Why do you really need a £70 Conran serving bowl. I am certain Ikea do flippen bowls for £5, NOT £70 . ORRRRRRRRRRR Wine glasses a matching pair of etched Crstal ones £69.999999999999999 I gues they are going to be used like once. A gravy boat . My Nan used a gravy boat , I bet it didnt cost her £39.99 . or £9.99 for the effin saucer it sits on.

Why oh Why do you need a pair of Conran Water tumblers for £63 !!! £63 quid for 2 water glasses.THEY ALL BREAK THE SAME.

They live in tiny 2 up 2 down ex council semi in Earlswood Surrey. Jesus H Christ and on top of it they are getting married in Ireland, Oh nice scenery blah blah , but its on a Thursday, and to overcomplicate it the Church is in NORRRRRRRRRRRRRN ireland and the reception is an hour away in Eire and it will be grey and cold as its in NOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRn Ireland ( in best Ian Paisley accent) and they are not laying on transport bewtween wedding and reception , so its flights hotles car hire Guiness Presents £ £ £ £ £ £ FFS Fricken John Lweis wish list , might buy him a kettle

and relax

9/10 Rob!

FWIW I agree. Book a holiday and avoid it 😉

:wink:I think they will be doing a rather posh car boot sale when they arrive back from honeymoon..
If its your mate he will know how tight you are anyway.. 😉

£9.99 for the effin saucer it sits on.

that sounds a good bet buy that, look on their faces will be priceless and i bet they won't say anything to you either

lol @ you.

For our wedding we asked for B&Q, M&S vouchers or cash as we'd just bought a new (read 60yr old house last decorated in 1980 summit), went down a storm and was way more useful than any ****' (note Irish style swearing) wedding list @ a **** (again :lol:) department store in an American stylee.

Personally I'd buy them something off the list that they're never going to use

Myself if they already have a house and thus all the kit for it I would buy them **** all unless I could think of something personal and appropriate. – especially if I was going to the wedding at some expense.

the tradition of wedding presents was for folk who were moving out of their parents home to live together – thus needed sheets, crockery and so on. This wedding list stuff is sheer greed / commercialism.

That's one of the best rants in an age. Superb use of capitals, I give it a 9.

Mind you, they are rather fine tumblers:

🙄

When I got married to Mrs MM we specifically said that we didn't want anything, just your company on the day as we already lived together and had everything we needed but if people did want to buy us anything then, similar to steve_b77, we asked for diy store vouchers as we wanted to get some garden furniture.
If you ask me, they should be greatful that you're making the effort to travel over. I imagine it's not going to be a cheap trip.

I thank you

Gravy Boat Saucer it is then

AND they only bloomin work for flippen Waitrose, so they can buy all the bling bling bling innit NICE shiite she wants at staff ( partner ) discounted prices

and I thought only MPS got crockery for nowt from John Lewis , oh how wrong I was

Top rant, captivated the audience with a subject we can all empathise with. Huzzah!

(Slow cooker….?!??! Put the oven on low FFS…)

Why oh why would you say "we just want your company but if you want to buy us presents then get us some vouchers?" then screams to me as "we are trying to claim we don't want presents but actually we do"

Top top rant ROFLMAO after a hard day at work!!! Brilliant!

Excellent rant. I bought a pastry brush for someone, 69p, it was on the list and i felt it was reasonable protest ….

We had same problem with presents – we didn;t expect or indeed want anything but family etc just really want to give you a gift. We got some very cool things like a mate made us a set of those 3 ducks for the wall out of black plastic (is actually much cooler than it sounds !) and we ended up with people just giving us cheques – loads of them. So we totted it all up , bought a nice painting which we can take wherever we move to and gave the rest to charity. Hopefully that keeps us all happy !

after having spent what probably amounts to a couple of grand on weddings in the past few years, when I get married next year I'll be getting a little payback 😀

@ Munqe-chick. That's how it does sound. I should have worded it better. In the lead up to our wedding we seemed to have many repeated conversations with our guests about wedding lists. Some of our guests were insistant on getting us something so vouchers seemed a good idea but we definately did not expect anything.

we did ours on whattogive.com

you specify the type of thing you want and people promise stuff to you.

They don't buy it through the site, they just get it from whereever they want.

Really good, and free to use.

Ask what charity they would like a donation to instead of presents. I don't give wedding presents, as most of the weddings we've been to have ended in divorce anyway (and I am not married, but have cohabited for 20 years, so I am not bitter about never having shedloads of presents we didn't need)