Something of which I personally disapprove but never the less the "new" idea seems that you no longer place your list with a well known store and allow guests to browse the list and order the gifts but you go to a company on the internet, tell them what you want, they build a list and then your friends, family etc can go on line to buy the gifts which will then be delivered sometime after the wedding.
Until of course it all goes wrong ~ as with this company.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7524530.stmWhat gets me is the selfish b@st@rd who is complaining that he hasn't received his presents yet. Well if he had followed a more traditional route and not nominated gifts but allowed those who wished to give him and his bride a present of their own chosing then this would never have happened.
What is wrong with a toaster from Great Aunt Maud, a Canteen of Cutlery from the Bridesmaids and some monogrammed sheets from Mum & Dad? People are just too damned greedy these days.
You should see the lists recieved at the kennel over the past two years. For example my Cousin's son ..... I have met him twice in his thirty years on this earth. Once at his Christening and once at his Grandmother's funeral. So they invite us to the wedding in Scotland, suggest a hotel we might care to fork out to stay in and enclose the details of their wedding list. Nothing under £100.
We did not go and I sent them a toaster to make my point.
Cousin phoned me to ask where the toaster had come from because they wanted to return it.
Argos £9.99 ~~~ I do hope they had a wild spending spree.
