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Filed: AOS (pnd) Country: Canada
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I'm just curious about people's experiences on this one! The worst thing i got was from someone we thought was close, who gave me a dress that my grandmother wouldn't even have worn!

The best was getting $50 from people that i wasnt really close to..

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I can't even remember one gift I had....well it was 19 years ago and many bottles of vodka have gone under the bridge since then :lol::lol:

This should be an amusing thread tho.....carry on... :D:thumbs:

Filed: Citizen (apr) Country: Egypt
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Didn't have a wedding, but the 4 gifts we got when we got married were very sweet and very useful

car from my parent

couch from my grandma

champaign glasses from my brother

blender from my sister

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Filed: Citizen (apr) Country: Morocco
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Our best gift was my grandparents buying us everything left over off of our registry - an entire set of all clad pots and pans, and henckel knives, plus some other stuff.

Have to say, we were fortunate enough to not get any bad gifts. I think the clueless people were smart enough this time to stick to the registry, thank God!

Filed: Country: England
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A bottle of vodka with chili peppers in the bottom (hubster enjoyed it all though... <_< )....I drink a little but wouldn't have enjoyed that at all and a Richard Prior DVD that we can't play because we don't have a multi region DVD player and aren't going to buy one just for that DVD. ANother unusual gift is a ceramic Christmas village...I think it's still at my mum's house almost 3 years after it was given to us.... :huh:

The best gifts we got were when we had our stateside reception and we got a bunch of gift cards for nice restaurants since by that time we had just about the majority of things needed. We still have a number of them because we want to use them on special occasions.

ANd the winner of the most creative gift which some might find very strange but we actually think is a hoot is our full-size mirror ball (disco ball) which hangs in the living room and we spin for parties or to drive the cat nutsie...hehe.

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Filed: AOS (pnd) Country: Canada
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Ohh, and some of the best gifts i got were also a 32inch flat screen tv from mum-in-law (she always buys us stuff!!), $1000 cash from my dad , same from my 16yrold brother, and mum dad and brother paid for wedding..

Another of the worst is a person who gave me some size L lingerie, when i wear almost XS !!!!! Talk about REGIVING GIFTS!!! lol

Filed: Country: Singapore
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I wouldn't call it the worst gift because they were handmade, but it sure was the oddest one. My husband's sister's in-laws mailed us a set of cloths which we thought were table cloths for side tables. When I took them out one by one, I noticed each one was sewn with a picture of a vegetable or fruit and its name in a corner, e.g. pumpkin, gourd, etc. Husband and I got more and more confused by what these were, because they didn't fit over our side tables.

Then I flipped the box over and saw it written in pencil: Seed Pouches. Light bulbs went a-flashing in our heads. The cloths were meant for storing vegetable/fruit seeds! For us to plant later! Hubby and I had a good laugh after that because we don't have a yard big enough for planting vegetables and fruit. And we ended up putting them over our side tables anyway. :P

The best gifts came from my mother-in-law:

1) Matching bathrobes monogrammed with the names of our characters in the computer game we had met in.

2) $500 and 10 cans of red beans (she got me head over heels over red beans)

3) A small gift each week for me until the date of our wedding. I had arrived 4 weeks before our big day, so every Wed evening when we had dinner with them, she handed me a little gift. She also bought me a white hat with attached veil for my impromptu bridal shower.

4) An e-mail every week for almost 2 months when I was still in Singapore and getting ready to move here. She wanted to make sure I was feeling okay and said many things to help me feel even more at home with the family.

5) A phone call each week after I arrived, to ensure I was adjusting well. And again, she reminded me she was there for me.

