Wedding Gifts
A happy weekend to everyone!
Our agenda for today is all about shopping. Have to buy some groceries and some last minute school provisions for Bea because I will be out of town next weekend for another planning session over at my government consultancy.
But the main agenda for today is buying a wedding gift for a good friend getting married tomorrow.
We should always give careful consideration when buying wedding gifts, especially for good friends. Sure, there's always the usual salad bowl and the set of dishes. But you know the couple will receive a ton of those. So here are some tips:
1. Get a background on the couple's plans after the wedding. Will they move to their own place or will they stay with parents. If they will move to their own place you could give them appliances (be it big or small). If they will stay their parents, appliance will be redundant and most probably, useless. But them personal stuff (like towels, bath robes, etc.) instead.
2. Get them something they can truly use. Of course, you could always give them silverware but those kinds of gifts only get stored somewhere. And if you buy them dishes, they'll have a lot of those so they will only choose one set to use and then store the rest. But of course, those other dishes would come in handy durings marital spats, if you know what I mean.
3. Get them something unusual, yet practical. In that way, you'll be sure they'll remember your gift.
From experience, the gift I appreciated most were the towels, the bedsheets and the ironing board/flat iron combo. We only had one of those and we really needed them.
And what about my friend? We'll be getting them the ironing board/flat iron combo. I already told the couple about it because I will not bring them to the wedding. Too cumbersome to lug around tomorrow. So I'll probably deliver them or have them pick it up...
Our agenda for today is all about shopping. Have to buy some groceries and some last minute school provisions for Bea because I will be out of town next weekend for another planning session over at my government consultancy.
But the main agenda for today is buying a wedding gift for a good friend getting married tomorrow.
We should always give careful consideration when buying wedding gifts, especially for good friends. Sure, there's always the usual salad bowl and the set of dishes. But you know the couple will receive a ton of those. So here are some tips:
1. Get a background on the couple's plans after the wedding. Will they move to their own place or will they stay with parents. If they will move to their own place you could give them appliances (be it big or small). If they will stay their parents, appliance will be redundant and most probably, useless. But them personal stuff (like towels, bath robes, etc.) instead.
2. Get them something they can truly use. Of course, you could always give them silverware but those kinds of gifts only get stored somewhere. And if you buy them dishes, they'll have a lot of those so they will only choose one set to use and then store the rest. But of course, those other dishes would come in handy durings marital spats, if you know what I mean.
3. Get them something unusual, yet practical. In that way, you'll be sure they'll remember your gift.
From experience, the gift I appreciated most were the towels, the bedsheets and the ironing board/flat iron combo. We only had one of those and we really needed them.
And what about my friend? We'll be getting them the ironing board/flat iron combo. I already told the couple about it because I will not bring them to the wedding. Too cumbersome to lug around tomorrow. So I'll probably deliver them or have them pick it up...
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