What was your best wedding gift?

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Just that really! What Was your most memorable/ best gift?

My friend is (finally) getting married later this month (having postponed three times since March ‘20!) and I’m looking for gift inspiration!

Thank you!

Aww Matilda that's beautiful
What a lovely brother too, doing that for you.

I had a couple of gifts I loved.

A framed papercut from a friend with our names and date of the wedding

Fancy restaurant voucher

Afternoon tea voucher for the wedding venue

The photographer

A family pebble picture.

A picnic blanket and small cool box / picnic bag. We got so much use out of it.

Had a very small wedding, as didn't have the money but had around just a dozen people and my friends mum made a beautiful wedding cake for us, never properly thanked her, which I regret, she'd even brought wine glasses for us to use, it humbles me to this day. Been married 32 years now.

I don't think anyone can top what @MatildaIThink S darling brother arranged with his dad for her wedding day ♥️

My favourite wedding present was a large slow cooker. I still use it 25 years later. It was a godsend for all those late evening workdays and when I raced home after picking DCs up from various childcare places to a hot meal already cooked making my house smell welcoming and my evening just that bit easier.

One of my closest friends, also a bridesmaid, gave us an amazing poem that she arranged for someone to pen. She contacted all of our closest friends and family and asked them to describe our individual personality traits and the history of our relationship. My friend knew the poet and I appreciate you might not know one (I don't) but maybe google? It is fabulous - she had it typeset, printed and framed. We were blown away

@MatildaIThink

Mine is purely sentimental. My dad died several years before I even met my husband to be, I missed him walking me down the aisle, I missed him sharing that day with me. At the time he died my brother did not really get on with my parents (almost entirely down to my parents) and my relationship was strained with my brother because of this.

On my wedding day, after we my husband and I were married and after pictures (so some tears would not matter) my brother took me, my husband and my mum into a side room. Whilst my dad was dying in hospital my brother had taken the time to set up the equipment, take my dad in a shirt an help him smarten up and record a message for me on my wedding day, knowing that he would not still be alive when it happened. My brother played us the video, it was only a few minutes long, at the end of it my dad, in the video asked my brother to had the items to us, my husband a pair of cufflinks my dad had always treasured, I received a necklace which my dad had chosen and which my brother had got engraved with our wedding date as well as DVD and flashdrive with the video on. I would not have cared if someone had bought me a house, a private jet or the world, that was the most amazing wedding present I could have been given short of getting my dad back for our day.

I seem to have something in my eye.

I liked all my wedding gifts but the one of the most handy ones was a tool bag filled with basic tools, it was from my DH’s brothers. It’s still our trusty tool kit 25 years on.

My cousin bought me steak knives and forks...use them all the time and think of Jim...cost so little too.
A comforter...loved it
Glasses and crockery...Good stuff...love them too

@MatildaIThink

Mine is purely sentimental. My dad died several years before I even met my husband to be, I missed him walking me down the aisle, I missed him sharing that day with me. At the time he died my brother did not really get on with my parents (almost entirely down to my parents) and my relationship was strained with my brother because of this.

On my wedding day, after we my husband and I were married and after pictures (so some tears would not matter) my brother took me, my husband and my mum into a side room. Whilst my dad was dying in hospital my brother had taken the time to set up the equipment, take my dad in a shirt an help him smarten up and record a message for me on my wedding day, knowing that he would not still be alive when it happened. My brother played us the video, it was only a few minutes long, at the end of it my dad, in the video asked my brother to had the items to us, my husband a pair of cufflinks my dad had always treasured, I received a necklace which my dad had chosen and which my brother had got engraved with our wedding date as well as DVD and flashdrive with the video on. I would not have cared if someone had bought me a house, a private jet or the world, that was the most amazing wedding present I could have been given short of getting my dad back for our day.

Ok, that’s me gone

A Le Cruet casserole dish, used at least once a week for the last 15 years. A big silky quilted throw for the bed, again it's had so much use over the years.

To answer the question! I only had 12 guests and didn’t get anything very posh.

23 years late (and long divorced) I still have some side plates from the dinner service, a cast iron casserole that isn’t le creuset and a cooking pot.

My favourite present was 2 Spode mugs in blue and white with Aesop’s fables pictures. They broke many years ago.

Mine is a sentimental one too. Before my wedding my Dad told me that he would give me the things that I needed for something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue. On my wedding day he gave me a beautiful sapphire and diamond ring that he'd had made for me. The gold was 'old' and taken from his own wedding ring to my Mum, who we lost several years before. The sapphire was 'blue', one diamond was 'borrowed' from the engagement ring that he had bought my Mum and finally another diamond was 'new' All the traditional elements in one. He'd thought so much about it, and had given up things that were incredibly special and sentimental to him so it means so much.

Difficult one.

Most used and useful: gorgeous set of Denby mugs

Most beautiful: stunning watercolour painting of a local beauty spot that meant a lot to us

Most creative: we had a sort of wedding list, on which we had put 'NO stuffed ancestral moose head. So one of our friends bought a small cuddly stuffed moose, mounted it on a nice varnished wooden shield thing and gave it to us. It's still on the wall on the landing even though our marriage went tits up and I'm a widow these days.

I had a lovely slowcooker, got too old and no longer heated up properly, very pratical tho.

More amazing gifts!

@FanFckingTastic what a thoughtful present from your dad!

So it seems very useful cookware is also up there with top pressies!

@pointythings we’ve just inherited a stuffed deer which was a wedding gift to my DH’s great great grandparents! Didn’t realise that taxidermy for a gift was a thing!

A bottle of local champagne with 2 beautiful crystal flutes ( unfortunately one got broken). Incidentally our worst present was a pair of Irish coffee glasses from a friend I have known since school. I don’t even drink coffee & I later found out they cost £3 in the sale!

Two, really.
My Kenwood Chef - still going strong after too many decades to mention here. It did once go kaput but we got it fixed and serviced for only about £75 inc. return carriage.

And a little Indian silver box, from a DSis who had asked whether I’d like something beautiful and useless.

I remember my worst! It was from one of my oldest friends who is really well off. She bought us two Irish coffee glasses. I don’t even drink coffee & when I looked on the Debenhams website ( we had our wedding list at that store), I saw that they were in the sale at £3!! That really stung.