Do you take this credit card?
2008-07-10 20:10
Jeffrey Heller
Jerusalem - Guests at an Israeli wedding
hall can now insert a credit card into a machine at its
entrance, tap in a sum and leave a gift for the bride and groom.
"It's new in Israel and the world," Aya Alon Kaufman of the
Gan Oranim hall in Tel Aviv said on Israel's Channel 10
television.
"It's very convenient... guests can give a gift
even if they forget their chequebooks."
She said couples pay 500 shekels to rent the device,
which resembles an automated teller machine, and the recorded
funds are transferred into their bank account the next day.
The machine, shown being used in the television report,
prints out a "deposit" slip with the guest's name, which can be
put into an envelope along with a congratulatory note and
inserted into a slot in the device for the couple to retrieve.
Rather than bring boxed gifts, guests at Israeli weddings
usually leave cash or cheques in envelopes they slip into a
safe placed at the reception hall's door.
- Reuters