As a matter of fact.....

When I was about 18-19 I was invited to an acquaintance's wedding as was my Best Friend. We went shopping for the gifts together(had no idea what a registry was). We didn't have a lot of $$$-I was a cashier at Target and she worked a Long John Silvers. Well, we decided to get a nicer gift for each of them(2 gifts) instead of each of us getting them both a cheaper gift(4 gifts). We figured that's how it was done.:shrug: So we got her a pyrex baking dish and him a nice flashlight.

So they're opening the gifts and we notice that everything was like housewares and chickish stuff and she was doing all the unwrapping. Hmmmm. She opens the flashlight and just looked at it kinda funny. He took it and kinda looked at it while she finished unwrapping. Completely humiliated, we got the **** out of there as soon as they were done with the gifts.

Well, a couple of years later I just so happened to deliver a pizza to her house. She said that flashlight was the gift that stood out. Her DH was thrilled that there was at least one damn present for him in that pile and that someone had actually considered that there was a groom in the wedding. HE LOVED IT!!!:encore:

WOWOW Thanks for all the tips !!
 

:dizzy: Thank you everyone for helping me with this wedding gift dilema. I think the Northeast is strange with the "per plate" minimum for wedding gifts. No one actually comes out and tells you what the price of the dinners are but it is expected that you figure out what they are paying for the dinners by where the wedding is being held. :o I hate the whole concept but it is what it is. Unfortunately I can not afford to give what is probably expected of me because we have to stay overnight but I will give what I can and hope that all this worry is for nothing.
Thanks again,
Suzy