Marriage and all that

[sombrefan]

Been reading the top ten suitable and unwanted wedding gifts list.

Unwanted wedding gifts

Though I don't know, tea towels sounds like a good idea. Though you can't go wrong with money and champagne. Especially at the same time.

Comments

My family has never had a problem with getting stemware.

[thecuckoo.livejournal.com]

Then again, everyone in my family shops the Waterford outlets in order to get said stemware for each other, so....

This is the one place in which I think Miss Manners is really off the mark. A registry might have been presumptous back when most of the wedding guests lived in the same town as the bride and groom and could have made educated guesses as to what the happy couple would like. Nowadays, however, people travelling halfway across the country, if not the globe, to attend weddings can't be sure that the coffeemaker that they want to give as a present isn't already in use or isn't already wrapped up by three other guests. I think that the registry can be very helpful, as long as it isn't attached to the invitation or anything.