We received an awful set of glasses that was decorated with a gaudy floral design. We tried selling it on eBay, but they didn't even receive a bid! They are currently sitting in a box, in our basement, ready to either be sent to a loving new home or a trift store!

For our first bridal shower, I had the honors of attending it alone with my Mom. My fiance was not up for holding his laughter with any of the whole ordeal. Anyway, my style is real easy and specific. I have a website and all to make gifting easier for folks, but no. We still got some silly candle holder that had 80's style prints and some weird poem about love. Well... I drew my Mother-in-law's name for our Christmas gift exchange... I just regifted that lovely candle holder!!

My sister-in-law and brother-in-law got us this silver figurine of a naked man and woman wrapped in each others arms. Sure, it's good in theory, but it's definitely NOT our style!! When I unwrapped it I immediately thought it was an award from the Emmy's or something. When we found out it was from them (they were sitting in front of us when we opened it), we put on a "Oh gosh, thank you" face and pretended it was one of the best. We've stuck it in a back closet and promised to take it out and put it on the mantle whenever they come over. Luckily they don't come over often...!!

i think the fall back gift for people who are too dumb to use a registry is a bowl. a tacky bowl. we got no less than 4, random, clashing, useless bowls. the worst had to be at my shower though when my DH's grandmother gave me the ugliest vase i had ever seen, wrapped in a show box. problem is she explained that she had received it as a wedding gift and was passing it down. i have to keep it even though she never comes to our house because my DH feels it has meaning. ew.

So, this HUGE box arrived about 2 months after our wedding, and my husband was SO excited to open this giant box, but waited til i was home from work... so i walk in the door, we immediately open the box, and find this "gift".... It is a GIANT wooden basket that's made from a solid piece of wood, that is misshapen and cracked.... We are STILL racking our brains of what were they thinking!? It's now filled with random stuff in the closet in the guest room... we did get a lot of other random junk that we'll never use, but this one takes the cake!

The best man and his girl gave us a DVD of porn...homemade porn. How do you write a Thank You for that?!?

We recieved a fish shaped platter. Needless to say it is now at the cabin.

One of our groomsman and his wife got us this aweful wedding activity book, as my hubbie likes to call it, that they probably received as a gift for their wedding 5 years ago. We spent more on his grooms gift (which was really nice), then they did on our gift. TACKY!

At my shower, my Mom's aunt couldn't make it but sent her gift with my Grandma. We got three princess house crystal candle stick holders (sure you might think they are nice, even if they are not our style). My Aunt hasn't sold princess house in 20 years, the box that use to be white was now yellow, the corners were all bent and there was water damage to it. When I opened it and took the holders out they were full of dust, with melted wax stuck to the inside, and the bottom of one of them was chipped. I think she was cleaning off her mantle. :)

a cookbook... titled "the SINGLE girl's guide to fabulous cooking"

so we accidentally invited a guy and his wife (they were on my mom's christmas card list and accidentally got a wedding invite). The guy gave me a hard time in the receiving line, complained that the dj's music was too loud AND the gift from them was a totally cheap pos ice cream scoop (that we did NOT register for) that had "a gift from [so and so]" inscribed on the handle!!! Give me a break!! Dropped that off at the goodwill 2 days later and still hope someone they know finds it ;)

My husband and I received a HUGE decorative chocolate brown and lime green plate from his Aunt and the shop that she owns. We had absolutely no idea what to do with it, let alone where to put it, so we regifted it to a couple who got married one month later than us! ha ha It was the worst idea ever! I couldn't believe the guilt we felt or imagine their expression when they saw what they received from us because it is clearly not our taste! We ended up feeling so badly that we gave them another gift because we got two Belgium waffle makers! ha It was the start of a very funny honesty thing and we are all now able to share just about anything between the four of us! :)

Something was not quite right with our registry and we ended up with EIGHT sets of pyrex bowls. We were able to return most of them. However, the greatest gift of all was a gray throw blanket with a tiger on it - lots of animal print. Not our style at all.

We received a "My First Christmas" ornament in a very worn box. The weird part was that the ornament said 2007 and we didn't get married until 2009! (We had just started dating at the end of 2007). Strangely enough, the couple who gave us the ornament got married in 2007...

we got a stack of about 20 of the bed bath & beyond 20% off coupons from a couple whose card read "bb&b takes expired coupons. if you can't use them, toss them! congratulations" that was all they gave us.

Worst gift: getting NOTHING from your husband's parents, 2 brother, 3 sisters, grandparents, and aunt and uncle....all of whom attended the wedding!! Then you hear from the mother that she was "sooooo busy" and forgot to bring our gift that day. It's over a month later and we're still waiting for her to become "unbusy" to give us our gift.

We received a god awful 28 piece set of mallard duck plates. As well as a used pitcher that looked like it was used for planting because it still had dirt in the bottom. We just got married a month ago so we haven't quite gotten rid of the horrendous items just yet..but I think we are going to give the plates to my husband's sister for college (you know college kids will use anything) as for the pitcher who knows? I like the Craigslist idea.

My fiance's cousin, who had already written a long letter about how he shouldn't get married because it was a useless institution and he was making a huge mistake, came to my bridal shower and gave me a book... not just and book... the biography of Malcom X. interesting... yes... bridal... not quite.

My husband's twin and his wife re-gifted something they received from a wedding or shower...a giant purple-and-green fish-shaped platter with matching plates and butter knives! It was hideous, so I used it as a white elephant gift at a party with a bunch of college friends. One of my friends loved it and went home with it!

We got an electric toothbrush.... guess the in-laws are trying to tell me something about hygiene?