Gift List - how much should I allow per guest?

If you're mostly going for small items then I think 5 per person is fine. We are planning on doing that for ours. Remember that you can always add more stuff on later if people buy you more than expected.

We just put things on our list that we wanted - we didnt go with a number of things if that makes sense.

As it is our one of our lists have been bought up completely & they've rang me twice to go in & put more on it but there is nothing else we want in that shop so Ive told them no & that we dont want gift vouchers either - we dont want to be tied to anywhere particular. We want a dyson hoover but way too expensive to put on a list so hopefully people will give us £ now there is nothing left on list and we can use it for the hoover. lol.

We've decided not to have a gift list but so say to people if they want to get us anything, then IKEA vouchers would be appreciated!

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Just done ours in House of Fraser this weekend and they said to average £30 per invite (assuming you have invited a couple on one invite and not an invite per person) but as others have said they will call you if you need to add more. For the bigger items, they suggested we put a note on saying we would like the item but know it is out of peoples budgets so any gift vouchers given will all be going towards that particular item.

Would love a KitchenAid!

I think it's a good idea to add a gift voucher option as well on the list. Then it doesn't matter if you haven't chosen enough and also if people are left with items out of their budget.

Can people club together and buy a big gift ?

We put gift vouchers on as well so people could just give us something towards a bigger gift.

We took loads off our list as originally I put too much on, we kept the things on there that we really wanted as I had images of all the "fillers" going first and the things we wanted being left!

We just added everything we wanted/needed. Anything that is left (there are a few bits) we'll buy with the voucher we got for opening the list!

We are just adding on things we need/want and not worrying about a certain amount. Ours go from approx £5 upwards. To be honest I don't expect many presents outside family as I have said to friends I just want them there and I know that will cost them money as it is. I know some people like my cousins will club together to get us one of the larger items.