Best wedding gift you received?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our friends and family gifted our honeymoon. The memories of that far outweigh and material items.

This. I rather pay towards a trip than crap. Weddings are an experience. Marriage is an experience. Honeymoon is an experience.

[Anonymous]

Immersion blender! Most used appliance and unexpected. I didn’t register for it, a friend gifted it noting it wasn’t on my registry.

[Anonymous]

Registries are trashy.

Also, make sure yours isn’t public or attached to a public wedding website.

[Anonymous]

If this is a second marriage please no registry.

[Anonymous]

Rice cooker and I'm not asian

[Anonymous]

One of our guests paid for a dinner in Paris at a really nice restaurant since he knew we were going on a honeymoon in Paris

[Anonymous]

No registry -- most of our gifts were art objects, which we still have and display.

I think its a little weird to give a friend a blender.

[Anonymous]

Convection/Toaster oven. Used everyday and still going strong.

[Anonymous]

Cuisinart food processor. I've been married 32 years and that food processor is still going strong.

[Anonymous]

One-of-a-kind art pieces chosen by other people for us. Nothing expensive. Still have all of them decades later.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:take this with a grain of salt but I was married 35 years ago. Formal China a joke. I guess it made it easy for people to buy a gift.

Best gift - coffee grinder with two very cool mugs. I still have the grinder and remind my aunt that it's the only gift I have left - hers.

Why is formal China a joke?

[Anonymous]

We got wooden bowls we didn't register for that it turns out I really like. Kinda like this with matching salad bowls: https://www.amazon.com/Lipper-International-1174-Serving-Diameter/dp/B008EQAMK0?source=ps-sl-shoppingads-lpcontext&ref_=fplfs&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&th=1
Turns out we use them a lot.

A hippie-ish friend made us beeswax candles in a variety of glass jars with lids. They are clean burning and give off negative ions which clean the air. It was a very "her" thing to give us and we always have thought fondly of her when burning them. Also we always get compliments on them.

[Anonymous]

Got married in 1998, and I still use the following:

-Glass mixing bowls (two sets)
-Casserole dishes
-Serving platters (ranging from C&B/PB to Tiffany)
-Stemware
-China
-Everyday dishes
-Silverware
-Vases
-High quality picnic basket

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Got married in 1998, and I still use the following:

-Glass mixing bowls (two sets)
-Casserole dishes
-Serving platters (ranging from C&B/PB to Tiffany)
-Stemware
-China
-Everyday dishes
-Silverware
-Vases
-High quality picnic basket

OMG we got three of those. Never used any of them. They weighed a TON!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Got married in 1998, and I still use the following:

-Glass mixing bowls (two sets)
-Casserole dishes
-Serving platters (ranging from C&B/PB to Tiffany)
-Stemware
-China
-Everyday dishes
-Silverware
-Vases
-High quality picnic basket

OMG we got three of those. Never used any of them. They weighed a TON!

They make a nice centerpiece for a summer or fall party.

I admittedly channel my inner Martha Stewart when I pack it and put out a picnic lunch.

They come in handy at a beach house or lake house.

I never would have purchased it myself, but I’m glad someone gifted it to me.