I’ve fallen a bit behind in my blogging. My excuse is that I’ve been really busy. This will be my first weekend in the last four where I get to be home with both time and energy. Which means I’ll be cleaning up my condo for most of it.
Last Friday, I was at a friend’s wedding. It was a nice time, and I’m sorry I had to leave early for a prior engagement. I probably would have done more dancing if my knee had been feeling better and wasn’t needed for the aforementioned prior engagement. The food was excellent and I ate quite a bit of it.
I’m lucky I’m a guy. For men, the bar for wedding gifts is really low. If there is a registry, you just get something on it and call it a day. But for this wedding, there was none. I went shopping half-an hour before the ceremony. That’s probably not good, but the first place I went to, I immediately saw the perfect gift. The place didn’t do gift-wrapping, but I was in and out in less than two minutes. All the staff I talked to were friendly and courteous.
I’m probably going to do all my gift shopping at CIBC now.
Perhaps it can be taken as unthoughtful, but I generally feel that money is often the best wedding present. Unless you’ve got a family heirloom or amazingly specific gift that the couple is not going to find elsewhere and will love, give them money. By the time most of us get married in Canada, we already have an apartment full of stuff… maybe two. Sure, they might like that expensive set of towels on the registry list, but they’ve been doing just fine with the old ones they’ve got and could really use a contribution to pay for the wedding/honeymoon/mortgage/life in general.