The Guardian tells us what couples really really want as wedding gifts...... a Netherton Foundry pan!
It’s peak wedding season and the weather couldn’t be better. And for the guests there are two decisions to be made once you’ve accepted the invitation – what to wear and what to give the happy couple as a present.
You will find countless and occasionally contradictory articles on wedding attire and let’s be honest, unless you made biggest fashion faux pas ever no-one is going to remember what anyone other than the bride was wearing on her big day.
Presents however should last far longer. And occasionally as this article in the Guardian sadly reminds us, longer than the marriage itself.
As Clare Finney says, “If you don’t say what you want, your parents’ friends will buy you things like papier-mache crisp bowls,” warned my friend ….. when my partner and I got engaged.
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?
Cash feels crass …. and homemade is hard to pull off unless you’re particularly skilled. Yet there are ways to find the right present for the right couple, at the right price.”
Included in the “non-exhaustive list of ideas from experts – newlyweds; divorcees who know over which wedding gifts they fought; and long-married couples – about what they cherish most, years on”, is a Netherton Foundry frying pan.
We have long believed that our cookware makes a great wedding present, whether you are giving them something for their first home together or upgrading what they already have. And now it seems, a lot of people agree.
We offer you the option of choosing something practical, a kitchen basic; or something more frivolous, something that is far from essential, but lovely to own, something they would be unlikely to buy from themselves, but will treasure. And if you really cannot decide, or want to club together with friends or family for a bigger gift, pick a gift voucher and let them choose for themselves.
And don’t forget, 6th wedding anniversary is celebrated with iron and the 7th with copper.
