To ask what was that worst wedding gift you received? (lighthearted)

[Miracularity]

Yes, yes, yes, we must be grateful for all gifts, etc., BUT - what was the worst gift?

I don't know why I suddenly thought of this because I got married ten years ago! But the worst gift we received on the day was a box of chocolates. That were an old brand, five years out of date and hadn't even been manufactured for three years.

(The gift-giver was not old, ill, infirm, poor or mentally unwell. They were well known for being mean - in fact in our family they were known as Meano Mary. And she certainly lived up to her name that day.)

Nothing all all from my in laws, not even a card. SIL got her wedding paid for - £10k. Same SIL gave us a £5 Argos voucher!

We needed new tea towels so held off from buying them, and put them on our wedding list - we had a load of impecunious students invited, and as the wedding was in the middle of nowhere we knew they'd end up paying quite a lot simply to get to the wedding.

I needed those tea towels. No-one bought them. No-one. They all got more expensive gifts. It wrecked my day, I tell you .

Woolworths value set of 5 saucepans

Not a wedding gift as such but SIL and I usually exchange gifts for birthdays and for mine (a week before my wedding), she gave me a £5 gift card with the sentence "its just a little something because you are getting married next week"

My wedding cost her nothing. It was small so free bar, and she was pregnant, so driving (plus it was local). I honestly dont mind the small birthday gift, I just thought it laughable that the fact I was getting married a week later meant I didnt deserve as nice a gift as we usually exchange.

A framed pencil drawing of both me and my husband that is horrific to look at. Makes us both look ugly and old!

The friend that did it always asks where we have put it up in the house, until now we have been holding him off saying we were waiting to finish decorating and then would put all pictures up. Finished now, going to have to find a corner for it somewhere.

Urgh!!!

helgaw you need to hide it in plain sight. Friends of ours got a heinous farm clock for theirs (it looked like one of those plaster of paris paint your own kits) - from the brides sister so no chance of stashing it away. So we all helped find the most hideous clocks we could and bride put them all up in the hallway, including the farm one.

My Ils got us nothing at all because they had [quote] 'already shelled out enough the first time around' (i.e. when DH got married to his first wife).

It did not bother me at all as I was so happy, and they have made up for it several millions times since then so it is always something I look back on with feelings of affectionate humour really. (Love my ILs, they are great. :) )

Oh I posted about this on the thread about people going off-list.

Our most - ahem- surprising gift was from an uncle who gave us a very large, limited edition print of the Red Arrows taking off on a misty morning. We have no connection with the RAF and neither as he. Apart from having seen them occasionally doing displays (who hasn't) we have never expressed a particular interest.

A close second was silver plated sugar shaker.

An elderly couple - acquaintances of my parents, who I would never have expected to send a gift - gave me (us?) a chiffon nightdress. Fortunately it was in the days when House of Fraser would exchange/refund without a receipt - it cost around £70 - and that was nearly 30 years ago!

A set of crystal glasses In a box that was battered to hell!

A note inside saying "we received these as a wedding gift and they had already been passed on (8 times) so don't kill the link and pass them on to the next wedding"

Needless to say they are stilling he said 'battered' box in the loft!

One of our guests had the wedding invitation (which was no great shakes - I'd done them in Word and printed them at home on nice cardstock) professionally framed in a TOTALLY over the top frame. Maybe it's an American thing. V. weird & completely useless though.

Ha ha ha! Love these! The pencil drawing wins though, PMSL!

We also got a random picture of a house. Not ours, not anyone's. Weird!

A large green marble ashtray and lighter set from a distant aunt. Neither of us smoke. They remained on display in the charity shop window for many months.

A frog shaped loo roll holder from DH's ex
A jar of pasta and frames from the pound store - friend of DH
A child's clock made out of some foam thing - friend of DH
theme here?

I think it must be me.

My first husband.

A vase we christened the fanny vase.

It was an unusual shape for a vase.

A card with 'Mrs and Mrs' emblazoned on the front. Had DH been female, it would have made sense, but since he isn't, it was a bit bizarre.

The plastic sandwich tray emblazoned with Bible quotations was a little eclectic, but a kind thought..

A casserole dish, boxed, and inside was a card saying 'To Jim and Sue on your wedding day, love Tim and Jane'. Jim and Sue being the people who gave it to us... Oops
(names changed to protect the not so innocent!)

Nothing from dh's family not even cards. Fuckers. Not bothered about presents at all (we eloped) but to not even acknowledge it with cards was a bit shit.

Vlad-hilarious! Did you seat the mrs and mrs card givers with the Bible people? Would have made for an interesting exchange of views.

Stand back. I am about to win this.

I have posted this story before.

DH was previously married some years before he met me. For his first wedding his mother gave the bride some very nice silk underwear, for her 'trousseau'. Bride was very tall, very thin, Scandi woman. Bride appreciated silk underwear.

Move on many years. DH and bride split up. DH moves countries and meets me - not tall, not blonde, not Scandi. Most importantly, a different shape.

Wedding invitations are sent out. My MIL-to-be then writes to ex-bride to ask for the silk underwear to be sent back to her so that it can be given to me.

I refused to wear it.

DH thanked me.

MILs best friend, known to be a bit of a skinflint, gave us a scatter cushion.

1 lilac scatter cushion.

That didn't even go with our decor at the time!

Same woman also wore a beautiful white lace dress to our wedding.

These are brilliant

We got a hand painted plate with the date of our wedding on it. DH made me hang it in the kitchen and for once the walls in our house are actually holding something up. Every other fricking thing has fallen down due to shit plastering but the plate is hanging on so I figure it must really want to be there haha

A bird box. Plain wooden thing, a few quid from the garden centre. Probably bought on the way to the reception. A step up from petrol station flowers I suppose.