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Worst wedding gifts?

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ConstantlyIrksome · 14/10/2021 18:19

Inspired by a couple of other threads about wedding gifts - what was the worst thing you were given?

For me it's a toss-up between the clearly regifted ceramic chicken egg-safe, and the tea-towel printed with "Hubby and Wifey for Lifey". Both went immediately to the charity shop. I'm not generally fussy about gifts and usually happy with whatever someone is kind enough to go to the effort to purchase/wrap/transport but these were too much even for me!

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Idontlike · 14/10/2021 18:27

I received regifted champagne flutes but they were quality & we used them for years.

However, I do remember reading a thread about another bride who received regifted champagne flutes. When she opened the box she found they had the name of the gift giver and her husband engraved on them, along with their wedding date. They had clearly never opened up the box when they had received them as a wedding gift!

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ConstantlyIrksome · 14/10/2021 18:44

@Idontlike

I received regifted champagne flutes but they were quality & we used them for years.

However, I do remember reading a thread about another bride who received regifted champagne flutes. When she opened the box she found they had the name of the gift giver and her husband engraved on them, along with their wedding date. They had clearly never opened up the box when they had received them as a wedding gift!

Wow, you'd never live that one down!! At least my ceramic chicken had been opened and rewrapped, even if the box was a bit bashed up from being stored for a number of years
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SockFluffInTheBath · 14/10/2021 18:49

Coloured glasses engraved with Mr & Mrs x. Can even charity shop that. They’re in the loft somewhere.

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SockFluffInTheBath · 14/10/2021 18:49

*can’t

Shehasadiamondinthesky · 14/10/2021 18:52

I hate champagne flutes. You can't get your nose in them. I was gifted 6 toasters from different people. Really cheap ones.

wellerhugs5 · 14/10/2021 18:52

A £5 Argos Voucher.

It was from SIL & partner whose daughter was our flower girl.

It just reeked of 'couldn't care less'.

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ConstantlyIrksome · 14/10/2021 18:53

Yeah harder to regift personalised stuff - unless you are brazen enough to just rewrap and hope the recipient is too embarrassed to say anything

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2typesofjungle · 14/10/2021 18:55

We were given a revolting home made campervan made of wood (neither of us have ever set foot in or shown interest in campervans) with our wedding date written on it, in a frame. Tacky would be a kind description, but given we had to cancel our wedding due to Covid and it came with the cancelled date it felt particularly tasteless and went straight in the bin.

TheLightSideOfTheMoon · 14/10/2021 18:57

Has anyone read the latest ‘Shopaholic’ book?

It transpires that their neighbour spends every Christmas afternoon going through her presents and labelling them to give to people the following year…

Mommabear20 · 14/10/2021 18:58

Anything with Mr & Mrs on! We got 6 mug sets and 18 champagne flutes!

RedCarsGoFaster · 14/10/2021 19:02

Mr & Mrs mugs - absolute tat. Random very cheap tea towels from an elderly great aunt, but at least they were useful!

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ConstantlyIrksome · 14/10/2021 19:02

@shehasadiamondinthesky 6 toasters?? Unless you've got a wedding list with a toaster on it I would say it's pretty safe to assume most couples can boast a toaster between the two of them prior to marriage...

@2typesofjungle this is weird if you are not known for your love of campervanning, usually I'm a fan of a home made gift but sounds like this was best off in the bin

@Mommabear20 the Mr and Mrs stuff is the worst! Why? Has anyone ever unwrapped Mr and Mrs mugs and thought "hooray - just the validation my marriage needed"??

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LeNil · 14/10/2021 19:02

For our tiny wedding we got a set of 3 nest tables in glass and green sprayed metal from dh’s best friend, (he’s also probably our wealthiest friend).

I saw the same sets for sale in a junk shop a few months later. I know that his wife, also a good friend, visits this shop regularly. They were priced at 10€ and there were 5 tables not 3.

