Who wants kitchen mixers when you can have books? For a wedding present, I mean. Though now that I think about it, I believe the Resident IT Consultant came with some kind of kitchen machinery at the time, so he was a real bargain.
We didn’t get that many books as wedding presents, but in amongst the towels and tea sets there lurked an Ordnance Survey Atlas. The giver clearly knew his recipients. The atlas has been in heavy use for many years now, which is more than you can say about some of the other gifts. Useful though they were.
There is a much larger wedding present of the book persuasion in our humble house. It wasn’t our wedding, though. It was the grandparents of the Resident IT Consultant, and I think they must have married in the mid 1920s. Their present was the 1911 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. That, too, has been useful over the years. What it lacks in recent information, it more than makes up for with ‘old stuff’. We got it out as recently as a few days ago when Daughter had homework needs.
Actually, we received some book tokens as well, but I no longer recall what we used them on. Better than butter knives.
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