Suggested amounts for UK wedding cash gifts and Christmas tipping, based on the latest survey and etiquette data.
There's no official rulebook for how much to give at a wedding or tip over Christmas, so the same question comes up every year. This tool separates two different kinds of data: Prezola and YouGov's actual survey figures for wedding gifts, and the customary guideline amounts (not survey averages) for Christmas tipping, where Which?'s research shows most people don't tip at all.
These are UK-wide trends, not fixed rules — local custom and your own relationship still matter.
| Average wedding cash gift | £102Prezola 2024 |
| Close friend/family wedding gift | £76-100YouGov 2024 |
| Less close guest wedding gift | £50 or lessYouGov 2024 |
| People who never tip the postman | 73%Which? 2025 (2,100 people) |
| People who never tip bin collectors | 75%Which? 2025 |
* Christmas tipping amounts come from etiquette guides (Debrett's, ukcalculator.com), not surveys — most people don't tip at all.
Unlike wedding gifts, there's no reliable national survey that asks "how much do you tip?" and gets a real average, because most people simply don't tip these roles at all. What exists instead are long-standing etiquette guidelines — this tool shows those figures clearly labelled as guidance, alongside the actual survey finding that tipping itself is the exception, not the rule.
As of October 2026 · Sources: Prezola 2024, YouGov 2024, Which? 2025 Christmas tipping survey