strange gift requests on wedding list

clairus

Also on the topic of expensive items, I think there are some lists that give you a discount on items that haven't been purchase after the wedding so you can 'complete' your list yourself.

A friend once told me they were going to a wedding but left it til the last minute to pick a gift from the list and were left with picking a toilet brush...obviously useful and probably matched a whole bathroom set, BUT an incredibly dull present to give!

johannalf88

I have read in loads of places to make sure that you have quite a few large items on your list. We are doing a honeymoon registry, and I have made a list as a mock up. The most expensive thing is £135 pound, which to me seems a lot! Then £98. Then a few £50 ish and a lot between 15-25. But it seems so presumptuous doesn't it!?!

Thing is we do have a lot of generous people coming... And I know I would rather buy one big present rather than lots of little!

RainbowDrops

ellies_angel wrote: »

I had never understood how people could have large expensive things on their gift lists. On my list I made sure I had affordable my dinner set was split into pieces. The most expensive items were the caserole dishes which went with it which were around £55. What I hadn't realised is that some people go together, work colleagues for example, families whose children have grown up and married but all want to come together for the gift and what started off as a large list, quickly vanished. If I had put on the lamp at £200 that I loved but felt couldn't possibly have on it, my work would have choosen it. My Aunt and cousins said they would have prefered to buy me one thing rather than a rammy of little bits. What I then ended up doing was running back to Debenhams and topping my list up with things just for the sake of it.

Yeah, it's hard because you don't want to look greedy, but you have relatives who want to be generous.

Someone almost completed our dinner service in one swoop which we toatally weren't expecting. Luckily we'd been quite conservative, so we could add more crockery for other guests.
We also had relatives contacting our parents saying out list was too humble & they wanted to get something better, which was sweet.
OHs gran bought us a whole cotlery box set, an uncle bought us some lovely grden furniture etc, which they asked us to choose then put on the list to buy.

The best thing that I've learnt though is now for friends weddings, get onto the giftlist ASAP before all the best stuff is bought!