Gold on Wedding

[mzprincess88]

Re: Gold on Wedding

@somegroovychick

But that’s where the pressure to buy comes in, doesn’t it? What if your inlaws couldn’t afford to give you something of the same calibre as your own parents bought you? Would you have refused to marry your husband? Of course not, right? That’s silly. I find the concept of expectations tied into gift giving, esp when the gifts are so expensive, to be really bothersome. Give gifts because you want to and you can, with generosity of spirit, and not with an expectation of a similar return. That just takes away from the spirit of gift giving, I feel, no?

Plus, if they can, I don’t see why the inlaws couldn’t give money as your gift instead of gold? That’s what grooms
get, isn’t it, as salaami?

Re: your last point, because the bride looks nice wearing a gold set on her big day hence why she receives it as opposed to just money.

I didn’t have expectations from my in laws BUT they did for me exactly what they did for their own daughters and if they are going to call me their daughter so they should!