TIPS FOR THE BEST WEDDING GIFTS
The wedding season presents the perfect excuse to reunite with old friends, make merry, eat and spoil our friends getting married with gifts. However, choosing the best wedding gift can be a bit daunting since you want to go for perfection, but you aren’t quite certain about what they need and would find useful.
Confused and spoilt for choice, we then resort to uninspiring gifts that the couple will find no use for and which will they will either give away or lump together with the rest of the clutter in their house.
The trick to giving the best gift is to present something that you’ll want yourself. Follow the tips below for the best wedding gifts ever.
Cash gifts
People always have some use for money. If you are uncertain of what your gift should be, take the money you had budgeted for and put in an envelope and present it as your gift congratulating the bride and the groom on their wedding.
Most couples would go for the cash gifts which they can use to settle their wedding expenses, cover rent and bills over the coming months and splurge on the honeymoon. Few couples are however bold enough to ask for cash since common etiquette, and societal norms admonish suggesting your preferences for a gift.
Ask
The easiest way to know what the couple wants as a gift for their wedding is to ask either of them. Often, you’ll find that the bride and the groom have had some detailed discussions on what they could possibly need as they start life as husband and wife.
You can text, call or email either the bride or the groom, whoever you are closer to and ask which item or service they could do most with. If the chosen gift is within your budget range, then get it for them. Asking is a sure way to get the best wedding gift for the couple.
If they tell you to bring anything you like, it is often out of politeness, and you should definitely put some careful consideration into the gift you will present to them. ‘Anything’ isn’t an excuse to have a sloppy gift that no one will ever find a use for.
The gift registry
Chances are like every other couple these days, the wedding couple for the ceremony you have been invited to have set up a gift registry. A gift registry is a database a couple sets up after examining their immediate and future needs of the items they are likely to find useful.
Check the wedding invitation card if the details of the gift registry of the store with which the couple has registered have been included. If not, perhaps they are still reviewing their options or have set it up online in places like ourwishingwell.com. Be sure to ask them. You might give them an idea to set up one if they hadn’t thought of it initially.
You are under no obligation to stick to the gift registry although it can provide some good guidance on what the couple actually needs.
