November 10, 2025 • 15 mins
Producer Liz has been to her fair share of weddings, but after attending one in New York, she had a few concerns about the wording on the invite and it turns out some of the other guests did too! That sparked a flood of calls and texts from listeners on wedding gift etiquette, and wow, there were some doozies. Tune in to hear the full tale.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Every workplace has one someone whose life isn't as straightforward
as it could be or should be. At ninety six am,
that person is our producer, Liz The Life of Liz.
Good morning, Oh, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Where were you?
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I wasn't here, see all right, we even put her
in the spotlight, and she's somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
You've been back now from the States for a week.
Are you over the jet lag?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Yes, I'm over the jet lag. Yes, I'm feeling good
watching some show, you know. I'm just I'm getting back
into the swing of it.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you have a story to tell
about a wedding.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Well, yeah, I guess I'm going to pose a bit
of a question.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
This is the one in America, right, Yeah, this is
the one that you only just got the visa four
to be able to get into the country because of
the whole JB.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Vans thing.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Yeah, So my high school friend lives in New York
and she was getting married, so that's why I went.
And then I turned into a bit of a holiday. Yeah,
and I got an invitation to the in and there
was something on the wedding invitation I'd never really seen before. So,
you know, you know, when you see a wedding invitation
that goes your presence is presence enough. But if you
(01:11):
want to give us a gift passive aggress love, a
contribution to a honeymoon fund, or my favorite that I've
seen on an invitation, we'll be honoring Italian tradition on
the day.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Pin money to them.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Bring cash, yes, But on my friend's invitation it said
bring your appetite, bring your dancing shoes, bring gifts.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I like that.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
That is straightforward.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
And I clutched my pearls. I've never seen that before,
and I thought, oh, that's a bit fresh. But you know,
be out there to be honest. They wanted gifts, and
they sent a registry and marry in mind, this is
all in US dollars, which is, you know, a lot
more than what we've got right now at the moment.
An eight hundred dollars, an eight hundred dollars toaster, an
eight hundred dollars toast, five hundred and forty dollars US
(02:02):
pedal bin for the kitchen.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Oh yes, some toy live at the Hamptons.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
No, but I admired, you know, I admired the you know,
manifest what you want dream beer.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
True.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
So we were traveling, me and my friends from school.
We were travel long way and they said, you know what,
you guys are spending your fortune coming, don't buy us
a gift. Yeah, so we which has been renegged. They've
actually said you've got a year now to bring the
gid to buy gift. So that's been reneged. But after
the wedding, I said, oh, how did you go with
the registry. Did you get a lot of gifts? They
had one hundred and thirty six guests.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah, thirty gifts.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Oh what do you think of that?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
People didn't like being told to bring a gift.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
They felt bullied.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah, I reckon, Yeah, I think.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
If someone says bring gifts, you bring a gift.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
You sure they didn't slip them maybe the old envelope
and you just didn't see them.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
No, I asked nothing. Oh so a lot of people
getting a free ride. It was a very fancy wedding,
very fancy dinner at a very posh restaurant.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I mean, it's not an exchange. You're inviting people to
share in your day. We shouldn't be like a quid
proqu well, I would argue, some people think it is
well they obviously think it is. I think people took
offense to being a gift being demanded.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
I think the demand of the gift has actually turned
people of the gift backfight on them.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Box of celebrations. Maybe the gift you bring when you're
told not to bring a thing.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Yeah, So anyway, I just thought that was interesting and
I wanted to get your thoughts on her.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Well, and you didn't take a gift because you traveled
a long way.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Well, they're going to have a little barbecue in February here,
so me and some of my school friends will probably
do a nice little gift as a salad. We'll bring
a ladies plate, bring a plate to the right.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Well, thank you, Liz. That's a very Liz story.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Yeah, I think I would be a little a little
put out being told I had to.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Bring a gift, and I'd be a little put out.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I mean, I'm probably telling you to bring a gift
and then you didn't.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Anyway, don't but you know this sort of yap. All right,
it's a little it's a little offensive.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Okay, all right, Well.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Did they get that toaster?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
No toaster, no pedal bin? They did get a jar
of jam and a spoon and a shower curtain. I
just checked the registry.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Then, good lord, oh good lord, what a wedding.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Thank you Liz More from the Life of Liz Before
We Know It.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
We just heard the story about her going to She's
just come back from a wedding in New York and
the wedding invitation clearly stated in black and white bring gifts,
which she found to be unusually forward wedding etiquette. You often,
you know, it will talk about a registry, or it doesn't.
