June 29, 2025 • 25 mins
Who doesn't love crazy gifts!!!!! We do and we are going to tell you about some!
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Welcome to the bridal brief. My name is Stephanie Fitzpatrick
from Beautiful Illusions Event Styling.
And Ruth Ryan from Ruth Ryan Photography.
The purpose? Of the bridal brief is to help
you before, on and after your wedding day with our.
Advice plus bringing on a few friends along the way.
Alright, ready for our second bonus episode?
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This one is all about crazy wedding gifts.
The good, the bad and the ugly. I love this.
One man's trash is another man'streasure, don't they say?
I think. These are more trash than
treasure, but you know, I don't.Know some of the ones I've got
are just depends on your take, all right, Yeah.
If you want to comment somewhereyou know on their Instagram page
or something, let let us know who you think has the best gifts
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in their list. Steph, I also want to hear if
people have more of these Found next bonus episode on gifts
because I feel like this could be more than one.
That's right. I did find a lot that I didn't
include in this one. So insane.
Yeah. So I think that like we can
definitely do more of these, butyou you start all.
Right, here we go. What you got?
All right, so this is 1 I found on Reddit actually it says here
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in Australia normally everyone gives money in an envelope
rather than physical gifts. And that's that's true, a lot of
people do do that. They do, but there were a couple
of weird ones. Normally you either just lightly
tape the money on the side of the card or not tape it at all
since it's secured in the envelope.
For whatever reason, my aunt duct taped the money in her own.
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I. Just I don't even know I can get
through this. She duct taped the money in her
own version inside the envelope for a security measure.
Like I'm talking maybe 15 layersI had.
To pull through. And I suppose we're lucky in
Australia because our money is plastic.
I was about to say, we're really.
They're really lucky. We get plastic money because.
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If it was euro or U.S. dollar, that's paper.
I don't think it would have survived the duct tape.
I mean. And then her sister also gave us
a $10 note and about $0.65 in silver coins in an envelope.
It's so sweet. That's obviously all she.
Had it's. You know, it's, I think some.
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People get a bit confused by wishing well, they think, Oh
yeah, we just throw cash in there like whatever I've got in
my pocket, yeah. But you know, we probably don't
need the $0.65 because, I mean, that doesn't, it doesn't get you
a lot these days, $0.65, yeah, even that, I suppose, here in
Brisbane. Yes, that's.
Great thing. That's something what have you.
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Got Steph okay, back in 07 we didn't have a registry and asked
for money. So a lot of people showed up
with physical gifts and this does happen People like if you
have a wishing well, sometimes people wanna bring gift.
Now you got 7 crock pots in total.
I mean, I love a crock pot. I love you need.
Seven of them, though. I have two.
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Why do you even have two? Because.
Sometimes you want to do a dinner and dessert and you can
do slow cooked desserts. OK and I have used them both at
the same time. Or you do like the main event,
like the roast, but then you like slow cook the veggies in a.
Different, OK. You're looking at me like.
My name, Yeah. Well, I don't know.
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I mean, this is you're talking to somebody who doesn't even own
one crock pot, so I just. Yeah, I don't know.
I. Mean 7's probably a little bit.
Excessive. Well, I mean you do have some
pretty big parties. Maybe you could just crock pot?
Seven meals exactly. Yeah.
All right, all right. I'm standing by it.
I OK. Yeah, maybe not a bad gift then.
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Seven crock pots. For me, obviously not for them.
OK, regifting, I think, might bethe aim of that one.
All right, let's go here. My husband and I are not
religious. We made it very clear our
wedding was not a religious event.
My aunt gave us $12.00 and Letting Jesus into your marriage
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book. And no, she didn't attend the
wedding. I love that.
Wow. That's so sweet.
Clearly it's. Important to her, it's.
Clearly important to her, but that's just a bit snarky, isn't
it? Like.
About these people who are giving 12 dollar $10.65 gifts,
it's like are you just trying tofind any cash you had to own 12?
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Dollars. Seems like a very strange
amount, doesn't it? It does.
But so there's $10.65, that's true.
That's true, but the Letting Jesus into your Marriage book, I
mean, that's probably a nice gift, especially if the people
were I. Bet they're still together.
I bet they're still together. They let Jesus in.
I bet they. Did Yep, put on them?
Yep, I think so too. OK my turn.
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They got a comforter and sheet set for a waterbed with a card
addressed to Doug and Birdie. We do not own a waterbed and my
husband's name was not Doug. Wow re gift.
There is a definite re gift for sure.
Wow. I mean who?
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Buys sheet sets. Oh, baby sheet.
Sets are fine. I think that's fine.
I mean, you'd like to try and find out what size the bed is
of. Course if it's a water bed or if
it's a. Water bed or not?
I actually used to have a water bed.
I had a water bed right up untilI was about 17.
I've heard they're. Really good for your back.
Oh, I mean, I was 17, so nothinghurt my back at that age.
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But sure, I'd be interested to see whether or not it would be
good now. But you could heat it and that
was the best part. So it was you're laying on
heated water. I just remember dating a guy and
having trouble getting out of the water bed.
Too much information. No, you know, like, just like
it. Was hard to get in and out of
it. That's true.
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That's true. OK.
All right, hit me with it. OK not me but a friend had some
different or odd ones. A full size popcorn cart.
That's great. I think it's fantastic.
I would want one. I would want one too.
