Worst wedding gifts ever

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Seeing the 'should we buy them a wedding gift?' got me thinking - what's the worst wedding gift you received (or have seen someone receive)?

My cousin and his first wife received a teapot in the shape of a thatched cottage, decorated with rose bushes, a pair of cutesy country children and, most bizarrely of all, geese. It was one of the most hideous things I've ever seen. I think it was from a distant relative of the bride - I honestly wondered if she'd offended them in some way. Who thinks a 20 year-old pregnant bride desperately needs a cottage-shaped fucking teapot?! It gave us all a good laugh at least.

(Disclaimer - any wedding gift is a wonderful gesture, it's the thought that counts, accept with a gracious smile blah blah blah)

Hello to the daily mail journalist who is currently writing this up for a story

It wasn't a 'bad' gift but we got four cheques from various relatives and only ONE out of the four had dated it for the wedding day.

I found that really odd - surely you date a cheque for the wedding date...just because. To have cheques dated 1/2/5 days before the wedding seemed weird. Or would most people not date a cheque for the wedding day?

I came home from work and thought this thread might be an amusing lighthearted read. I like seeing peoples unusual gifts. I don't see anyone bitching on here at all

Its not about unusual gifts. If you don't see bitching you didn't even read the OP. Unusual is fine, but "this fucking hideous thing someone sent, isn't it horrendous, we all pissed ourselves laughing at it and them" is plain mean.

I genuinely appreciated all 80odd (!) wedding presents we received. The vast majority was money which was great but we got some cool stuff we've used too. We didn't have a gift list either and I really don't think we got anything naff.

I fail to see what you're bringing to this thread, User. If you don't like it, no one is forcing you to read it or post on it.

Have you been recently appointed as our moral guardian and MN haven't told us yet?

Ffs, sometimes you can't say anything without offence being taken.

We were pretty lucky with our presents. Although some work friends promised they were going to club together and pay for my make up (which was dirt cheap btw so no issue) and they never did. My lovely nan tried to pay for it as she was with me when I had it done and really wanted to do it, but I insisted it was taken care of but I had to pay upfront, I never saw that money. It was £20, was supposed to be between 4 work friends who were invited to the whole day.

We did get a couple sets of bride and groom glasses. I appreciated the thought but it's not something that ever would have been used and I could never give them away so they are sat in a box in a loft, 13 years later.

I agree with Kate you can't even be arsed to get a proper name usereleventymillionandthree this is a fun thread, not hurting anyone and you're adding nothing worthwhile to it ,so hide the thread if you're that bothered by it. There's always one.

Am I the only one who thinks that teapot sounds amazing! But then again I LOVE cutesy tat

If you don't see bitching you didn't even read the OP.

Go and read other threads. Believe me, there's a lot worse on MN.

Netmums is that way >>>. They have sparkly tickers and everything. You'd fit in well there. Yes, Imread the OP and no I never saw any bitching. What I saw a an OP making a lighthearted thread. Ps change your username. You come across as a fucking twat btw.

This fucking hideous thing someon sent, isn't it horrendous, we all pissed ourselves laughing

Please point me to where any poster said this 🙄 Here's the link for Netmums for you.

I was at a wedding once where the bride and groom got matching engraved stainless steel butt plugs from a good friend of the groom. They opened a selection of gifts in front of the guests, this unfortunately was one of them.

I'm a sentimental sod so have loved every wedding gift I've ever had (been married twice) even if it wasn't something to my taste but I wouldn't have wanted to unwrap butt plugs in front of my gran 😂

Only on MN could a poster be offended over a fucking teapot (and I'm talking about User twenty million here). If they're offended and outraged over the OP starting a thread having a laugh over teapot they'd better not read the post Christmas threads. Jesus Christ 🙄

A hideous painting. Personally I think a painting is not a suitable wedding gift, as one person's gorgeous painting, is another persons' nightmare

Depends, doesn't it? My pil had a book/antique/paintings shop. They put one oil in the house. I admired it. We got it for our wedding present. It's worth a couple of grand, they were skint at the time, it still has pride of place over the fireplace. Every time I look at it, it makes me happy: they remembered me loving it. :)

We had some odd gifts, nothing terrible. An Italian colleague gave me the most beautiful set of table linens, layer after layer of cloths, place mats, napkins, all beautiful white lace. My style is chuck the kitchen roll on the table, so not sure why she gave us something too beautiful to use.