(04:58):
Usually sort of, I mean, it's you go to a wedding,
you do take a present, but it's not usually so
blunt as to say bring gifts. And it kind of
backfight on them because out of all the invitees, a
very small percentage bringing gifts.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
One hundred and thirty invitees only thirty, Yes, only thirty,
So we want to a low percentage actually brought a gift.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
It was a low percentage, and I think it was
because they were so pushing.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
That sort of puts you off, but especially if you've
traveled halfway around the world just to be there.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Yes, we we want to talk get your thoughts on
wedding gift etiquette.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Yeah, what is the situation?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
What do you think a registry is a good safe
way to go? Or should you say nothing and then
people will probably definitely bring gift? Or what did you
get at your wedding? Did you get anything weird? Did
you put registry and they went to something? You know,
you put bed bath table and they went to Bunnings
(05:56):
tell us? Did oh yes you did you end up
with too many it toasters? Did you get six toasters?
But if you put you know, someone get a toaster
on the registry? Although isn't that the point of the registry?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
It's so that it keeps it keeps a tab, so
that you know what's already what's already gone.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
The people at the place. Yeah, the David Jones lady
can say, oh no, they've already got one of those.
You could perhaps get the backer.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
What what's the best? What's the best you got? What's
the worst you got? That's what we want to know.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Brendon from Harristyl on the Text has questions. Liz He said,
is the lack of gifts due to the forwardness of
the invitation or the cost per gift? Requested four hundred
dollars for a toaster eight hundred dollars for a kitchen bin.
The bridal party seems very entargled. Maybe hmmm, Brenda, and
I would suggest yes, yes and yes no, no offense.
(06:51):
Let's got to city Beach.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Hello John, John, wedding gift etiquette, mate, what's the deal?
Speaker 5 (06:57):
I was at a wedding a couple of weeks ago
down south about New York. Is the amount of money
that costs you to get down sound? And they all
have They all had the wedding on the Friday, So
you're down there on Thursday, so you lost two days
of work. And what's expected. What I find amazing is
you're expected about four hundred dollars as a present. And
(07:21):
nobody says it, but that's what's expected.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
It's unwritten, and you've already foked out for accommodation and
so on.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
You've given it two days, you've lost work for two days,
and then you're expected to go to a recovery. And
I look at it and go, how far does this go?
And what I really feel sorry for is young people
who have young children and all the rest of it.
How do they afford it? I just look at it
and go, it's getting to be a bit ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Well, they're going to rely on money from people like you.
I think they're going to get the guests to pay
for it.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
Maybe the young people that go, because the young able
to get married.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
And you look at the young people that go and
they've got children and all the rest of young children. Yeah,
and it's hard enough now with mortgages and all the
rest of it. I think everyone needs to calm down.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Do you think we need to bring it rainer back
into ladies, bring a plate for the.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Yeah, and what happened to the old days? Alight, don't
get three toasters, but hey, the we're out sooner or later.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Always got one on standby. Yeah, I agree with you, John,
Thank you mate.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Yes, it's getting exy.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
It's time to go back to simpler, simpler times.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Do you think that if if a couple expects you
to go down south or something like that, that they
should be providing your accommodation.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Gee, that's a big call. That's that's a big call.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
I suppose you.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Don't have to go. There's nothing that says you have
to go, but it's it's yeah, I never know, you know.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
That's a big expense.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yeah, well it would be. But you know you're asking
people to fork out a lot.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Yes you are, which means I think we should be
backing off on the gift just a little bit.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Yes, one or the other.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
My wedding would get anything weird. Well, it was really
really small wedding. So it was just in Kings Park,
just a small group of people, free parking, free parking
being King's Park, didn't have to bother about accommodation. Yeah,
one gift I remember.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
I've got a bread maker, still got.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
It's better than up on top of the fridge, still works.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Most memory of my wedding has been removed, which expensive therapy.
But the one thing I did one.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Went a little more successfully than yours.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
One thing I do remember is my mother in law
as it were, well, the brightest pinkerst dress you've ever seen.
You could see it from space. Get out of my photos.
You seen hogging cow unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
All right, we're digging up bad memories here. I think
we've got to get out of the phone. I don't
know your mother in law in.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Law, wedding gift, gift etiquette, linder and gods alone?
