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That time I had grand plans and dropped the ball

Matt’s close friends are getting married this weekend. We were going to buy them something off their registry, but all the good stuff is taken and all that’s left are measuring spoons and towels. I refuse to buy someone $3.99 measuring spoons for their wedding. I also refuse to show up empty handed. You don’t want to be the uber tacky person that shows up, eats all the food and drinks all the drinks that someone else paid for and not get them something or have your gift en route to their house.

Anyway, I found the perfect gift - wine glasses from Tiffanys (that were surprisingly affordable - who knew?) and so I called my local store to see if they had them so they could be boxed and bowed and ready for pick-up. But I had no such luck. They didn’t have the glasses in stock and there was no guarantee that they could mail them to my house by Saturday unless I overnighted them which would be an extra $35 charge (uh no thanks). I wish I had thought of this/researched it earlier so I could have taken care of it.

So now I’m back to square one. What should I get? I need to go buy something today. I’m thinking Kate Spade’s Home collection from Nordstrom would be nice - they always have fun things don’t they?

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sciencingsara said: I’m going to 3rd the gift card. I’ve heard from so many friends that they were one of the most useful things that were received as a gift. Also, you do technically have a year.
omgwedding said: I second money/gift card. If you would rather get a gift instead, I would vote for a serving dish/bowl/platter from Tiffany - we got one unexpectedly and it was an awesome surprise!
twohippiechic said: Get them a gift card…trust me. Whenever people bought stuff off the registry it was nice..but we would have much rather used a gift card to buy something we wanted/needed.
cmconnors said: You have one year to give a present- so you totally wouldn’t be tacky if you didn’t give them a present on the day of. A ton of our guests mailed checks/presents in the month following our wedding.
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