For all the brides that got married..

Nrauch8191 Posted: Oct 24, 2011 03:41 PM

For all the brides that got married..

Did you get a lot of cash gifts or check gifts?

mybabylovesmoi Posted: Oct 24, 2011 03:42 PM

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no cash, all checks

eta: i totally lied! The guests who put their cards in the card box were all checks but I forgot that my parent's guests gave their cards directly to my parents and they were all cash. I think it might be a korean thing.

itbroi805 Posted: Oct 24, 2011 03:43 PM

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we got a lot of cash, but it was mostly checks.

toniann921 Posted: Oct 24, 2011 03:44 PM

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I guess for us it was like 70% checks and 30% cash. I remember being surprised as to how much cash we got.

evita2781 Posted: Oct 24, 2011 03:47 PM

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maybe 15% cash, the rest checks

FutureMRS.Benn Posted: Oct 24, 2011 03:51 PM

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Mostly all cash, but some checks.

futuremrstaheri Posted: Oct 24, 2011 03:53 PM

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ours was split - checks from family & family friends (older), cash from our friends (younger)

Moonmist09 Posted: Oct 24, 2011 04:31 PM

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about 70% cash and 30% checks.
and some of those cheks gave us so many problems!
UGH!!! TD Bank would not deposit any of our checks because people would put 'Mr. & Mrs. Randazzo' and technically, i hadn't legally changed my last name yet so even though DH name was on the account, they refused to cash the checks! UNREAL! I had to go to 3 different TD Branches before someone would cash the checks.
People think its cute that they put your new naames on there but don't realize what a problem this could turn into to deposit!

nikki41579 Posted: Oct 24, 2011 04:33 PM

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We got more cash then expected, but we did get more checks.

Royalgem21 Posted: Oct 24, 2011 04:44 PM

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Posted by Moonmist09

about 70% cash and 30% checks.
and some of those cheks gave us so many problems!
UGH!!! TD Bank would not deposit any of our checks because people would put 'Mr. & Mrs. Randazzo' and technically, i hadn't legally changed my last name yet so even though DH name was on the account, they refused to cash the checks! UNREAL! I had to go to 3 different TD Branches before someone would cash the checks.
People think its cute that they put your new naames on there but don't realize what a problem this could turn into to deposit!

TD Bank stinks! I stopped using them a long time ago!

pjc92980 Posted: Oct 24, 2011 04:45 PM

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we got about 80% checks, 20% cash

TheEyesOfMarch Posted: Oct 24, 2011 06:11 PM

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Posted by toniann921

I guess for us it was like 70% checks and 30% cash. I remember being surprised as to how much cash we got.

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kshea23 Posted: Oct 24, 2011 06:17 PM

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I got about 60% cash 40% checks. I did receive 3 checks that were made out to 'Bride and Groom' and we couldn't deposit those because our names weren't on them. We lost $550 because of that

meghan13 Posted: Oct 24, 2011 06:53 PM

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both, but mostly checks.

OctBride11 Posted: Oct 24, 2011 07:08 PM

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We got some checks but mostly cash.

madamsireeda213 Posted: Oct 24, 2011 10:18 PM

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mostly checks and some cash. i got some gifts beforehand which was nice.

Tomsbride Posted: Oct 24, 2011 10:27 PM

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Posted by kshea23

I got about 60% cash 40% checks. I did receive 3 checks that were made out to 'Bride and Groom' and we couldn't deposit those because our names weren't on them. We lost $550 because of that

Did you tell the people who gave you the checks? I sure regardless they're waiting for the check to clear so you could inform them.

Also, you can just write a hyphen an scribble in your names.

I heard TD bank is the worst when it comes to cashing checks for newlyweds. Citibank was easy. It didn't matter what was written on the check.

kshea23 Posted: Oct 24, 2011 10:36 PM

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Posted by Tomsbride

Posted by kshea23

I got about 60% cash 40% checks. I did receive 3 checks that were made out to 'Bride and Groom' and we couldn't deposit those because our names weren't on them. We lost $550 because of that

Did you tell the people who gave you the checks? I sure regardless they're waiting for the check to clear so you could inform them.

Also, you can just write a hyphen an scribble in your names.

I heard TD bank is the worst when it comes to cashing checks for newlyweds. Citibank was easy. It didn't matter what was written on the check.

It's a long story with those particular guests (friends from HS who never have money, and have other major issues). They're the type of people who will ask you out to dinner and have you pay the bill kind of people, but good friends nonetheless.

Anyways, we're have Chase (for now) and those checks were the only ones that wouldn't deposit.