the wedding present after all the joys and the headaches of the wedding , after the madness and the magic of it all ( not to mention the embarrassment of belinda 's father 's after-dinner speech , complete with family slide show ) , after the honeymoon was literally ( although not yet metaphorically ) over and before their new suntans had a chance to fade in the english autumn , belinda and gordon got down to the business of unwrapping the wedding presents and writing their thank you letters-thank yous enough for every towel and every toaster , for the juicer and the breadmaker , for the cutlery and the crockery and the teasmade and the curtains .