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Wedding cash gifts by country: what guests give in 18 countries

What a guest puts in the envelope depends less on the guest than on the country. This report sets the usual bands of 18 countries side by side, from family to colleague, each in its own currency and each with the sources it rests on, so you can check every figure yourself.

18 countries 43 named sources Sources as of Oct 20, 2026
In short

Five things the comparison shows

  1. The floor rises with closeness everywhere: no source starts a colleague above a friend, or a friend above close family. What differs is the distance between the rows, and that distance is the comparison this report makes, because it survives every currency.
  2. Most countries price a couple at one and a half to two times a single guest. In Austria, Belgium, Spain and Mexico the sources count per person, so a couple gives double; the Swiss source prices one guest only.
  3. Turkey does not measure a wedding gift in lira at all. Guests pin gold to the couple: a quarter coin (çeyrek) from a close friend, a full coin or a bangle from close family, and one item covers the whole invitation, not each person. Since the quarter coin passed 10,000 lira, friends increasingly give a gram of gold or cash instead.
  4. Argentina and Colombia have no current figure, and that is a finding, not a gap. Argentine guests price the gift against the cost of their place at the table, and inflation retires any peso amount within a season; Colombia's only named figure is from 2019.
  5. One country can read differently by language. Flemish and French-language Belgian sources describe the same weddings with different bands, so Belgium appears twice, each row with its own sources.
Country by country

The usual bands, country by country

One guest attending the whole day, in the country's own currency. A row without a figure means the sources name none, and the card says so rather than borrowing a neighbour's number.

🇦🇷 Argentina

No peso figure. Guests price the gift against the "valor del cubierto", the cost of their place at the table, and inflation outdates any amount within a season.

Sources

🇦🇺 Australia

Close family
A$300 – A$500
Close friend
A$200 – A$300
Friend
A$150 – A$200
Colleague or acquaintance
A$100 – A$150
Part of the day only
No figure named

Per guest, for the whole day.

A couple usually gives 1.3 to 2 times the single amount.

Sources

🇦🇹 Austria

Close family
€100 – €500
Close friend
€50 – €200
Friend
from €50
Colleague or acquaintance
€30 – €50
Part of the day only
No figure named

Per guest, for the whole day.

Sources count per person, so a couple gives double.

Sources

🇧🇪 Belgium

As French-language sources describe it

Close family
€100 – €150
Close friend
€100 – €150
Friend
No figure named
Colleague or acquaintance
€50 – €100
Part of the day only
No figure named

Per guest, for the whole day.

Sources count per person, so a couple gives double.

Sources

🇧🇪 Belgium

As Flemish sources describe it

Close family
€100 – €150
Close friend
€80 – €125
Friend
€75 – €100
Colleague or acquaintance
€50 – €80
Part of the day only
No figure named

Per guest, for the whole day.

Sources count per person, so a couple gives double.

Sources

🇨🇦 Canada

Close family
CA$200 – CA$300
Close friend
CA$200 – CA$300
Friend
CA$100 – CA$200
Colleague or acquaintance
CA$100 – CA$200
Part of the day only
No figure named

Per guest, for the whole day.

A couple usually gives 1.5 to 2 times the single amount.

Sources

🇨🇴 Colombia

No current figure. The only named one is from 2019 ("100,000 pesos and up" for one guest, Blu Radio); the recent ranges found online cite no source.

Sources

🇫🇷 France

Close family
€150 – €300
Close friend
€100 – €200
Friend
€50 – €80
Colleague or acquaintance
€50 – €100
Part of the day only
€20 – €60

Per guest, for the whole day.

A couple usually gives 1.5 to 1.7 times the single amount.

Sources

🇩🇪 Germany

Parents, grandparents
from €250
Siblings and other family
€100 – €200
Close friend
€100 – €150
Friend
€50 – €100
Colleague or acquaintance
€30 – €60
Part of the day only
No figure named

Per guest, for the whole day.

A couple usually gives 1.5 to 2 times the single amount.