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Best gift was $1700 of gifts off our list from my gran

Worst gift was an extremely CHEAP his and hers perfume form a friend who rarely digs in her pocket, but always expects me too as godmother of her son! (Do I sound p#ssed off) :lol:

She is one person who will get an excuse when she says she wants to come visit us, or we'll be on the poverty line by the time she goes home :whistle:

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Filed: K-1 Visa Country: Morocco
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I wouldn't call it the worst gift because they were handmade, but it sure was the oddest one. My husband's sister's in-laws mailed us a set of cloths which we thought were table cloths for side tables. When I took them out one by one, I noticed each one was sewn with a picture of a vegetable or fruit and its name in a corner, e.g. pumpkin, gourd, etc. Husband and I got more and more confused by what these were, because they didn't fit over our side tables.

Then I flipped the box over and saw it written in pencil: Seed Pouches. Light bulbs went a-flashing in our heads. The cloths were meant for storing vegetable/fruit seeds! For us to plant later! Hubby and I had a good laugh after that because we don't have a yard big enough for planting vegetables and fruit. And we ended up putting them over our side tables anyway. :P

The best gifts came from my mother-in-law:

1) Matching bathrobes monogrammed with the names of our characters in the computer game we had met in.

2) $500 and 10 cans of red beans (she got me head over heels over red beans)

3) A small gift each week for me until the date of our wedding. I had arrived 4 weeks before our big day, so every Wed evening when we had dinner with them, she handed me a little gift. She also bought me a white hat with attached veil for my impromptu bridal shower.

4) An e-mail every week for almost 2 months when I was still in Singapore and getting ready to move here. She wanted to make sure I was feeling okay and said many things to help me feel even more at home with the family.

5) A phone call each week after I arrived, to ensure I was adjusting well. And again, she reminded me she was there for me.

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Filed: AOS (apr) Country: France
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The whorse gift was from my MIL... she got us a popcorn maker than she used to use...

Making popcorn with it it s like a realy mess... the popcorn go everywhere but not in the bowl... and making strange noises...

The best gifts I do not know we got some really nice gifts or tohught we got some nice cash money

One of the best gift is a forman grill.. I ain t not much of a cook so do not know what I will eat if we didn t have one.

Filed: Other Country: Canada
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We got mostly money instead of wedding gifts.....

but we did get gifts at the reception his sister had for us after I moved here... I got a lot of nice stuff..... I got 3 sets of drinking glasses and 2 blenders though... :P

Hubby had told his brother that I wanted a toaster oven..... His brother who tends to like to overdue things to make himself look good, got us this huge monstrosity of a toaster oven, that I can't even use because there is no room for it here... hubby says we can use it when we get our own house.... all I wanted was a nice little toaster oven :P

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Money from my husband's parents paid for our immigration costs, and other than that we mostly got small gifts. Our housemate gave us the complete series of Best of the Muppets DVDs, as a combined wedding/my b-day gift.

Mostly we told people not to get anything for us because we were going to have another ceremony ... and then we never did. :( ( <-- I'm sad about the lack of ceremony, not the lack of gifts!)

Worst was probably actually the houswarming gift my mom got us, it was a set of Tupperware knockoffs that don't seal very well so whatever's in them gets everywhere if you try to take them to work.

Bethany (NJ, USA) & Gareth (Scotland, UK)

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Filed: K-1 Visa Country: Peru
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haven't had the wedding yet, but if I get a bread maker I will be pissed......I don't want that thing back

12/5/05 Sent I129F Petition to Nebraska via Express Mail

12/6/05 Packaged received at 10:38 am in Nebraska

12/9/05 Check cashed (Never been so happy to have money leave my account)

12/12/05 Receive NOA1 snail mail - 30-60 day processing estimate

01/04/06 Receive NOA2 via e-mail

1/20/06 NVC letter in mail...will ship within a week.

2/1/06 Packet 3 and 4 in the mail

3/15/06 Interview - neither approved nor declined need to send in Migratory Movement Certificate AP

3/20/06 Migratory Movement Certificate for myself and fiancee sent to US Embassy in Lima

3/23/06 Visa Approved

5/19/06 I leave for Peru to pick up mi amor

5/25/06 Lucia and I arrive in Chicago

7/01/06 Legal Marriage

9/09/06 Religious Wedding

 

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