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I was recently reading an old post by Mrs Caterpillar...and it got me thinking this would be a great board discussion.
Experts say the majority of gifts you'll receive at the wedding will be in the form of a check or greenbacks...What are doing/did you do with all the cash you're going to get on the big day?
As for Mr. LatteLove and I...we'll take a little cash with for honeymoon spending money (though we're budgeting on not getting anything) The rest is going to furniture! Between the two we of us we have a total of....oh yeah, NO furniture! My tax refund is buying our bed, but the wedding cash will hopefully pay for a couch, and maybe kitchen table and chairs? We're planning to start with craig's list material and upgrade slowly.
The best man will collect the checks that didn't go in the card box, and because we have 3 days between wedding and honeymoon, we'll have plenty of time to log and deposit the checks before we head off to Italy.
We're planning to stash it and save it. We NEED new furniture, but have decided to wait until we buy a house. We also aren't going on a honeymoon. So, maybe by next year, we will have gained interest and will be able to go somewhere!
We will be saving whatever that came in by way of gift. Because we had paid for the wedding ourselves and purchased a house during the process, we have little or no savings left. What with the economy right now, I think it's prudent to have a bit of savings (=6 months worth of mortgage) in the bank at all times. We have all the furnitures/pots/pans we need for the house.
We do need to fix up the kitchen because it is old (need cabinets only, we recently upgraded to all stainless steel appliances), we thought that some time down the road would be more ideal.
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The checks, if any, will be deposited in the bank. Any cash we recieve is for the honeymoon. Yeah Italy! The more generous people are the fewer prociutto sandwiches we'll have to eat.
Whatever we recieve will go towards a down payment, unless we are lucky enough to buy pre-wedding and then probably furniture. All practical things.
We'll probably spend some of it on the honeymoon, but my goal is to replace our god-awful bed by the end of the year, and I'd like to replenish our savings so we have about as much as we did before we bought my engagement ring. I'm not expecting wedding gifts to cover either of those expenses, but every bit helps!
Put it in a home-improvement fund. We are saving for a bigger down payment (and waiting for the market to bottom). We decided we wanted to use our own money to pay for the down payment, and we'd use any gifts for improvements we might want.
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We'll probably spend a little on our honeymoon, and then save the rest. We are paying for bits and pieces of the wedding ourselves, and although we already have the money saved up, it will be nice to replenish those savings after the wedding!
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We'll probably split it up and put portions of it towards different things -- savings (for a home), paying off some leftover student loans, and maybe take a little bit on our honeymoon.
It is all going right into the house savings fund! We are really hoping to buy within the next two years (that's when we've heard the housing market might turn around).
Goodness, money gifts always overwhelm me. When I graduated from college I was flabbergasted.
I'm sure we'll use some to pay off student loans and take a little on our honeymoon. I've never had a massage and would *love* to splurge on a nice honeymoon massage. We've also been talking about getting a dog for a long time so we could put some of the money toward that. In reality, most will go toward loans or savings.
We're going to use a small amount for honeymoon "fun" money and then use the rest to pay towards any lingering debts....... student loans, credit cards or car loans- whichever seems the most important!
I think we'll definitely put any cash/check gifts directly into savings....well, and maybe use a little of it on the honeymoon!
House fund! If we are able to buy beforehand (unlikely) it will go towards furniture and general savings.
We opened an ING savings account. When we first opened it, right after the wedding, the interest rate was really good. Now it's not so good, so we may be looking at getting a CD.
Probably saving most of it and paying off some lingering debt we've accumulated with the new house. Any little bit we receive is more than we started with so it will be a help!
Well since we will not be living together until after the wedding and then buying our home we will invest it into furniture and stuff like that to help us on our way.
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us too, Jenine. We actually both moved home with our parents (...) after college because we knew this wedding was coming and we wanted to save as much as we can. But we have the disadvantage of having bought no home items yet, at all!
It's sitting pretty in the bank in the same account with the rest of our money that's waiting to the perfect house to come along. 
we plan to save most of it, use some for the honeymoon, and go out to a nice dinner :)
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If we have to borrow any money from my FI's parents then we'll be paying them back, if not it'll go towards the honeymoon!
Our gifts will go toward finishing the basement of our house. We hope by this time next year we can get started!
All of the cash we received we converted into euros as soon as we landed in Paris and blew it on French wine and cheeses. =) We didn't get *that* much though. ;)
My parents deposited the checks we received while we were on our honeymoon, and we spent some on a new TV and furniture, and the rest went into savings.
We will probably put the money in savings, maybe buy something nice for the house on our honeymoon, but that's about it. Our wedding will be completely paid for prior to the wedding as well as most of the honeymoon, so really won't need to use the money for those type of expenses.
We're taking all of the cards to open on our honeymoon. The plane ride will likely be a long one (a la Riviera Maya). So hopefully we get enough to spoil ourselves rotten with a couple's massage, and use the rest for our spending money. =)
We don't expect too much cash, honestly. Most will likely be gifts or gift cards.
There's not much we need around the hosue, so we'll probably take a little with on the honeymoon and put the rest in our savings to make up for what we spent on the wedding (we want to pay for the majority of it ourselves). Maybe some of it will go toward whatever is left on student loans.
We gave ours to charity. We already have a house and our honeymoon was paid for by a relative so we really didn't feel like we deserved the money! It was a nice feeling to give it away though - we will likely never be able to be so generous again!
The Mr. and I are planning to buy a house this year while planning a wedding for next year. The wedding cash gifts will go towards recovering from our low bank accounts and towards our mortgage payments or any other loans we may have by then.
Hopefully we'll be able to get a couch and put the rest away for a rainy day.
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We actually are saving ours for a home improvement project...adding a deck to the south side of our house!
With owning two homes we had two of almost everything so home improvement over new furniture.
We saved half and put the other half in the stock market. Other than the rally yesterday, stock market hasn't been too kind. SO.... we should have just saved it. Cash is good.
we bought furniture that was delivered this past saturday. so exciting!
We used about $200 on registry items we didn't get (an 8th setting of china, a shower curtain, a toothbrush holder...), about $100 on the honeymoon for a fancy dinner out, and the rest we put in the bank to save up toward a house.
Spending some on the honeymoon but mostly using it to pay down school loan debts and for our 8-month emergency fund. I recently read an article about this in a bridal magazine - maybe Brides? Their anniversary issue, I think...
We're going to put it towards paying off the remainder on our cats and then the rest will go either into savings or into our mortgages (we each have a condo).
We weren't able to take a honeymoon so we bought ourselves a dining room set for our new house. I was so excited. I felt like a real honest to goodness grown up.
Ours was divvied up between honeymoon spending and our savings account. 
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