Cinder Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 I was listening to a podcast yesterday. One of the hosts is getting married soon and was talking about the wedding gifts she and her fiance were getting each other. I'd never heard of such a thing and was wondering if this is a common tradition or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaxMom Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 Not unless you include the "gift" of a super-awesome, half crazy wife! ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrothead Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 Yes we gave each other a gift. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chepyl Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 I have my husband a silver harmonica from Tiffany and he have me a leather bound Bible with my new name engraved on it. He is a musician so he loved the harmonica, and I loved that the first place my new full name was written was on my Bible :) I know people who have done this and people who have not. We did not go on a big honeymoon because we moved the day after the wedding, then I started a new job and he started school. We did gifts instead of a trip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nono Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 Other. Does my net worth count?? :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MamaT Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 Yes, I gave him an engraved pocket watch and he gave me a diamond and pearl bracelet (which I promptly lost:crying:). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mytwomonkeys Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 nope. well, unless you count the wedding night;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan in SC Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 Yes. I gave him a nice watch that I had engraved and he gave me a diamond bracelet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nono Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 Depends on the net worth... I see your point. It did have a plus sign in front of it. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kokotg Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 I gave him an antique map of Boston, which is, umm, still sitting in a closet, waiting to be framed, nearly 13 years later. He gave me a new lens for my camera. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFSinIL Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 (edited) Yes - Cubs season tickets! His co-worker had a pair of weekend seats, and heard from HIS friend who worked at Wrigley Field that the pair next to his were going to be available - I jumped on them. Excellent seats, four rows behind the box seats on first base side of home plate, just under the walkway Harry Caray would use to go to the bathroom during his breaks (so out of the rain, too.) 24 years later and hubby still has them...all four seats, in fact, as he got his coworker's. too. He resells most of them at cost, as does not have time to attend many games....but will NEVER let those seats go! Top that for a wedding present, I ask ya! ;-) Edited April 24, 2012 by JFSinIL killed a kitten Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMamaBird Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 I bought my dh a beautiful pocket watch which he never uses. :glare: He meant to get me something but forgot. :glare: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnitWit Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 Not unless you include the "gift" of a super-awesome, half crazy wife! ;) :iagree: My first thought was....Yeah! Me! :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty ethel rackham Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 Dh bought me some beautiful earrings and I bought him a model train set. He loves model trains, but his older brother got the one from their childhood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrairieSong Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 It never occurred to us to buy wedding gifts for each other, other than our rings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amy g. Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 I bought him an antique silver rosery, and he bought me a complete set of antique silver, including shrimp forks and ice tea spoons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkateLeft Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 Nope. We were just starting graduate school, so we were still in financial survival mode. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinder Posted April 24, 2012 Author Share Posted April 24, 2012 (edited) It never occurred to us to buy wedding gifts for each other, other than our rings. My thoughts exactly. That's why I posted the poll. I had no idea it was a fairly common practice--at least according to the responses so far. (ETA: Even though the poll shows most people did *not* exchange gifts. Still about 1/4 did exchange gifts--that's a significant percentage. I can't believe I'd never heard of this tradition in all these years.) Nope. We were just starting graduate school, so we were still in financial survival mode. :D Hmm, maybe this explains part of it for us. We were in our senior year of college so financial survival was a serious concern for us, too. Edited April 24, 2012 by Cinder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mama Anna Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 I voted "yes." We bought each others' rings. :) Mama Anna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AHASRADA Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 As far as I'm concerned, the wedding rings (as well as the wedding itself) are the gifts. It seems strange to purchase an additional gift :confused: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom22ns Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 Wow, that is really interesting. I've never heard of giving your spouse a wedding gift. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KatieJ Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 No, we did not exchange gifts for our wedding. However, DH bought me a pearl and diamond necklace for my birthday the month before the wedding knowing it was what I wanted to wear on my wedding day. My daughter wore it on her wedding day many years later. And actually I am wearing it right now as I type! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melissel Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 We did, but I thought it was kind of silly then, and I still feel that way now (about our situation, no one else's). We spent so much on the wedding and honeymoon and only exchanged gifts because we thought we were supposed to :confused: Not a great reason to give gifts, IMO! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennifer3141 Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 I cannot tell you what I gave DH but he gave me a gorgeous emerald necklace. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom2samlibby Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 We did. I got pearl earrings that I wore for our wedding and I gave him a framed print. It's still hanging in our living room. We've been married for 16 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 No, and my MIL was horrified that we didn't exchange gifts. Our decisions have horrified her ever since! :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kewb Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 No. I did give him an engagement gift. A personalized fishing rod (much to my father's horror who thought it should be a watch). And I only gave him that gift because all of our friends did. Otherwise it would not have crossed my mind. They all also did the wedding gift thing but dh and I discussed it and could not see the point in it. We were getting each other. Wasn't that the gift? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
********* Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 I gave him a nice wristwatch. He wanted a watch. He never, ever wore that watch. :glare: I don't know if he even owns it anymore. :tongue_smilie: He got me my very first digital camera, so that I could use it on our honeymoon. :001_smile: I wonder if it's still traditional to get each other gifts? I mean, we were only married in 2001, but it seems things have changed a lot even in 11 or so years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuirkyKapers Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 No- we didn't exchange gifts. Never even thought of it with all the crazy of wedding planning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlett Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 I was listening to a podcast yesterday. One of the hosts is getting married soon and was talking about the wedding gifts she and her fiance were getting each other. I'd never heard of such a thing and was wondering if this is a common tradition or not. It is common in my area. Whether or not it is expensive I think depends upon circumstances.... I gave my dh my 'top ten list' (previously unknown to him) with an additional note telling him he met everyone of my top ten and how much I love him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T'smom Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 I gave my dh pictures of me! A few weeks before the wedding, I had a practice run-through of hair/make-up, etc. So I had my picture taken then and gave it to him on our wedding day. (I was teaching when we got married and another teacher had these wedding pics of his wife on his desk- that's where I got the idea. I figured I was never, ever going to look that good again, so I needed some photographic evidence that it actually happened!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krista in LA Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 My dh had been wanting a nice fountain pen, so I gave him a Mont Blanc at our rehearsal when we had to sign the marriage certificate. He didn't give me anything as far as I can remember:001_wub: which was fine as we weren't planning on exchanging gifts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curlylocks Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 Wow, that is really interesting. I've never heard of giving your spouse a wedding gift. :iagree: (our gift to each other came 9 months later :D -- a beautiful baby girl) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinder Posted April 24, 2012 Author Share Posted April 24, 2012 I wonder if it's still traditional to get each other gifts? I mean, we were only married in 2001, but it seems things have changed a lot even in 11 or so years. Well, I got married 25 years ago so I thought the gift-giving was a new tradition. It is common in my area. I wonder if the gift exchange might be related more to where you live than how old you are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlett Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 :iagree: (our gift to each other came 9 months later :D -- a beautiful baby girl) :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mama Geek Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 I voted other, because after 16 years of marriage I can honestly say I don't remember:001_huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mert Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 I gave him a "live in" cook and laundress, and he gave me his old car and a "live in" computer fix-it guy. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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