To ask what your shittest wedding present was? (lighthearted)

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When we got married ten years ago, we didn't do a registry or request thingy - we told people we didn't want presents at all - however some folk insisted - we were even called awkward for not doing a request - and some of the presents ended up in the charity shop

Worst one, was an ugly picture frame...like the worst thing I have ever seen in my life

from Grandad and Grandad - very much in trend with the times: perhaps they decided they don't fancy being grandad and grandma anymore and fancied being rather more gender fluid?

We also said no presents as we lived in a tiny flat at the time. Some people gave us money instead which was so generous.

Someone on my side of the family traveled from another country to come and they gave us a huge clock, bigger than any wall clock I had ever seen before, it must have been so awkward to travel with! It never got used but I did keep it for a couple of years before realising I should rehome it!

My DH's colleague painted a watercolour of a bride and groom for us - and then proceeded to turn it into a collage by sticking lace and pearls etc on for the dress and red silk for the cravat/cummerbund!
Painting is actually quite skilful, if not to our taste but the added extras are vile.

693 towels. To be fair, it took years before I had to buy one myself again

You had to buy one after 693 towels????????

A novelty tea towel from another city and 2 dessert forks.....from the same person

Tube of tennis balls. Lovingly wrapped with ribbons and everything. Neither of us play.

A lot of bottles of wine and champagne. We are teetotal and it took a year of inviting people over for dinners to use them up.

Lol at the 693 towels!!

We had a fair few too. Plus I already had some. 20+ years and I can count the ones I have bought on one hand (baby towels and beach towels).

Mils friends gave awful tat thatbwe then had to write thank you cards for. Mr and Mrs mugs....I have a million mugs (my mum also got me some eventhpigh I said don’t), a plate shaped like a fox, special egg cups (DH doesn’t eat eggs), and a ‘nice’ clock. Mil was excited about this cheap clock. It was opaque Perspex and had cheap costume jewels glued to the front which fell off. The tick was so loud it was distracting as hell so we put it in the office.....DH worked from home one day and clock was gone. Too loud!

A homemade lamp with a shade that was decorated in multiple neon colors of plastic Bright light brand toy beads (old school toy you used beads and design paper to make various figures which light up when plugged in) You can imagine how ugly and tacky it was and how hard it was to write a thank you note my dh wanted me to write how it would make a great target practice

DH’s friends clubbed together to get us a (small) gift voucher then all thought I t would be hilarious to wrap up Argos own brand toasters. We thought we had some nice gifts to unwrap and ended up unwrapping about 8 cheap white toasters. We couldn’t even return them without the receipts even for store credit due to Argos’ returns policy so we stored them in a cupboard for years.

An ornament that looked like a twig which fell apart and broke when we opened it :/

And half of a condiment set just the salt!

11 years of purgatory marriage.

We had a gift list and most people bought from that, a few went "off list" which we didn't mind and we had some lovely gifts. The weirdest though was a set of towels, fine in itself and they had included a gift receipt "in case they weren't the right colour". Now, if you were buying towels for someone as a gift and you weren't sure what colour to go for, you'd go with something neutral like white or cream right? These were a very dark forest green. It just struck me as an odd colour to go for.

A cut glass Scottish piper. It was a foot tall...

Lots of crystal ware- whiskey tumblers, champagne flutes, wine glasses. All from DH’s aunts/uncles. Seems to have been the fashion in the 70/80s to get posh glassware as a wedding gift, which those guests replicated in 2016.

DH and I don’t drink, so they’ve been sat under the stairs ever since.

We appreciated the thought, but I feel a bit ill every time I think of the money spent on them just for them to sit unused and a bit of a nuisance to store.

Two very patterned lurid colour pillowcases - obviously from a set that must have originally included a duvet cover and set.
I assume the used the duvet cover. Or maybe they gave that to someone else?

I think I gave the worst gift at my best friends wedding!

I got them a small silver photo frame from Kate Spade as their main present, a personalised card (names on & purposely picked one with a bride dressed similarly to her wedding dress) and added some "wedding breakfast" tea bags as a little extra. I've bought her items before & they are on display in their home. Have never seen the frame again and have not been properly thanked apart from being told the tea was handy when they got home to empty cupboards after the honeymoon. I don't mind it not being their taste, but a thanks would be nice. I'm assuming she wasn't best pleased as she didn't get the requested £100 cheque for her honeymoon. I couldn't afford it. I could afford a decent present if I saved up & bought at the right time, but not £100 at least, on top of having paid for her hen, getting to & from, beauty prep as a member of the bridal party & dress alterations and having moved house at the same time. Other people who gave non cash gifts also weren't thanked or included in the gushy SM thanks for the money.

The other BM & I also gave her a lucky six pence the night before (tradition and nods to her love of shoes). We didn't know that the woman who made her head-piece gives them out as a gimmick with her work, so she already had one. Bride looked as if we'd given her a turd in a box and sighed that she'd got one already. We pointed out that she now had one for both of her planned pairs of shoes for the day & put it in for her. I appreciate she was about to get married but I would have thought something given fondly from your two best friends trumps the one you got as a freebie but the words "thank you" didn't cross her lips at any time.

We got (all wrapped in the same paper so from the same person presumably - no gift tag or any other clue as to who though)...

a desk calendar for the year we were already halfway through (looked like a freebie that companies might send their clients)
a gift set of mugs with hot chocolate and mini marshmallows (which were well past their sell by date)
a palette of orangey lipbalms.

We laughed a lot, but never did solve the mystery of who gave us those!

Two dark green/slime-coloured wineglasses. We do drink but had pack of eight normal wineglasses on our gift list. I haven't used in four years of marriage and keep them on a top shelf, feeling guilty every time I look at them. I don't want my drink to look slime-coloured.

My colleague (TA in a school) received a lovely china teacup and tea from a child one Christmas, all gift wrapped nicely. Several of us got one and took home to open. It was new and prob cost at least £15. My friend was struggling for money at that point so regifted to her SIL. SIL sent a message asking who 'Harry' was... There was a card tucked inside the box saying 'To Miss Smith, love from Harry' (boy abd friend names obv changed) which my friend hadn't known about. The regifting was therefore so obvious, but luckily the SIL found it hilarious.

I got a 25 year silver wedding anniversary candle. That was definitely the strangest gift.

Oh SugarMice, orangey lipbalms is hilarious! I bet they had a present drawer already wrapped and just pulled out anything.

My grannie gave me a kettle she didn't want any more (which had a disabled-style plug on and had lived in her damp shed for 12 months), a tin serving dish (also from the shed) and a tea towel, free from pg tips. I was pleased she was there though, and the tea towel saw good service.

A ‘Little Book of God’s Love’.

A non slip tray from mils work. I was so bemused that mils work would give us a gift.