SIL's wedding list

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am currently looking through it and pmsl. and that was before I reached the £1000 telly and £700 stereo system. ffs

Ironically, the family members who made the most fuss about us getting a wedding list didnt actuall buy anything off it in the end!

My uncle bought us a spade....

I was really touched by the cheapest gifts tbh...a set of bath towels from a lady who was a pensioner and kept apologising that it was "only" towels (chokes me up still) and a lady I worked with years before who turned up on my doorstep on the morning of the wedding with a set of wine glasses

I will put 20 euros in the card and then they can spend it on their honeymoon....

I had no wedding list either (for my wedding last year).
Just couldn't do it....as we didn't want our guests to open up their invites and be pleased they'd been invited, to then to on to see a request for a gift. I thought that would be really rude!

But as it turned out, everyone (without exception) gave us very generous gifts. Most gave us money or JL vouchers...or nice photo frames, candlesticks, bathrobes and other much appreciated things.
Perhaps people were more generous as giving because we didn't ask...who knows, but I do know that I find those tacky money poems really galling...AND gift lists that ask for really expensive items.

Am with LaWeasel on the photo's front..

What I wanted more than anything immediately after the wedding was to see some of the pics taken on the day (as our professional ones took several weeks).

So when my cousin got married recently we made sure that we downloaded all our digital images to a disk and sent them to the couple and their parents. Our efforts were really appreciated.

I've just realised that only the bit about the toilet brushes posted, even though there was a little more so.....

The wedding was for my dh's cousin, who has lived with her dp for about a year before their wedding, and had furnished their house etc.

The toilet brushes were the cheapest thing on their list, and she was being quite serious in wanting them. Strangely enough, nobody bought them, or the £100 duvet cover either!