October 2012 Weddings
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QOTD 12/28
Re: QOTD 12/28
WE didn't get any "BAD" gifts...
we got mostly money... which we were actually able to pay of 95% of the wedding with.. which is great...
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The worst gift we got was a random clock from Macys.
Now i know not everyone gives $ but if you are going to get us a gift gift, could it atleast have been something off our registry. ehh whatever!
We got a totally random gift that I'm pretty sure was from a wedding crasher. It was from a Tom. All the Tom's we invited gave us other gifts, so we have no idea who it could have been from. Anyway, the gift (opened the day after the wedding) was a wedding guest book and 4 knit coaster with the letter "M" on them. Neither me or H have the letter M anywhere in our name. We were pretty puzzled, and still have no idea who it was from.
Ok, I'm totally going to sound really petty so I'm sorry...
Well...besides all the gifts we didn't get (there were a lot of people who didn't even get us a damn card...including DH's entire immediate family and his BIL, who was his BM), there was a gift we got from DH's side of the family that we're pretty sure was regifted. There were 6 people from DH's side of the family that went in on a gift together and they got us this huge roasting pan that we will never use. They didn't even include a gift receipt so now we have this big ass roasting pan taking up all this room in our cabinets. Seriously, if we wanted that, we would have put it on the registry!
This is going to sound really bad but we looked up on Amazon to see what the selling price was for this thing because we thought about just selling it..we really have no need for this thing. Turns out it was a $40 gift....I thought it was a bit cheap for 6 people to go in on a gift that was $40 and was regifted on top of that.
The worst gift we got was what we didn't get. A good friend from college is barely able to make ends meet. I know her financial situation because she tells me about how tight things are on a regular basis. She drove 6 hours to come to our wedding and paid for a hotel room for the wedding night. I know gas money and the hotel room pushed her budget. She told me before the wedding that her mom was helping her pay so she would be able to come.
I wasn't surprised when we didn't get a gift from her and I know it's not because she's inconsiderate, but because she can't afford anything.
I was hurt that we didn't even get a card. She could have folded a piece of paper in half, wrote congratulations and given us that. I haven't mentioned it because it's not worth hurting the friendship, but I would have appreciated a card.
I feel you! I'm so disappointed in the number of people who didn't even get us a card. I know everyone's financial situation may not be the best and I definitely don't expect gifts from every single person. If you can afford to attend a wedding and the costs associated with attending one, you can at the very least afford a $1 card from the dollar store FFS. I would have appreciated a card with the well wishes and congrats rather than nothing at all. I think that is just plain rude to attend a wedding without even a card IMO.
Umm nothing was too bad. I got this serving set with flowers and stuff which is just NMS, but whatever...
But besides my sister forgetting my H's name in her MOH speech... I also didn't get a card or anything from her and her family (my nephew is 20, niece is 16). We paid for all their dresses, tux etc... but whateves. It's pretty par for the course with them.
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Lol!! I don't even know what to say...that's pretty bad!
Glad we weren't the only ones who were a little irritated over lack of gifts or cards.
Not a single member of our bridal party even got us a card. I didn't expect a gift but a card would have been nice. When we opened our cards, we thought some were missing because a few of our guests also didn't get us anything.
As far as annoying gifts, my brother's ex wife and her family consisted of 12 people. They have been like family since we moved to Nashville. From them we got a wall sconce and a picture frame that my DH hates.
Oh and my horrible wedding planner said she was waiting for our gift to get the last of our wedding stuff (including our guestbook) back to us. It took almost 2 months but I finally got our guestbook back. Her gift was an empty photo album she probably bought at Walmart or Michael's.