Wedding guests are sick of giving gifts — these newlyweds agree: ‘We do not want anything’

Some newlyweds look forward to ripping open a pile of cash-filled envelopes from their guests post-wedding, secretly hoping to recoup some of the thousands they shelled out for their big day. Not Melissa Reinecke and her now-husband Dan, who explicitly told their guests to come empty-handed to their 2023 nuptials. “Don’t even bother,” they told guests, “with gifts.” The happy couple represents a growing group of almost-married Americans going hard on gift-free weddings. In fact, according to the wedding-planning platform Joy, the number of registered couples who decline gifts has roughly doubled in the past year. In the words of one West Village bride, who begged to be anonymous — “We don’t want your c–p.” When Dan and Melissa Reinecke wed in an Ohio backyard in 2023, they specifically req