Wedding presents

Florence Young has two sets of drinking glasses that have remained intact for 45 years.

So would it be fair to assume that her mentioning this all but guarantees that she’ll break one of the glasses in the next few days?

“We are still using a potato peeler given to me at a wedding shower nearly 64 years ago,” wrote Jennie Groenig.

Holly Schoenberger still has an assortment of the gifts received 29 years ago. But not everything.

“We received a total of four cheese boards for wedding gifts, which we promptly re-gifted.”

Edie Clark celebrated her 51st anniversary this week. Among the presents she still has is a cast iron skillet that she continues to use.

Jay Dudley and his bride were given a crock pot when they got married in 1971.

The couple divorced in 1976. And Jay remarried in 1978.

His second wife died and then he remarried his first wife, which also reunited him with the crock pot.

For Helen Ray, it has been 59 years. But she still has most of her wedding gifts and remembers from whom they came.

Fifty years after getting married, Arline McKay still has many of her presents. They remind her of those who gave them to her. Many of those people are gone. “They bring back fond memories.”

Harvey Lochhead and his wife still use the bathroom scale they received as a wedding gift 60 years ago.

Dianne Cook lost virtually all her wedding presents when the moving van carrying family possessions from California to the East Coast was hijacked. “Nothing was ever recovered.”

And Isabelle Green shared this.

“Married in July of 1956, we are still using the all-steel adjustable height ironing board, a wooden pepper mill/salt shaker set, a Sunbeam hand electric mixer and cast iron fryng pan received as wedding gifts. The mixer came from my brother, the others unknown but certainly appreciated all these years.”