I guess it would depends on the right person.
For me I I love popcorn. I go to the movies just to get
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popcorn. Oh, they like I don't.
Even want to see? The movies or just about the
popcorn Size 1. Yeah, we need one.
For the studio. Yeah, I think, I mean, I think
that's the thing like if you if you've got the sort of house
where you have maybe a movie room or a theatre room, we.
Need one in here, in our studio here.
We should. We should.
We need the whole time. People would just be hearing us
going crunch, crunch, crunch. Yeah, I mean, it wouldn't be
great audio, but we could eat inbetween, yeah.
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Yeah, there was also a custom LED sign.
It was huge. It was.
What did it say? I want to know what it said.
I want to say. In this I think.
It's all relative to what it said.
Yeah, that's true. Maybe it said it was huge.
Could have had the whoever it was is.
Like it was huge. Yes, that would be pretty.
Funny. Oh dear, fancy extra large dog
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bed for their small to medium sized dog like a $600.00
orthopaedic. Bed.
I mean their dog sleeps with them and they live in a small
apt I. Guess it was the thought that
was my dog. Would love that.
What AI would love that for my dog?
It is a strange. Gift.
I mean, Can you imagine giving agift to the bride and groom's
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dog? Not even to the bride and groom,
but. When you say gift.
Free gift as well. Yeah, I think it.
Was a re gift we should. Have a little bed they.
Probably bought it for their owndog and it didn't.
Work, Yeah. And when?
You know what we could do? And we're gonna look great.
Yeah, like $600.00 orthopaedic. Bed for the dog.
I mean, I love my dog so I wouldprobably love a gift for.
I would too. Yeah, yeah, OK, a bar cart, it's
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really cool, but neither of the couple drinks.
We need that in here, feel free to pass it on.
So we need a popcorn machine. We need one of those neon Any
gift for your receipt. That you think are ridiculous.
Ruth and I will take it. Especially if it's a popcorn
machine or a bar. Cart definitely.
Ohh dear. Well, that was, that's great.
Anymore. No, that's.
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Okay, my dad when my sister in law and brother got married, her
parents threw the shower and shehad no registry.
The invite said no gifts and that our presence was the
present because a lot of people had to travel a few hours to get
there and stay in hotels. Oh, that's nice.
That's nice, yeah. We asked why she didn't have a
registry and she said because wedon't want to get a bunch of
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gravy boats that we'll we'll never use.
After she walked away to mingle,I said to everyone, so we are
all getting them gravy boats forher wedding gift right along
with the cash gifts. Yeah, they got married in Canada
in February at one of those icedpalaces they make in Quebec
City. Oh, beautiful, beautiful.
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We all live in the States, so a lot of our family and hers made
the 14 hour drive to go to this insanely cool wedding and we all
bought gravy boats. I think in all, yeah, I think in
all, we had both families involved and a lot of people who
couldn't make the trip sent themgravy boats.
They received 40 tow in total gravy boats.
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Hilarious. And 18 or 19 of them they had to
drive back from Canada with. They were laughing so hard.
They were both in tears. And now they are displayed all
over the house. I love it.
I. Love that the bride and groom
and they just went with. It Yeah, because a.
Lot of couples I feel like couldhave got a little bit cranky.
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At that I. Just thought this was hilarious.
What a bit it's. Hilarious.
It is hilarious. And I mean, they could regift
these for years to come every time.
Every time one of their friends who gave them a gravy boat has a
child. Baptism is a gravy boat.
Yes, give it just the never ending gravy boat gifting.
Oh. That's hilarious, I love that.
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I do too. All right, here's one My step
sister gave us a gift card to a boutique single location hotel
in New Jersey, a place thousandsof miles from where we live and
where we never would go, but ironically a place close to
where she lives. There's got to be a re gift,
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right? Right.
So then some of the comments under here, I was also, I was
about to call this tacky, but maybe this is her way of saying
don't stay with us when you cometo visit.
Do you ever visit them? And they responded with, well,
when I go back to my hometown, my folks asked me to stay with
them. My step sister is nearby in that
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town. The hotel is still two to three
hours away from that. I live maybe 18 hours away from
the hotel. I just, I, it's ridiculous.
But at the same time, I just think to myself, maybe they were
saying, OK, come and, you know, spend a weekend kind of thing at
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this place. Maybe it's a really nice hotel.
Like maybe it's more of a holiday voucher rather than.
It is weird though. It is.
It is a little. Like I wouldn't buy gift for a
Gold Coast hotel for my friend who lived in Hobart.
Yeah. That's what it's like, yes.
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Then at the same time, maybe it's a good excuse then for that
couple to go and have a holiday.I may be reaching.
I might be reaching reaching. Reaching, I feel like, yeah, I
feel like if I was gonna buy a gift for a friend who lived, I
would try to pick something two hours maybe from them.
Yeah, yeah, like you can have a weekend away, 2 hours away, but
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often you're not going to fly toanother location just for a
night. Yep, Yep, Yep.
OK, here we go. Giant concrete feet with their
names on them. Handmade.
No what? With some inlaid coloured tile.
No. Giant concrete.
Who buys these gifts? What is that?
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How did that even happen? Where do you get giant concrete
feet? Maybe they made them.
Maybe it's. Like, I mean, it had their names
on them. That's just weird.
That's so thoughtful. It's had their names.
On them. Oh, love it, love.
