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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm Indian and this is very usual in our culture. I hate it! So rude. It means, don't bring a gift to this wedding, just a check in an envelope. Awful!

At the same time, I think in India, it's just acceptable etiquette-wise, (we want money not stuff, just telling ya, NBD) so a couple might not mean it to be offensive the way we Americans might take it. However if you are raised in the States you have no excuse for that crap![/quote]

I'm Indian too, and I see this at Indian weddings here. And you're right that most people do give money. But I've never seen it acknowledged in India. Etiquette-wise, at least for the weddings I've been to, you pretend that gift giving is not part of the deal and act very surprised when someone does give you something. I've never seen it articulated that money should be the gift. [/quote]

PP you quoted. Yeah, I definitely get what you're saying. Maybe it's more, we don't want gifts to take home from this event. Not a comment on money. But you can get around the fact that they will take a check ;)[/quote]

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