{ "id": "mr-right-mrs-always-right-engraved-spoons", "sku": "mr-right-mrs-always-right-engraved-spoons", "title": "Mr Right and Mrs Always Right Engraved Coffee Spoons (Set of 2)", "slug": "mr-right-mrs-always-right-engraved-spoons", "price": 13.99, "currency": "EUR", "availability": "in_stock", "category": "engraved-home-and-bar-gifts", "category_label": "Engraved Home & Bar Gifts", "tags": [], "colors": [], "materials": [], "dimensions": null, "weight": "30 g", "images": [ "https://engravedgifts.irish/dropship-images/engraved-home-and-bar-gifts/mr-right-mrs-always-right-engraved-spoons/main-mr-right-mrs-always-right-engraved-spoons.jpg", "https://engravedgifts.irish/dropship-images/engraved-home-and-bar-gifts/mr-right-mrs-always-right-engraved-spoons/mr-right-mrs-always-right-engraved-spoons-2.jpg", "https://engravedgifts.irish/dropship-images/engraved-home-and-bar-gifts/mr-right-mrs-always-right-engraved-spoons/mr-right-mrs-always-right-engraved-spoons-4.jpg", "https://engravedgifts.irish/dropship-images/engraved-home-and-bar-gifts/mr-right-mrs-always-right-engraved-spoons/mr-right-mrs-always-right-engraved-spoons-5.jpg", "https://engravedgifts.irish/dropship-images/engraved-home-and-bar-gifts/mr-right-mrs-always-right-engraved-spoons/mr-right-mrs-always-right-engraved-spoons-6.jpg", "https://engravedgifts.irish/dropship-images/engraved-home-and-bar-gifts/mr-right-mrs-always-right-engraved-spoons/mr-right-mrs-always-right-engraved-spoons-7.jpg" ], "description_short": "Two stainless steel spoons about 19cm long, one engraved Mr. Right with a top hat and moustache, the other Mrs. Always Right with a pair of lips. Listed as dishwasher safe.", "description": "The gift problem nobody admits to\n\nBuying for a couple is harder than buying for one person. You have two sets of taste to satisfy, a shared home that may already be full, and a budget that usually has a ceiling because there are five other weddings that year. So people default to the safe stuff. Another photo frame. Another set of glasses. A voucher, which is fine but says very little.\n\nA small funny gift has one advantage over the mid-priced sensible one: the couple sees it every day. A pair of engraved coffee spoons sits in the cutlery drawer and surfaces every single morning. The joke gets retold without anyone having to retell it.\n\nThat is what this set is built around. One spoon is engraved Mr. Right, finished with a top hat and a moustache. The other says Mrs. Always Right with a pair of lips. The gag is old, which is exactly why it works. Nobody needs it explained, and almost every couple has had some version of that exchange.\n\nWhat you are actually getting\n\nTwo spoons, sold as a pair, with the wording already engraved. Each one is listed as 19cm long and roughly 3cm wide at the bowl. The listed item weight is 30 grams. The material is stainless steel, and both spoons are listed as dishwasher safe.\n\nThe 19cm length deserves a mention because it is the practical difference between a spoon that gets used and one that gets ignored. A standard teaspoon is around 13 to 14cm, which is fine for a small cup but useless for a tall latte glass, a jar of overnight oats or the bottom third of an ice cream tub. At 19cm, these reach. That turns a novelty item into something the couple actually picks up.\n\nThe listing describes the designs as engraved, with engravings that are sharp and easy to see.\n\nThe one thing to check before you order\n\nThis is not a personalisation service. The wording and the artwork are fixed and already on the spoons. You cannot swap in the couple's actual names, add a wedding date, or change the moustache to something else. What you see in the photos is what arrives.\n\nFor some buyers that is a dealbreaker, and it is better to know now. For most, it is actually a benefit. There is no artwork proof to approve and no spelling mistake to catch.\n\nWho this suits\n\nThe obvious one is newlyweds. It lands well at a wedding gift table because it is clearly chosen rather than grabbed off a gift list, and it costs a fraction of what the big-ticket items do.\n\nIt also works earlier in the timeline. An engraved teaspoon set also suits an engagement, or a small something for a hen or stag weekend. And it works much later too, as an anniversary gift for couples who have been together long enough to find the joke genuinely accurate.