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Hi have you?
Speaker 6 (10:14):
Well? This is quite funny, strange. I am a friend
of mine, well a long time, long time ago, invited
us to their wedding, and quite a lot of many people. Anyway,
we go. So this were arranged to go to this
wedding and she said, I said, oh, what would you
really like for a wedding present? So she said, oh,
(10:36):
I'd like a crop pop? I thought, oh, oh, that's
sorry about fifty bucks, no problem. So she said, oh,
and also, do you think you can put a cast
role in the crop pop? For the reception afterwards? Everybody
had to text something for the reception. O, my god,
(10:58):
that is hilarious. Serious, Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
My record, that's clever.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
And she ended up with thirty five crup pots.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
That is so funny, Linda, and started a catering business.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
People. When I tell people who don't believe.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
That that is really funny, thank you for sharing that
all day. Wow, that's right, Garline and your kind Hello morning,
good morning, went to your wedding gift etiquette.
Speaker 7 (11:31):
So mine is when I had started a brand new job.
On the same day one of the other girls that
was working there had just come back from her honeymoon,
and so everybody was talking about the wedding and how great,
it was et cetera, et cetera. But what I ended
up finding out was that she actually went and gave
each of the employees there what she wanted for them
(11:54):
to buy for her. So she went to one person
and said, you will bind me this toaster, and another person,
you will buy me this, and they were so scared
they did it.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
There were detailed instruction.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Should have had a staff meeting with a whiteboard. I
think she did a bit of a flow chart going on.
Speaker 7 (12:14):
So I just I just think for weddings, though, I
think that it should be for something you can afford.
If you can afford to give cash, if afford to
give a gift, that's great, But I don't think anyone
should be forced out to do it.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Yeah, that's where the old prepaid gift cards are so
handy these days, aren't.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
They don't give you for a wedding gift?
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Why not? You can get them like they've got an
Arcett silver bow.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
On them and everything.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
I'm not a big fan of I never have.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
I am of receiving them. I'm willing to receive one
one of those pre paid visa cards.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
I'll take a prepaid visa. That's what I'm talking that's
what they are, all right, Thanks.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
All right, thanks Caroline. Wow some people are some people
have very forward?
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Are they very forward?
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Yes, I mean we should be talking to bridal parties
here how forward they get about the bridal party? You
will do this and where that. We're talking wedding gift etiquette.
On the text, Maggie says a friend is having a
destination wedding and they're paying accommodation and flights for everyone.
But Vincent says the whole reason for remote weddings is
to limit the guest list. If the bride and green
(13:24):
pay for the accommodation, then people they might not want
to family member. So that's two takes on that.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Yeah, Pearl Gary got to eighteen clocks on his wedding.
Eight That's why the gift registry was invented.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Eighteen clocks and no toasters. Janine in Ballajura.
Speaker 8 (13:42):
Hello, good morning, How are you good?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Good?
Speaker 8 (13:49):
I went sorry, I went to a backyard wedding. It
wasn't a backyard as such. It was a marquee and
all very something. I was in my late teens and
the ride, I think thought that she would be a
lot wealthier than what she actually was, and back in
the day in the eighties, microwaves were filthy expensive, and
(14:11):
that was one of the top things on her registry
was a microwave and basically every electrical appliance that you
could say that that cat the kitchen that costs a
ton of money and not so bad because people would
chip in and go, you know, eat chairs in a present,
that sort of thing if it was too expensive for you.
The thing that really got me was that it was
a buffet meal. And there was probably about one hundred
(14:32):
and fifty guests at this particular wedding. The very last
table there was no food left by that last table
when they got to go up to get their chairs.
Oh no, one of the ladies was actually pregnant. So
they had to leave the wedding just so that she
could go and get some food, which I herself was
absolutely disgusting.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Yes, have enough to feed everybody.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
It does help, Yeah, it does help.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Yes, left that microwave meal.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Thank you, Janame, thank you your name, good day you
tell
Every workplace has one someone whose life isn't as straightforward
as it could be or should be. At ninety six am,
that person is our producer, Liz The Life of Liz.
Good morning, Oh, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Where were you?
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I wasn't here, see all right, we even put her
in the spotlight, and she's somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
You've been back now from the States for a week.
