Taking pics of the gifts if you don't have receipts is fine. In the end, this will be only a small part of your entire set of "proofs".Solesilence said:I gave my wife many gifts (clothing jewelery shoes) and she also bought me many wedding gifts from Canada as well (clothes, shoes, perfume etc) none of us bothered to keep the receipts however :'( we also don't have any receipts of the dozens of hotels we went out to eat in and the dozens of things we bought in the few months she lived with me. (we got married this october, she lived with me until december and has now been in Canada for the passed 2 months).
is just taking pictures of the gifts really enough? how should they be taken? with someone (like me or my wife) holding the gift or just plain pictures of the gifts with descriptions written on the back? and should each gift have its own picture or can more then one gift be in a picture?
since we have only been married for 4 months (and she lived with me for 2 and a half of these 4),are receipts really that important ?
i seriously regret throwing them out but come on! we just got married! the last thing we were concerned about was keeping track of receipts! :'(
no pain no gain i guess
please reply soon, anyone with advice...
The VO will be much more concerned with things like who attended your wedding, letters of support from family, the length of your relationship before the wedding, how you communicated during this time, if you now have joint financial accounts, are beneficiaries on each other's life insurance etc etc. Pictures of gifts can add to the overall proofs, but will be further down on the list of what's really important.
For comparison, we didn't include pictures of or even mention gifts at all in our application.