“If you don’t say what you want, your parents’ friends will buy you things like papier-mache crisp bowls,” warned my friend – and celebrant – when my partner and I got engaged.
We’re getting married in October. We’re not actually doing presents – we’re having a destination wedding and I need some way of assuaging that guilt – but she made a good point. What do you buy if there isn’t a list, and you don’t know the person very well, or if there is a list, but the only thing left is a bin?
