Depending on who you ask, wedding gifts are either a beautiful expression of your love for the bride and groom, or a terrible and costly annoyance. According to accepted wedding etiquette you have up to a year to find the crock pot or decanter of the happy couple's dreams, but sometimes you can still fall short. That's why Lemondrop wants to know -- what would you do if a wedding guest totally failed to pony up a gift?
And hey, we know you're perfect, but we're still wondering -- have you ever completely failed to send a wedding gift?
Tell us you wedding gift disaster stories in the comments.
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Monday 02 November
By Cheryl Tomczak
This happened to me with several guests. First let me begin by telling you, my husband's daughter flew in for the wedding, on the wedding day. He had to pick her up at an airport almost 50 miles away, and the plane was late. She stayed at our home for three days and two nights, including our wedding night, had her dad driving her around to visit relatives two days in a row. Then he had to take her back to the airport. We not only didn't get a gift from her, but we didn't even get a card. He also had two relatives who didn't give a gift or a card, and a friend who brought along an uninvited guest, and didn't give a gift. What to do? You tell me, do I want to begin a marriage on a sour note and start an argument over this? Heck no. Oh by the way, the daughter is a grown woman.
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Monday 02 November
By Peggi
Guests should be invited because you want to share your happy day with them--NOT for the goodies you hope they bring.
All you are owed are good wishes.
Gifts , in addition to being an example of the wishes for the couple, were meant to help them set up their household. Since so many couples are living together often years before marriage this is not necessary.
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Tuesday 03 November
By SGTMIKE132
Here's a good question; Have you ever been polled? I've read hundreds and hundreds of poll results and no one I know has ever been polled.
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Tuesday 03 November
By Chris
This poll is really lame. I can't believe I'm actually participating in it, but I am.
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Wednesday 04 November
By mcy
i just got married, and we had several of his friends not give us anything. it cost us $55 a person ($110 a couple) to have them eat and drink for free all night. is it too much to ask for a toaster or at least a card? and on top of that, we went to one of the non givers wedding and gave them a $200 check. we're over it enough to go hang out and not be bitter but what the hell? as for the other, non giving guests, if they get married, then we wont give them a gift and all will be fair.
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