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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah, I had no idea about the NY “premium” on wedding gifts. I send a card with $100 to a nephew I hadn’t heard from in ten years, despite my sending cards and small gifts during that time. (I was traveling and didn’t attend the wedding.) I was informed by another family member that that amount was insulting. 🙄 Of course, that gift wasn’t acknowledged, either. [/quote]

My Long Island Wedding in 1998 most Uncles and Aunts gave $500 to $1,000. I always give $1,000 to nieces and nephews any less is insulting.

But I almost married an Italian girl from Long Island think Growing Up Gotti. I went to family weddings wirg her in 1980-1992 and her cousins were getting $5,000 from uncles and Aunts in 1992. Her cousin cleared $500,000 at wedding in 1992.

But mind you these were fancy shindigs. I almost proposed in 1992 and she wanted a $25k engagement ring. And that is wholesale prices. She worked in Jewelry business. Her Dad was paying a $50k to 75k wedding. That’s 1992 prices.

And some weddings are big. Leonard’s of Great Neck on Long Island still in business holds 1,000. I went to a wedding there in 1990 ex girlfriend and they paid $25,000 just for band.

Flash forward to 2025 and places like Nemacolin charge up to one million to do a wedding. The Biltmore in Asheville NC is even more.

My oldest sister got married young in 1981 and $75 a person and $150 a couple was going price for guests in 1981 at a nice place on Long Island.

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