Brides who got married in a chuch I have a question

csorisi Posted: Aug 24, 2005 03:27 PM

Brides who got married in a chuch I have a question

FH & I are trying to decide what to get our priest as a thank you for doing our mass. We have to make a $300 donation to the church but we thought we would get the priest something--did anyone else do this & if so what did you give the priest.
TIA
Corinne

jilmadison Posted: Aug 24, 2005 03:30 PM

Re: Brides who got married in a chuch I have a question

Wow thats all you have to give? $300? I have to donate 1500, plus pay the minister $500 and plus all the other extras...

SIBride06 Posted: Aug 24, 2005 03:32 PM

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Posted by jilmadison

Wow thats all you have to give? $300? I have to donate 1500, plus pay the minister $500 and plus all the other extras...

WOw and I thought $ 750 was bad.

MrsFudge Posted: Aug 24, 2005 03:34 PM

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We have to give the church a $700 donation but we are going to give the priest and deacon a gift. The priest is an avid fisherman and so we are going to give him a really nice fishing pole and we will probably donate extra money in the deacon's name to the church.

Suzannebride Posted: Aug 24, 2005 03:34 PM

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Posted by SIBride06

Posted by jilmadison

Wow thats all you have to give? $300? I have to donate 1500, plus pay the minister $500 and plus all the other extras...

WOw and I thought $ 750 was bad.

Wow! That seems HIGH.

I know our priest likes to read and has also mentioned going to see movies at a nearby theater so I am planning on getting him gift cards to that theater and a book store.

CKJ906 Posted: Aug 24, 2005 03:36 PM

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I'm not getting him a gift. Our 'donation' is so high its a real turn off and disgrace that they would make people pay this amount to get married.

Kim51103 Posted: Aug 24, 2005 03:41 PM

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I thought 650 was bad....darn...thats a LOT of money!!!!!

july06bride Posted: Aug 24, 2005 03:44 PM

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we are paying 450

and we will get our priest who is also a family friend something i dont know what yet...maybe a Gift cert. to a rest. he likes to eat out

TreAnt425 Posted: Aug 24, 2005 03:45 PM

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I believe our donationis $450. I wasn't planning on doing anything extra for the priest b/c I never heard of it. Do alot of people do this??

SeptWed Posted: Aug 24, 2005 03:49 PM

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Our donation was $350 and that included Pre Cana and music. I can't believe how high some of you are.

We did not get anything for the priest.

FYI - You can use the church amount (and if you do donations to charity for favors) as a tax write off too. Saves you some money in what is a very expensive year.