Weddingbee Blog

Our friends and family have been incredibly generous and kind with their gifts to us in celebration of our marriage - and I have to say that most of them figured out the Amazon registry just fine! Although people did gravitate towards our (very small) Crate & Barrel registry the most, and thus cleaned it out. Perhaps because C&B is considered more wedding-y?

Aaaanyway. This story is about a gift that was not on a registry. Our most novel wedding gift (thus far! Wouldn’t want to ruin anyone’s chances of gifting us something even more crazy) is the gift Mr. GP’s friend JK got us:

(why yes, that is a machete)

A double handed machete, in fact. Nothing say,  “I’m so glad you’re getting married!” like gifting your friend a giant lethal weapon!

I think it’s hilarious, of course - and what’s even more funny is seeing Mr. GP’s face light up when someone new comes over to the house and he gets to say, “Want to see my two-handed machete?!” Especially when the other person is my dad, and his face lights up in response. Dad GP then had this reaction when he got to give it a test run:

(my dad looking up at my mom on the patio right before saying “I’ve got to have one of these!”)

After all, who doesn’t need one… to… um. What are we going to do with it, again? Oh right, we definitely need to throw it at broken pieces of fencing. Yup, that’s what it’s for!

(Did I mention my motorcycle was like 2 feet away?)

Mr. Guinea Pig and my dad then spent 20 minutes finding things they could chop down in our (admittedly overgrown) back yard. Maple tree saplings growing under our deck, mushrooms, and the tree stump in our yard? You can bet those suckers are long gone.

In a rather humorous gesture (which I’m sure was designed to appease me), JK also got us a lovely bamboo cutting board - perhaps we should use the machete to chop veggies on our new cutting board?*

*Considering it is an incredibly sharp blade, which cut through some of the metal chain link behind the wooden fence in the above photos, my guess is that not only would the machete do a wonderful job of cutting the vegetables, but would also cut straight through our island/counter.

Anyone else gotten some fun/unique/crazy gifts for their wedding? Did you love it anyway?