Wedding
gifts are an essential part of any wedding.
It’s
good to be able to come up with a list of things
that you and your partner will need to start
your married life in the best possible way.
But supposing you have already been living together
for some time? Many modern couples do live together
before making the decision to get married. And
this means that the traditional idea of receiving
wedding
gifts to help you set up your first home
together needs some rethinking.
You will probably find it best to sit down with
your partner to think about what you still need
in your home. Go through each room in turn and
jot down anything obvious that is required. For
example you might want a new duvet and a nice new
duvet cover set for the bedroom. This is a good
option even though you will have some sets already.
You could think of your wedding gift list as an
opportunity to replace certain things that you
don’t like or which are coming to the end
of their useful life in your home too. Explore
all the usual haunts and set up your wedding gift
list in the best possible place.
It is also becoming more popular to give the happy
couple money at their wedding. This has led to
some couples coming up with the idea of asking
for a donation towards their honeymoon. It will
already have been bought and paid for by the time
of the wedding of course, but you can still ask
people to donate money towards it and put the money
in your bank account.
Gift cards are another good idea. Since it is
very likely that smaller gift ideas will be exactly
the things you already have – such as the
obligatory toaster for example – you can
set your hearts on something larger instead if
you wish. For example you might both need a new
leather three piece suite. This is too expensive
to expect one person to buy, so ask for gift cards
to go towards the one you want for the specific
store you will buy it from. This way people can
donate whatever they can afford, and you should
end up with a significant chunk of money to put
towards your desired purchase.
Another idea that some couples who truly do have
everything are considering is to donate money to
a charity. In most cases you will have one or two
charities that you both particularly support, so
you can ask for donations to one or both of these.
There are websites that help you in this respect
so you can set up a gift list in exactly the same
way as you would normally. The only difference
is that the money will go to charity instead of
to you.
As you can see there are lots of ideas for creating
your wedding
gift list if you already live together.
And you can have great fun deciding what to put
on it!
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