Spare Yourself and Spare Others: Ask for Cash Gifts
We’ve all heard horror tales of couples who eagerly open their gifts after the wedding to find themselves the proud owners of 17 picture frames, 10 towels (all white, quite possibly), 30 knickknacks (most of them made of seashells!), 50 bouquets, and dozens of kitchen appliances! It’s not easy for people to think of the right wedding gifts, and most canny to-be wed couples resign themselves to their fate, but still hope that at least some people would come up with original gifts.
Let’s face the facts squarely: whilst some of your closest friends and relatives might put in a lot of effort to get you a gift that you’d like, others (like you!) are too lazy, and they will, more likely than not, purchase the obligatory gift just a few hours before your wedding ceremony. Thankfully, today it’s not a sin to ask people for cash instead of gifts.
This would not have been possible 10-15 years ago, but today a substantial number of Australian couples are asking for cash gifts instead of hastily-chosen gifts. There is a school of thought that says ‘Gifts are given voluntarily, and the couple should gratefully accept whatever they are given,’ but not many believe in it anymore. There is not much point in taking gifts that would just clutter your z`house—wedding gifts can’t just have a sentimental value; they need to have a practical value a too!
If you are planning a wedding, you must have worked out by now that wedding celebrations cost a bomb. Most Australian couples already have mortgages on their houses or cars at the time of their wedding, and many of us end up taking loans even to finance our honeymoons. As honeymoon is, in some ways, the culmination of the relationship, couples don’t mind spending a lot on it. Consequently, many couples end up paying for their wedding and honeymoon debts for years after the wedding.
It makes sense to ask for cash gifts: it’s a growing trend and a large number of Australian families have accepted it. Gift vouchers or cash in an envelope don’t work so well: it’s a headache for the couple (at least for the guys) to spend hours at different shops to get themselves a gift in lieu of the gift vouchers; cash gifts at the wedding tend to get stolen or displaced, and it becomes difficult to keep track what was given by whom. Also, 2-3 people have to stand guard near the ‘wishing well’ to guard the money. They are usually the closest members of the family, and they end up missing all the fun!
Free cash registry services and apps like HONEYMOONFUND come in very handy at times like these: using such apps you can ask for cash gifts over the internet without any embarrassment. You can use the service for any wedding fund, be it for a new house, a new car, or your honeymoon. Not only does it allow you to manage and keep a track on the cash gifts you’ve receive, it also helps you to make your wedding the talk of the town. By the time of your wedding, you’ll already have enough cash to set out on your honeymoon holidays without the slightest bit of care!
Now you can ask for cash gift very easily from Honeymoonfund. It provides cash registry service to the new couples who are able to ask for money wedding gift without any embarrassment.