Anonymous
Post 04/08/2024 14:18     Subject: Do you give a gift when your son or daughter gets engaged?

If wedding is happening soon, no gift necessary but no date fixed and probably would be in a couple of years, a small memento gift would be nice. Price doesn't matter. You don't have to spend over your budget, just embrace them with open heart and remember they were raised differently than you or your child so don't meet with expectations they don't even know exist.
Anonymous
Post 04/08/2024 13:52     Subject: Do you give a gift when your son or daughter gets engaged?

Anonymous wrote:My 25 years old DS recently got engaged and we paid off his wife 100K student loan. We also gave them 750K for a 50% down payment on a home. That was our gift to them.


Seems a bit light.
Anonymous
Post 04/08/2024 13:45     Subject: Do you give a gift when your son or daughter gets engaged?

Nope, but my parents never bought me gifts. I'd probably get a daughter/daughter in law a nice piece of jewelry or help pay for the wedding if it wasn't big/lavish as I think small weddings are nice and I'm not paying for a huge party they will not remember 20 years form now.
Anonymous
Post 04/08/2024 13:41     Subject: Re:Do you give a gift when your son or daughter gets engaged?

Two engagement parties and two weddings! Combined I’m sure we spent somewhere between $150-200,000. And that was ten plus years ago. Thankfully they are both still happily married with a combined 7 grandchildren.
Anonymous
Post 04/08/2024 13:22     Subject: Do you give a gift when your son or daughter gets engaged?

Anonymous wrote:Double strand of pearls for our future DIL. Gold watch for our future SIL.


These are wonderful gifts! Classy
Anonymous
Post 04/08/2024 13:11     Subject: Do you give a gift when your son or daughter gets engaged?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:No gift, just a fat cheque


Check now cheque. What it is about elites and their need to be someone they are not?


I’ve always spelled it cheque too. So going out of my way to write “check” would be me being someone I’m not.
Anonymous
Post 04/08/2024 12:54     Subject: Do you give a gift when your son or daughter gets engaged?

No person may operate a personal watercraft (PWC) or motorboat powered by a motor of more than 15 horsepower on public waters unless the person is at least 13 years of age and has successfully completed a Boater Education Course or is supervised by another person who: is at least 18 years of age.
Anonymous
Post 04/08/2024 12:52     Subject: Do you give a gift when your son or daughter gets engaged?

In most states, you can get your motorcycle license at 16 or 17 years old.