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Hey ladies! My bridal shower is coming up soon and I have been enjoying opening the packages that haveb een arriving from friends and family members who can't make it. It's fun coming home to a package after school!  For the most part people have been incredibly generous and giving....but there's always some interesting gifts! 

That would be my crazy aunt from Florida. She isn't coming to the wedding, so she sent us both gifts at once.  She sent me a really cute ornament in the shape of a cake with our wedding date on it. But.....the best part, she bought Ian and I a claddagh ring HUGE brass door knocker. Seriously, it's the ugliest thing ever! I have to laugh just because..well, wouldn't you? I'm thankful that she sent us something, it's not like she has to, it was just too funny because I'm not that Irish and it's just tacky looking.

So...let's hear it! The worst/craziest/funniest wedding gift you have gotten!  

Me and Chris were opening gifts in the floor one day and we came upon a box that had no card or name attached to it.  We opened it and it was a pig.  A little wooden pig.  It didnt do anything, it just sat there.  We were thinking "who would send us a wooden pig?" 

Later we were talking to a friend of his from home and the guy says "did you like my pig?!"  And he explained that the pig was actually made out of lucky wood from a particular type of tree in Thailand.  So he sent us a good luck charm!  Now that we know what it means, its sweet and we have our pig sitting proudly on the entertainment center.

My mother in law bought me lingerie for our wedding gift.  That might not be bad for other people, but I just found it incredibily disturbing that she bought me that in order to "do the deed" with her son.

I wouldn't say its the worst wedding gift (heck I think its funny) but it was definitely the most interesting gift that I got...

My grandma bought me the CUTEST teddy for my bridal shower - I guess she totally shocked the heck out of my grandfather, and he was MORTIFIED!!!

It was better than anything I had bought for our wedding night, so I actually wore it - the best part.... Matthew loved it, but then I told him who gave it to me - and I have never seen him turn a brighter shade of red!!!

Hehehehe - I just about fell off the bed laughing so hard!!!

We got cash for our wedding so I can only talk about the crazy gift I got at my bridal shower. My friend hosted the party and it was a naught/nice lingerie theme. So gifts were supposed to be naughty or nice lingerie type gifts...ok. So I got all kinds of pink VS boxes, of course. And a red Frederick's of Hollywood box. :) Then I open this gift back and what's inside but 5 cami/panty sets, all the same, but just different colors. The tags were still on, but the corners of the tags were ripped - that was because they were trying to hide the fact that the sets were from Kmart. Look, fine, give me a gift from Kmart, no biggie. VS is not cheap. But for what you paid for 5 sets of camis, you could have gotten me something nice from VS. And if are shoppin at Kmart, don't be embarassed about it and try to hide the fact that you bought it from there...and the fact that this gift was from my MIL and SIL made it all the worse. 

Melster:

We got cash for our wedding so I can only talk about the crazy gift I got at my bridal shower. My friend hosted the party and it was a naught/nice lingerie theme. So gifts were supposed to be naughty or nice lingerie type gifts...ok. So I got all kinds of pink VS boxes, of course. And a red Frederick's of Hollywood box. :) Then I open this gift back and what's inside but 5 cami/panty sets, all the same, but just different colors. The tags were still on, but the corners of the tags were ripped - that was because they were trying to hide the fact that the sets were from Kmart. Look, fine, give me a gift from Kmart, no biggie. VS is not cheap. But for what you paid for 5 sets of camis, you could have gotten me something nice from VS. And if are shoppin at Kmart, don't be embarassed about it and try to hide the fact that you bought it from there...and the fact that this gift was from my MIL and SIL made it all the worse. 

 

HAHAHAHAHA........Sounds like something my sh*tty in-laws would do. Priceless.

So im not married but i couldnt help but read you girls stories they are hilarious! and meg, your aunts brass door knockers are priceless, does she really think your going to use it? haha

Maggie:

My mother in law bought me lingerie for our wedding gift.  That might not be bad for other people, but I just found it incredibily disturbing that she bought me that in order to "do the deed" with her son.

Oh my gosh! How embarrassing!! I'd be ready to die.

Ok let me just explain that when we got married it was two days after our high school graduation, we were living at our parents houses and we had no need for any house hold items at the time. We told everyone that asked us that all we needed or wanted was money to put away for after boot. So after we got married we opened all the cards and got all of the checks and cash. THEN his uncle comes in with this box that has been beat to hell. We're like ummm great. So we open and it's martini glasses. Um yeah, we were 18 and had no need for them but ok.

That doesn't sound bad at all but at the time it was just one more box of junk that we had to lug around. Still haven't used them, we'll be married 3 years by the time we do. Goofy.

callieg:

THEN his uncle comes in with this box that has been beat to hell. We're like ummm great. So we open and it's martini glasses. Um yeah, we were 18 and had no need for them but ok.

 

We should sell our door knockers and martini glasses on Ebay 

So we're a little redneck. We're from upstate NY which is literally minutes away from VT. Well, Ross's friend Phil had this HUGE potato gun. They had the best time in high school with this thing. So at our reception we see this huge thing wrapped in tin foil and low and behold...it's the potato gun. Next to it is another box wrapped up all nice so that night when we were opening gifts in our hotel room we got to this gift. It was wrapped in a Nike sneaker box and we're like whaaaat the heck??? Why did someone give us shoes! haha We open it and it's potatoes(Phil gave us the gun and his girlfriend who we also went to HS with gave us the potatoes)...funny thing is...the staff at the reception stole the potato gun...after that night no one has seen it. haha So it's not really the worst gift because it has a pretty funny story to it but I just had to share.

MissStacy:

So we're a little redneck. We're from upstate NY which is literally minutes away from VT. Well, Ross's friend Phil had this HUGE potato gun. They had the best time in high school with this thing. So at our reception we see this huge thing wrapped in tin foil and low and behold...it's the potato gun. Next to it is another box wrapped up all nice so that night when we were opening gifts in our hotel room we got to this gift. It was wrapped in a Nike sneaker box and we're like whaaaat the heck??? Why did someone give us shoes! haha We open it and it's potatoes(Phil gave us the gun and his girlfriend who we also went to HS with gave us the potatoes)...funny thing is...the staff at the reception stole the potato gun...after that night no one has seen it. haha So it's not really the worst gift because it has a pretty funny story to it but I just had to share.

Stacy that by far is the funniest/weirdest gift ever!!!!

MissStacy:

So we're a little redneck. We're from upstate NY which is literally minutes away from VT. Well, Ross's friend Phil had this HUGE potato gun.

 

How is it that I didnt know about this story?! haha

callieg:

Ok let me just explain that when we got married it was two days after our high school graduation, we were living at our parents houses and we had no need for any house hold items at the time. We told everyone that asked us that all we needed or wanted was money to put away for after boot. So after we got married we opened all the cards and got all of the checks and cash. THEN his uncle comes in with this box that has been beat to hell. We're like ummm great. So we open and it's martini glasses. Um yeah, we were 18 and had no need for them but ok.

That doesn't sound bad at all but at the time it was just one more box of junk that we had to lug around. Still haven't used them, we'll be married 3 years by the time we do. Goofy.

We got two bottles of wine as a gift.  One bottle is quite tall, too.  The other one is just a short and fat one.  Neither have been open yet.  When Mark and I got married, I was 3 days from turning 19, and Mark was barely 20.  Soooo, it's nice that people got us that stuff, but it's totally not able to be used yet.  I don't drink [mainly because I'm not 21 yet].  And even though our anniversary is 3 days before my birthday, I don't think I'll tell Mark to open one of the bottles this year.