Wedding presents for Newlyweds who have been together numeros years!

VK-2008

Hi needing a wedding gift idea for a couple who got married this week, they have lived together a good number of years and are expecting.

Now i was looking for suggestions dont want to spend a fortune maybe 30 quid rougly

My thoughts were
Towel Cake
Recipe Books/Cook books (as they only eat certain things)
Cinema tickets and goodies to go with it
Meal Voucher
Set of wine glasses

I dont particularly like giving cash however i dont want to get something that will not be used

what would you recommend

thanks in advance

BitterAndTwisted

I'd be thinking about a voucher for a department store so they can choose something for themselves. If they've been living together for a while, I expect they already have most of the essentials, so unless you know them particularly well, one of those gifts might be a duplication of things they already have.

Or just ask them what they would like/need

fluffnutter

I really like the idea of cinema or meal vouchers. Experiences are often nicer than things and, as you say, they'll have pretty much everything for the house anyway. Plus, if they've got a little one on the way, it will be nice for them to spend some time going out as a couple before the baby arrives.

Don't whatever you do buy a 'towel cake'. Perish the thought

go_cat

Another vote for cinema tickets or meal voucher

I haven't a clue what a towel cake is

McKneff

its a number of towels, curled up and round with maybe a ribbon round it to make it look like a tiered cake.

Theatre/cinema tickets and goodies.

fluffnutter

McKneff wrote: »

its a number of towels, curled up and round with maybe a ribbon round it to make it look like a tiered cake.

... if you can't eat something, then it shouldn't exist in cake form.

Plus a) people who've lived together for ages will already have towels and b) towels are the most boring things ever invented.

ecgirl07

I was at a charity comic market before Christmas and met this artist. He was doing a "Ill draw anything for £3" as well as selling his comics (which are fabby). OH got some Judge Dredd cartoons drawn for his friends and we put them in Ikea frames making really cool unique Christmas presents.

He does do commissions and if you look at his face book he has recently added a lovely little cartoon for a couple.

http://www.facebook.com/artbyneilslorance

edit to say i dont know how much neil charges for commissions so im not sure if thats in the £30 budget.

Erinnire

The price has gone up now but for my friends I brought them this: http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/letterfest/product/personalised-wedding-venue-portrait and brought a frame for it from Wilkinsons.

They had already been living together for a while, I got a picture of the church they got married in.

EDIT: There is some lovely unusual gifts here for all budgets: http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/gifts/shop-by-occasion/wedding

VK-2008

i love the towel cake idea but im planning on something similar for when baby is born which is only thing putting me off, - the thing is towels are practical and always are something people use

if they werent expecting then champagne and glasses would have done i thought. think i might just go for cinema or meal thing

VK-2008

thats lovely idea erin but it wouldnt suit who im buying it for but i will remember that for future gifts

fluffnutter

VK-2008 wrote: »

i love the towel cake idea but im planning on something similar for when baby is born which is only thing putting me off, - the thing is towels are practical and always are something people use

They might be, but people can be funny about things like that. Seriously, I'd hate it if someone bought me towels in case they weren't the type I'd buy myself. And I couldn't bring myself to use a towel that wasn't right so they'd be wasted