Wedding gift calculator: how much money should you give?
How close are you to the couple, are you going alone or as a couple, and will you be there all day? Answer three questions and the calculator shows the usual cash range for your country, with the reason behind it. Nothing you choose leaves this browser.
Your situation
Pick what applies. The range below changes with every choice.
What is usual
UK band per guest from Novuna Personal Finance (February 2025): colleagues £30 to £50, all-day guests £50 to £100, the wedding party and close family from £100; close friends at £100 to £150 come from our guide. A Censuswide survey for Bloom & Wild (June 2025, 2,001 adults) found fewer than 3% of guests spend over £150. The cover-your-plate rule puts a sit-down meal at roughly £60 to £120 a head: a sanity check, not a minimum.
Sources as of Oct 20, 2026
Guidelines, not rules: travel, a hen or stag weekend and your own circumstances all move the figure, and your budget outranks every number here.
Every range at a glance
The same figures the calculator uses, per person and for the whole day. For a couple or a family, the calculator above shows the combined range.
United Kingdom
- Sibling, parent or close family
- from £100
- Close friend
- £100 – £150
- Friend
- £50 – £100
- Colleague or acquaintance
- £30 – £50
- Evening only
- £20 – £50
per person
United States
- Sibling, parent or close family
- $150 – $400
- Close friend
- $150 – $250
- Friend
- $75 – $150
- Colleague or acquaintance
- $50 – $100
- Evening only
- No set figure
per person
Ireland
- Sibling, parent or close family
- €200 – €300 or more
- Close friend
- €120 – €200
- Friend
- €100 – €150
- Colleague or acquaintance
- €80 – €120
- Evening only
- No set figure
per person
Canada
- Sibling, parent or close family
- CA$200 – CA$300
- Close friend
- CA$200 – CA$300
- Friend
- CA$100 – CA$200
- Colleague or acquaintance
- CA$100 – CA$200
- Evening only
- No set figure
per person
Australia
- Sibling, parent or close family
- A$300 – A$500
- Close friend
- A$200 – A$300
- Friend
- A$150 – A$200
- Colleague or acquaintance
- A$100 – A$150
- Evening only
- No set figure
per person
Looked up, not averaged
The calculator averages nothing and estimates nothing. Your choices point at one row of a table for your country, and each answer names its source: Novuna Personal Finance, The Knot and Zola beside our own guide for the UK and the US, and named Irish, Canadian and Australian publications for the other three.
A couple or a family gives one gift. The combined range is usually one and a half to two times the single range (1.3 to 2 in Australia), rounded outward to the nearest five, so rounding can only widen a range, never make it look more precise than its source.
Where no source gives a reliable figure, such as an evening-only guest in the US, the calculator states the rule instead of inventing a range. Everything runs in your browser: there is no form, and no choice is sent or stored.
Common questions about cash wedding gifts
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Where the UK and US bands come from, and what moves them: How much money should you give as a wedding gift?
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How do these bands compare with other countries? Eighteen of them, side by side and with their sources: Wedding gifts by country
Planning your own wedding? Try the budget calculator