July 16, 2009...10:20 am

Wedding Gifts

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images-1As my friends annoyingly continue to get married (highly over-rated in my opinion) I’ve been talking to a lot of people about wedding gifts. Forget about how much to give or how long you have to send a gift, Aldous recently brought up the topic of having to give a gift at all and he has some good points. Like if I’m traveling through multiple states or potentially countries to get to your wedding, paying for a hotel room, rental car and God knows what else, do I really have to give you a gift on top of that? I believe my gift is the thousands of dollars I’ve shelled out to get to your crappy wedding. Don’t even get me started on being a part of the wedding party. Between a bridesmaid dress/ groomsmen tux, bachelor/ette parties and booze, I’ve spent more on you than I plan to spend on my own wedding. I see the wedding itself as a thank you party for me and all the trouble I’ve had to go through for this nightmare you call the ‘best day of your life’. Plus on top of it, you decide to be an enormous bitch the whole day and I have to stand there is my fluorescent yellow dress and tell you how beautiful you look. I’m thinking about throwing myself a big party, registering for gifts AND asking for cash and just telling everyone that I’m not getting married so this is my wedding, single people have rights too.

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  • Thanks for sharing the wonderful information on wedding gifts. Expecting some picture of wedding gifts on your blog. Keep it up the good work.

  • You are a genius. This is exactly how I am feeling about weddings right now. Next Saturday will finally complete the year-long ordeal that has been my attendance in four different wedding parties. I have spent more money, time, and patience in the last year on this bullshit than in all of my 28 years combined. I suppose it is nice to know my friends want me by their side on their “special day,” but if I ever get married I only want my best friend (if that) in whatever black dress she wants, no party or gift required, and certainly NO obligatory plastic necklace will be given by me to wear at the ceremony which she will inevitably throw away at the end of the night because it has given her a nasty rash. Again, you are a genius


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