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"Seriously! I gagged a little!\nPinterestFacebookMedium group of wrapped Christmas gifts (still life)\nPHOTO: Getty ImagesWrites Save the Date reader Hollie:\nMy husband and I were recently invited to his cousin&amp;#39;s 10-year vow renewal, which they&amp;#39;re treating just like a wedding. When we were 16, we attended their wedding as friends, then got married ourselves several years later. As teenagers we put our money together to buy them a very nice wedding present, which they still have. Fast-forward 10 years, and their vow renewal invitation reads &amp;quot;Wedding presents are a necessity&amp;#8212;not an option.&amp;quot; I&amp;#39;m pregnant and due in just a few months. I have lots of stuff to buy for the baby&amp;#8212;and I don&amp;#39;t have a ton of extra money to buy them another expensive wedding present. Can I skip the gift?\nHere are my thoughts:\nSkip the gift? I&amp;#39;d skip the whole event! These people are obnoxious!\nEtiquette says gifts should never be mentioned on an invitation for ANY event: wedding, shower, birthday party, whatever. Those closest to the guest of honor&amp;#8212;mom, sisters, bridesmaids, besties&amp;#8212;can let people know what she might be hoping for (or where she&amp;#39;s registered) but the rationale is, if you mention gifts on an invite, it looks like you&amp;#39;re asking for &amp;#39;em.\nThe only time I&amp;#39;m okay with seeing the word &amp;quot;gifts&amp;quot; mentioned on a wedding invite is when the line reads, &amp;quot;No gifts, please.&amp;quot; (Even a request for charitable gifts should go on an insert or wedding website, in my opinion.)\nLots of people mention registries on shower invites these days. It&amp;#39;s become so common that I kind of don&amp;#39;t mind it&amp;#8212;but I&amp;#39;d rather see registry info on an insert or not at all.\nIn any event, DEMANDING gifts is ridiculous and totally tasteless.\nReminder: Hosting a wedding (or a vow renewal) is about celebrating your marriage with the people you love most&amp;#8212;regardless of whether they can afford to buy you a place setting.\nHollie, if you feel like you must go to this event, get a card and write a nice long note mentioning how nice it was to celebrate with them 10 years ago and how great it is that they&amp;#39;re still able to use the gift you got them then all these years later.\nLadies, what do you think? Am I being too harsh? What would you do if you got an invite that demanded gifts? And do you care when you get an invitation that mentions registry information?\nHave a wedding-y dilemma of your own? E-mail me!\nMore reader&amp;#39;s dilemmas, solved!\n\nShould a Girl Get a Say in What Her Engagement Ring Looks Like?\n\n\nHow Long Is Too Long to Wait for a Guy to Propose?\n\n\nWhat if You Know How Your Boyfriend&amp;#39;s Going to Propose&amp;#8212;And You Hate His Plan?!\n\nMore Ways to Get Glamour:\nNEW! Now You Can Read Glamour on Flipboard!\nVisit ShopGlamour.com for cute stuff starting at just $10!\nDownload  Glamour for your iPad. Print subscribers, it&amp;#39;s now part of your subscription plan!\nEnter the latest Glamour sweepstakes!\nFollow us on Twitter.\nPhoto: Thinkstock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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