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Yellow[_2_]

In article >,
says...
>
> Sqwertz > wrote in
> :
>
> > On Sat, 24 May 2014 22:26:43 -0700, sf wrote:
> >
> >> On Sat, 24 May 2014 21:54:40 -0800, Mark Thorson >
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I'd like to hear suggestions.
> >>
> >> Listen to yourself! Go to their registry and pick something from
> >> that. If they have a toaster and bread knife on it, buy EXACTLY what
> >> they have listed. Do not deviate from what they say they want.
> >
> > Totally **** that idea.
> >
> > The whole idea of wedding registries is highly controversial and
> > impersonal.
> >
> It's offensive. I would *never* buy anything on a wedding registry, but I
> *might* some time in the future, check off items anonymously. Anyone who
> uses one of those deserves it.
> >
> > -sw

Get what you are given and be grateful for it?

Well it's one way of wasting your money and burdening the couple with a
load of crap they do not want.

But then as most modern weddings are just an expensive circus show
perhaps this is all just a consequence, whichever side of the gift
debate you occupy.

I think my middle-aged friends who married recently had the best idea.
They said "if you must give us a gift then please give us cash" and they
spent it all on a month long honeymoon visiting all the sights of
Europe. Fabulous!