Ten Great Wedding Gift Alternative Ideas
September 05, 2006 by
Types of the Most Appreciated
What types of wedding gift are the most appreciated by the bride and groom? It depends on the bride and groom themselves. From experience, however, I can tell you that there are more wedding gift alternatives out there than gift cards and china. The best wedding1. Season Tickets: Season tickets to sporting events make a great wedding gift for the sport-loving couple. Be sure they don’t already have a set, and let your wedding gift show you know them personally. If they’re not into sports, tickets to plays, opera, and concerts are also quite well received as a wedding gift that shows you care beyond the blender and typical stemware.
2. Recipes: For this wedding gift, contact everyone from the guest list and have them email you a recipe. Print the recipes on pretty cards and laminate them so they stay nice. Be sure this gift fits in a recipe box, and for an added touch, put a gift card to a grocery store inside.
3. Scrapbooking: This wedding gift is not exactly what you would think at first. Create a scrapbook without the pictures so that the bride and groom can put wedding photos in after the event. Be sure to bring a disposable camera with you and a list of all the shots mentioned in your wedding gift, and sign it and put it with your wedding gift after the wedding.
4. Services: Are you a hair dresser? A photographer? A culinary whiz? Be sure if you want to present the couple with a wedding gift of your services, you do so before they write out their budget. This wedding gift is truly from the heart, but be sure after you volunteer it that you do not flake off on them.
5. Writing: A beautiful wedding gift is one of writing and memory. Using a service like Snap fish or café press, compile a book of photographs of the couple along with poetry themed to them. It is a touching wedding gift they are sure to cherish.
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