Are you over the jet lag?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Yes, I'm over the jet lag. Yes, I'm feeling good
watching some show, you know. I'm just I'm getting back
into the swing of it.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you have a story to tell
about a wedding.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Well, yeah, I guess I'm going to pose a bit
of a question.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
This is the one in America, right, Yeah, this is
the one that you only just got the visa four
to be able to get into the country because of
the whole JB.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Vans thing.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Yeah, So my high school friend lives in New York
and she was getting married, so that's why I went.
And then I turned into a bit of a holiday. Yeah,
and I got an invitation to the in and there
was something on the wedding invitation I'd never really seen before. So,
you know, you know, when you see a wedding invitation
that goes your presence is presence enough. But if you
(01:11):
want to give us a gift passive aggress love, a
contribution to a honeymoon fund, or my favorite that I've
seen on an invitation, we'll be honoring Italian tradition on
the day.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Pin money to them.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Bring cash, yes, But on my friend's invitation it said
bring your appetite, bring your dancing shoes, bring gifts.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I like that.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
That is straightforward.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
And I clutched my pearls. I've never seen that before,
and I thought, oh, that's a bit fresh. But you know,
be out there to be honest. They wanted gifts, and
they sent a registry and marry in mind, this is
all in US dollars, which is, you know, a lot
more than what we've got right now at the moment.
An eight hundred dollars, an eight hundred dollars toaster, an
eight hundred dollars toast, five hundred and forty dollars US
(02:02):
pedal bin for the kitchen.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Oh yes, some toy live at the Hamptons.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
No, but I admired, you know, I admired the you know,
manifest what you want dream beer.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
True.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
So we were traveling, me and my friends from school.
We were travel long way and they said, you know what,
you guys are spending your fortune coming, don't buy us
a gift. Yeah, so we which has been renegged. They've
actually said you've got a year now to bring the
gid to buy gift. So that's been reneged. But after
the wedding, I said, oh, how did you go with
the registry. Did you get a lot of gifts? They
had one hundred and thirty six guests.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah, thirty gifts.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Oh what do you think of that?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
People didn't like being told to bring a gift.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
They felt bullied.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah, I reckon, Yeah, I think.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
If someone says bring gifts, you bring a gift.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
You sure they didn't slip them maybe the old envelope
and you just didn't see them.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
No, I asked nothing. Oh so a lot of people
getting a free ride. It was a very fancy wedding,
very fancy dinner at a very posh restaurant.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I mean, it's not an exchange. You're inviting people to
share in your day. We shouldn't be like a quid
proqu well, I would argue, some people think it is
well they obviously think it is. I think people took
offense to being a gift being demanded.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
I think the demand of the gift has actually turned
people of the gift backfight on them.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Box of celebrations. Maybe the gift you bring when you're
told not to bring a thing.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Yeah, So anyway, I just thought that was interesting and
I wanted to get your thoughts on her.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Well, and you didn't take a gift because you traveled
a long way.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Well, they're going to have a little barbecue in February here,
so me and some of my school friends will probably
do a nice little gift as a salad. We'll bring
a ladies plate, bring a plate to the right.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Well, thank you, Liz. That's a very Liz story.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Yeah, I think I would be a little a little
put out being told I had to.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Bring a gift, and I'd be a little put out.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I mean, I'm probably telling you to bring a gift
and then you didn't.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Anyway, don't but you know this sort of yap. All right,
it's a little it's a little offensive.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Okay, all right, Well.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Did they get that toaster?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
No toaster, no pedal bin? They did get a jar
of jam and a spoon and a shower curtain. I
just checked the registry.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Then, good lord, oh good lord, what a wedding.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Thank you Liz More from the Life of Liz Before
We Know It.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
We just heard the story about her going to She's
just come back from a wedding in New York and
the wedding invitation clearly stated in black and white bring gifts,
which she found to be unusually forward wedding etiquette. You often,
you know, it will talk about a registry, or it doesn't.
(04:58):
Usually sort of, I mean, it's you go to a wedding,
you do take a present, but it's not usually so
blunt as to say bring gifts. And it kind of
backfight on them because out of all the invitees, a
very small percentage bringing gifts.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
One hundred and thirty invitees only thirty, Yes, only thirty,
So we want to a low percentage actually brought a gift.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
It was a low percentage, and I think it was
because they were so pushing.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
That sort of puts you off, but especially if you've
traveled halfway around the world just to be there.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Yes, we we want to talk get your thoughts on
wedding gift etiquette.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Yeah, what is the situation?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
What do you think a registry is a good safe
way to go? Or should you say nothing and then
people will probably definitely bring gift? Or what did you
get at your wedding? Did you get anything weird? Did
you put registry and they went to something? You know,
you put bed bath table and they went to Bunnings
(05:56):
tell us? Did oh yes you did you end up
with too many it toasters? Did you get six toasters?
