Kama Kesef helps the wedding-gift challenged in Israel
How much money should you give at a wedding? Um.. awkward. Probably a taboo subject, but not for Israelis! Kama Kesef is an online calculator that gives you an objective view of how much money to give at weddings or other occasions. It factors in how close of friends you are, time of year, where it’s being held, and other criteria. I don’t really see how the time of year plays a role. I guess halls are more expensive in different seasons, but I can’t imagine that it would affect how much someone gives as a present. But who am I to judge the almighty wedding present calculator?
I tried it out, making up the following info: a not so close friend, September wedding, held in a hall, and found out the appropriate amount to give would be 234 shekels. When I asked around, people told me the real going rate is 150-200 for young people. Who to trust…
The site is in Hebrew and only works in Internet Explorer (surprise surprise). I heard about it a few times, but thanks to a comment on a post in What War Zone, I finally got around to writing it up.
Here’s a screenshot from the Kama Kesef calculator:
The Big Felafel 
Thanks for the shout out, Felafel girls! Yeah, I tried it two weeks ago on my Mac. *#($#ing IE site.
| Posted 15 years, 2 months agoI’ve been to one wedding, my best friend’s, and I didn’t buy him a gift. The whole problem was that I had a real anxiety over what to get him. A) I’m broke. B) Wasn’t sure about the marriage. C) Never been to a wedding before, so I had no idea what to get.
If I only had The Big Felafel…
| Posted 15 years, 2 months ago