Invitation wording asking for presentation

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I agree.

I wonder if its a regional thing. in Ontario I find its just common to give money. gifts are for showers.

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Exactly, we're doing this too.

We just put a little poem as an insert into our invitation that said something like their presence is the greatest gift but if they felt they wanted to give more we would appreciate help towards our honeymoon adventure.
It was much better worded than that but it let people know that we wanted cash and what we wanted it for. Worked really well! We got a couple gifts that were all super cool that we weren’t expecting -some paintings, a nice platter, new duvet cover but we loved everything we got

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That’s what we’re doing.

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THIS. That's exactly what I'm doing. There will be a money/card box at the wedding and we are accepting monetary donations only. If people want to know, they can ask you directly and you can tell them you are accepting gifts that way.

We were in the same situation we don’t want a lot of things so I worded the invitations stating that we wanted to do home renovations but if you wanted to give a gift here is our registry. So I purposely made a very small registry hoping it would mostly get bought for the bridal shower

I honestly think that it's classy and tasteful to just not put anything. If there's no registry, people will know how to gift you cash.

I have a whole page on my wedding website that explains why we want money for our honeymoon. Haha...

I think "Please No Boxed Gifts" or something like that is totally fine... Especially when you're saying 'no physical gifts', it's not actually ASKING for monetary gifts... just letting people deduce that on their own.

Gifts are a given with weddings, specifying what you'd prefer isn't greedy, it's actually a helpful piece of information for guests.

Interesting about what Manitobans put on an invitation.

around here its rude to put anything about gifts on a wedding invitation. but everyone just gives cash. very RARELY do you get a gift (except sometimes older people).

Great suggestions. This also helps me - thanks.

Because you are Manitoban and the wedding is in Manitoba, you can simply add "Presentation Preferred" at the bottom of the invite. It's totally normal and acceptable here and not considered rude at all.

It isn't tude to be asking for money. The phrase every indian invites say NO BOXED GIFTS PLEASE. That should help to let ypur guests know your outlook.