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Tips for Guests Buying Wedding Gifts

Wanting to make sure your wedding gift will resonate with your friend? Here are a few suggestions before you make your purchase.

• Find out where the bride and groom are spending their honeymoon and give them gift certificates to the hotel’s spa or arrange with the hotel to have your gift waiting for them when they arrive, such as a bottle of champagne and chocolate-dipped strawberries.
• When in doubt, a gift card to their favorite nursery (if they like to garden); a certificate to a romantic restaurant (budgets will be tight when they return from that honeymoon); a season ticket packet or tickets for two to their favorite theatre, opera or symphony (season tickets are a gift that keeps on giving) or maybe they’re big sports fans.
• If a couple has registered for 12, 16 or 32 sets of flatware (maybe they’re planning for a big Utah family?), don’t feel like you have to buy all the pieces for them. Just buy as many of the sets as you would like and other guests will fill in the rest.
• Keep in mind what you do know about the couple’s interests – maybe she loves to collect unique serving bowls (don’t laugh, it’s possible) or they are the cocktail and hor d’oeurve type, so look for fun cocktail glasses and a few unique “cocktail recipes,” as well as unusual serving plates. If they love to grill and sit by the pool develop your gift around that theme.
• Your friends might have everything they want or need or are just very down to earth people, if so, think about honoring them with a gift to their favorite charity.

 
Crystal and china are important, beautiful and wonderful to give, but you know your friends best, so give them something they will use often (and hopefully think of you with appreciation for thinking of you during this special time in their life!).

Last thought, if you’re attending a “destination” wedding, ship your gift to the bride or groom’s home instead of bringing it to the wedding. Bring a card with a description of what your gift is to give to the happy couple so they’ll know.

Whatever the gift, it IS the thought that counts.

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2 Comments on “Tips for Guests Buying Wedding Gifts”

• rochelle January 5th, 2010 5:57 pm

  For a great selection of wedding handkerchiefs please visit http://www.weddinghandkerchiefshop.com and look at an array of beautiful ones. From simple to elaborate needlwork, these luxurious pieces of linen will make the perfect “something new” gift and possibly create an heirloom that the bride can pass down.

• Candy April 15th, 2009 11:39 pm

  Great suggestions, and I really like that the thought of doing other things, than buying China-thank goodness, for those items are mostly already taken and again your suggestions were GREAT!

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