I love people. Love, love people was.
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Just people were just amazing. Yes.
All right, this one is from America.
We live in LA and our city folk.We go salsa dancing, go to
museums, we go to the beach. Always on the hunt for amazing
food and cocktails. I can imagine the type where's.
Those people we were given 2 camping hammocks, a kerosene
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Lantern and a coffee pack. You later for a campfire.
Oh no, we were. Thankful, but baffled.
I mean, they're just. Simple Maybe friends are really
into camping and they just they're definitely city goers.
Not. Maybe they're maybe that's a
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hint from your friends saying that they are, that you're too
city and you should get out intothe.
Need to experience wilderness? Yes, exactly.
But it's funny when people it seems like they just don't know
you at all. It does, and I feel like that
with my next one here. All right, One of our groomsmen
gave us a huge bag of marijuana.What was very unexpected.
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I'm going to go out and say thismust be in the USI.
Probably, probably right, Right.So.
Yes, for everyone who at home here, marijuana is legal in
Australia. Yes, right.
I mean, yeah, they said it was very much unexpected, but I love
this and much enjoyed. So see, they just need to use
the camping hammocks and they might enjoy it.
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That's. Right, they might enjoy it.
Take some of the take some of the marijuana with you while you
go. Yes, you'll love it.
Even more, this is an Aussie 1 didgeridoo.
Professional quality one too, not a painted touristy one.
My husband and I got married while we were living in
Australia for my job. My bosses chipped in to get it
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for US. One of them is really socially
out of touch and apparently wanted to buy wanted to buy a
model aeroplane for us like a World War One style but luckily
a Co worker talked him down to the didgeridoo right?
I I mean, who doesn't want a didgeridoo in their home?
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I I do go into a lot of places and they do have didgeridoos.
It is. Surprising it is.
People have them. It is I.
Don't think they all play them. Well, that's the thing, if
you're not going to play it, it's going to become a bit of a
storing ground for spiders and all sorts of wonderful.
Enjoy No. But I feel like that would be a
great we're having a party. Does someone want to play the
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didgeridoo tonight? Yeah, don't bring out your
acoustic guitar around the campfire.
Here's the didgeridoo. And I mean, it does make an
amazing sound if you can play and it's it requires so much
skill. But what a strange gift I.
For a wedding too, it's just. Very strange.
I mean, it's probably better than the World War One model
aeroplane. I agree because that's really
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specific. Like were they into?
I would have. I would have rather did you do.
So I agree. Yeah.
Yeah. OK.
My husband and I were married in2013.
We received a storage. Tub.
Full of those novelty singing holiday animals for almost every
holiday you can think of. A frog with a banjo singing God
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bless the USA for the 4th. Yep, Santa singing grandma got
run over by a reindeer? You betcha.
A Turkey that sang and moved gobbles the Gobles song?
Absolutely yes. A storage tub full of them.
What? Who?
Thinks of these things. I don't know.
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Maybe they really like those novelty animals.
So before when I was like, I love people.
I don't know, maybe. I don't be careful about who
you're inviting to your wedding.That's.
Just awesome. Can you imagine just rocking up
with a tub of some something like this?
I mean, it's too a lot. Of trouble to source these.
Yeah, because surely. They're not, they're not only
available like they would only be available around the time of
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those occasions, right? That's a year long process to
gather them all. Yeah, at least if.
It's a top full. Though it could have been, this
could have been many years of 4th of July either.
That or they're re gifting them because like the husband doesn't
like them and she's like I know how I can get rid of these.
We've got a wedding coming. Out.
Maybe it's re. Jeez, it's just so bad.
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So it's so bad. Anyway, so this one's funny.
I like this one. So one of my best friends lives
in Japan. We were talking about what she
would like to give me. Everything sounded beautiful but
really expensive. And I didn't want her to spend
that kind of money, especially if she plans to fly over for the
wedding. That's fair.
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Yeah. I told her that her presence is
present enough. Lovely.
And she's inspired, you know, she's insisting on bringing me
something. So jokingly I said bring me
flavoured Kit Kats because, you know, Japan have amazing
flavoured Kit Kats, not just thegeneric chocolate and dark
chocolate, they are the cool ones, right?
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So then a giant box of like 100 Kit Kats in various flavours
arrived at my doorstep. That's a week's worth of
chocolate in this house. It may not last too long, but
wow. Wow, that's.
I mean, that's nice. It is nice she.
Really put thought into that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I mean I that's. What she asked for.
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That's what she asked. I think she.
Did. She's joking?
But yeah. OK, we'll go do that.
Yep, I think so. What about this one?
My uncle got me a giant lamp in the shape of a fish.
He is very nice but kind of an odd dude and definitely would be
offended if we didn't use it. So we keep it in the guest room
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closet and pull it out when he visits.
It's truly hideous. Oh, that's just brilliant.
I'm OK. I can be guilty of if I don't
particularly like a gift, I'll store it in the cupboard and
I'll pull it out if the person'scoming over.
I can be guilty of this these days, doesn't happen as much no
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has happened in the past, right?So I get their dilemma.
A fish. Lamp though.
I mean, I don't know where you would put.
That they would know where you would buy that.
No, I don't either. How?
eBay. eBay. Yeah.
All right, here's a little one. Somebody gave us ACD so this
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should tell you how long this is.
