married ladies/gifts

pumpkinpumpkin

please share what the strangest gift you received was?Or those engaged who have had a bridal shower.I'm curious now after the post below.

crfische

Well, the gift was wierd because it was something I didn't register for: A rolling pin. It was the wierdest because the note attached said: For when he misbehaves. And it wasn't signed.

duckie1905

We got a ceramic frog.Not like a sponge holder or even a vase or something.Just a frog.

Kati0105

My cousin gave me a huge coin jar shaped like a bottle that reads "Baby Fund!" on the front for my shower.  Apparently it is an inside joke that has been passed down among females in my family for years now.  I had no idea.  We had a couples' shower and I think FI was a bit scared.

Nebb

One of the last gifts we opened was this lumpy misshapen gift bag with something wrapped in thin corrugated cardboard inside. The only note on it was "Your dad will explain". We opened it and there was a HUGE (ugly) ceramic horse inside, and my dad was sitting there howling with laughter.The backstory is that when my grandmother died, we all went through her possessions and took what we wanted and this ceramic horse was left behind so my dad took it. Shortly afterwards my cousin got married and got the horse as a gift from my dad, so they decided to pass it along to us as our wedding gift. It is currently sitting at the back of my closet until I decide I like it or my other cousin gets married.

Night_Sprite

My parents have this thing.  It is shaped like a ping pong paddle but a little bigger.  It is wood.  It has these two oval mother of pearl inset sections.  They aren't big enough to put anything in.  The inset sections are shallow.  They have kept it for 30+ years because they think it is funny and still have no idea what it is. 

anna.oskar

I got this at my shower Sunday.  it's a metal "picture frame" with hand made magnets that have sappy love sayings on it.  It's really not that bad but it doesn't go with the decor at all, it's huge, and the person who gave it to us was so excited and will expect to see it hanging in our house.

Calypso1977

a random salt and pepper shaker.

anna.oskar

Nebb:  My family has something like that. Affectionately known as the fish plate.

mandapanda78

When I was sixteen or so, we had this enormous electric fireplace that my mom was getting rid of. Best friend (now MoH) took out the part with the fakey logs- cord and all- and asked my mom if she could keep it. That was 15+ years ago. When BF drove down a few weeks ago she had it all wrapped up in pretty pink paper for me. That BSC chick has been hanging onto that crap for almost two decades... just for that one moment of getting her kicks. I asked her if it was worth it and she said yes. Apparently, when she took it all those years ago, she told me she would give it to me when I got married. I have no recollection of this, but I believe her. I'm holding on to it until she turns 40, then she's getting it back.

peachkins

FI's stepmom got us two magnetic, elephant-shaped chalkboards for the fridge.  The tail actually held a piece of chalk, and she put pink chalk in one and blue chalk in the other.  They're kind of cute, and FI loves elephants.  It was just unexpected. I'm scared to death of what my FMIL has bought us for our wedding.  It's something she picked up on a trip to North Carolina, and it's apparently huge.  It's not something we've asked for, and I'm not sure if it'll fit in our apartment.  My mom knows what it is, and when I asked her if I'd like it she gave me a look of pity and said "you can't pick your in-laws."

atayk21

My grandmother (bless her heart) thinks that because I told her I liked the chefs in her kitchen, that I want my kitchen to be cluttered with chefs....enter chef cutting boards, chef cookie jars, chef salt and pepper shakers, little ceramic chefs..and the list goes on. I dont have the heart to ask her for the reciept either. So in my kitchen they stay.

lyndausvi

Nothing too bad.  we did receive this though: It's a designer piece by Michael Aram and costs a decent amount of money.  Too bad we have know idea who sent it to us. there was a card with 2 couples names on it.  One couple had both first and last name, the second had only first names.  We have know idea who they are.  

blackfire5th

Two things: DH Aunt gave us this old, dirty cross-stich My Aunt gave us this ceramic egg that she made that has God's face on it. Both of them have our names and date somewhere on it, so I guess it is nice they personalized it?....

ffmaid

Pickle picker upper A running gag in my family

sunflower1998

We got this really hideous silver cake plate that we couldn't even return - I had no idea where it came from! Probably a re-gift.. Probably the funniest was a set of baking things from my SIL with a note of encouragement to bake naked. I love her for that sense of humor.

georgia_bride09

At the church shower my FMIL insisted on, one of the older ladies gave me a very ornate black picture frame. I have yet to figure out a place to put it, and I actually decorate with black, but this thing is a little too Rococo for my tastes.  

ac_in_dc

Two of my guy friends know FI and I are complete freaks, so they gave us a sex swing. We didn't get the swing at the wedding, just a picture of two porn stars on a swing with DH and my heads photoshopped on.

danieliza1127

A framed piece of art work of Jesus wearing a crown of thorns.  It was a pencil sketch drawing done by a local artist, and while very nicely done, completely not us at all and not something we would ever display in our home.

pumpkinpumpkin

sounds interesting, dani.

tlv204

A pretty fugly set of ceramic canisters covered in fuchsia strawberries.

Soon-to-be Mrs. Vogt

For my first shower, I got a plastic platter with 70's style red seashells on it and the handles are really heavy metal starfish. It is the fugliest platter I've ever seen in my life.Fische - that's funny about the rolling pin. I actually asked for a nice rolling pin from FI's grandma for Christmas, and she got it for me with a note that said something like "For when Mikey gives you grief"

Bubbalub

For my first wedding we got a mystery gift (no card). It was a cheap black wood picture frame with a photo in it of a guy in a punk rock wig, tight pleather pants, a pleather vest and no shirt, lounging on some rocks in the desert. Huh? We kept it because it was funny, but put a different pic in front of the one in the frame.A year later we were at my friend's birthday party and her brother gave her almost the same thing, only the picture was a different pose. Turns out that the brother and his buddy did a mock photo shoot and went for outrageous outfits and overdone environments (rock band in front of a brick wall, etc) then gave them all out as presents. I laughed so damn hard and still can't believe I never figured out it was him. We displayed that picture proudly after that.

xlizellx

we got a clock shaped like the united states from his grandmother. no explaination why.