Worst wedding presents ever....

[Turbanator]

Some people have a funny idea of what a wedding gift should be lol

 

[Chim Chiminy]

My DH's stepmonster gifted us, and everyone else at our wedding, with the announcement that we needn't worry about picking a traditional English baby name, since Dh's last name was English.

We hadn't shared the good news with anyone but our parents, because I wanted to tell my grandparents in our own way. Oopsie!
Twenty years later we laugh about it, but we long ago stopped having a relationship of any kind with her or DH's dad.

No other gifts from his side of the family, not even a card.

 

[carrie1626]

This may come off sounding entitled and petty, because the gift was actually expensive and nice, but I suppose this thread's purpose is to be petty about gifts, so here goes.

We received a Waterford crystal compote bowl as a gift from a collection of 3 couples who are good friends of my parents. Now, you may think, 'Wow! Waterford! Awesome!', but it was, at best, a poorly thought out gift.

1. DH and I were then living in a one bedroom, fairly cruddy apartment on a college campus. Although I had dreams of one day being able to entertain with the nice china I registered for, where on earth was I going to put a large crystal vase-thingy until we were out of law school and able to purchase a real house?

2. What the heck is a compote bowl?!? I only know that's what it was because when I went to return it the sales lady told me. In case you don't want to google it, it's an almost completely useless serving item.

3. They got it from a different store than the one I was registered at. I could only return it for in-store credit. In retrospect, I got some nice glasses and a silverware chest out of it, but I could have gotten a lot more at my registry store using the completion discount they offered.

4. I'm not going to say the price, but divided bewtween the three couples who gave it as a joint gift, it was not all that much "per person". This did not concern me, but it bothered my parents who had attended the weddings of the children of all of these people (multiple children each) and spent more than that each time. I'm an only child.

5. Some of these people had known me all my life. I considered them my aunts and uncles (since all of my real ones were out of state). I'd like to think they knew me better than to get me a heavy, crystal thing-a-ma-jig I'd probably never use. I guess I was wrong.

So, judge me if you will for my worst gift story, but it's proof that the "worst" gifts aren't necessarily the cheap ones.

NO judging here!! My most useful wedding gift was a waffle maker. 26 years later and I still have it and I still use it. WHO KNEW

 

[marthachick]

My new MIL was dropped off on my doorstep the day after the wedding. The other family members said it was now my turn to take care of her. She ended up living with us for 6 years.

You win.

Haha...you win.

Did you not get a honeymoon? That was your "Welcome to the Family" gift, not your wedding gift. Major difference. But, yes, I agree you win.

Yikes! In my book , YOU WIN

Wow ahhhhh righty then, I think you are the winner so far. I've heard of maybe inheriting pets, but MIL? weird wild stuff

Pretty sure this is NOT winning!

 

[mrsheppo]

Pretty sure this is NOT winning!

Thanks everyone for letting me know I had the winning "gift". I did not get a honeymoon, just one night in a hotel and when we got home, MIL arrived. Apparently she had been passed around for many years. She and I did not get along for the first year but we finally came to a mutual respect and love. She ended up living with us until she passed away.

At one point, I talked about leaving my husband and she begged me to take her with me. She didn't want to stay with her own son.

 

[usd2bmd]

ours wasn't necessarily bad...just bad timing.

My boss at the time came to our wedding and a we got nothing. No card...
A year later I got a card in the mail from Bon Apetit Magazine that he had bought us a subscription for a year...

Better late than never I guess.

 

[AmericangirlinFrance]

NO judging here!! My most useful wedding gift was a waffle maker. 26 years later and I still have it and I still use it. WHO KNEW

Would you like another one? I have 3 left over that I can't return

 

[Callie]

One of my best friends just got married. She lives out of state, and was in town for another friends wedding. I let her and her fiance stay at my apartment since I was out of town. She says that was enough of a gift. Guess its an interesting one! I plan on getting her something as well.

She also really doesn't like cats, but always cat-sat when I was out of town. So I'm going to print off a cute picture of my cat, and add that into her card, putting a thank you from my cat. Its more of a gag-gift, but she will appreciate it I bet.

 

[poohfriend77]

Our "worst" gift actually turned out to be pretty great about 10 years later LOL. We received a rolling pin. Yep. a rolling pin. Best part? I didn't open the box until years later when I was baking christmas cookies with my girls.....

There were 500 one dollar bills taped together and wrapped around the rolling pin. Holy cow!!! What a day that was - and right before christmas too!!!