CD copy of Windows 95. We got married in two. 1010 Oh
my God, What I was going throughtheir head.
I don't know. They went down the local op shop
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and went, oh good, someone's donated to Windows 95.
Yeah, I'll pick that up real cheap.
Maybe one day they're going to need to reinstall on a laptop
and they're going to be gratefulfor that.
No reaching there too. OK, I've got this one.
I feel like this one is one thatit's a nice gift, it's just
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obviously not the one they want.We had a registry of stuff we
wanted. That's the start, right?
They just have stuff they want and also have a fun nerdy vibe.
So on the registry are things like board games and things off
the and stuff like that. That was fun.
Yeah. Yeah.
OK. The mother in laws BFF randomly
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bought us what looked like a stainless steel nondescript bowl
off the registry that I honestlywould have assumed was like a
cheap kitchen bowl except it wasfrom Tiffany's I think maybe
it's pewter or something. I can only imagine it's meant to
hold high end fake fruit or something.
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It was the weirdest gift, so outside of our tastes and so
nondescript. And maybe it would look high end
in a home decorated expensively,but genuinely would just look
like a cheap mixing bowl in the context of our home.
She was so excited to give it tous.
It still lives in its Tiffany blue box buried in our closet.
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Oh, do you have any gifts like this?
I mean, I do actually. We've just pulled out our very
fancy cutlery set that we got for our wedding.
This is 20 years on. And we've just.
Pulled it out. We've only just now pulled it
out because we've started to geta little bit short on our cheap
set that we bought when we firstgot back right.
So now if we go to your house, we're eating off the expense
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you're. Eating off the expensive stuff
now. Oh fancy.
But it is lovely. Yeah, but every time I pull a
fork out of my drawer, and it's one of those ones, I get a
little bit excited. You do, I do, I do because we.
Tend not to use the fancy stuff every day.
We do and I have a few gifts like this.
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I have a beautiful Waterford crystal bowl.
I think I've used it once. I got it for my 21st though it
wasn't a wedding gift. Yeah, yeah.
But I also have a couple of platters that I like to pull out
when those people come over. They're beautiful.
They're just super expensive ones.
Yeah, yeah. Pull it out at Christmas.
Yeah. You know who doesn't want trifle
in a really cool bowl? Yeah, yeah, that's right.
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I like it. All right.
My ex and I received a decorative wall fan.
Sorry. It's going to take me a minute
to get through this one. A decorative wall fan made out
of plastic forks, lace, ribbons and ribbon roses.
I would have thought it was a joke, but it was from a sweet,
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lovely old lady in this hometownchurch.
It was gloriously tacky and we keep it up.
That's nice. They do.
And I I. Like.
That I love that they keep it up.
Yeah, I could just imagine a wall fan made out of plastic
forks. Plastic forks I'm not.
Sure where I'd put that in my house, but I love it.
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Somewhere away, far away. I mean, maybe they've they say
they've got it up, but maybe it's hanging in their basement
wear up. In the toilet.
In a closet. Hanging in the closet, yeah.
OK, we didn't have a registry with the hopes that we'd get
cash, which everyone abided by except one of my friends who
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went to a sex store and got us awhip, sex candles, a nightgown
and a diffuser. Good on them.
Fantastic on them. Yeah, that's great.
And I think that's the perfect. I don't unless you have more the
perfect way to end. I've got 1.
Oh, you've gotten? Off it tops that now.
I don't know. So if it just ends after this,
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it's because we've cut mine off because really just decided to
end with that. I think that's a great gift.
It is a great gift. Who doesn't want to whip just?
Hoping you're not opening those gifts in front of like your
grandparents. Well, I guess.
You don't normally open wedding gifts, do you?
Like it's not like something you'll open on the night.
No, no. But we did open our presents
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sort of the next day. In the presence of.
In the presence of family. So.
Yeah, pulling out a whip then probably wouldn't have been
appropriate. Probably not.
Yep. Well OK, this one actually might
be a bit of a downer in comparison to that one, but
anyway, let's see. I gained a decent amount of
weight the month leading up to my wedding because of medication
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that I needed to prevent a chronic illness that I have and
a Co worker gifted me a set of scales.
No, yeah, that does top that. I think that's awful.
That's awful. That's a.
Terrible. Gift, I mean.
The Co worker's like just so youknow, you're putting on a couple
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of pounds. Yeah, I mean, maybe it was
thoughtful, but. Maybe you'd really.
Want to be very close with that person too?
Maybe they just didn't think that at all.
Maybe yeah, it was just a mistake.
Yeah, I think, you know, just general decorum.
Just yes, give someone's game, really.
Don't do anything weight. Related No, no, unless they're
very physical people don't get them any kind of them about.
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Why do you get a facelift? Or probably don't know.
Not right. Oh well, they were great.
We're definitely doing this one again.
I loved that. That was fun.
Well, it was. Fun thanks for listening to our
funny gifts and this is another bonus episode.
Our normal streaming will be back.
Yeah, this is just a little one to keep you on your toes.
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And to keep you interested. Thanks.
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Welcome to the bridal brief. My name is Stephanie Fitzpatrick
from Beautiful Illusions Event Styling.
And Ruth Ryan from Ruth Ryan Photography.
The purpose? Of the bridal brief is to help
you before, on and after your wedding day with our.
Advice plus bringing on a few friends along the way.
Alright, ready for our second bonus episode?
