My mother-in-law got me the creepiest wedding gift – her intentions were good but it still scars me 30 years later

GETTING the perfect wedding gift can be tricky, especially if you don’t know the bride and groom all that well.

If you are unsure what to get the happy couple, you might want to rule out any of these creepy gifts that scared one woman for life.

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The bride can still recall her awful wedding gift nearly three decades on[/caption]

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However, the worst gift came from her well meaning mother-in-law[/caption]

To make matters even worse, one of the wedding presents had been given to her by her mother-in-law.

Sharing her story on Reddit, the blushing bride claims that she got the ‘worst’ wedding gifts ever and it still haunts her decades later.

In fact, there were three items that are still etched in her mind.

Writing on the r/weddingshaming subreddit, she responded to an earlier thread about the ‘weirdest wedding gift’ people had received and told the group: “I decided that my answer deserved its own thread.”

Like many nineties brides,  the Redditor had received kitchen goods as wedding gifts – including a re-gifted hand mixer.

As she pointed out, this would have been great apart for one small thing.

“This was fine as a gift, but at least tear off the remainder of the old paper, and take out the card to you from your wedding the month before,” she complained.

However, worse was yet to come as she also received six inscribed copies of a religious marriage manual, called Love for a Lifetime.

Recalling the book, she explained: “This is a hideously terrible evangelical tome about marriage. Six was an excessive number of copies to have.

“But inscribing this drivel means we can’t re-gift it to someone who might appreciate this trope.”

The worst present though was a ‘how-to sex tape’ that was narrated by the woman’s mother-in-law (yes, you read that right).

Naturally, the blushing bride has tried to remove this from her memory.

“It’s been 30 years, and the tape is (I think) somewhere in my house,” she revealed, adding: “We [my husband and I] both blotted most of it from our minds.”

If the gift wasn’t already deeply creepy, the guide also included prayers as it described sex acts.

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She recieved a hand mixer, which still had been regifted and still had a card on it[/caption]

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The bride was also given six copies of the same reglious marriage book[/caption]

“I clearly remember at least part of it that went something like, ‘The bride takes the Groom’s penis in her hand and strokes it gently. This was interspersed with some prayers,” the Redditor added.

She then joked: “Like I said, I have stricken it from memory, but it resurfaces from time to time.”

Ironically, the gift had meant to be a kind gesture.

Her reglious mother-in-law had wrongly assumed the couple, who graduated from the same Christian college, were waiting until their wedding night.

The shocked bride added: “I really think she made the cassette because we grew up in a cult, whose main teaching on sex was that it was this ‘terrible, horrible, awful, dirty thing that you saved to do with someone you truly loved on your wedding night’.

“I really think she did it hoping for the best for me.”

Well it is the thought that counts, right?

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The Redditor inisists that her mother-in-law had good intentions with her gift[/caption]