Unique Wedding Gifts - Personalized Ideas for Gifts
Todd Mumford
August 12, 2007
The attendants of the bride and groom all get wedding gifts. Keepsake ideas can guide the selection of wedding gifts. Those ideas suggest items that will help the couple’s wedding to be long-remembered.
Some couples choose to have two groups of wedding gifts. Keepsake ideas must then correspond to the two groups of gifts. The bride might select gifts for her attendants, and the groom selects gifts for his attendants.
Both the bride and groom want to give lasting unique wedding gifts. Keepsake ideas for both might include something that can be engraved. A deluxe pen makes a good gift for the attendants of the groom. A compact mirror or jewelry box might be given to each attendant of the bride.
Embroidered gifts can also serve as lasting reminders of a wedding. A bride might want to give each of her attendants an embroidered handbag or blouse. A groom might want to give each of his attendants an embroidered robe.
Sometimes a bride and groom decide to give all of their attendants the same wedding gifts. Keepsake ideas are more limited in that case, but they are not non-existent. A key chain can make a fitting wedding gift. It might be a simple silver ring with a hanging heart, a heart engraved with the date of the wedding.
Today, many young women are part of a business enterprise, often a home-based business. If the bride and her attendants (as well as the groom and his attendants) are part of the business world, then the wedding gifts can reflect that fact. Each attendant might be given a desk pen set or a business card holder.
Of course, if the bride’s attendants have assumed, or are preparing for, more conventional female roles, then the wedding gifts should respect that conventionality. The bride might want to give each of her attendants a silver kitchen implement. By the same token, she might think about giving each of her attendants a silver garden tool.
In place of engraved wedding favors, a wedding gift with a picture always makes a suitable keepsake. The future bride and groom who want to include a picture on their wedding gifts should pose for a nice picture. Today a picture can be put on just about any sort of item. The wedding gifts could be pillows, cigarette lighters or even tiny frames. Each of those might provide the background for a small picture.
Some couples choose to have two groups of wedding gifts. Keepsake ideas must then correspond to the two groups of gifts. The bride might select gifts for her attendants, and the groom selects gifts for his attendants.
Both the bride and groom want to give lasting unique wedding gifts. Keepsake ideas for both might include something that can be engraved. A deluxe pen makes a good gift for the attendants of the groom. A compact mirror or jewelry box might be given to each attendant of the bride.
Embroidered gifts can also serve as lasting reminders of a wedding. A bride might want to give each of her attendants an embroidered handbag or blouse. A groom might want to give each of his attendants an embroidered robe.
Sometimes a bride and groom decide to give all of their attendants the same wedding gifts. Keepsake ideas are more limited in that case, but they are not non-existent. A key chain can make a fitting wedding gift. It might be a simple silver ring with a hanging heart, a heart engraved with the date of the wedding.
Today, many young women are part of a business enterprise, often a home-based business. If the bride and her attendants (as well as the groom and his attendants) are part of the business world, then the wedding gifts can reflect that fact. Each attendant might be given a desk pen set or a business card holder.
Of course, if the bride’s attendants have assumed, or are preparing for, more conventional female roles, then the wedding gifts should respect that conventionality. The bride might want to give each of her attendants a silver kitchen implement. By the same token, she might think about giving each of her attendants a silver garden tool.
In place of engraved wedding favors, a wedding gift with a picture always makes a suitable keepsake. The future bride and groom who want to include a picture on their wedding gifts should pose for a nice picture. Today a picture can be put on just about any sort of item. The wedding gifts could be pillows, cigarette lighters or even tiny frames. Each of those might provide the background for a small picture.
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