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This one is all about crazy wedding gifts.
The good, the bad and the ugly. I love this.
One man's trash is another man'streasure, don't they say?
I think. These are more trash than
treasure, but you know, I don't.Know some of the ones I've got
are just depends on your take, all right, Yeah.
If you want to comment somewhereyou know on their Instagram page
or something, let let us know who you think has the best gifts
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in their list. Steph, I also want to hear if
people have more of these Found next bonus episode on gifts
because I feel like this could be more than one.
That's right. I did find a lot that I didn't
include in this one. So insane.
Yeah. So I think that like we can
definitely do more of these, butyou you start all.
Right, here we go. What you got?
All right, so this is 1 I found on Reddit actually it says here
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in Australia normally everyone gives money in an envelope
rather than physical gifts. And that's that's true, a lot of
people do do that. They do, but there were a couple
of weird ones. Normally you either just lightly
tape the money on the side of the card or not tape it at all
since it's secured in the envelope.
For whatever reason, my aunt duct taped the money in her own.
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I. Just I don't even know I can get
through this. She duct taped the money in her
own version inside the envelope for a security measure.
Like I'm talking maybe 15 layersI had.
To pull through. And I suppose we're lucky in
Australia because our money is plastic.
I was about to say, we're really.
They're really lucky. We get plastic money because.
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If it was euro or U.S. dollar, that's paper.
I don't think it would have survived the duct tape.
I mean. And then her sister also gave us
a $10 note and about $0.65 in silver coins in an envelope.
It's so sweet. That's obviously all she.
Had it's. You know, it's, I think some.
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People get a bit confused by wishing well, they think, Oh
yeah, we just throw cash in there like whatever I've got in
my pocket, yeah. But you know, we probably don't
need the $0.65 because, I mean, that doesn't, it doesn't get you
a lot these days, $0.65, yeah, even that, I suppose, here in
Brisbane. Yes, that's.
Great thing. That's something what have you.
(02:35):
Got Steph okay, back in 07 we didn't have a registry and asked
for money. So a lot of people showed up
with physical gifts and this does happen People like if you
have a wishing well, sometimes people wanna bring gift.
Now you got 7 crock pots in total.
I mean, I love a crock pot. I love you need.
Seven of them, though. I have two.
(02:57):
Why do you even have two? Because.
Sometimes you want to do a dinner and dessert and you can
do slow cooked desserts. OK and I have used them both at
the same time. Or you do like the main event,
like the roast, but then you like slow cook the veggies in a.
Different, OK. You're looking at me like.
My name, Yeah. Well, I don't know.
(03:18):
I mean, this is you're talking to somebody who doesn't even own
one crock pot, so I just. Yeah, I don't know.
I. Mean 7's probably a little bit.
Excessive. Well, I mean you do have some
pretty big parties. Maybe you could just crock pot?
Seven meals exactly. Yeah.
All right, all right. I'm standing by it.
I OK. Yeah, maybe not a bad gift then.
(03:39):
Seven crock pots. For me, obviously not for them.
OK, regifting, I think, might bethe aim of that one.
All right, let's go here. My husband and I are not
religious. We made it very clear our
wedding was not a religious event.
My aunt gave us $12.00 and Letting Jesus into your marriage
(03:59):
book. And no, she didn't attend the
wedding. I love that.
Wow. That's so sweet.
Clearly it's. Important to her, it's.
Clearly important to her, but that's just a bit snarky, isn't
it? Like.
About these people who are giving 12 dollar $10.65 gifts,
it's like are you just trying tofind any cash you had to own 12?
(04:20):
Dollars. Seems like a very strange
amount, doesn't it? It does.
But so there's $10.65, that's true.
That's true, but the Letting Jesus into your Marriage book, I
mean, that's probably a nice gift, especially if the people
were I. Bet they're still together.
I bet they're still together. They let Jesus in.
I bet they. Did Yep, put on them?
Yep, I think so too. OK my turn.
(04:43):
They got a comforter and sheet set for a waterbed with a card
addressed to Doug and Birdie. We do not own a waterbed and my
husband's name was not Doug. Wow re gift.
There is a definite re gift for sure.
Wow. I mean who?
(05:04):
Buys sheet sets. Oh, baby sheet.
Sets are fine. I think that's fine.
I mean, you'd like to try and find out what size the bed is
of. Course if it's a water bed or if
it's a. Water bed or not?
I actually used to have a water bed.
I had a water bed right up untilI was about 17.
I've heard they're. Really good for your back.
Oh, I mean, I was 17, so nothinghurt my back at that age.
(05:24):
But sure, I'd be interested to see whether or not it would be
good now. But you could heat it and that
was the best part. So it was you're laying on
heated water. I just remember dating a guy and
having trouble getting out of the water bed.
Too much information. No, you know, like, just like
it. Was hard to get in and out of
it. That's true.
(05:44):
That's true. OK.
All right, hit me with it. OK not me but a friend had some
different or odd ones. A full size popcorn cart.
That's great. I think it's fantastic.
I would want one. I would want one too.
I guess it would depends on the right person.
For me I I love popcorn. I go to the movies just to get
(06:05):
popcorn. Oh, they like I don't.
Even want to see? The movies or just about the
popcorn Size 1. Yeah, we need one.
For the studio. Yeah, I think, I mean, I think
that's the thing like if you if you've got the sort of house
where you have maybe a movie room or a theatre room, we.