Sources

🇮🇪 Ireland

Close family
€200 – €300 or more
Close friend
€120 – €200
Friend
€100 – €150
Colleague or acquaintance
€80 – €120
Part of the day only
No figure named

Per guest, for the whole day.

A couple usually gives 1.5 to 2 times the single amount.

Sources

🇮🇹 Italy

Close family
€200 – €500
Close friend
€200 – €300
Friend
€100 – €150
Colleague or acquaintance
€100 – €200
Part of the day only
€30 – €60

Per guest, for the whole day.

A couple usually gives 1.5 to 2 times the single amount.

Sources

🇲🇽 Mexico

Close family
No figure named
Close friend
MX$2,000 – MX$3,000
Friend
MX$1,000 – MX$2,000
Colleague or acquaintance
MX$800 – MX$1,500
Part of the day only
No figure named

Per guest, for the whole day.

Sources count per person, so a couple gives double.

Sources

🇳🇱 Netherlands

Close family
€75 – €200
Close friend
€75 – €125
Friend
€50 – €75
Colleague or acquaintance
€25 – €50
Part of the day only
€20 – €60

Per guest, for the whole day.

A couple usually gives about 1.5 times the single amount.

Sources

🇵🇱 Poland

Close family
PLN 750 – PLN 1,500
Close friend
PLN 500 – PLN 1,000
Friend
PLN 200 – PLN 750
Colleague or acquaintance
PLN 200 – PLN 500
Part of the day only
PLN 200 – PLN 400

Per guest, for the whole day.

A couple usually gives 1.5 to 2 times the single amount.

Sources

🇪🇸 Spain

Close family
€200 – €300 or more
Close friend
€150 – €200
Friend
€100 – €150
Colleague or acquaintance
€60 – €100
Part of the day only
€50 – €80

Per guest, for the whole day.

Sources count per person, so a couple gives double.

Sources

🇨🇭 Switzerland

Close family
No figure named
Close friend
No figure named
Friend
CHF 100 – CHF 200
Colleague or acquaintance
No figure named
Part of the day only
No figure named

Per guest, for the whole day.

The sources price one guest only; they give no figure for a couple.

Sources

🇹🇷 Türkiye

Close family
A full gold coin, a set or a gold bangle
Close friend
One quarter gold coin (çeyrek)
Friend
A gram or half a gram of gold, or cash
Colleague or acquaintance
One item together with other colleagues, or cash
Part of the day only
Less than a quarter coin is usual

Per invitation: one item covers the couple or the family.

Sources

🇬🇧 United Kingdom

Close family
from £100
Close friend
£100 – £150
Friend
£50 – £100
Colleague or acquaintance
£30 – £50
Part of the day only
£20 – £50

Per guest, for the whole day.

A couple usually gives 1.5 to 2 times the single amount.

Sources

🇺🇸 United States

Close family
$150 – $400
Close friend
$150 – $250
Friend
$75 – $150
Colleague or acquaintance
$50 – $100
Part of the day only
No figure named

Per guest, for the whole day.

A couple usually gives 1.5 to 2 times the single amount.

Sources

Method

How the figures were collected

Every band on this page rests on named sources: surveys with a stated sample, newspapers and broadcasters, etiquette columns, banks and wedding portals. Where a row rests on our own guide, the guide is listed among that country's sources. Nothing here is an average we computed, and no country's figure was scaled from another's.

A band is copied as the source states it. The only derived figure is the couple rule, which the sources themselves state as a factor of the single amount, and where we round, we round outward, so a band can only widen, never become more precise than its source.

No currency is converted. A euro column would put one day's exchange rate on figures nobody priced in euros; what can be compared across countries is the shape of each market: who gives how much more than whom, and how a couple counts.

On the date at the top of this page we read every source again. Where two or more independent sources agreed against one of our earlier bands, the band now follows them; where at least one independent source supports it, it stayed. Each source shows the date printed on it, and we correct a band as soon as newer sources contradict it.

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Getting Married: "Wedding cash gifts by country: what guests give in 18 countries", as of October 20, 2026. https://getting-married.info/en/wedding-cash-gift-by-country/

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