~C

Thank goodness you didn't sell it at a garage sale or something!

We didn't get any really bad gifts. Some crystal candlesticks that seemed kind of pointless but were still lovely. But we got a picnic basket with a tablecloth and inexpensive dishes with no card. I made a list of all the guests/gifts to see if I could figure it out. There were 3 guests who didn't give us anything. I truly didn't mind that, but how the heck was I supposed to write thank you notes. Do I call and say "did you give us the picnic basket... Or NOTHING?" I wrote a few very vague "thanks for sharing our day" notes.

 

[maxaroni]

No gift from one of my cousins. However, the worst gift wasn't bad but odd. My fathers mom put in her will that I was to get her sterling silver (utensils). I was a baby but my parents held onto it for me. My cousin presents me with a gift at our reception as she did not want it on the gift table. I gave it to my mom to figure out what to do with it. After our honeymoon, we opened any gifts we had gotten and lo and behold, this gift from my cousin was a few pieces of the sterling silverware that she had that was part of my set. Her mon and my grandmother were sisters. So I got a gift that was technically mine anyway. It was not given due to financial reasons....

 

[Miss Potts]

From my new in-laws... Used pots and pans, they got them free with a kitchen remodel and used them for a few months but decided they didn't like them.

When they offered to get us pots and pans, i was thrilled i just figured I'd have more of a say.....

 

[OhioMom02]

The check that bounced.

Same here! Oh, and with said bounced check, they also re-gifted us a blender because they'd received 3 for their recent wedding. I didn't mind at all about a re-gifted blender but in front of them someone told us it was a re-gift and they got really mad.

 

[Acklander]

Same here! Oh, and with said bounced check, they also re-gifted us a blender because they'd received 3 for their recent wedding. I didn't mind at all about a re-gifted blender but in front of them someone told us it was a re-gift and they got really mad.

OMG! Why would someone tell you it was a regifted blender? That seems to have no purpose except to embarrass those involved.

 

[CocaColaGuy]

Would you like another one? I have 3 left over that I can't return

I could use one...I overused mine!

All of our gifts were pretty good...I think we only returned duplicates.

My grandfather got my brother and his wife a Jewish wedding card which would be fine, except all of us (including dear ol' Grandpa) are life-long Lutherans. Kinda made us wonder when he started "losing it". But, he always wrote a nice check to go along with the cards!

 

[DarthKTrava]

OMG! Why would someone tell you it was a regifted blender? That seems to have no purpose except to embarrass those involved.

Perhaps the one who told was the one who'd given THEM that blender....

 

[PigletsPal2]

I was working as secretary to Chairman of the Board of a mid-sized travel agency when we got engaged, so I invited the whole agency to the wedding. My boss called me into his office the day after he received his invitation and asked if it was too late to change the wedding date to a week earlier. I said it was, that we had out-of-town guests coming and all the arrangements had been made. He said he wished I had checked with him before we set the date, because if we had gotten married a week earlier, we could have had the agency's suite on a luxury cruise ship for our honeymoon!

I wish I had known then what I know now, but "nice girls" didn't go on a honeymoon before the wedding 47 years ago! He did give us a very generous check and the agency didn't charge me any leave for the week after the wedding. I guess this doesn't belong in the "worst" category, but it was a bummer missing out on the cruise.

Queen Colleen

 

[sunsprinkle24]

My best friends mother gave me a glass ashtray. I don't smoke, husband doesn't smoke. And she knew this.

 

[Acklander]

Perhaps the one who told was the one who'd given THEM that blender....

Wouldn't matter, I can't imagine intentionally embarrassing someone that way. IMO that's a much bigger faux pas than regifting something.

 

[MinnieLovesMickey]

We got married in England. I had never been to the USA or met any of my new husband's family.

We decided to Honeymoon at WDW.

On landing we were greeted by my new FIL and my new BIL they had driven down from Alabama to 'join' us on our Honeymoon!!!

Not a great start........but, we are celebrating 30 years married today!!

DH and I have a similar story for our honeymoon. We spent the day after the wedding at Universal Studios Hollywood. My family was also spending the day there which was fine by us until 3 siblings and uncle started following us around the whole day! Luckily that didn't scare DH away.

Luckily, all of the wedding gifts were nice and normal.

 

[Gigi22]

A set of the most ugly gilded coffee spoons I have ever seen in my life. They have little gilded camels on the top of each spoon! From DH's cousin who was working in Saudi Arabia at the time. Never used.

We got a set of those too. The ugliest spoon I have ever seen.