But if you put you know, someone get a toaster
on the registry? Although isn't that the point of the registry?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
It's so that it keeps it keeps a tab, so
that you know what's already what's already gone.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
The people at the place. Yeah, the David Jones lady
can say, oh no, they've already got one of those.
You could perhaps get the backer.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
What what's the best? What's the best you got? What's
the worst you got? That's what we want to know.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Brendon from Harristyl on the Text has questions. Liz He said,
is the lack of gifts due to the forwardness of
the invitation or the cost per gift? Requested four hundred
dollars for a toaster eight hundred dollars for a kitchen bin.
The bridal party seems very entargled. Maybe hmmm, Brenda, and
I would suggest yes, yes and yes no, no offense.
(06:51):
Let's got to city Beach.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Hello John, John, wedding gift etiquette, mate, what's the deal?
Speaker 5 (06:57):
I was at a wedding a couple of weeks ago
down south about New York. Is the amount of money
that costs you to get down sound? And they all
have They all had the wedding on the Friday, So
you're down there on Thursday, so you lost two days
of work. And what's expected. What I find amazing is
you're expected about four hundred dollars as a present. And
(07:21):
nobody says it, but that's what's expected.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
It's unwritten, and you've already foked out for accommodation and
so on.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
You've given it two days, you've lost work for two days,
and then you're expected to go to a recovery. And
I look at it and go, how far does this go?
And what I really feel sorry for is young people
who have young children and all the rest of it.
How do they afford it? I just look at it
and go, it's getting to be a bit ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Well, they're going to rely on money from people like you.
I think they're going to get the guests to pay
for it.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
Maybe the young people that go, because the young able
to get married.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
And you look at the young people that go and
they've got children and all the rest of young children. Yeah,
and it's hard enough now with mortgages and all the
rest of it. I think everyone needs to calm down.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Do you think we need to bring it rainer back
into ladies, bring a plate for the.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Yeah, and what happened to the old days? Alight, don't
get three toasters, but hey, the we're out sooner or later.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Always got one on standby. Yeah, I agree with you, John,
Thank you mate.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Yes, it's getting exy.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
It's time to go back to simpler, simpler times.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Do you think that if if a couple expects you
to go down south or something like that, that they
should be providing your accommodation.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Gee, that's a big call. That's that's a big call.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
I suppose you.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Don't have to go. There's nothing that says you have
to go, but it's it's yeah, I never know, you know.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
That's a big expense.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yeah, well it would be. But you know you're asking
people to fork out a lot.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Yes you are, which means I think we should be
backing off on the gift just a little bit.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Yes, one or the other.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
My wedding would get anything weird. Well, it was really
really small wedding. So it was just in Kings Park,
just a small group of people, free parking, free parking
being King's Park, didn't have to bother about accommodation. Yeah,
one gift I remember.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
I've got a bread maker, still got.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
It's better than up on top of the fridge, still works.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Most memory of my wedding has been removed, which expensive therapy.
But the one thing I did one.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Went a little more successfully than yours.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
One thing I do remember is my mother in law
as it were, well, the brightest pinkerst dress you've ever seen.
You could see it from space. Get out of my photos.
You seen hogging cow unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
All right, we're digging up bad memories here. I think
we've got to get out of the phone. I don't
know your mother in law in.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Law, wedding gift, gift etiquette, linder and gods alone?
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Hi have you?
Speaker 6 (10:14):
Well? This is quite funny, strange. I am a friend
of mine, well a long time, long time ago, invited
us to their wedding, and quite a lot of many people. Anyway,
we go. So this were arranged to go to this
wedding and she said, I said, oh, what would you
really like for a wedding present? So she said, oh,
(10:36):
I'd like a crop pop? I thought, oh, oh, that's
sorry about fifty bucks, no problem. So she said, oh,
and also, do you think you can put a cast
role in the crop pop? For the reception afterwards? Everybody
had to text something for the reception. O, my god,
(10:58):
that is hilarious. Serious, Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
My record, that's clever.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
And she ended up with thirty five crup pots.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
That is so funny, Linda, and started a catering business.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
People. When I tell people who don't believe.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
That that is really funny, thank you for sharing that
all day. Wow, that's right, Garline and your kind Hello morning,
good morning, went to your wedding gift etiquette.
