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Rambling | Report | 11 May 2016 15:53 |
wedding gift lists :-) |
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SheilaSomerset | Report | 11 May 2016 16:02 |
The last wedding I went to was 2 years ago - OH's youngest. They had their list with John Lewis but I didn't even look at it as we'd already decided to give them money. Some lists seem way over the top these days - those quirky but useful little gifts would be sneered at now it seems....My sister still has some of her original gifts - little shot glasses, cutlery and vases etc. - she married early 70s. |
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Rambling | Report | 11 May 2016 16:13 |
Sheila, the wedding list in this instance is also with John Lewis, I was a little surprised by some of the items ( with the best will in the world I won't be buying a lego set at £249) but there is the option to buy vouchers so may go with that. |
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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it | Report | 11 May 2016 16:32 |
We are going to a wedding later this year |
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KathleenBell | Report | 11 May 2016 16:37 |
My son has just been invited to an evening reception after a wedding and there was a note with the invitation that went on the line of......your attendance would be the best gift we could ask for, however.....if you would like to give a gift, a contribution of money towards our honeymoon would be lovely as we have everything we need for our home. |
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Rambling | Report | 11 May 2016 16:46 |
Difficult isn't it Shirley? The suggestion in some of the comments I was reading say what you should give, as a guest at the wedding, should be more than the cost to the couple of your food and drink at the wedding plus some as the gift. But how much to spend on catering and venue is the bride and grooms choice over which the guest has no control, so that seems unfair to me. |
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Rambling | Report | 11 May 2016 16:49 |
Kathleen, I could do with a casserole dish ( and a new oven to put it in come to that, as the bottom element has just gone kaput). |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 11 May 2016 17:37 |
Our generation (married mid 70s) used to have a 'Bottom Drawer' before we were married and collected basic items or hand-me-downs. The wedding list was for household essentials we hadn't managed to source. Things like a certain design of cutlery, glasses or china which could be purchased seperately. |
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SuffolkVera | Report | 11 May 2016 18:50 |
Our niece married a couple of years back and had a wedding list that was mostly sets of china, glassware etc that were available in individual pieces so guests could buy as much as they felt they could afford. |
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GlasgowLass | Report | 11 May 2016 20:07 |
My daughter married just a few weeks ago. |
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MotownGal | Report | 11 May 2016 20:29 |
I still have some of my original Pyrex casserole dishes! I also have a set of 6 crystal sherry glasses (never used them) but managed to off-load two of the 3 toasters that we were bought. They were never on our list, but it was a standard gift in those days. Along with a kitchen clock, and sheets. |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 11 May 2016 20:35 |
I was married in 1959 - lists did not exist then - had nothing of some guests - gifts received were things like sherry glasses, fish knives and forks, pyrex casserole dishes, mixing bowl, rolling pin, jug, table lamp, electric kettle, electric clock, set of saucepans - still have the mixing bowl and rolling pin and one of the sherry glasses |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 11 May 2016 20:37 |
there's a piece in the paper today regarding a bride and groom who received £100 from a guest and in writing to say thank you they added that they really thought it should have been more and suggested the guest should increase the amount!!! what a flippin' liberty - the guest said she wished she'd just given a fiver |
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GlasgowLass | Report | 11 May 2016 20:42 |
That's shocking Ann ! |
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KathleenBell | Report | 11 May 2016 20:45 |
I've just been googling to see if I could find which pattern my Pyrex casseroles were and found that they are the Chelsea pattern. I still have quite a few of these casseroles and apart from the two I found in the loft 3 years ago they have all been used regularly since 1969 and are the only dishes I use. Things were made to last in those days. I didn't make a wedding list and was happy with all the gifts I got - even if quite a few were duplicated. |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 11 May 2016 21:05 |
recall one of my Pyrex casserole dishes was white with black stars on it |
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Sylvia | Report | 11 May 2016 21:07 |
Our eldest daughter married nearly five years ago, they asked for nothing from us, and paid for their own wedding in Cyprus. We did give them money as they were saving for a house but they said they felt bad taking it from us. |
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Andysmum | Report | 11 May 2016 22:29 |
We got married in 1960 and, like Ann, had no list. We received lots of household gifts, and, apart from sheets, nothing was duplicated!! As we were living in furnished, rented accommodation we didn't need furniture. I still have casseroles (clear Pyrex), table mats (not often used these days) and some kitchen knives These were a pair - one bread knife, hardly used, and a vegetable knife, used daily for 56 years and as good as new. |
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Linda | Report | 11 May 2016 23:16 |
When my cousin got married in the early 80s he had a very pushy mum (aunt by marriage) and I think she must have made out the gift list and she rang around the family to make sure that they the most expensive item on the list |
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Island | Report | 11 May 2016 23:42 |
When did people get so greedy? |
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