(LifeWire) -- Jennifer Bilotta thought she and her husband Michael had the perfect present for his cousin's wedding. The gift in question -- a fused-glass plate decorated with a "tacky scene of a bride and groom," she recalls -- had been given to Bilotta at her own wedding a few years earlier. Nothing wrong with a little regifting as long as the bride and groom enjoy the gift. Or so Bilotta thought. "She collects Barbies, and he collects G.I. Joes," says Bilotta, 33, a publicist in Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania. "The plate seemed up their alley. So for their wedding gift, we gave them the plate along with a card with a check for the usual wedding amount."
@highlight
Expert: $200 is appropriate spending for wedding gift to close friends
@highlight
TV host: Shot glasses and knives are bad wedding gifts
@highlight
Peggy Post: It's OK to split cost of high-ticket gift with other guests
Deciding what to give (or not give) newlyweds is never an easy task, says @placeholder, one of the country's leading etiquette experts and co-author of the book "A Wedding Like No Other."