The Gift of Cash

Many couples are now choosing to live together before marrying and requests for monetary gifts are becoming more common.

If you are unsure of how to advise your guests of your preference for money as a wedding gift, you may like to include one of these poems. You could have the poem printed on the front of small envelopes to match your wedding stationery and enclose an envelope with each invitation. Your guests will be able to bring the envelope to the reception and place it in a wishing well or antique bird cage or pin it to a money tree. Don't forget to include your names and wedding date under the poem.

Etiquette dictates you should still send thank you cards to your guests to thank them for their gifts or money and for making your day special by being there. You could also make mention of how the money will be spent………

Some suggestions to help you with the wording.

1. We don't want to offend but we have it all, all household goods and so much more.

To save you shopping, sit back and rest, a gift of currency is our request.

Don't go overboard or rob any banks, any little thing will make us smile with thanks.

We will supply the wishing well, no wrapping, an envelope, and who can tell,

Now that we have saved you all the fuss, it would be appreciated if you would com celebrate with us.

2. Our house is quite complete now, we've been together long.

So please consider this request, and do not take it wrong.

A wishing well will be present, you may give a money gift instead.

Make a wish upon your gift, and careful as you do.

Because as the well's tradition goes, your wishes may come true.

3. If you are having trouble finding just the gift for us,

this may prove a solution with a minimum of fuss.

Just pop your gift of money inside and pin it to our tree,

and make a wish for happiness forever ours to be.

4. On the road to married life, we've collected all nwe need to be a wife and husband.

The honeymoon, however is another thing,

we had to choose between it and a diamond ring.

So your donation will be appreciated in every way,

as it will help send us on a romantic holiday.

5. We hope that you will join us,

on this our wedding day.

To celebrate our union, in a very special way.

To make it easy for you, and to avoid a shopping spree.

We thought that we would have instead, a little money tree.

We hope you will use this envelope, to bless our little tree.

Remember, no name is required as anonymity is the key.

6. We made a commitment some time ago,

that together through life we were destined to go.

We purchased our furniture, linen and bedding

in the fulfilling years leading up to our wedding.

What else we might need is not easy to foresee,

but we will be blessed by your gift on our money tree.