I’ve always felt slightly hurt by it especially as we put at lot of thought (and a lot more money) into their wedding present. I actually would have preferred that they didn’t give us anything.

I should laugh about it really.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 14/10/2021 19:04

Ours came from the 2nd wife of dh’s grandfather, who by then had died. She’d taken him off to her native New Zealand and refused to pass even one family item to my poor MiL after he died,

I had no idea what the present was supposed to be when I opened it. It was like a massive old fashioned square headscarf in cheap polyester, with a garish map of NZ all over it.

Mil said, ‘It’s supposed to be a ‘tea shower’. You put it over your tea things to keep the flies off.’
At least it gave us all a good laugh!

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ConstantlyIrksome · 14/10/2021 19:06

@LeNil that's the worst - getting something tacky is one thing but when people clearly just can't be arsed to put the effort in then it makes you question what kind of friends they were in the first place. Just bung me a tenner if you don't want to think of something good!

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Idontlike · 14/10/2021 19:09

@LeNil have they ever visited your house and commented on the green tables not being on show? What did you do with them?

LeNil · 14/10/2021 19:18

One of them is the perfect height to use as a Christmas tree stand. I do cover it up though. The rest may have been accidentally given away😂

I should have expected it though, she bought her very religious sister in law a candle embossed with Jesus’s face for Christmas one year. Poor melting Jesus.

It was €2 euros. They are worth €€€€€€€.

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ConstantlyIrksome · 14/10/2021 19:18

@GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER have you ever used it?? At least it's imaginative I guess?

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ConstantlyIrksome · 14/10/2021 19:23

@LeNil

One of them is the perfect height to use as a Christmas tree stand. I do cover it up though. The rest may have been accidentally given away😂

I should have expected it though, she bought her very religious sister in law a candle embossed with Jesus’s face for Christmas one year. Poor melting Jesus.

It was €2 euros. They are worth €€€€€€€.

Grin at poor melting Jesus
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Panda8383 · 14/10/2021 19:25

We got one of those cheap and nasty sex board games..couldn’t believe it..all for a laugh but don’t think it’s appropriate for a wedding gift lol considering we had paid to stay at their wedding hotel and gave them money and all they did was moan about the price of a drink at ours lol

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ConstantlyIrksome · 14/10/2021 21:47

@Panda8383

We got one of those cheap and nasty sex board games..couldn’t believe it..all for a laugh but don’t think it’s appropriate for a wedding gift lol considering we had paid to stay at their wedding hotel and gave them money and all they did was moan about the price of a drink at ours lol
You really have to know the couple well for this to be an appropriate gift, and be sure they won't be unwrapping it in front of future PIL/other unsuspecting family members!
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Panda8383 · 15/10/2021 01:37

@ConstantlyIrksome

Totally agree lol

bigbeachedwales · 15/10/2021 07:48

@2typesofjungle

We were given a revolting home made campervan made of wood (neither of us have ever set foot in or shown interest in campervans) with our wedding date written on it, in a frame. Tacky would be a kind description, but given we had to cancel our wedding due to Covid and it came with the cancelled date it felt particularly tasteless and went straight in the bin.
Aah I know who you are and who bought you that and they spent a lot of time and money on it to make you happy. This would upset them greatly that it's now in the bin ConfusedAngryHmm
SockFluffInTheBath · 15/10/2021 08:13

“ Aah I know who you are and who bought you that and they spent a lot of time and money on it to make you happy. This would upset them greatly that it's now in the bin”

So don’t tell them. They clearly bought something they liked rather than something the couple would like. It’s always a risk with personalised things.

PorkTheDork · 15/10/2021 08:31

@SockFluffInTheBath

Coloured glasses engraved with Mr & Mrs x. Can even charity shop that. They’re in the loft somewhere.
I went to a wedding recently where the favour was a glass with the bride and grooms names on and the date. WTF am I meant to do with that?!