Wedding gifts

How do I find the right wedding gift?

Everyone wants to give the bridal pair a beautiful gift that will remind them of the day. But what is actually a good and appropriate wedding gift? This depends completely on your relationship to the soon-to-be-weds. In choosing a wedding gift, you should think about what kind of wedding gift would be useful for the couple. More often than not, newlyweds receive many wedding gifts from friends and relatives that are not really needed or are simply duplicated. To avoid the same gift being given two or three times, invited guests should consult the bridal pair beforehand and think carefully about what they could use.

A popular system for avoiding duplicate wedding gifts is a so-called bridal registry, which is available in numerous gift portals. There, the soon-to-be married couple can create a gift wish list and send this to their guests, who in turn can see which gifts other guests have already selected and which ones are still 'free', killing two birds with one stone. There are no duplicate wedding presents, and, more importantly, the bridal pair receive exactly what they want. You can find plenty of ideas in our gift portal, including many original wedding gifts. What do you think of the two creating their own gold wedding rings? The couple forge their own happiness in gold for eternity with their own sweat. This has received very positive feedback. There are also many personal wedding gifts, fun presents and humorous money gifts that lend themselves to weddings.

Like, for example, a toilet paper roll wedding cake decorated with money, or a cash cow or money box for married couples, but with a small but extremely unfair defect so that money is only deposited on the bride's side, and much more.

And what about a stylish gift? Rent an hour of pure luxury with a stretch limousine and chauffeur. A limousine is a perfect wedding gift for the journey to the church or registrar's office. Of course, guests could alternatively order a horse-drawn carriage, giving the wedding celebration a wonderful medieval touch. Celebrating the wedding in a castle or on a mountain and then accommodating guests there after the festivities is becoming more and more popular. These days, some parties tend to 'specialise' in different kinds of gifts.

Grandparents, for example, usually prefer something practical for the house. A pressure cooker would be exactly the right gift for a working housewife who has to quickly prepare a meal for her hungry husband in the evening.

Parents, however, splash out on both a bedroom cupboard and a chrome espresso machine as a particularly elegant and very fashionable wedding gift for the young pair. An aunt chooses an expensive linen tablecloth as her top quality wedding gift. Friends present the pair with a combined gift - the Hutschenreuter coffee set that they wanted. But it is the closest friends have the best ideas. They give the young pair a travel voucher for a honeymoon in the Canary Islands - a dream that the bridal pair could not have otherwise realised because of financial constraints. This unconventional wedding gift will surprise everyone and make the pair the envy of all their guests. Beautiful wedding gifts line the rest of the table, like a coloured thermos from Alfi, a pepper grinder from Alessi, poultry shears from WMF and a wonderful hand-blown vase. All gifts that the couple will treasure for ever.

And here is another wedding gift idea: A traditional German wedding newspaper created by the best man or closest friends. Perhaps you too like these gift ideas.