Topic: NEWS english - on September 4, 2004 at 11:46:00 AM CEST
Forget the bedsheets, just buy a plasma TV, say modern British newlyweds
Whereas once they might have been delighted with a cotton pillowcase or humble cutlery, modern British couples about to get married now ask wedding guests for luxuries such as plasma-screen televisions.
The findings come in a study of half a century of wedding lists, collections of suggested gifts for guests to buy those tying the knot, deposited with leading British department store John Lewis.
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