Bump, over a decade later!
So, what’s the expected amount for a red envelope / hongbao / 紅包 (multiple terms added to help with search) as of 2020? Two of us are attending the wedding.
Details that may or may not be relevant: bride is ex-coworker of my wife; the restaurant is I assume a typical wedding hall place, out in Danshui area; my wife and I are both going. I believe I’ve met the bride once for 10-20 seconds, and I’ve never met the groom.
It looks like we gave 3,600 at the wedding we most recently attended, but that was for cousins around four years ago. Not sure if the same amount would apply given a) time, and b) lack of family ties.
And is there a massive cultural confusion going on where inflation “should” have couples giving around 4,000, but 4 is bad luck, and no one wants to make the big leap to 5,000?
I will of course ask my wife as well, but I fear she’s getting a bit locked in time, sort of like my father who still insists that “I tipped 10% in the 1960s, and that amount is still generous now!”