Need one in here, in our studio here.
We should. We should.
We need the whole time. People would just be hearing us
going crunch, crunch, crunch. Yeah, I mean, it wouldn't be
great audio, but we could eat inbetween, yeah.
(06:28):
Yeah, there was also a custom LED sign.
It was huge. It was.
What did it say? I want to know what it said.
I want to say. In this I think.
It's all relative to what it said.
Yeah, that's true. Maybe it said it was huge.
Could have had the whoever it was is.
Like it was huge. Yes, that would be pretty.
Funny. Oh dear, fancy extra large dog
(06:51):
bed for their small to medium sized dog like a $600.00
orthopaedic. Bed.
I mean their dog sleeps with them and they live in a small
apt I. Guess it was the thought that
was my dog. Would love that.
What AI would love that for my dog?
It is a strange. Gift.
I mean, Can you imagine giving agift to the bride and groom's
(07:12):
dog? Not even to the bride and groom,
but. When you say gift.
Free gift as well. Yeah, I think it.
Was a re gift we should. Have a little bed they.
Probably bought it for their owndog and it didn't.
Work, Yeah. And when?
You know what we could do? And we're gonna look great.
Yeah, like $600.00 orthopaedic. Bed for the dog.
I mean, I love my dog so I wouldprobably love a gift for.
I would too. Yeah, yeah, OK, a bar cart, it's
(07:35):
really cool, but neither of the couple drinks.
We need that in here, feel free to pass it on.
So we need a popcorn machine. We need one of those neon Any
gift for your receipt. That you think are ridiculous.
Ruth and I will take it. Especially if it's a popcorn
machine or a bar. Cart definitely.
Ohh dear. Well, that was, that's great.
Anymore. No, that's.
(07:56):
Okay, my dad when my sister in law and brother got married, her
parents threw the shower and shehad no registry.
The invite said no gifts and that our presence was the
present because a lot of people had to travel a few hours to get
there and stay in hotels. Oh, that's nice.
That's nice, yeah. We asked why she didn't have a
registry and she said because wedon't want to get a bunch of
(08:17):
gravy boats that we'll we'll never use.
After she walked away to mingle,I said to everyone, so we are
all getting them gravy boats forher wedding gift right along
with the cash gifts. Yeah, they got married in Canada
in February at one of those icedpalaces they make in Quebec
City. Oh, beautiful, beautiful.
(08:39):
We all live in the States, so a lot of our family and hers made
the 14 hour drive to go to this insanely cool wedding and we all
bought gravy boats. I think in all, yeah, I think in
all, we had both families involved and a lot of people who
couldn't make the trip sent themgravy boats.
They received 40 tow in total gravy boats.
(09:01):
Hilarious. And 18 or 19 of them they had to
drive back from Canada with. They were laughing so hard.
They were both in tears. And now they are displayed all
over the house. I love it.
I. Love that the bride and groom
and they just went with. It Yeah, because a.
Lot of couples I feel like couldhave got a little bit cranky.
(09:22):
At that I. Just thought this was hilarious.
What a bit it's. Hilarious.
It is hilarious. And I mean, they could regift
these for years to come every time.
Every time one of their friends who gave them a gravy boat has a
child. Baptism is a gravy boat.
Yes, give it just the never ending gravy boat gifting.
Oh. That's hilarious, I love that.
(09:43):
I do too. All right, here's one My step
sister gave us a gift card to a boutique single location hotel
in New Jersey, a place thousandsof miles from where we live and
where we never would go, but ironically a place close to
where she lives. There's got to be a re gift,
(10:05):
right? Right.
So then some of the comments under here, I was also, I was
about to call this tacky, but maybe this is her way of saying
don't stay with us when you cometo visit.
Do you ever visit them? And they responded with, well,
when I go back to my hometown, my folks asked me to stay with
them. My step sister is nearby in that
(10:27):
town. The hotel is still two to three
hours away from that. I live maybe 18 hours away from
the hotel. I just, I, it's ridiculous.
But at the same time, I just think to myself, maybe they were
saying, OK, come and, you know, spend a weekend kind of thing at
(10:48):
this place. Maybe it's a really nice hotel.
Like maybe it's more of a holiday voucher rather than.
It is weird though. It is.
It is a little. Like I wouldn't buy gift for a
Gold Coast hotel for my friend who lived in Hobart.
Yeah. That's what it's like, yes.
(11:10):
Then at the same time, maybe it's a good excuse then for that
couple to go and have a holiday.I may be reaching.
I might be reaching reaching. Reaching, I feel like, yeah, I
feel like if I was gonna buy a gift for a friend who lived, I
would try to pick something two hours maybe from them.
Yeah, yeah, like you can have a weekend away, 2 hours away, but
(11:32):
often you're not going to fly toanother location just for a
night. Yep, Yep, Yep.
OK, here we go. Giant concrete feet with their
names on them. Handmade.
No what? With some inlaid coloured tile.
No. Giant concrete.
Who buys these gifts? What is that?
(11:53):
How did that even happen? Where do you get giant concrete
feet? Maybe they made them.
Maybe it's. Like, I mean, it had their names
on them. That's just weird.
That's so thoughtful. It's had their names.
On them. Oh, love it, love.
I love people. Love, love people was.
(12:14):
Just people were just amazing. Yes.
All right, this one is from America.
