Wedding gifts

Gifts are very important to just-married. Starting their family life from zero, you need everything, so wedding gift should have practical meaning. It’s important to make a gift that will be useful for both young people that will let them avoid some costs in the first time of their family life. Traditionally, wedding gifts are things of house holding and interior: dishes, lamps, decorative fountains, pictures, clocks, trunks, tablecloths, bedclothes. Important role in wedding gifts play flowers. Well-made bouquet will bring a lot of joy. Choosing flowers, you leave a piece of yourself in bouquet. It will always reflect your understanding of love, tenderness.
Another possible option is to make a group present. Its main good point is that such gift will have a big value and, more likely, will be very useful in further everyday life of couple.
The main part of wedding gift is greeting. Think about it in advance, to not fall into bad situation, when will come your time to greet just-married. Very often just-married couple is presented with huge photo-album with place not only for wedding pictures, but also for writing greetings of all present guests. Such greetings are written in the beginning of feast, before couple come after registration.
It is possible to use experience of Americans or French, who create a list of gifts to couple, and guests think about this offer according to sum they have. This way you see clearly aim, gift is chosen and couple of just-married won’t get 2 or more similar gifts – as it happens very often.
Very original gift is collection of figurines of just-married. Couple can add to this collection some figures every year: calico, paper, wooden, as so on till golden and diamond. Gifts for house are given in the day of church wedding or marriage in law – it’s called “Green wedding”. But every couple dream to celebrate this unforgettable event, celebrating also “calico”, “golden” and “crowning” wedding – 75 years of happy family life.
Abundance is the main wish of just-married, that’s why as souvenir you can present them a figurine “Cornucopia” (horn of plenty). Using a salute from butterflies you can make happy bride and her girlfriends; with marriage cartoon it’s easy to make smile not only couple, but also their parents. If marriage is going on in summer, it’s a nice idea to spend second day at street, and then will be useful a set for picnic. Don’t forget about sweets in form of heart with funny greetings to a couple.
Sometimes just-married ask guests to not think too hard about gift and just give a money sum. Often guests even without these ask present money in pocket. But here you should know that sometimes money couldn’t be acceptable – for example, when good money status of couple is easy to see. Be more creative in giving money – make a “Money tree”. Add to a plant in pot paper money. Tree will look more original and extravagant if you will attach paper money of different countries.
It isn’t recommended to present a sets from forks and knifes (people say that this is sign of unhappy marriage life), machine for knifes, trash box, lawnmower etc. Present with big size won’t be convenient to move during celebration.