What do you get when you’re going to be seated at the heathen table at a wedding and you need to give a good wedding present? Well, I would say that, in order to stay true to your heathen roots, you should give the Happy Couple a nice bottle of wine. And a cute little wine kimono. Because, you know, even if you are a dirty, dirty heathen, there’s no need for the wine to run around naked.
I had a lot of fun putting together a gift basket for our friends. We bought them some knives (from their registry), the aforementioned wine and kimono, Ghirardelli and Ferrero Rocher chocolates and some New England Patriots glasses. Yum. Who knew that I would enjoy the whole process so much? Actually, it should have been pretty obvious that this was going to be fun. Seeing as how I am a self-proclaimed queen of care packages and all.
From now on, everyone gets gift baskets for their wedding present.
We had a bit of an awkward moment when we were picking up the knives. We were at the store and the woman who was working in the registry department just happened to be someone that both Kristian and I have done computer support for (he was her IT guy and then, when I took his job, I was her IT gal). She gave us a look (you know, a look) as we came walking towards her. “What can I help you with today?” [raised eyebrow] Well, not wanting to give her the wrong impression, I quickly told her “We need to buy something! For a friend! That’s getting married! Not like us! Who are not getting married! Definitely not getting married!” Or, something awkward along those lines. Possibly not so emphatic.
The adorable thing is that Kristian never noticed the look on this woman’s face or realized the mistaken impression that we were giving. Men are so delightfully clueless about stuff like this.
Kristian is also intrigued by the whole idea of this thing called a “registry.” “You mean… we can make a list of stuff that we want and people will buy it for us?!” Yup… that would be pretty much a text-book definition of a registry. “And… we can ask for a food processor and people might buy it for us?” Yup… that’s what people usually do when they find your wedding registry. They tend to buy things for you from it.
I thought that I might have to (eventually) drag him kicking and screaming into this whole marriage thing. But, I think that the concept of open bar + presents just might be enough. :p
Don’t forget the honeymoon. Open bar, presents, and then a nice vacation.
The gift basket looks awesome.
Gift baskets are the ultimate gifts, in my opinion.
did you point out to him though that the open bar thing is more fun as a guest than as the happy couple who eventually have to foot the bill? 😉