We live in LA and our city folk.We go salsa dancing, go to
museums, we go to the beach. Always on the hunt for amazing
food and cocktails. I can imagine the type where's.
Those people we were given 2 camping hammocks, a kerosene
(12:40):
Lantern and a coffee pack. You later for a campfire.
Oh no, we were. Thankful, but baffled.
I mean, they're just. Simple Maybe friends are really
into camping and they just they're definitely city goers.
Not. Maybe they're maybe that's a
(13:00):
hint from your friends saying that they are, that you're too
city and you should get out intothe.
Need to experience wilderness? Yes, exactly.
But it's funny when people it seems like they just don't know
you at all. It does, and I feel like that
with my next one here. All right, One of our groomsmen
gave us a huge bag of marijuana.What was very unexpected.
(13:24):
I'm going to go out and say thismust be in the USI.
Probably, probably right, Right.So.
Yes, for everyone who at home here, marijuana is legal in
Australia. Yes, right.
I mean, yeah, they said it was very much unexpected, but I love
this and much enjoyed. So see, they just need to use
the camping hammocks and they might enjoy it.
(13:46):
That's. Right, they might enjoy it.
Take some of the take some of the marijuana with you while you
go. Yes, you'll love it.
Even more, this is an Aussie 1 didgeridoo.
Professional quality one too, not a painted touristy one.
My husband and I got married while we were living in
Australia for my job. My bosses chipped in to get it
(14:09):
for US. One of them is really socially
out of touch and apparently wanted to buy wanted to buy a
model aeroplane for us like a World War One style but luckily
a Co worker talked him down to the didgeridoo right?
I I mean, who doesn't want a didgeridoo in their home?
(14:30):
I I do go into a lot of places and they do have didgeridoos.
It is. Surprising it is.
People have them. It is I.
Don't think they all play them. Well, that's the thing, if
you're not going to play it, it's going to become a bit of a
storing ground for spiders and all sorts of wonderful.
Enjoy No. But I feel like that would be a
great we're having a party. Does someone want to play the
(14:53):
didgeridoo tonight? Yeah, don't bring out your
acoustic guitar around the campfire.
Here's the didgeridoo. And I mean, it does make an
amazing sound if you can play and it's it requires so much
skill. But what a strange gift I.
For a wedding too, it's just. Very strange.
I mean, it's probably better than the World War One model
aeroplane. I agree because that's really
(15:15):
specific. Like were they into?
I would have. I would have rather did you do.
So I agree. Yeah.
Yeah. OK.
My husband and I were married in2013.
We received a storage. Tub.
Full of those novelty singing holiday animals for almost every
holiday you can think of. A frog with a banjo singing God
(15:39):
bless the USA for the 4th. Yep, Santa singing grandma got
run over by a reindeer? You betcha.
A Turkey that sang and moved gobbles the Gobles song?
Absolutely yes. A storage tub full of them.
What? Who?
Thinks of these things. I don't know.
(16:00):
Maybe they really like those novelty animals.
So before when I was like, I love people.
I don't know, maybe. I don't be careful about who
you're inviting to your wedding.That's.
Just awesome. Can you imagine just rocking up
with a tub of some something like this?
I mean, it's too a lot. Of trouble to source these.
Yeah, because surely. They're not, they're not only
available like they would only be available around the time of
(16:23):
those occasions, right? That's a year long process to
gather them all. Yeah, at least if.
It's a top full. Though it could have been, this
could have been many years of 4th of July either.
That or they're re gifting them because like the husband doesn't
like them and she's like I know how I can get rid of these.
We've got a wedding coming. Out.
Maybe it's re. Jeez, it's just so bad.
(16:44):
So it's so bad. Anyway, so this one's funny.
I like this one. So one of my best friends lives
in Japan. We were talking about what she
would like to give me. Everything sounded beautiful but
really expensive. And I didn't want her to spend
that kind of money, especially if she plans to fly over for the
wedding. That's fair.
(17:04):
Yeah. I told her that her presence is
present enough. Lovely.
And she's inspired, you know, she's insisting on bringing me
something. So jokingly I said bring me
flavoured Kit Kats because, you know, Japan have amazing
flavoured Kit Kats, not just thegeneric chocolate and dark
chocolate, they are the cool ones, right?
(17:24):
So then a giant box of like 100 Kit Kats in various flavours
arrived at my doorstep. That's a week's worth of
chocolate in this house. It may not last too long, but
wow. Wow, that's.
I mean, that's nice. It is nice she.
Really put thought into that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I mean I that's. What she asked for.
(17:46):
That's what she asked. I think she.
Did. She's joking?
But yeah. OK, we'll go do that.
Yep, I think so. What about this one?
My uncle got me a giant lamp in the shape of a fish.
He is very nice but kind of an odd dude and definitely would be
offended if we didn't use it. So we keep it in the guest room
(18:06):
closet and pull it out when he visits.
It's truly hideous. Oh, that's just brilliant.
I'm OK. I can be guilty of if I don't
particularly like a gift, I'll store it in the cupboard and
I'll pull it out if the person'scoming over.
I can be guilty of this these days, doesn't happen as much no
(18:29):
has happened in the past, right?So I get their dilemma.
A fish. Lamp though.
I mean, I don't know where you would put.
That they would know where you would buy that.
No, I don't either. How?
eBay. eBay. Yeah.
