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Mummite
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Username: Mummite
Post Number: 225
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 3:14 pm: | 
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I was thinking what was my best wedding gift - we got married 7 years ago and the gifts that I remember most are from my 2 best school friends - one a set of pasta bowls which we use nearly every day and the other is, bizarrely, oven gloves! They've travelled the world in the last 7 years but I always find them comforting!
Just goes to show the Waterford vases in their boxes weren't so highly sought after afterall!
(Inspired by MdS's post in Pls Help) |
kmk
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Username: Kmk
Post Number: 1119
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 3:36 pm: |
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My rice cooker!
I never thought I would use it but I use it at least 3 times a week.
I did just have to replace it after 13 years of marriage...and I got the exact same model. |
BGS
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Username: Bgs
Post Number: 826
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 3:37 pm: |
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My favorite wedding gift was a family Bible that my husband's cousin gave us...I have used it over the years as a recepticle for all the birth announcements, graduations etc and unfortunatly, death notices etc...that have occured in our family...This Bible is the go to place for family history.Becuase it is so big and cumbersome, we use smaller Bibles for reading and worship. The Waterford vases hold flowers whenever I am lucky enough to receive them. The Waterford decanters on the other hand have never been used but look pretty in the china cabinet. |
Pippi
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Username: Pippi
Post Number: 2008
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 3:38 pm: |
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a Toto toilet.
BEST and most oft-used gift I have ever received.
Dennis - if you are reading this, thanks again!!!
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SoOrLady
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Username: Soorlady
Post Number: 3170
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 3:42 pm: |
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36 years ago, it was a bong and something to go in it.  Hippie wedding (as if I had to expain that). However, we also got this "useless Lenox bowl" - how materialistic - that I reall do love and use to serve the Chocolate Mousse every Christmas. Wow. 36 years. I think that makes it an antique. |
LilLB
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Username: Lillb
Post Number: 1460
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 3:47 pm: |
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A silver dessert tray that was given to my great great grandmother as a wedding gift. It was passed down to my aunt after my grandmother died and she gave it to me when I got married. |
CLK
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Username: Clkelley
Post Number: 2099
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 4:01 pm: |
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My guests themselves. ;-) They drove through a snowstorm to come to my wedding, which was held in Ontario in January. (don't ask - long & stupid story.)
There were 9 people including me & my husband, and we drank about that many bottles of champagne (one of the guests was about 18 mos old, so she didn't have any). My dad probably managed 2 or 3 bottles on his own. There was much riotous laughter.
We have a video of cutting the cake in our tiny apartment - my mom had made & decorated the cake. I'm trying to figure out what to do with this tiered thing and my dad can be heard off-camera, "just cut the g-d cake!" I collapsed on the floor laughing. OK, well my legs weren't holding me up too well at that point anyway.
I think the best actual present was a set of pillowcases with my husband's and my initials hand-embroidered on them. They were embroidered by his grandmother, who was then in her 80s. |
Cynicalgirl
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Username: Cynicalgirl
Post Number: 2565
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 4:10 pm: |
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I don't know about best, but longest lasting has been a big wooden salad bowl. Got it as a present for my first wedding, when I was 18. Still have it 30+ years later... |
MHCLyons
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Username: Hamandeggs
Post Number: 235
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 4:20 pm: |
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A generous gift certif to Zabar's. For young, penniless grad students, it was an extravagance to shop there. 16 years later, I remember how it felt to choose what I wanted and walk out of those double doors with bags filled with delicacies. Just the smell of the place now takes me back to that moment. |
Virtual It Girl
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Username: Shh
Post Number: 4213
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 4:21 pm: |
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Besides getting married, the best gift was the cream deodorant my mom put in a basket in the "bridal room." A friend kissed my veil with orange lipstick and nothing would take it out. I saw the deodorant and wiped it across the orange smudge and it lightened it enough to make it not too noticable.
It was my "Secret" until now... |
Pippi
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Username: Pippi
Post Number: 2010
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 4:23 pm: |
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" Besides getting married"
awww... that was sweet !
so who wore the orange lipstick. Anyone I know?
(was it me???  |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 13318
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 4:25 pm: |
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I honestly don't remember, but one of them is a Lenox bowl. Funny coincidence, huh, SoOrLady? It's a candy bowl, I think. My favorite professor gave it to us. I didn't even invite him to the wedding, but he was a really great guy, and it was nice of him to give it to us.
But oops. I'm talking about my FIRST wedding. Is that gauche?
