10 Bizarre & Extravagant Wedding Gifts

Giving cash is the latest trend in wedding gifts but if you still prefer the idea of buying a present, here’s a list of 10 bizarre and extravagant gifts you might consider. FSCS protects savings of up to £85,000 per person in UK authorised banks, building societies and credit unions. If you’re getting married this summer and have asked guests for money, you can check where it can be saved safely at www.fscs.org.uk/protected.

1. 10 Burger King Restaurants

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Kanye West purchased ten European Burger King restaurants as a wedding present to future wife Kim Kardashian.

2. An electrified dog collar

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A couple received an electrified dog collar as a wedding gift, despite not owning a dog.

3. A £160 Tiffany’s serving fork

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Gifted to Ivanka Trump, daughter of Donald Trump, and her husband-to-be Jared Kushner. Someone must have ‘forked out’ quite a lot.

4. A 3-ft. SpongeBob Square Pants pirate doll.

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The brides only comment was: “I have always hated that cartoon; it was not a welcome gift.”

5. 27 toasters

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“We deliberately didn't send out a wedding list. When some friends insisted we said perhaps they could get us vouchers. But then we made the mistake of saying, off hand: ‘We don't need anything more, especially not a toaster.’”

6. 24 double rolls of toilet paper

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People will always need toilet paper!

7. A £6,000 Tiffany’s tray

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The tray was a gift to Star Jones and Al Reynolds.

8. A wedding cake worth £31million

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The extravagant six tier high dessert is one-and-a-half metres tall and is decorated with more than 2000 diamonds - the equivalent of 2046 carats!

9. An Olive Tree

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James Righton surprised new wife Keira Knightley with an olive tree on their big day. The groom paid £3,000 for the 100-year-old tree, which he engraved with the couple’s initials and planted in the back garden of her farmhouse.

10. A cow

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Anne Hathaway received a cow when she married Adam Shulman in October 2011.