Speaker 7 (11:31):
So mine is when I had started a brand new job.
On the same day one of the other girls that
was working there had just come back from her honeymoon,
and so everybody was talking about the wedding and how great,
it was et cetera, et cetera. But what I ended
up finding out was that she actually went and gave
each of the employees there what she wanted for them
(11:54):
to buy for her. So she went to one person
and said, you will bind me this toaster, and another person,
you will buy me this, and they were so scared
they did it.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
There were detailed instruction.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Should have had a staff meeting with a whiteboard. I
think she did a bit of a flow chart going on.
Speaker 7 (12:14):
So I just I just think for weddings, though, I
think that it should be for something you can afford.
If you can afford to give cash, if afford to
give a gift, that's great, But I don't think anyone
should be forced out to do it.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Yeah, that's where the old prepaid gift cards are so
handy these days, aren't.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
They don't give you for a wedding gift?
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Why not? You can get them like they've got an
Arcett silver bow.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
On them and everything.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
I'm not a big fan of I never have.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
I am of receiving them. I'm willing to receive one
one of those pre paid visa cards.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
I'll take a prepaid visa. That's what I'm talking that's
what they are, all right, Thanks.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
All right, thanks Caroline. Wow some people are some people
have very forward?
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Are they very forward?
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Yes, I mean we should be talking to bridal parties
here how forward they get about the bridal party? You
will do this and where that. We're talking wedding gift etiquette.
On the text, Maggie says a friend is having a
destination wedding and they're paying accommodation and flights for everyone.
But Vincent says the whole reason for remote weddings is
to limit the guest list. If the bride and green
(13:24):
pay for the accommodation, then people they might not want
to family member. So that's two takes on that.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Yeah, Pearl Gary got to eighteen clocks on his wedding.
Eight That's why the gift registry was invented.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Eighteen clocks and no toasters. Janine in Ballajura.
Speaker 8 (13:42):
Hello, good morning, How are you good?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Good?
Speaker 8 (13:49):
I went sorry, I went to a backyard wedding. It
wasn't a backyard as such. It was a marquee and
all very something. I was in my late teens and
the ride, I think thought that she would be a
lot wealthier than what she actually was, and back in
the day in the eighties, microwaves were filthy expensive, and
(14:11):
that was one of the top things on her registry
was a microwave and basically every electrical appliance that you
could say that that cat the kitchen that costs a
ton of money and not so bad because people would
chip in and go, you know, eat chairs in a present,
that sort of thing if it was too expensive for you.
The thing that really got me was that it was
a buffet meal. And there was probably about one hundred
(14:32):
and fifty guests at this particular wedding. The very last
table there was no food left by that last table
when they got to go up to get their chairs.
Oh no, one of the ladies was actually pregnant. So
they had to leave the wedding just so that she
could go and get some food, which I herself was
absolutely disgusting.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Yes, have enough to feed everybody.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
It does help, Yeah, it does help.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Yes, left that microwave meal.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Thank you, Janame, thank you your name, good day you
tell
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Medal of Honor: Stories of Courage
Rewarded for bravery that goes above and beyond the call of duty, the Medal of Honor is the United States’ top military decoration. The stories we tell are about the heroes who have distinguished themselves by acts of heroism and courage that have saved lives. From Judith Resnik, the second woman in space, to Daniel Daly, one of only 19 people to have received the Medal of Honor twice, these are stories about those who have done the improbable and unexpected, who have sacrificed something in the name of something much bigger than themselves. Every Wednesday on Medal of Honor, uncover what their experiences tell us about the nature of sacrifice, why people put their lives in danger for others, and what happens after you’ve become a hero. Special thanks to series creator Dan McGinn, to the Congressional Medal of Honor Society and Adam Plumpton. Medal of Honor begins on May 28. Subscribe to Pushkin+ to hear ad-free episodes one week early. Find Pushkin+ on the Medal of Honor show page in Apple or at Pushkin.fm. Subscribe on Apple: apple.co/pushkin Subscribe on Pushkin: pushkin.fm/plus
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com