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Kim Kardashian's Ex Thinks She Should Give the Wedding Gifts Back
BabylonSister:
--- Quote from: Shoo on March 12, 2012, 07:25:15 PM ---
--- Quote from: Autumn Rose on March 11, 2012, 01:46:58 PM ---Hmmm...I love her take that she recieved $100,000 worth of gifts.
Now, lets just do the math. They had 450 guests. Divide that, and that averages $222.00 per guest for a gift.
Now I, humble peon, usually give atleast $125. per wedding.
THESE PEOPLE ARE MILLIONAIRES!
There is no way that she "only" received $100,000 in gifts.
I bet she made a cool $500,000 in gifts....easy.
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A lot of those guests probably came as couples/families and only gave one gift.
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Also, some of the guests might have been non-wealthy relatives (both on his and her sides.)
mkkristen:
--- Quote from: Autumn Rose on March 11, 2012, 01:46:58 PM ---Hmmm...I love her take that she recieved $100,000 worth of gifts.
Now, lets just do the math. They had 450 guests. Divide that, and that averages $222.00 per guest for a gift.
Now I, humble peon, usually give atleast $125. per wedding.
THESE PEOPLE ARE MILLIONAIRES!
There is no way that she "only" received $100,000 in gifts.
I bet she made a cool $500,000 in gifts....easy.
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My guess is that she got $100K in actual items--i.e. boxed things off a registry. I bet she made at least $100K in cash gifts as well. I think the whole things is a shame and I wish the Kartrashians would just go away.
WillyNilly:
Its probably impossible to fully calculate all wedding related gifts. What about the gag gifts people bought for the bachelorette party? The round of super fancy drinks a friend bought when she found out Kim was was engaged? Or the little "oh my gosh I saw this [wedding do-dad] and thought of you!" gifts. I mean I know my humble working class friends have bought me things like a picture frame when I announced my engagement, another friend immediately went out and bought me lotion, a nail file and 2 bottles of polish, another bought me a drink, a couple both DF and I are friends with bought us a huge cake size "cup cake" and a helium balloon that said "congratulations", etc, etc. These are little things, and they are gifts but not gifts, you know? And I'm sure KK was no exception to this type of gift getting.
June24:
--- Quote from: WillyNilly on March 14, 2012, 06:07:03 PM ---Its probably impossible to fully calculate all wedding related gifts. What about the gag gifts people bought for the bachelorette party? The round of super fancy drinks a friend bought when she found out Kim was was engaged? Or the little "oh my gosh I saw this [wedding do-dad] and thought of you!" gifts. I mean I know my humble working class friends have bought me things like a picture frame when I announced my engagement, another friend immediately went out and bought me lotion, a nail file and 2 bottles of polish, another bought me a drink, a couple both DF and I are friends with bought us a huge cake size "cup cake" and a helium balloon that said "congratulations", etc, etc. These are little things, and they are gifts but not gifts, you know? And I'm sure KK was no exception to this type of gift getting.
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I'm sure that the people who attended this wedding were wealthy enough that they probably weren't particularly concerned about having their gifts returned, or being compensated for the little things that you mention. The only way I'd be upset about not getting my gift back is if I made a financial outlay that was significant to me. If it was not a large enough amount for me to be concerned about, I wouldn't care about getting my gift back in the case of a sham wedding. The whole "sham wedding" deal would color my opinion of the parties involved moreso than not having my gift returned. If the wedding did in fact fail early, I would not really be interested in nitpicking ever dollar that I spent on the happy couple.
WillyNilly:
--- Quote from: June24 on March 26, 2012, 03:07:03 PM ---
--- Quote from: WillyNilly on March 14, 2012, 06:07:03 PM ---Its probably impossible to fully calculate all wedding related gifts. What about the gag gifts people bought for the bachelorette party? The round of super fancy drinks a friend bought when she found out Kim was was engaged? Or the little "oh my gosh I saw this [wedding do-dad] and thought of you!" gifts. I mean I know my humble working class friends have bought me things like a picture frame when I announced my engagement, another friend immediately went out and bought me lotion, a nail file and 2 bottles of polish, another bought me a drink, a couple both DF and I are friends with bought us a huge cake size "cup cake" and a helium balloon that said "congratulations", etc, etc. These are little things, and they are gifts but not gifts, you know? And I'm sure KK was no exception to this type of gift getting.
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I'm sure that the people who attended this wedding were wealthy enough that they probably weren't particularly concerned about having their gifts returned, or being compensated for the little things that you mention. The only way I'd be upset about not getting my gift back is if I made a financial outlay that was significant to me. If it was not a large enough amount for me to be concerned about, I wouldn't care about getting my gift back in the case of a sham wedding. The whole "sham wedding" deal would color my opinion of the parties involved moreso than not having my gift returned. If the wedding did in fact fail early, I would not really be interested in nitpicking ever dollar that I spent on the happy couple.
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As far as I know Kris Humphries' family is an average middle class family from Minnesota. His aunts, uncles, cousins, old friends, etc are probably a good variety of non-rich. And any who attended would have had to pay a lot to travel and get hotels, event-appropriate attire, etc.
Now I doubt anyone does want small niceties repaid. My point was simply that one can't really ever fully calculate the value of "wedding gifts" because they are varied and often times spread out over the course of an engagement.
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