Gift Lists

We just sent out a small gift list which had on it a couple of things plus thomas cook vouchers national garden centre vouchers and john lewis vouchers, nobody seems to have been offended by it so go ahead! x

Hello Sailor

I was in exactly same the position as you. We got married abroad and I felt cheeky including a gift list for the reception. To be honest it probably caused the most arguments in the lead up to the wedding and I may have had a small gift list had my MIL not be so adamant that I MUST have one. In the end I said no and we simply ask for Lewis or habitat vouchers if people asked.

Theres a lot of walking on egg shells isnt there? i've just popped this text over to D (the future husband) to print onto little business cards, no one had really got involved least of all MIL we cant discuss the wedding in front of her at the mo as she's now decided she cant travel ?

The most important thing to us on our special day is that you are there to share it with us so we dont have a registered gift list at a store, instead if you would like to give us a gift, we would love to receive vouchers from Thomas Cook.

I think its fine, actually very similar to our wording! x

We've asked for contributions towards a honeymoon if anyone wanted to get us anything....not vouchers though as I've heard horror stories of things going wrong with vouchers and people losing the value of them.

I wasn't going to have a gift list but loads of people asked whether we were having one and since we are settign up a new home etc we do need a lot of stuff. so have got a small one at John Lewis. people suggested Thomas Cook vouchers but my only issue with them is that i would then be limited to booking those hols through Thomas Cook, which doesn't always have the best deals or the exact type of holiday i might want...

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