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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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Bimbabo · 15/10/2021 20:09

We got a hand casting kit from a good friend. Some weird plaster of paris kit specifically to do of our hands holding each other. From a good friend so really no idea what/why she thought that was for us? Still makes me wonder.

Powertoyou · 15/10/2021 20:38

A 6 inch high plastic swing with a white bird from friends of my mum who had known me all my life. I gave the wife a lift to and from work for 3 years and they came all day to the wedding. They saying to my mum, we never had a thank you card for the wedding present from me. Strange that.

Thecurtainsofdestiny · 15/10/2021 20:52

A peanut pourer.

A vase of plastic tulips.

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ConstantlyIrksome · 15/10/2021 20:56

@Thecurtainsofdestiny wtf is a peanut pourer??

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mnahmnah · 15/10/2021 21:05

We were too busy to notice this gift on the wedding night itself, but in the morning we had to refocus our groggy eyes to work out what the hell was in the corner of the room. Two giant beanbags - one fluorescent orange, one fluorescent green. From your cousin. We were driving straight to the airport, obviously had no room in our car. My mum was taking my dress etc in her tiny Aygo back home so couldn’t take them either. We had to find someone to take them to my mum’s house for us, where they stayed for some time before we sold them on marketplace

Thecurtainsofdestiny · 15/10/2021 21:06

@ConstantlyIrksome

Well quite.

It's this:

images.app.goo.gl/iNNoiF4AaHr5d8Ft5

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ConstantlyIrksome · 15/10/2021 21:13

@mnahmnah this might win. Hideous, intended to be displayed in your home and fucking massive. Ticks all the boxes!!

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ConstantlyIrksome · 15/10/2021 21:14

I forgot ludicrously impractical as well

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mnahmnah · 15/10/2021 21:16

@ConstantlyIrksome

Exactly! I spent most of the journey to the airport saying ‘why?! Just…. What we’re they thinking?!’ My cousin is eccentric.

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ConstantlyIrksome · 15/10/2021 22:04

[quote Thecurtainsofdestiny]@ConstantlyIrksome

Well quite.

It's this:

images.app.goo.gl/iNNoiF4AaHr5d8Ft5[/quote]
I have no idea how I've lived my 30-something years without this vital piece of equipment in my life. I guess maybe it might have been improved by being able to pour peanuts directly into my open mouth? Although I can do that pretty well already straight from the packet.

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Twitchynose · 15/10/2021 22:14

@MrsRubyMonday

We got.. a thing. To this day we haven't worked out what it's supposed to be. It's hand knitted/crocheted, in white. About 30cm square. It has each of our intials on opposite corners. It's too thick to be a placemat of any sort, too small to be a blanket even for a baby. It lives in our wedding box until we find something to do with it.
Dishcloth?
toddlermom1 · 15/10/2021 22:29

A £5 set of glasses from a card shop ... it was disappointing as i'd given my friend quite a lot of money for her wedding gift without so much as a thank you! The glasses went straight in the bin! Smile

gukvguk · 15/10/2021 22:38

Picture frame with 'home' along the top and 'family' along the bottom.

I'm sure they got a couple of quid for it at the charity shop.

DailyMailHater · 15/10/2021 23:08

Deep Fat Fryer - might not seem so bad, but had experienced an awful house fire as a child where a drink relative, who was staying with us, had come home from the pub and turned ours on and then fallen asleep. Having woken up to screaming and having to get out a house filled with flames and smoke I had vowed never to have one in my home ever.

Soon to be Sis in law knew this story and said it was just me being a snob, so bought one as our wedding gift, so I would have to have it in my home - she thought this was hilarious.

I was so angry at how insensitive she was, it went swiftly to the charity shop without ever being taken out the box.

