honestly can''t remember MIL''s gift. I assume she gave us a check because she didn''t give us a physical gift.

If we had a normal registry, my parents probably would''ve given us cash anyway. Unless there was something very expensive, like a stand mixer, on the registry that other guests probably wouldn''t spring for.
 
We didn''t get gifts for our wedding from our parents, but they contributed to the wedding cost, which was gift enough!
 
Dh and I paid for our own wedding, because my dad didn''t even want to attend (long story), but he gave us a HUGE belated wedding gift after he accepted the fact that I was already married, and he couldn''t stop it.....it was $$$$$ for the downpayment of our first home. That was 5x more than the cost of our wedding!
 
Our parents are helping us pay for the wedding, and that''s the most appreciated gift they could possibly have come up with!
 
I didnt get a gift from my parents, they paid for our wedding as a gift, my husbands parents paid for our photographer, so that was their gift to us.
 
We contributed to our sons wedding and gave them a check as a wedding gift.
 
Date: 6/17/2010 11:53:48 AM
Author: sunnyd
We didn't get gifts for our wedding from our parents, but they contributed to the wedding cost, which was gift enough!
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Same here! I didn't expect anything else from them.

ETA not that I would have minded!
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We paid for most of our wedding. After the wedding my mom gave us 2k that she had saved from social security she was getting from my dad. Later, we had to pay it back to the ss administration because I wasn''t a full
time student and she was still collecting it. My aunt and uncle paid for the flowers. That was our gift.

When my daughter got married we paid for the entire wedding and gave her a couple of large gifts. One was a kitchen aid mixer she lost when she and her husband split up. They are now back together and
doing pretty good, but I am not buying her another.

We only have one girl! I hope we won''t have to pay for any of the boys weddings!
 
Our wedding was a gift from my parents. And, my mother did all the caligraphy for our invites, and my parents handmade our chuppah.

My husband''s father didn''t give us a gift. I think he just plain forgot in all the excitement of the wedding.
 
My parents paid about $5,000 for the wedding. We also received a present from them off the registry but I can''t remember what it was - maybe a casserole dish.
 
My parents gave us as much as they could towards the wedding, DH''s gave us some towards the wedding and a honeymoon.
 
My parents gave us a cheque to spend on the wedding, so I didn't expect a gift. However, on the day of the wedding, they also gave us an heirloom antique dinner service that I've always admired, and it was a complete surprise.

ETA we didn't have a registry- we asked for anonymous donations to Cancer Research UK.
 
My parents very generously paid for our wedding.
My MIL gave us a check as her gift.
 
We did not get gifts from our parents but they both contributed to the cost of our wedding.
 
We got 1k from each side, but I bought specific gifts with it so I would think of our parents everytime we saw/used said item. Actually, we still haven't bought anything with the money my ILs gave - my MIL specifically said she wants us to buy some sort of art for the house, so I am looking for an original painting but haven't found anything that fits the bill as yet (we'd like to get something for our living room space)
 
My nephew got married last August and while my sister and BIL did not pay for the wedding, they did pay for the rehearsal dinner and supplied the wine and beer for the reception.

In addition, my nephew and niece had just bought a home and were going to finance the purchase of their living room and bedroom furniture. So my sister and BIL bought them the bedroom furniture and I other family members contributed towards the living room furniture. My dad made their dining room furniture, which was probably the best gift they had received (dad is 81 now and he worked almost a year in my sister''s garage to make them a dining room set that they designed) .
 
Our parents paid for the wedding, so that was a pretty big gift. We certainly didn''t expect anything in addition to that.

That said...my ILs then gave us some of the big ticket items from our registry at the shower (mixer, comforter), and my parents gave me a graduation/wedding gift (I graduated the day before my wedding shower) of an Amish-made cedar chest.
 
My parents paid for the wedding/honeymoon and gave us Wedgwood crystal not on our registry but that they knew I wanted.

DH''s parents eventually gave us some stock, also not on our registry
 
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