For my second marriage, someone made us a craftsy wallhanging with the motto which was on our invitations. Interestingly, she had been working on it before she received our invitation.
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red
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Username: Redy67
Post Number: 5200
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 4:38 pm: |
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Wow, I don't remember any of my wedding gifts..... |
Alleygater
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Username: Alleygater
Post Number: 1507
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 4:47 pm: |
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Just a few years ago I got a huge kick out of the $36 check that one of my relatives gave me for our wedding. What is so funny about that? Well, clearly this guy spoke to my other relative who lives close to him and asked, "so how much are you going to give?", because my other relative sent a $35 check which arrived a few days prior. Certainly both were the lowest amount that we received.
As an aside, the guy who sent the $36 check I didn't really know very well and they were invited because my Grandmother asked me to do so. No problem. I deposited the check and appreciated the sentiment. The $35 check on the other hand came from family members I see fairly regularly and who actually have quite a bit of cash. I will admit I was pretty insulted and so I decided to not cash the check. I thought the tight-wad would MOST CERTAINLY have to keep track of the outstanding 35 dollars every time he balanced his checkbook for years to come -- and hopefully that would remind him how cheap he was. I was looking forward to seeing him in the future to see if he would ask me if I had cashed the check so I could ask him in reply, "huh, I don't remember, HOW MUCH WAS IT FOR?!?" But alas I've seen him a few times since and he's never mentioned it. I suppose I probably should have prefaced this story by telling you that this guy is a real jerk always has been. He never treated his kids very nicely and he is known in the family for having a VERY gruff exterior. And a few years ago, I will confess that I did feel bad about my actions when he had a stroke and he now talks slowly. But that little sh*t that lives deep inside of me still wonders to this day, if Earl Hickey is right after all and karma really is a bitch.
The worst gift was most certainly the CLEARLY re-gifted tacky crystal decanter from the young couple that had just gotten married themselves. Never used it, I suspect, never will. |
Virtual It Girl
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Username: Shh
Post Number: 4214
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 4:50 pm: |
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Pippi, it was STACY! Besides getting engaged the day before my wedding she ruined my veil!
Luckily, I didn't hold it against her for for too long. |
Morrisa da Silva
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Username: Mod
Post Number: 416
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 4:51 pm: |
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I have three memorable gifts:
1. My co-worker (who had studied/worked as a floral designer) did my flowers for the wedding. I remember the beautiful bouquet's for myself and maid of honor and I remember how gorgeous the room looked with her arrangements.
2. My penniless grad-student friend gave us an original rendering of the alignment of the planets on our wedding day(he did horoscopes too). It was so "him" and i still have it hanging.
3. An old neighbor lady-friend of my grandmothers knocked on my door and gave me her own china gravy boat for my wedding. It was touching, and every Thanksgiving I still use it |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 13324
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 4:56 pm: |
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Alleygater, it's a Jewish tradition to give amounts in multiples of 18.
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Brett Weir
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Username: Brett_weir
Post Number: 1395
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 5:09 pm: |
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The very last gift we opened was a horrendous, plastic faux-aquarium with garish fiber-optic strands that lit up and a digital clock. It was beautifully wrapped and had no card or note, so we didn't know who might have brought it. And we couldn't ask around because it was such an ugly piece that we didn't want to risk offending, so we spent half of our honeymoon deciding which loopy relative was the giftor. We narrowed it down to her schizo aunt and my section 8 ex-Marine cousin.
Two months later we attended a party with most of our friends and we met up with several who inquired about the wedding, et al, and the subject of gifts came up. We sheepishly started describing this awful clock for 15 minutes when they all started giggling; it was a "hand-me-down" that started with one couple (he got it from a client) and was passed down the line to each couple, with no card. The gag was repeated on us (we were fourth) and they all kept mum. We all had a great laugh until "Bill and Kim" arrived- their wedding was coming up next... |
Alleygater
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Username: Alleygater
Post Number: 1511
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 5:53 pm: |
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Tom, well $180 would have been a much better number.  Also the theory doesn't explain the $35 check unfortunately. |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 13331
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 6:02 pm: |
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Right, but it is an alternative explanation to the theory that $36 guy gave you $1 more than $35 guy.
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spw784
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Username: Spw784
Post Number: 869
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 6:41 pm: |
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We registered for practical things (at Target) -- including rubbermaid trashcans.. As new homeowners (coming from an Apt), it was something we could definitely use. Someone wrote us a check for the exact amount of the trashcans - something like $21.98, because they could not find them in stock in the store, and figured we could then buy them ourselves.