GreatBritishWineDrinker · 15/10/2021 23:13

A homemade tray with our wedding invitation glued on and varnished. Except they didn't wait for the varnish to dry before they wrapped it

Lollypop701 · 15/10/2021 23:34

A freebie plastic carriage clock the guest got from an order from a catalogue… still makes me laugh so memorable at least

SixTwirlingTutus · 16/10/2021 06:53

Technically I suppose it must have been the wedding present from the ILs (or lack of one). They told DH they had shelled out enough 'the first time' so they were done. Grin

Actually, it's not as bad as it sounds. I got on brilliantly with them (sadly deceased now) and FIL in particular was brilliant at giving Christmas gifts. he would listen to various things that might have been said and then would take care to get that. One year he got me a day falconry experience after I mentioned in passing that I loved birds of prey for example.

I miss them terribly.

Probably though the worst present was a handmade scrapbook given to me by my best friend that featured oddly picture after picture of me with my past boyfriends. That was a little strange.

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ConstantlyIrksome · 16/10/2021 10:42

@gukvguk

Picture frame with 'home' along the top and 'family' along the bottom.

I'm sure they got a couple of quid for it at the charity shop.

This fits into the inspirational driftwood category of crap and must be taken directly to the charity shop. Sometimes you wonder if people really know you at all??
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ConstantlyIrksome · 16/10/2021 10:43

@DailyMailHater

Deep Fat Fryer - might not seem so bad, but had experienced an awful house fire as a child where a drink relative, who was staying with us, had come home from the pub and turned ours on and then fallen asleep. Having woken up to screaming and having to get out a house filled with flames and smoke I had vowed never to have one in my home ever.

Soon to be Sis in law knew this story and said it was just me being a snob, so bought one as our wedding gift, so I would have to have it in my home - she thought this was hilarious.

I was so angry at how insensitive she was, it went swiftly to the charity shop without ever being taken out the box.

This is dark
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ConstantlyIrksome · 16/10/2021 10:45

@SixTwirlingTutus

Technically I suppose it must have been the wedding present from the ILs (or lack of one). They told DH they had shelled out enough 'the first time' so they were done. Grin

Actually, it's not as bad as it sounds. I got on brilliantly with them (sadly deceased now) and FIL in particular was brilliant at giving Christmas gifts. he would listen to various things that might have been said and then would take care to get that. One year he got me a day falconry experience after I mentioned in passing that I loved birds of prey for example.

I miss them terribly.

Probably though the worst present was a handmade scrapbook given to me by my best friend that featured oddly picture after picture of me with my past boyfriends. That was a little strange.

An unwanted trip down memory lane, how lovely. A falconry day is a great gift though, especially as your FIL took care to establish you don't have a paralysing fear of birds or allergy to feathers/dead mice beforehand
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Fluffycloudland77 · 16/10/2021 11:18

One guest bought us nothing. I’d like to say their company was enough but they stomped round with a face on them all day which we ignored.

Probably pissed I wouldn’t buy them a hotel room 😂😂😂

EKGEMS · 16/10/2021 11:32

A diy table lamp with plastic jewels glued on the shade ( in bright colors and decorated with pieces from a light bright toy kit-toy from the 80's) thank god it was from my husband's side of family.

FellInLoveWithABanana · 16/10/2021 13:11

I’m still confused by our best man’s gift to us, from him and his wife: 2 x initial key rings of our first names. That was it. They were nothing special or expensive, just gifted in the wedding card, not in a box or anything.

It actually made me question what we had given to them for their wedding, and I searched the car wondering if we somehow hadn’t given them the card with money in (when we were extremely hard up and affording best man duties for his wedding plus travelling to their wedding was tough) for their wedding.

I finally asked my husband if we could donate the key rings because every time I saw them it triggered me into wondering what I’m Earth we had done wrong.

flowersmakeitbetter · 16/10/2021 13:33

Regifted wine gift box with a couple of bottles of wine, bottle opener, stopper, thermometer in wooden box.

When we opened the wine a couple of months later it was off.

Thanks Diane

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ConstantlyIrksome · 16/10/2021 14:03

@flowersmakeitbetter

Regifted wine gift box with a couple of bottles of wine, bottle opener, stopper, thermometer in wooden box.

When we opened the wine a couple of months later it was off.

Thanks Diane

This would have been a great gift if the wine hadn't been off! Although not sure a thermometer is required for my choice of screw-top supermarket plonk.
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