A couple DH and I are related to got engaged and had a party. It was in an ordinary hotel, not fancy, but a nice teatime do. We were invited 3 days before the event via Facebook.
We have been related to them for only a few years since it is due to a second marriage in the wider family, and although we are similar in age we do not socialise with them and only see them at random family events.
The above may or may not be relevant...it is just background info.
Anyway, it has been brought to our attention that we were the only people not to give an engagement gift. We took a card. Apparently that wasn't enough!
We will be getting them a wedding gift, unless we have now been struck off the invite list.
Do people give gifts at these things?
Would you expect an engagement gift?
Is it not unbelievably bad manners to even remark on the absence of a present?
This has pissed us off, quite frankly, and I wonder if we were being unreasonable....
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bt1978 · 10/09/2013 19:31
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