Wedding present - any ideas/suggestions please ?

WELSH-DRAGON_2

Hi :wave: my sister in her forties got married on Friday and I am completely stumped as to what to get her. She has had 4 previous houses and this is now her 3rd marriage so she basically has everything or it has been bought before. Both herself and her hubby are in well paid jobs so if she wants something she will just buy it.

Now I'm on a budget due to the extension being built at the mo (my sig refers) and I am really struggling for something that is special for her but also affordable.

Does anyone have any ideas please ? thanks for your time

Welshy x

Judi101

Dont know how much you want to spend but when we married we were given £40 in vouchers for a local hotel. We could spend it on a meal there or on a day pass each to their leisure facilities. It was great.

WELSH-DRAGON_2

Thanks Judi - maybe a day's pampering at a local hotel for both of them might be good choice

anyone else ?

purplepurple

Nicest present we got was a medium sized house plant, but our friends attached pound coins to the branches with red ribbons (and sellotape!). Our "money tree" looked fantastic and we still have the plant (huge now) as a reminder.
It was the fact that they'd made such an effort - even though in monetary terms, the value was less than some of the vouchers we received, it was worth more to us.:D

Rachel_Mac

I gave my friend a honeymoon box. It was a shoe box filled with little treats for the pair of them - a minature bottle of champagne with 2 glasses, some bubble bath, massage lotion, condoms, chocolates etc. I scattered confetti in the box, enclosed a verse, and wrapped it beautifully.

pavlovs_dog

you got any tesco vouchers left to convert ???

WELSH-DRAGON_2

pavlovs_dog wrote:

you got any tesco vouchers left to convert ???

Hiya pavlos - still waiting for my 25,000 tesco points to be converted for this quarter - hope Mr Postie brings my tesco mailings soon.

I am so focussed on converting them to MFI deals that maybe I should keep a few thousand back and see what I can get in the way of deals.

thanks :beer:

Welshy x

JillD_2

do they have any kids that live with them ?
If so you coud offer to take the kids for a while so they could have a mini break, or you oculd give them "babysitting vouchers".

We have 2 kids and not a lot of money at the moment yet the only thing I crave is time - offers of free babysitting would give us that.
I'd especially love to have a lie in together and fancy breakfast in the comfort of my home without two crying toddlers to argue with ! So a babysitter who would take my kids to their house for the night would be brilliant.

HTH
Jill

WELSH-DRAGON_2

Thanks for the idea Jill but I had 4 kiddies in 6 years and my sister has one child who would be overwhelmed by the noise and hustle and bustle of our family !!

I'd love some babysitting vouchers though !

Welshy x

Mics_chick

I don't know if this is the height of unoriginality but when I got married (since divorced haha!) we got 2 or 3 wedding frames which I think is very useful and thoughtful at the same time. The nicest one we got was a silver plated one and I've still got it now but with a picture of my kids in it by my new DP! Whenever I've been to a wedding since I've bought one for the couple unless they've had an (affordable) wedding list and everyone has been delighted with whatever style I've chosen. You can pick them up quite reasonably at jewellers even for quite a large size...

Welshlassie

Hi Welshy from another Welshy
How about a traditional Welsh love spoon, you can get them made and personalised (names and dates), for not very much, but they are gorgeous. We had 3 when we got married and they are all gorgeous and special.