All right, here's a little one. Somebody gave us ACD so this
(18:51):
should tell you how long this is.
CD copy of Windows 95. We got married in two. 1010 Oh
my God, What I was going throughtheir head.
I don't know. They went down the local op shop
(19:11):
and went, oh good, someone's donated to Windows 95.
Yeah, I'll pick that up real cheap.
Maybe one day they're going to need to reinstall on a laptop
and they're going to be gratefulfor that.
No reaching there too. OK, I've got this one.
I feel like this one is one thatit's a nice gift, it's just
(19:36):
obviously not the one they want.We had a registry of stuff we
wanted. That's the start, right?
They just have stuff they want and also have a fun nerdy vibe.
So on the registry are things like board games and things off
the and stuff like that. That was fun.
Yeah. Yeah.
OK. The mother in laws BFF randomly
(19:58):
bought us what looked like a stainless steel nondescript bowl
off the registry that I honestlywould have assumed was like a
cheap kitchen bowl except it wasfrom Tiffany's I think maybe
it's pewter or something. I can only imagine it's meant to
hold high end fake fruit or something.
(20:21):
It was the weirdest gift, so outside of our tastes and so
nondescript. And maybe it would look high end
in a home decorated expensively,but genuinely would just look
like a cheap mixing bowl in the context of our home.
She was so excited to give it tous.
It still lives in its Tiffany blue box buried in our closet.
(20:43):
Oh, do you have any gifts like this?
I mean, I do actually. We've just pulled out our very
fancy cutlery set that we got for our wedding.
This is 20 years on. And we've just.
Pulled it out. We've only just now pulled it
out because we've started to geta little bit short on our cheap
set that we bought when we firstgot back right.
So now if we go to your house, we're eating off the expense
(21:05):
you're. Eating off the expensive stuff
now. Oh fancy.
But it is lovely. Yeah, but every time I pull a
fork out of my drawer, and it's one of those ones, I get a
little bit excited. You do, I do, I do because we.
Tend not to use the fancy stuff every day.
We do and I have a few gifts like this.
(21:26):
I have a beautiful Waterford crystal bowl.
I think I've used it once. I got it for my 21st though it
wasn't a wedding gift. Yeah, yeah.
But I also have a couple of platters that I like to pull out
when those people come over. They're beautiful.
They're just super expensive ones.
Yeah, yeah. Pull it out at Christmas.
Yeah. You know who doesn't want trifle
in a really cool bowl? Yeah, yeah, that's right.
(21:48):
I like it. All right.
My ex and I received a decorative wall fan.
Sorry. It's going to take me a minute
to get through this one. A decorative wall fan made out
of plastic forks, lace, ribbons and ribbon roses.
I would have thought it was a joke, but it was from a sweet,
(22:09):
lovely old lady in this hometownchurch.
It was gloriously tacky and we keep it up.
That's nice. They do.
And I I. Like.
That I love that they keep it up.
Yeah, I could just imagine a wall fan made out of plastic
forks. Plastic forks I'm not.
Sure where I'd put that in my house, but I love it.
(22:31):
Somewhere away, far away. I mean, maybe they've they say
they've got it up, but maybe it's hanging in their basement
wear up. In the toilet.
In a closet. Hanging in the closet, yeah.
OK, we didn't have a registry with the hopes that we'd get
cash, which everyone abided by except one of my friends who
(22:56):
went to a sex store and got us awhip, sex candles, a nightgown
and a diffuser. Good on them.
Fantastic on them. Yeah, that's great.
And I think that's the perfect. I don't unless you have more the
perfect way to end. I've got 1.
Oh, you've gotten? Off it tops that now.
I don't know. So if it just ends after this,
(23:19):
it's because we've cut mine off because really just decided to
end with that. I think that's a great gift.
It is a great gift. Who doesn't want to whip just?
Hoping you're not opening those gifts in front of like your
grandparents. Well, I guess.
You don't normally open wedding gifts, do you?
Like it's not like something you'll open on the night.
No, no. But we did open our presents
(23:40):
sort of the next day. In the presence of.
In the presence of family. So.
Yeah, pulling out a whip then probably wouldn't have been
appropriate. Probably not.
Yep. Well OK, this one actually might
be a bit of a downer in comparison to that one, but
anyway, let's see. I gained a decent amount of
weight the month leading up to my wedding because of medication
(24:01):
that I needed to prevent a chronic illness that I have and
a Co worker gifted me a set of scales.
No, yeah, that does top that. I think that's awful.
That's awful. That's a.
Terrible. Gift, I mean.
The Co worker's like just so youknow, you're putting on a couple
(24:21):
of pounds. Yeah, I mean, maybe it was
thoughtful, but. Maybe you'd really.
Want to be very close with that person too?
Maybe they just didn't think that at all.
Maybe yeah, it was just a mistake.
Yeah, I think, you know, just general decorum.
Just yes, give someone's game, really.
Don't do anything weight. Related No, no, unless they're
very physical people don't get them any kind of them about.
(24:44):
Why do you get a facelift? Or probably don't know.
Not right. Oh well, they were great.
We're definitely doing this one again.
I loved that. That was fun.
Well, it was. Fun thanks for listening to our
funny gifts and this is another bonus episode.
Our normal streaming will be back.
Yeah, this is just a little one to keep you on your toes.
(25:05):
And to keep you interested. Thanks.
Guys, thank you. That's all for.
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