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Beyond gift registries and envelopes of cash (which are indeed great presents – getting someone what they actually ask for is incredibly civilized,) there are some meaningful wedding gift options.

Marriage means a lot. Put your heart into the prezzie.

12 Great Wedding Gifts to Give

1. Concert tickets. Ticketmaster has concert listings up months in advance, or you can purchase gift cards.
2. A night or two at a great hotel.
3. A couple’s massage or facial treatment at a spa.
4. Take a ton of candid pictures at their wedding and create a Flickr page for them.
5. If the bride is taking her husband’s name, have their family crest made into a cool drawing or plaque. (Most crests are packaged in the most tacky ways possible. But a pen and ink print in a modern black frame with extra wide white matt could be fantastic.)
6. Offer to pay for an element of the wedding: the cake, the DJ, the limo ride from the church.
7. An atlas. Really, every home should have one. (note from Danielle: my husband and I were given the Geographica Atlas as a wedding gift and we love it. It’s way more romantic to plan a dream trip to Morocco curled up with an atlas than it is with Google Maps.)
8. A big fat leather bound dictionary. Ditto on the “every home should have one” theory.
9. Write a poem just for them.
10. Monogrammed linens – set of pillow cases or a table runner. Is so traditional it’s hip.
11. Video-interview people at the reception and turn it into a video keepsake.
12. Frame their wedding invitation. A special touch: affix the invitation envelope to the back of the frame.