My bil gave us a table warmer, the metal tray Indian restaurants used to use to keep the food warm, needs tea lights to work. He gave us odd gifts over the years until we all agreed to stop: wine glasses that could contain a whole bottle of wine-recycled, plus a planter filled with soil and crocus bulbs-3feet high, full to the brim, left at his parents' and we had to transport it home, 3 hours away. Nearly gave me a hernia getting it into the car!

The teapot sounds like something I would have bought years ago when I worked on a market stall selling similar items. Cute, kitsch, my kind of thing!

Am I allowed to say my MIL? as she really is the gift that keeps on giving!

We asked for donations to cancer research, as my mum was terminally ill with breast cancer at the time. We got on with the wedding to make sure that she was able to attend. We also said that if anyone did want to give us something, a John Lewis voucher would be handy as we were after a particular cabinet and it would be nice to think it came partly with wedding donations.

The two cows I worked with at the time gave me twenty quid for the local hardware shop. Why didn't they just donate to cancer research rather than be awkward?

I know a couple who invited a neighbour to their wedding and he brought a present for the groom and nothing for the bride..... Grooms present was a jumper

If MN is all about taking the piss out of wedding presents that relatives and friends have bought you, then I'd gladly fuck off to Netmums.

Yes, it is. Literally every thread is a variation on this.

My brother and his now XP gave us a huge clock, which was slightly damaged. We put it on top of a cupboard in the utility room and forgot about it. Would have been better if I'd remembered to move it somewhere more suitable, or totally out of sight before he visited!

Love this thread but I'm at the outrage at guests "showing up empty handed". We got several beautiful things as wedding gifts but not every single guest gave us something, and they didn't all bring cards, and that was entirely what I expected. I'm pleased with myself if I do remember to bring a card, and I am forever giving gifts after the wedding is over, because I've been too disorganised to arrange something before the day. In fact between us DH and I have done that three times this month

We got a remote control helicopter drone. No idea who it was from... DH loved it. But he drove me mad by flying it around our house!

maraschinocherry I would be very surprised if anyone I knew came for dinner and brought a present! Ditto birthday parties - I'd buy presents for close friends but certainly wouldn't expect more than a vodka infused kiss at any party I threw.

Can't believe the hoover recipient may actually be on this thread...

My maid of honor got us nothing. I paid for her dress, transport, accommodation and all the other usual bits and she didn't even give us a card. I spoke to a friend after our wedding who asked what she gave and she hadn't given a present to her ether and was also a bridesmaid.

It was her wedding last year and i got nothing for her and her husband to be and she had the nerve to ask what we had got them

BTW im not grabby but it would have been nice to have a memento from the person i had asked to play such an important part in my day. I have had a cheeky name change!

We were given two wine glasses in a box, the type you get from a card shop. There was a label on the box wishing another couple a happy wedding day, they were obviously picked up from a charity shop.

My SIL promised to make us an abstract painting of us from one of our wedding photos. The very thought of it made my mouth go dry and my blood run cold. Fortunately she had just given birth so she was too busy. A couple of years down the line she presented me with a box saying. 'sorry I never got round to doing the painting' She had bought us 6 different nommin mugs that I told her I had admired at someone's house. I loved the mugs and it was a lovely thought and well worth the wait.

Another present we got a pizza stone which I had never seen before. We make our own pizzas regularly now and that stone is like a member of the family.