Post by aliciabella on Aug 24, 2018 17:13:48 GMT -5
This why people just need to give cash and/or gift cards.
BUT, two good friends of mine gave me a couch blanket embroidered with our names and wedding date which matched our logos from our wedding invites. It is no 500 dollar quilt but I love it and it is still on my couch.
Post by mrs.jacinthe on Aug 24, 2018 18:11:55 GMT -5
Not technically a wedding gift, but one of R's uncles gives us a Bible for Christmas. Each. Every year. We have a lot more Bibles than we need (which is to say, we each already had one when we got married and neither of us needs/wants a new one.) Even worse is that we stopped going to church - at all - in 2016.
Oh yeah. My mom talked my grandmother of getting me brass candlesticks with crosses on them. By pointing out that the man I was marrying was not Christian.
Not technically a wedding gift, but one of R's uncles gives us a Bible for Christmas. Each. Every year. We have a lot more Bibles than we need (which is to say, we each already had one when we got married and neither of us needs/wants a new one.) Even worse is that we stopped going to church - at all - in 2016.
Give him testaMINTS as a present this year. That's a real thing.
Post by icedcoffee on Aug 24, 2018 18:17:09 GMT -5
For the most part, our friends and family were good about cash or registry only, but somehow we had like 4 or 5 cheese boards at some point from the people who couldn't follow instructions to do cash or registry. I returned/regifted a few of them over the years.
Not technically a wedding gift, but one of R's uncles gives us a Bible for Christmas. Each. Every year. We have a lot more Bibles than we need (which is to say, we each already had one when we got married and neither of us needs/wants a new one.) Even worse is that we stopped going to church - at all - in 2016.
Give him testaMINTS as a present this year. That's a real thing.
I think they sent us some two or three Christmases ago. Together with a box of snacks from trader joes. And two bibles. Sigh.
I need to start sending them cult pamphlets or something.
Post by klingklang77 on Aug 25, 2018 3:30:32 GMT -5
I got all cash (got married in NY).
At the shower I didn’t get anything too strange. I was going to live in Australia after the wedding, and I didn’t want to lug anything back, so I got some stuff off my Australian registry. I got some stuff off my US registry, but it wasn’t too difficult to bring.
At the engagement party I did get a strange cheese board with a special knife for each cheese. I never used it.
I don’t think we got multiples of anything but fondue pots (I have a well documented relationship with cheese) but I did get a very ugly but expensive glass pumpkin from a guest on my mom’s list and a creepy art print from one of our more aesthete friends. (We were married in late October.) I still have both because I’d feel bad getting rid of them.
Hilariously, I’ll be married 11 years this fall and we are still opening the packages for some wedding presents. We got far more place settlings of china than needed for modern life and other random things like a creme brûlée torch, random Kitchen Aid attachments and pasta making equipment that like, I’m sure I might use SOME day, it just hasn’t come up in the last decade, lol.
Post by cabbagecabbage on Aug 25, 2018 7:46:03 GMT -5
My mother used my wedding as a tool for her imaginary political career and invited coworkers and colleagues. The absolute best/worst was my mom’s coworker who gifted us his friend the lounge singer as our wedding gift. He seriously thought we’d have him sing at our reception. We ended up accepting the gift and he was the entertainment at our rehearsal dinner at a golf course restaurant (think one step up from a snack bar). It was a pretty epic rehearsal dinner.
Shower gifts, almost everyone stuck to the registry but MIL (she always goes rogue with gifts). Which is how I ended up with a personalized, satin and beaded photo album. She also gave us a separate personalized album and an "our family" book that I think was supposed to be filled out as we journey through the years of marriage?
I got two sets of cookware because one of the purchasers insisted the cashier leave it on the registry so it could be a surprise. I kept the second set.
We got random sets of wine glasses that were not on our registry. Like 4 Waterford glasses that didn't match our pattern. Weird. That's why they have a registry, right?
Someone gave us one of those statues without the faces. I forget the brand name, but it's not our style at all.
Post by goldengirlz on Aug 25, 2018 11:28:07 GMT -5
We got multiple sets of martini glasses ... I’m not sure why but people must think we really like martinis. So now whenever I throw a party, I make sure to create a drink that can be served in a martini glass since we have way more of those than wine glasses (which I am constantly breaking.) (Obviously we serve wine/beer too.) Sometimes H also makes fancy apps that he can plate in martini glasses.
But mostly we got cash. ‘Cause that’s how NY Jews do.
We didn’t get a lot of duplicates and mostly got cash (yay, destination wedding) although I did have a shower in my hometown and got large counter appliances that I had to deal with returning or shipping.
For our wedding, our richest relatives who happen to be local gave us a broken tv which DH fixed in 2 minutes and offered to give back, but they told us to keep it and it was a great gift that lasted for years...then they also gave us the family Christmas China...after having complained about it and saying they never use it during the previous Thanksgiving. Guess who else never uses the Christmas China and had moved it like 10x, across many states and back?
I need ham like water Like breath, like rain I need ham like mercy From Heaven's gate Sometimes ham salad or casserole or ham that’s free range, all natural I need ham