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"When we were debating the merits of Tony Romo and Candice Crawford&amp;amp;#8217;s wedding registries yesterday, some of you said they shouldn&amp;amp;#8217;t have been asking for gifts at all. Since Tony&amp;amp;#8217;s working his way through a $67 million contract, you reasoned, there&amp;amp;#8217;s no need for him to ask for gifts that he and his bride can afford to buy themselves. Still, if I received a wedding invite with a &amp;amp;#8220;No gifts, please!&amp;amp;#8221; insert&amp;amp;#8212;or if the bride and groom wrote &amp;amp;#8220;No gifts, please!&amp;amp;#8221; on the registry section of their wedding website&amp;amp;#8212;I&amp;amp;#8217;d flat out ignore them! I&amp;amp;#8217;m sorry, but I will never show up at a wedding without a gift. It would just feel SO wrong to me! If the wedding was the second wedding for both the bride and groom&amp;amp;#8212;so they really have EVERYTHING they could possibly need&amp;amp;#8212;I&amp;amp;#8217;d probably get an &amp;amp;#8220;experience&amp;amp;#8221; gift rather than pots and pans. Someone got my friend Leslie and her new husband a private chef to cook them dinner in their home one night. I thought that was so cool! Since the new Mr. and Mrs. Romo probably have a full-time personal chef, maybe I&amp;amp;#8217;d get them five bottles of great wine from the year they were married, one that would be matured on their 5-year anniversary, one for their 10-year anniversary, and so on. Yes, Tony could easily afford to buy 500,000 bottles of great wine&amp;amp;#8212;plus, the winery they came from. But as a guest as his wedding, I&amp;amp;#8217;d still want to offer a gift I had put some thought into. And yes, the bride and groom could&amp;amp;#8217;ve picked a charity and asked their guests for donations in lieu of gifts, but as Petra pointed out in the comments, lots of people (myself included!) don&amp;amp;#8217;t like to be told what charity to donate to! What do you think? If the bride and groom say &amp;amp;#8220;No gifts, please!&amp;amp;#8221; would you still bring a gift to their wedding? More things I&amp;amp;#8217;m wondering: * 4 Super-Pretty Thank You Cards! Which Would You Send? * 18-Year-Old Couple Denied a Hotel Room on Their Wedding Night. Is That Right? (The Groom Is a Marine!) * Wedding Colors: How Matchy-Matchy Does Everything Need to Be? More Ways to Get Glamour: NEW! Now You Can Read Glamour on Flipboard! Visit ShopGlamour.com for cute stuff starting at just $10! Download Glamour for your iPad. Print subscribers, it&amp;amp;#8217;s now part of your subscription plan! Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Follow us on Twitter. Photo: Thinkstock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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