The Couple Scam

This isn't something that has come up recently, but it came up in conversation and I got all riled up about it again. Okay, here's the situation: a buddy of yours is getting married. You're single and your friends are married. The invitation says "Presentation" (for all you people that don't know what that means, it means that the couple don't want you to go buy them a toaster, they just want the cash. Anyway, you're at the wedding and you're sitting beside your "couple" friends and you're all sealing the envelopes with the cheques in them. Just out of curiosity, you ask your friends, "How much did you guys give?" They give you this proud, we-spent-a-lot-of-money look and say, "a hundred bucks." You quickly glance into your envelope before you seal it and you see clearly written on one of your cheques: "seventy dollars". Ok, I'm not calling anyone cheap and I'm probably the last person in the world that thinks I have money to burn but how do couples get away with spending less on these things? You're probably saying, "I don't give seventy bucks, I give fifty." Well let's say there's a registry. You buy a gift for $40 off that registry. Maybe a couple of towels or something. The couple gets away with buying the same towels from both of them! Jeff and I have had this conversation many times and its the biggest scam couples have. Whoever said it was cheaper to be single was a moron.