My ex had a neighbor who was divorced who gave us a set of steak knives along with a note that since her divorce she could not trust any man and didn't believe in weddings. Nice wedding wish. Talk about projection. Made me wonder about the choice of knives. I didn't use them on my ex which was a miracle since he became a hypochondriac who drove me insane because he wanted my attention all the time. Litteraly, all the time.

The sealer kissing me on the lips before my husband did! I would say that was the strangest "gift" we received.

Huh?

She got married in the Salt Lake Temple a couple of years before DH and I did - it's his sister. I wasn't there but apparently the guy kissed her right on the lips before her husband did. DH was so weirded out by it that when the sealer in the temple, the morning of our wedding, asked if we had any questions, the only question DH has was "You aren't going to kiss her, are you? Because that isn't OK." The sealer was actually kind of shocked to hear what had happened to my SIL and said it never even occurred to him.

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Just yuck. why did the sealer kiss you?

To all who inquired: I do not know why he did what he did? Maybe he was trying to be my stand-in father since mine was waiting outside and he felt sorry for me? In reality, he should have felt sorry for my parents, that I did that to them twice! (Sealing cancellation with 1st). I did look pretty cute underneath the temple garb--well, cute for the 90's.

It must have been a "holy kiss."

Gave us a copy of Kahlil Gibran's "The Prophet" and told us we should read it to each other on our honeymoon as it was soooo special and spiritual.

But.... We only had a one-day honeymoon and we had better things to do.

My husband, The Best Man Ever™, did read it to me later, though, only he did it his way. He did accents and funny voices and I was rolling on the floor laughing. ROFL literally. Then I started in reading to him in my funny voices. We were both on the floor. Yeah, it was special but not in the way my friend intended.

Oh, yeah, and my other funny present was a carton of cigarettes from a fella with whom I worked who'd bum smokes off me all the time.

I did get a funny gift from some friends. It was a box of condoms, sex lubricant and a bottle of thunderbird. Also a box with a collection of nice liquors, grand marnier, bailey's irsh cream and such. Funny and nice.

Later when we got separated, she gave me a gun that shot rubber pellets and a doll called "My First Ken". My husband's name was ken. Pretty damn funny. Unfortuntely, she became a born again christian and completely lost her sense of humor. What a waste. she was raised sort of jewish so it was a surprise when she went fundy christian.

I gave my TBM brother a "Sex For Dummies" book. He claimed he already knew everything in there (HA! Right.)
What happened next blew my mind...wait, shouldn't HIS mind be getting blown..err..something? He and his wife started to cover up the "pornographic" pictures with sticky notes! Facepalm!

I was given temple robes! I don't remember if there were robes for my wife.

It was so huge that it would not fit anywhere in the kitchen, and it was made of a transparent plastic. I used to put it on my head and wave my arms saying "Danger! Will Robinson!"

funny-they "accidentally" broke not long after our wedding.

A big basket of fruit with a big tube of KY Jelly in it.

I'm not kidding. My sister-in law runs out to our car after the wedding reception with a huge basket of fruit and she embarrassingly tells us this is not from her but it was a gift from her mom. We toss it in the back seat and drive off dragging cans and trying to see through all the frozen marsh mellows and whipped cream on the windshield. Convinced we have lost my brother in laws who teased they would follow us to our hotel. I ran the car through a car wash and we headed off for a wedding night of hot sex.

My wife pulled the bottle of sparkling cider from the fruit basket and discovered the tube of KY Jelly. She goes I can't believe my mom sent this! LOL! Oh well. Mom didn't want us to get sore probably thinking we were still virgins.

2 passes to a movie theater in West Virginia.

We lived in Rhode Island.

My poor daughter and son-in-law got a got a Mormon themed calendar from our daughter's ex-LDS boyfriend's mother. They were married in May and so the calendar was about 1/3 useless. This women is usually very nice but super cheap! I think she just never got over our daughter breaking up with her son while he was on his mission and she was at BYU.

you know the one with "Jesus the Christ" in it.... yeah................

And they were from the same person.

Most things we got were pretty normal. Bankets,, pots and pans,,housewares. One TBM aunt of my wife gave us some botteled fruit from her food storage. The caps were rusty and the labels with the dates were gone. YUM,,,YUM,,

We did get mostly normal things, but we also got a bottle of sparkling cider as a gift from someone in RS. I just think of it as the Mormon version of giving someone a bottle of wine as a gift.

Not me but my sister was given a portable gas generator. Practical but still weird.

A "hostess" set from a girl who always had a crush on my husband. It came with napkins and placemats that were glued and stapled into the box, and the graphics on the box looked like it was from the 50's.

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> A "hostess" set from a girl who always had a crush
> on my husband. It came with napkins and placemats
> that were glued and stapled into the box, and the
> graphics on the box looked like it was from the
> 50's.

Maybe you could have sold it on ebay as vintage new in box. Perhaps it came from her mother's wedding. or grandmother.

We got a nice little silver plated tray that we didn't like very much so we decided to return it. We went to the two stores where we were registered and they didn't recognize it. So we went to random stores where we had stuff to return and just brought it along, hoping someone would recognize it. At J.C. Penny's, the salesperson said it looked familiar and went to look it up. Turns out, it was a free gift with purchase of a set of silverware - a set the givers got for themselves and then regifted the free promo gift as a wedding gift. The salesperson felt so bad for us getting something so tacky that she gave us $10.00 for it as a refund anyway.

We also got one knife from our silverware pattern from someone - instead of the whole place setting like everyone else bought. The knife was only a couple of dollars by itself.

A book on marriage available through Deseret Book written by the people who gave it to us.

I wonder if the book was one of the publishers copies.

I was raised Catholic may DW was raised baptist so when are DD married a Mormon we never expected an unwrapped laundry basket full of cleaning supplies.....YES I kid you not only Mormons would think this was a great present

house warming maybe but not wedding

stupid cult

I wonder if they did this "as a joke, but not really a joke, but not seriously, but seriously, but totally messin', but not really messin' at all" kinda way...

No, that sounds like something Mormons would think was a great gift. We also got a used baby carriage as a wedding gift. Granted, it was some designer baby carriage that cost the giver a fortune when she bought it for herself for her last baby and it was still in perfect condition but HONESTLY - it was a wedding gift????

Mormons have no sense of the appropriate when it comes to wedding gifts (or any other kind).

I got the exact same thing as a gift at my bridal shower!

A six pack of Guinness wrapped in Star Wars wrapping paper from a punk friend. :D