I know it wasn't a relative .. it may have been one of my husband's co-workers.
On the flip side , I got an extremely generous check from my aunt and uncle, and when I rec'd nothing from their kids (my cousins, who by then were married with their own families) , my mom said, maybe the check was from the whole family. I said, I don't think so.. besides, their names were not on the card. I was a bit hurt that they never even RSVP'd ( well, they are in Georgia, and I understood why they couldn't come, but it would have been nice to receive SOME acknowledgment of my nuptials. ). While writing thank you notes, my mom asked if I was sending one to the cousins.. I said, what for, I didn't get a card or gift, and they made no effort to RSVP. |
Dogbert
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Username: Dogbert
Post Number: 52
Registered: 1-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 6:54 pm: |
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Not to understate how much we appreciated the cash gifts, it might have been the queen-size down comforter that my co-workers got us. |
algebra2
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Username: Algebra2
Post Number: 4030
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 7:28 pm: |
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One friend got us 4 TV tables -- really cheesey but they were put to good use as end table, bbq tables, basically everything. One is still in my garage and used for art projects and stuff. |
campbell29
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Username: Campbell29
Post Number: 394
Registered: 4-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 7:36 pm: |
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We got those too. I love them. We used them in our apartment for end tables, and in lieu of a kitchen table. I also love the pyrex collection which I use far more often than the crystal and china. |
ess
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Username: Ess
Post Number: 1569
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 8:42 pm: |
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I got some lovely gifts, especially some Kosta Boda wine glasses that I only use on very special occasions.
However, my favorite gift was a waffle iron. We'd registered at Bloomingdale's, and the waffle iron was on that registry. It was a gift from my husband's friends from college -- who live in Louisville, Kentucky, where there is no Bloomingdale's. When I thought of that little extra effort they made to get something that we wanted (and they came to the wedding as well), I was so incredibly touched.
I don't use it much, but it is a favorite because it is from them. |
Duncan
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Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 6104
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 9:51 pm: |
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fiche
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Username: Fiche
Post Number: 107
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 10:28 pm: |
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An antique silver plated silverware service set which consisted of pickle fork, sugar spoon, jam spoon, olive spoon, cheese knife, and butter knife from my husband’s great-aunt. She said that when we were newlyweds we would look in our fridge and find only bits and pieces of food such as pickles, olives and jam, but when we served those things, it would be a feast if we used her gift. |
The Soulful Mr T
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Username: Howardt
Post Number: 1707
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Friday, March 31, 2006 - 8:32 am: |
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My in-laws gave us a honeymoon trip to Majorca in Spain. |
kmk
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Username: Kmk
Post Number: 1124
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 31, 2006 - 9:21 am: |
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I asked my husband last night what he thought our "best" gift had been.
He agreed that it was the rice cooker or....the beautiful Chelsea ship's clock from Tiffany!
I forgot to include the "timekeeper of our home" because it is a bit of a cheat. We received way TOO MUCH cut-crystal and other stuff from Tiffany's. It is really not our style, so we did what every good shopper does - we returned it all and bought ourselves the gorgeous ship's clock instead. On our fifth wedding anniversary we bought ourselves the matching barometer. |
Lou
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Username: Flf
Post Number: 94
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Friday, March 31, 2006 - 10:39 am: |
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a group of our friends got together and gave us a 51" TV that we would have never bought ourselves - even though we are not big TV watchers, we do love to watch movies on it. It has been our own movie theater for a while and the reason why we don't go to the movies that much anymore...
we also got married in Europe so it made us very happy to see a good amount of people going to our wedding from the US and see how most of the group stayed for an extra week in couple villas they rented while we went on our honeymoon. The stories from that time (a bunch of "Americanos" left in Southern Europe with no "locals-guidance") are still big jokes in our family. |
summerbabe
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Username: Summerbabe
Post Number: 62
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Friday, March 31, 2006 - 11:07 am: |
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We were extremely fortunate because both sets of our parents gave us pretty incredible gifts. My parents gave us the money to buy our new Viking stove for our kitchen because I'm a cook and I really wanted to renovate our dated kitchen that had really cheap, bad appliances. And my husband's parents bought us a car, which was incredibly generous and practical since we were moving to Maplewood from the city, and that was one less thing we had to worry about. We were pretty lucky. But in terms of other gifts, one elderly great aunt of mine with eyesight problems actually knit us the most beautiful off-white fisherman-style blanket. I can't imagine how long it took her to do it, but that is probably the gift that I look at regularly and marvel at, for her generousity of time and spirit. |
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