Wedding etiquette regarding: “no gifts please, but we would love a contribution to our honeymoon”?

Exactly the same here! In my culture we put something like ‘the couple kindly request no boxed gifts’ on the invitation. Even in our parents generation gifts weren’t a thing, just cash. Usually the standard is £50 from younger/normal guests and £100 from close family/elders. Some gave £10, some gave hundreds, just whatever they were comfortable with.

For my guests outside of my culture, I explained to them that they were not obligated to go that route, and to do whatever they felt comfortable with.

We got about £10k, so that paid for our honeymoon, a few other bits and bobs like furniture, plus £5k that we invested to save as our baby supplies fund (which we are only digging into 7 years later now as we put off having one for so long!).

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