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#1 from Snowbride

A duster. Not even a feather duster but a fluffy cotton sort. Were they trying to imply my house needed to be dusted? Please!

I also received a jar of salt and a jar of pepper-but no shaker, no grinder… Just the salt and pepper inexplicably in a box.

#2 from Jamia

I’m sure there are far worse things, but this freaking hat was the worst thing EVER in the moment. It looks like a Jo-Ann Fabrics exploded on my head. And I had been having a pretty decent hair day until they made me put this on. Evil people. By the way, there was an accompanying Groom’s Ball & Chain hat. Of course. Where do people even find these things???

#3 from Shera

It wasn’t mine, but my best friend received a hideously outdated boxed dish set that had the price-tag still on - $5.00 - from old family friends no less! (they were not poor, they were cheap) great laughs . . . .

#4 from Kate

I don’t have a picture handy, but my worst wedding gift was a short, see-through negligee. What’s so bad about that? you might ask. It was from my future mother-in-law. Well maybe that’s understandable right? I mean lots of people have lingerie showers. I didn’t. I had a kitchen shower. Which my mother-in-law did not even attend. Just sent off her little giftee. Which led to this pleasant little exchange.

Me: I need to write your mother a thank you letter, and I don’t really know what to write.
Him: What do you mean?
Me: I think I’m going to put “thank you for the lovely coverup, it will be very useful on our honeymoon.”
Him: Okay, so what’s wrong with that?
Me: Well, you know your mom’s going to call you up thinking I’m an idiot to explain that its not a coverup.
Him: Yeah, that’s probably true. So why don’t you write “thanks for the nightie”?
Me: Cause you need more in a thank you card than that. So here are some suggestions “Thanks for the nightie, your son gets hard just thinking about me in it.” or “Thanks for the nightie, I’m sure we’ll think of you when we’re getting it on.”
Him: Yeah, thank her for the coverup. I guess it was kind of an inappropriate gift.

#5 from Tina

My parents’ friends gave my bro and SIL a gift certificate to their store. Since bro and SIL live in a different state, they had to take time out of their wedding planning trips to visit the shop to find something to buy. The gift certificate was for a generous $100… but everything in the store cost at least double that (and was hideous). No wonder why the owners kept bugging them to come by to pick out a gift… bro and SIL would have to actually spend at least $100 at their store to redeem the gift certificate.

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