What did you do with your wedding gift money?

Original post by lila

Oct 09, 2008 11:40 AM

What did you do with (the majority of) your wedding gift money?

KK Holiday Posted: Oct 09, 2008 08:26 PM

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it's going in a CD for at least 7 months. then we're planning to use it for me to go back to school

DiamondPipa Posted: Oct 09, 2008 08:32 PM

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90% of it in a 6 month CD, then used the rest to pay some misc bills and brought all the Euro we made to our HM b/c the Euro was much much better than the $ where we went.

tj2008 Posted: Oct 09, 2008 09:15 PM

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Posted by snwb08

put it in a CD. locked it up for 18 months at the highest rate we found; when it matures we (might) use it toward a downpayment

same here

MattandTricia07 Posted: Oct 10, 2008 06:24 AM

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We paid off some things like our bedroom furniture, tv and some credit card debt and then put the rest in savings.

ant n tilde Posted: Oct 10, 2008 07:20 AM

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DH and I went on our honeymoon 100% debt free. . the entire wedding and all previous debt was paid off ( besides my student loans ). So every penny that we didn't use for the wedding PLUS every penny of wedding gifts is collecting interest in my ING account waiting for a promising house!

LeeLee111 Posted: Oct 10, 2008 10:23 AM

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We paid down a bunch of credit cards, did some shopping (Husband bought me a beautiful Gucci watch on our HM and he got some clothes) and paid for some stuff so I can strat grad school in January like the GMAT, apllication fees, etc...

I feel like the $ disappeared way faster than I thought it would.

yelley77 Posted: Oct 10, 2008 11:59 AM

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right now it's in a savings account!

KK Holiday Posted: Oct 10, 2008 03:28 PM

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Posted by ant n tilde

DH and I went on our honeymoon 100% debt free. . the entire wedding and all previous debt was paid off ( besides my student loans ). So every penny that we didn't use for the wedding PLUS every penny of wedding gifts is collecting interest in my ING account waiting for a promising house!

price867 Posted: Oct 15, 2008 04:33 PM

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Say goodbye to both of our student loans!

Mrs. V 2008 Posted: Oct 15, 2008 05:54 PM

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went right into savings..we don't touch it...its there for emergencies only

Colleen214 Posted: Oct 17, 2008 02:17 PM

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we used some for the honeymoon, which wasn't very expensive, and put the rest into our ING account so we can hopefully have enough to move back to NY and buy a house in summer 2010

magbride Posted: Oct 17, 2008 02:31 PM

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We used the bulk of it to pay down our home equity line of credit--it helped immensely. I would've loved to have put it in the bank, but DH and I are of the 'Pay down your debt first' school of thought.

oktom22 Posted: Oct 17, 2008 03:21 PM

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We put all of it in a savings account, to replenish what we spent on the wedding

hyphenbride Posted: Oct 17, 2008 07:04 PM

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We're planning on using some of it for our delayed honeymoon (in April) and putting the rest in a CD.

We're really excited to use that money for a travel fund. With DH's crazy work hours, we really need our vacation time!