No Gifts Please

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What is the best way to add to your invitations,or response cards, "No presents, please"?

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Word it politely and explain why you do not wish to receive any presents. Also, explain why you don't want any gifts.

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We did in the past print for a client, who had a poem that asked for no presents but for money instead. We printed this poem on the inside of the invitation. I do not know where she got it from, but it went like this..

Our wordly possessions are plentiful as such, On our wedding present list there really isn't much, A gift of currency is all we ask, To help us on our lifelong task.


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I think this is really difficult to do. Someone will take it the wrong way. I would say nothing. You know how people love to talk. But good luck anyway

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I think the poem above says it all. Otherewise Im sure some people would get offended

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Craig & I aren't having a gift registry as we have been living together for the past 7.5 years. However, we are asking for monetary gifts to use on our honeymoon.
our poem goes something like this:

MONEY TREE POEM

THEY HAVE THEIR DISHES & TOWELS FOR TWO,
THEY HAVE POTS & PANS & OVEN MITTS TOO.

SO WHAT DO YOU GET THE BRIDE & GROOM
WHOSE HOME IS SET UP IN EVERY ROOM?

THEIR HOUSE NEEDS REPAIRS & SOME UPGRADES TOO
BUT YOU CANNOT REGISTER FOR CARPET & GLUE.

A TREE THAT GROWS WISHES IS THE WAY TO GO,
SO LET'S MAKE IT EASY FOR ALL THAT KNOW.

A MONEY TREE WILL BE ON DISPLAY AT THE RECEPTION HALL,
TO GIVE YOU MONETARY WISHES,
FOR THE BRIDE & GROOM, WITH LOVE FROM ALL.

I thought it was very nice, and it doesn't come across rudely.

well I hope you have some luck.
cheers,
Kyley.

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Hi all, in reply to this query, I've checked out my suspicions and unfortunately I was right, if you are having a traditional wedding, you are under no circumstances allowed to ask for, hint at or even suggest quietly that you want money for a gift.

What my partner and I are planning on doing is setting up a registry with a travel agent so that our guests and well-wishers can pay for part of our honeymoon.

Being financially strapped myself, I was asked to put in a cash present for an event and was personally quite offended as I couldn't afford much cash. It just creates an awkward situation so please, don't do this. Even though there are scribes who will add a note indicating a monetary preference for gifts, find something that the money can be put towards. Even if its something like putting together a gift voucher from a particular department store or even something as unorthodox as a voucher towards a purchase such as a house et cetera,. One idea I heard of was a group of people put in and set up a bank account for the bride and groom's future children.

A gift is always good but if you're worried about getting useless gifts, do something like this because your guests will prefer knowing that the gift they give will not just pay the phone bill.

This is just my opinion however.

Mala

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With reference to the above, I forgot one important thing.

If you can do without presents but your guests want to do something memorable and you do also, get them to bring a cheque with them written out to a particular charity and then collect up the cheques at the reception, that way the cheques can be totalled and your guests can get quite a buzz out of hearing how much they've collected for the charity!

Just an idea, not everyone's cup of tea however.

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How about...

"No presents just your presence"

or something along those lines.

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We are in the same boat. We have been living together in our own house for around 2 years and have everything we need. However we would like to upgrade some of our furniture etc so we are looking towards the money tree idea too. The above poems are great and I was wondering if there was anyone else out there with other ideas as I'm not real good with rhyming... thanks