Best Husband Ever

My husband is the best ever. Our anniversary is this Monday (I have jury duty - boo), but we actually exchanged gifts in June, when we purchased new iPhones for each other. Last week, I reminded him that we didn't need to give each other gifts, we had our phones and we are planning to go to a nice dinner on Saturday to celebrate. Mr. D agreed. Until he "forgot" and ordered a present over the weekend.

When the package from Amazon arrived, I thought it contained some picture frames I had ordered to redo the wall behind the couch. Open the box, and ta-daaaa it was a Kitchen-Aid ice cream maker attachment!! Initially I thought my in-laws had sent us an anniversary, then I called Mr. D. and he told me I shouldn't have opened it, because it was my anniversary present. Umm, how was I supposed to know?

Anyway, this was an especially sweet gift, as I had put it on my birthday list, but wasn't lucky enough to get it. He may have also purchased it, since he watched Alton Brown make hazelnut ice cream on Good Eats (Mr. D loooooooves hazelnut, hazelnut anything). Methinks this weekend will include some making of the ice cream...

Off-Registry Gift Cards

The one gift that I did not mind getting that was off-registry was a gift card. We had gift cards from Pottery Barn, Home Depot, California Pizza Kitchen, Kohl's, Starbucks, and of course Bed Bath and Beyond. One thing that I would suggest to all brides out there is to find an old wallet of yours or your fiance's to keep all of your gift certificates in. This way, they're not making your wallet so huge that you can't close it, but you still have them with you whenever you are out and about. This way, when you return something, you don't have to get a new gift card. Also, you're more likely to wind up somewhere where you have a gift card and have it with you, instead of having to make another trip later.

Payable To: Mr. and Mrs.

Since we're moving into the new apartment today, I wrote this one in advance (and while I was thinking about it). A word of advice for all the yet-to-be-married's and about to send a check for a gifter's: have someone put out the word that when friends and relatives are writing a check as a gift, they should make it payable to John or Jane Doe, not John and Jane Doe. This is a nit-picky little detail that will drive some bank tellers crazy and that some will be nice enough to overlook.
The first time that we went to the bank to deposit a check, the teller made both of us show ID and sign the back of the check. Prepared, both of us went to the bank the next time, but the teller didn't have a problem with it that day.