12 Great Wedding Gifts to Give
Giving | July 30th, 2008
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
- Concert tickets. Ticketmaster has concert listings up months in advance, or you can purchase gift cards.
- A night or two at a great hotel.
- A couple’s massage or facial treatment at a spa.
- Take a ton of candid pictures at their wedding and create a Flickr page for them.
- 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.)
- Offer to pay for an element of the wedding: the cake, the DJ, the limo ride from the church.
- 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.)
- A big fat leather bound dictionary. Ditto on the “every home should have one” theory.
- Write a poem just for them.
- Monogrammed linens – set of pillow cases or a table runner. Is so traditional it’s hip.
- Video-interview people at the reception and turn it into a video keepsake.
- Frame their wedding invitation. A special touch: affix the invitation envelope to the back of the frame.
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July 30th, 2008 at 8:17 am
Bonjour!Buenis Dias! Bon Giorno! Good morning!
I know this sounds so mundsne… But what abouta a year’s subscription to Netflix (under every house ought to have one) and a case of popcorn (unpopped) or a case of really, really good wine for those once-a-month wine-opening/date nights?
I adore monogrammed linens. I am the one who irons them. Otherwise they are ruined. That’s my take on monogrammed anything that is embroidered… Otherwise they are gorgeous. Mine are taupe lettering on cream fabric. Big, really big letters!!!!! Script!!!! Maybe I am on my way to make my Style Statement!!, Jennifer!!
Cécile
July 30th, 2008 at 8:35 am
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Cécile
July 30th, 2008 at 9:18 am
I love it! Great wedding gift ideas!
July 30th, 2008 at 10:27 am
I just recently gave a close friend (the bride) a sturdy leather journal with her name (and new last name) engraved on the cover. I placed directions in the inside flap for her first entry to be a letter to herself about why she knows the lucky groom is her soul mate. It’s a great way to look back on “the fire” you felt when you first took the loving leap. And if the groom is that kind of guy you could inscribe both of their names and it could be a journal they pass back and forth throughout their marriage.
July 30th, 2008 at 10:40 am
A huge Martha Sturdy bowl.
July 30th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Ahhh! I’d take a Sturdy on any occasion!
August 1st, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Board games!
November 17th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
getting someone what they actually ask for is incredibly civilized,) there are some meaningful wedding gift options.
February 1st, 2009 at 10:38 am
Wow great ideas, I totally agree that covering the limo ride would be a great expense to cover.
May 13th, 2009 at 5:48 am
i would go for the limo service i'm sure the bride will never forget her wedding with a limo ride i'm pretty sure she'd be so happy,, the ideas you have post are great never thought of that before
March 16th, 2010 at 8:59 pm
Monogrammed linens – set of pillow cases or a table runner – perfection!
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