The death of the humble wedding gift

Ben Shelley
4 min readJul 22, 2020
Photo by Yomex Owo on Unsplash

I’m not sure when the changeover happened but it did. Rather than asking for specific items, we now ask for money when it comes to gifts at a wedding. This has been my experience at least. Each wedding I have been to has included the same line at the bottom of the invite…

‘We both have everything that we need in life. The presence of you at our wedding is what is important. If you wish to provide a

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Ben Shelley

Someone who has no idea about where their place is in this world, yet enjoys writing about books, education, entertainment and videogames