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 That were an old brand, five years out of date and hadn't even been manufactured for three years.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.)

all of my presents were off list or cash, so I loved all of them, thank you very much guests for not being imaginative or wacky

A photo of a random hotel in a town I have never been to, in a cheap wooden photo frame. I believe the couple who gave it to us (friends of MIL) lived fairly close to that town.

A life size chocolate cock - that was fun to open in front of my elderly grandparents.

i meant off the list so what i asked for.

I can't think of a bad wedding gift, but my dear (late) grandma brought us a homemade apple pie. I remember that v fondly

When a work colleague married we were all invited to the evening "do", about 30 of us, as we were a close and friendly team. As well as clubbing together to give them a decent amount of cash, we all bought them a plastic toilet brush from various £1 and discount store and wrapped them in as creative a manner as possible to disguise what they were. I wish I had seen the expression on their face as they opened beautifully wrapped toilet brush after toilet brush

A cheque - that bounced............

highlight

ouch

The DVD of Cats & Dogs.

A posh wooden spatula shaped like the Venus de Milo.

I don't inhabit a world where there is a use for a posh wooden spatula.

Engagement present - lamp made entirely from pale pink sea shells, with random small rubber lobsters and crabs stuck on.

Joint Wedding gift from two cousins and their families (4 teenagers each, all came to the wedding) - a pair of scissors. Crap ones.

Nice gift at wedding - bottle of champagne. Someone stole it off the gift table, along with a flower display.

A friend of DH's bought a cover for his car, I think he forgot it was a wedding, mint a birthday.

A table lamp in the shape of the Vatican. When you turned it on it lit up with the Pope waving from one of the windows and it played Arrivederci Roma.

Classy.

I was peed off when I realised my rolling in it uncle had clearly regifted a competition prize to me. Except it turned out to be absolutely beautiful which must be why he regifted it as he had no appreciation or taste so actually it was better than anything I'd imagined he could give!

WildFlowersAttractBees Mugs in a dinner service??? I'd be glad they were missing

A silver picture frame. Which is lovely, except...
are you reading this on a phone?
Turn it landscape, mentally chop it into thirds, then shrink it a bit.
You couldn't display a postage stamp in it!

I have one of those. It came from a Christmas cracker!

a pair of cheap gold earrings from Argos (Elizabeth Duke!)

We did get tea towels and oven gloves and were we grateful for them as we didnt have any!

Nothing from Chief Bridesmaid or Best Man, and we had paid for everything so not like they'd paid for outfits etc in lieu of gift.

Oddest gift from two brothers who are v well off... a used kettle wrapped in Christmas paper and parcel tape. Never got to the bottom of that one. Would have rather had nothing as I just found it rude!

I got a cheque that bounced too- in addition to my frog toilet roll holder. Stolen champagne and scissors. Wow.

lovestea I want that Papal table lamp - it's my Catholic parents' golden wedding anniversary this year, and my dad would just burst a gut laughing at that as a gift

My best friend gave my dd a cracked case containing an old cd of obscure Cuban band!

I got a couple of those poem things from two people with cheap tacky frames and sending us love...blah blah.
Weirdly-the people that gave us those are no longer friends (nothing to do with their present), and both those frames got broken in a house move.The only two things that DID get broken.Spooky

Lovestea I wish I'd been given the Papal table lamp, it would make me smile/ PMSL every day! (DH probably doesn't though...)

A super tacky framed cross stitched memory thing with both our names , wedding date correctly embroidered under a big Scottish thistle entwined with a kangaroo .

Neither of us being Australian, I am still to this day wondering WTF .

Did make DH confess to past deviances with girls from down under.

Towels. Nothing wrong with towels. We needed some towels. But everyone bought towels. Hundreds of the bloody things. 20 years on and I still have some that haven't been used yet. That'll teach me not to have a gift list.