Some Of The Weirdest Wedding Gifts
On a couple's happy day it is traditional for guests, friends and family to give them something to help them on with their new life together. This would usually be crockery, furniture and other useful household items as a married couple would not live together until after the nuptials.
These days things are a little different as many couples live together long before getting married and wedding gifts are now often something quirky or luxury, barely ever necessities. But not everyone is great at giving gifts, here are some of the more unusual items couples received on their special day:
We all love one of those 3D pictures now and again, the type you have to stare into for a while before you discover a vague shape lurking amongst the migraine-inducing mess of colours and patterns. But when a New York couple received a 6ft 3D canvas painting, they were left behind in the second dimension. The picture, from a distant relative, depicted a 3D horse's head, which was somehow supposed to fit neatly in their tiny one bedroom Manhattan apartment, the couple swiftly left the art piece to the next art lover to pass it by on the street corner.
A bitter ex-partner-turned-stalker who was not actually invited to the wedding of a Spanish man sent the couple a gift wrapped box, inside it was a handgun, a single bullet and a note reading "for when you realise she doesn't deserve you." Ironically the couple kept the gun as protection in their new house and in their first week together they heard an intruder downstairs, the man instinctively reached for the gun and shot into the dark, instantly killing the trespasser who turned out to be the disturbed ex-partner who had given them the gun.
Appliances for the kitchen are always a good call as long as several of you don't end up buying the same thing. A Californian couple were a little confused when they received the entire range of George Forman cooking grills at their wedding; the most confusing part was that they were from the same relative. As it turns out the guest owned a store that had started selling the grills and since he bought them at a relatively low cost price, felt rather cheap giving just one, so to appear generous, he individually wrapped each of the twelve grills of various shapes and sizes. The couple were very grateful as the grills they did not need they gave away as Christmas, birthday and other wedding gifts for the next year.
These days things are a little different as many couples live together long before getting married and wedding gifts are now often something quirky or luxury, barely ever necessities. But not everyone is great at giving gifts, here are some of the more unusual items couples received on their special day:
We all love one of those 3D pictures now and again, the type you have to stare into for a while before you discover a vague shape lurking amongst the migraine-inducing mess of colours and patterns. But when a New York couple received a 6ft 3D canvas painting, they were left behind in the second dimension. The picture, from a distant relative, depicted a 3D horse's head, which was somehow supposed to fit neatly in their tiny one bedroom Manhattan apartment, the couple swiftly left the art piece to the next art lover to pass it by on the street corner.
A bitter ex-partner-turned-stalker who was not actually invited to the wedding of a Spanish man sent the couple a gift wrapped box, inside it was a handgun, a single bullet and a note reading "for when you realise she doesn't deserve you." Ironically the couple kept the gun as protection in their new house and in their first week together they heard an intruder downstairs, the man instinctively reached for the gun and shot into the dark, instantly killing the trespasser who turned out to be the disturbed ex-partner who had given them the gun.
Appliances for the kitchen are always a good call as long as several of you don't end up buying the same thing. A Californian couple were a little confused when they received the entire range of George Forman cooking grills at their wedding; the most confusing part was that they were from the same relative. As it turns out the guest owned a store that had started selling the grills and since he bought them at a relatively low cost price, felt rather cheap giving just one, so to appear generous, he individually wrapped each of the twelve grills of various shapes and sizes. The couple were very grateful as the grills they did not need they gave away as Christmas, birthday and other wedding gifts for the next year.