\n\nThen there is the quiet use case nobody plans for. You need a last-minute gift for a couple you do not know very well. A colleague getting married, a neighbour's housewarming, the friend of a friend whose party you said yes to. Something small, funny and useful clears that bar every time.\n\nWho it does not suit is worth saying as well. If the couple is formal, if the wedding theme is minimalist and serious, or if either of them has a low tolerance for gender-based jokes, pick something else. The humour here is warm but it is not subtle.\n\nHow to choose between gift spoon sets\n\nIf you are comparing a few options, there are four things that actually matter.\n\nLength is the first. Anything under 15cm is a teaspoon and will frustrate anyone drinking from a tall glass. The 19cm size here covers most cups, jars and dessert bowls.\n\nThe second is how the design is applied. This listing describes its spoons as engraved.\n\nThird is whether it is dishwasher safe. These spoons are listed as dishwasher safe, so they go in with everything else.\n\nFourth, and least obvious, is whether the pair reads as a pair. Mismatched shapes or sizes break the effect. Here the two spoons are the same shape and size, with only the engraved design differing, so they sit together in the drawer looking like they belong.\n\nLooking after them\n\nThere is not much to it. Dishwasher safe means dishwasher safe, so day to day you can just load them with the rest of the cutlery.\n\nTo avoid water spots, rinse after use and dry with a soft cloth instead of letting them air dry in the rack. Water spots and mineral deposits from hard water are what dull a metal surface over time, not the washing itself.\n\nStay away from steel wool, scouring powders and bleach-based cleaners. Those will scratch the surface and blur the fine detail in the top hat and the lips. Normal washing-up liquid and a sponge handle anything a coffee spoon runs into.\n\nStorage is simple. Flat in a cutlery tray, ideally not buried under heavier serving pieces that can knock the bowls. If they are being given as part of a larger gift, a small cloth pouch keeps the pair together and stops them rattling in transit.\n\nAnd a reminder that applies to all metal cutlery. Never put them in a microwave.\n\nPairing it up\n\nOn its own, this is a nicely judged small gift. If you want to build it into something bigger without spending much more, the natural partners are a bag of good coffee beans, two mugs, a box of chocolate, or a jar of something the couple likes on toast. The theme writes itself, because the spoons already point at the breakfast table.\n\nFor a wedding, a set of these alongside a card with a real handwritten message beats a bigger gift with a printed label. People keep the message. They also keep the spoons.\n\nThe short version\n\nTwo engraved stainless steel spoons, about 19cm each, with a listed item weight of 30 grams, listed as dishwasher safe. One says Mr. Right with a top hat and moustache, the other Mrs. Always Right with lips. The wording is fixed and cannot be changed, which means there is nothing to proof.\n\nIt is a small, funny, useful wedding gift for couples. If the couple you are buying for has a sense of humour about themselves, this is an easy one to give.", "llm_summary": "This product is a set of two engraved coffee spoons sold as a wedding gift for couples. One spoon is engraved Mr. Right with a top hat and moustache design, the other Mrs. Always Right with a pair of lips. Each spoon is listed as 19cm long by 3cm wide (the size photo gives 19.3cm), the listed item weight is 30 grams, and the listing describes the material as stainless steel. The spoons are listed as dishwasher safe. The engraved wording and artwork are fixed and cannot be customised, and no personalisation service is offered. The spoons suit coffee, tea, ice cream, soup and spreads.", "returnable": true, "return_policy": "14 days from delivery to cancel under the Consumer Rights Act 2022, then 14 days to return in resaleable condition, buyer pays return postage; Consumer Rights Act 2022 rights for faulty goods. Return postage on faulty goods is ours.", "shipping_profile": "standard", "warranty": null, "brand": "Engraved Gifts Company", "gtin": null, "mpn": null, "condition": "new", "url": "https://engravedgifts.irish/mr-right-mrs-always-right-engraved-spoons/", "canonical_url": "https://engravedgifts.irish/mr-right-mrs-always-right-engraved-spoons/", "json_url": "https://engravedgifts.irish/api/products/mr-right-mrs-always-right-engraved-spoons.json", "updated_at": "2026-10-31" }