Is asking for money as a wedding present acceptable?

Before I actually offer my opinion, I just want to say how important it is to remember that this is your wedding. That means that you can do whatever the hell you would like. So if you want to ask for money as your wedding present, then PLEASE do.

You might have been living together for ages, which means that you don’t actually need another toaster, another plates set or another set of bedding. Perhaps you do need those things, but you’d rather put it towards your honeymoon or a future holiday. Maybe you are trying to save to buy a house, and so although all those homeware items would come in handy one day. Right now a contribution towards your actual house deposit would be much more helpful.

Now for my opinion, I think that asking for money is 100% ok. In fact, it’s exactly what we are doing for our wedding. We would like money to put towards our honeymoon. We are actually trying to buy ourselves Business Class Flights to Bali, and so any monetary contribution would be amazing.

Of course we aren’t demanding that our guests get us a gift, but for those that want to (which we are super grateful for), we’ve asked for money. But we’ve done it in a fairly clever way. We actually set up a cash account with Prezola. And within this we’ve managed to allocate lots of different options.

So you can buy us a £100 contribution towards our flights. You can buy us a £20 contribution towards a bottle of champagne. Or you can buy us a £50 contribution towards a massage whilst we are in Bali. Of course we can actually use the money for anything, but it’s a really nice way of your guests knowing what they are actually contributing towards.