Ya Jas, agreed with u that having gold as gift is real horrible! My dad sounds to his siblings that don't buy gold for me. And maybe they also knew that I got a lot from my mom but I don't wear them. My mom used to work in wholesale jewelleries importer office.
I got full set of jewelleries fr my mom as wedding gift, so tea ceremony, my mom and dad just use empty gold box to present to us. All the jewelleries that my parents gave and my granny gave already in the safe
Hmm..my tea ceremony ang pow on that Sat night my mom appointed my eldest aunt to take care. So my uncle records name on the ang pow and my aunt kept it..so that night they bring all these ang pow and kept in their home safe.
AD morning tea ceremony's ang pow, my mom allocated his bro to take care..plus my passport and my hb passport, all pass to them. Coz my parents gotta travel to my in-law's place too..nobody will be at home.
My uncle stays near-by, he has my house key, so he guard our house for us lor by coming in to monitor twice a day or so.
very troublesome hor..no choice lor. In MY those robbers like to marked on ppl's house with wedding occasion to break in.
And my dad also inform my neighbour to keep an eye for us.