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Engagement gift etiquette

Asked Nov 3, 2006, 12:03 PM — 2 Answers
Is a newly engaged bride to be supposed to give an engagement gift to the groom to be?

If you are the newly engaged: Congratulations!

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Nov 3, 2006, 01:03 PM
I say no. I, personally, have never heard of that.
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Nov 8, 2006, 01:52 PM
In some very modern relationships, a mutual gift exchange is part of engagement along the same lines as there is no "giving away of a bride" in the ceremony and wedding costs are footed by both people, not the bride's father. For liberated types, its a means of establishing equality in a relationship where past nuptial customs sometimes favored the man's wallet and the woman's passivity.
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