If you give cash as a wedding gift…

Once s gift is given, it is out of my hands for them to do with as they choose.

It's not my business and I wouldn't expect to ever find out if they spent it on clothes.
It's just a gift.
If that's a problem for the other spouse, that's between them, not me! And I'd prefer not to know.

I don't care what they spend it on-it's a gift, do as you please.
I often think the couples I know use it to help pay for the wedding or saving up for a house.

Logically I realise i shouldn’t care for all the reasons above but I think I would a bit. I guess I would expect it to go towards something for their life together in some way.

I am a cash or gift card giver.

For any event (wedding, shower, birthday, graduation, retirement, etc....), the recipient is free to use the cash or gift card on whatever they want. Once the gift is given, it is up to the recipient as to how they want to use it.

I love receiving cash or a gift card, but I wouldn't like being told what I can or cannot spend it on. Not that the giver would know.......except there's always a couple people that say >> send me a photo of what you buy.

I tend to save the cash, for when there's a higher priced item that I want or to treat myself to something than I wouldn't normally use *my* money for (custom box of See's Chocolates).
I save gift cards for when I really want something.....I don't use them, simply for the sake of using them. I try to use them wisely.

When I give money, I don't put strings attached on how to spend it. Not even when it's given for a death in the family. When my nephew lost his father, I gave him cash and told him to spend it on whatever he wanted. It didn't necessarily have to go toward the funeral.

I often give cash for gifts and don't really think about what they may or may not spend the money on, but on occasion I have been told what the money was used for. I had donated a larger amount to a friend's adult children to help with funeral expenses. I did roll my eyes when they told me they used it for tattoos and wondered how they paid for the funeral.

Not one bit.  Go to McDonalds with it.  Gamble it. I don't care.  No strings attached. Period.

First off, I absolutely do not care what they do with the money they received. Secondly, your money that you gave as a gift, was probably added to all the money received. So now they have a large sum of money, given to them from friends and family. They can save it all, spend some on this and some for that. Technically, you could never know how your contribution to the whole was spent. Don’t sweat the small stuff. Be happy that you helped them out in their new life together. 😊

Money given as a gift is a gift for the recipient to do with as they wish.

I don't care what they spend it on. Maybe someone needed new clothes for a different job or a change in size or style. I've seen Kitchenaid mixers given as wedding gifts where I know one half of the couple wouldn't give 2 poops about that, even if they benefitted from what it helped make. And I think that's true about a lot of household gifts. You don't get a lot of drills or tire irons as wedding gifts, as opposed to China or wooden salad bowls, and those are more practical for a lot of households. I hope my gift made their life easier or better in some small way, whether it went for a honeymoon excursion, a utility bill, or new chonies.

Generally speaking, I don’t care what they spend cash I’ve given as a gift on with one exception and that is if they’re doing a fundraiser for medical expenses. Once we donated money for that and found out later the money was used for an expensive computer and other general wants vs. actual needs. Another time we donated money for medical care and three months later the person’s kid (who was basically the one in charge of paying the medical bills) bought an $86K car. I personally think it’s a bad look to pull up in a brand new BMW that everyone knows you couldn’t afford after all the locals pitched in their $10-20 bucks to help pay for your dad’s care. Yeah, in that case I’m going to be a little bit judgy.

I wouldn’t care.

Perhaps they have been spending their clothing budget on house, honeymoon or wedding expenses and are now just playing catchup.

But they are free to do whatever they like with it…no strings attached.

No, I do not care what they spend it on. Once a gift is given it is theirs to do with as they please.

They’ve just spent $$ on a wedding, might need to pay off some of that, many go on some sort of honey moon, many move. I don’t really care, I’ve never once asked. I guess I’d be upset if they spent it on drugs or a hit person or something really illegal but I probably wouldn’t know because I don’t ask, don’t care, have rarely been told.