Unique Wedding Gifts ideas

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My close friends are getting married soon and I want to buy them a special gift.

Would really appreciate some ideas please? I have a budget of £100-£150 although the gift doesn't have to be that much as I will put the rest of the money in their card.

Everyone I ask recommends a personalised photo frame which sounds nice but also like they might end up with afew. Has anyone recently got married and received a nice gift?

I agree about the tat. Most of that personalised stuff is just rubbish.

Very close family friends gave my husband and I something very similar to the photo. Mine is marble and has graced our kitchen for 28 years. It's beautiful and practical. That's what I always aim for in a wedding gift unless I'm just giving cash.

Don’t they have a wedding list?

I wasn't even alive in the 80s have been to several weddings recently where the couple had been living together for a while and they still had a list, presumably because they know people will still want to get them a present but they don’t want to end up with dozens of photo frames. They’re just online lists nowadays and usually also have the option of putting money towards the honeymoon or a large purchase like a new piece of furniture.

Unless you know them extremely well to be able to buy a specific brand or a piece of art from an artist they love, just give the cash.

@Fuuf we got married 23 years ago, moved together 3 years prior and had everything new. We were told a wedding list would be the best idea.

Put lots of unusual stuff on it like a beautiful dinner service in the shape of fish and sea animals (we love eating fish) and DH's uncle bought the whole lot.
We still have the dishes and one cast iron frying pan we love to use, can't remember who bought it but it is a brilliant one.

A personalised photo frame is tat! They’d probably be more grateful for the money, or even a voucher?

Unless you know their taste REALLY well (like they're constantly complimenting everything in your home), I'd just go vouchers/ cash. We got mostly vouchers and it was so nice to go shopping together and fill in gaps in what our house was missing. We got a few selected things: eg a very nice expensive picnic rug (which I do love), mug set (which is okay, not quite to my taste), placemat set (which was not to my taste and we already had some nicer ones so I donated it). If you do choose to buy something, whatever you do don't ask about it later because they might have donated it and then it's awkward all around.

Friends of ours made us a 'date night, morning after', hamper, it had coffee mugs, nice posh coffee, some vintage champagne glasses, a bottle of fizz, some popcorn, nice chocolates, fluffy socks for us both, and some pyjamas for my little ds who was three months when we married. It wasn't the most expensive gift we received but it was definitely the most thoughtful. And we still use the coffee mugs and the champagne glasses.

Unless you’re certain it won’t end up in the charity shop, save your hard-earned. They’d prefer a voucher or money I imagine.

Married 7ish years. The stuff we still like and use are some local pottery (jug/vase, goblets & butter dish), le creuset mug & cafetiere set and some crystal vases and tea light holders. Got a couple of those personalised gifts etc and the only one I loved & kept was very unusual and handmade by a good friend.

Lots of our friends bought us dates as wedding gifts... restaurant vouchers, activity vouchers, spa vouchers, afternoon tea vouchers, theatre vouchers. Absolutely loved it!

This might be some people's idea of tat but I love ours - we got a Scottish wedding quaich- inscribed with our wedding date - it's unusual and a talking point - we aren't Scottish but the friends who bought it are Scottish so we love it

quaichshop.co.uk/quaich-wedding-ceremony/

"Nuremberg Bridal Cup 17 cm high - Pewter beer steins - Nr. NL 8591-Z" https://www.erzgebirge.co.uk/details-Pewter-beer-steins-Nuremberg-Bridal-Cup-17-cm-high.asp?AID=9070&GID=570

I love these

"Alessi Juicy Salif Citrus Squeezer" https://www.johnlewis.com/alessi-juicy-salif-citrus-squeezer/p181439?s_ppc=2dx_mixed_home_BAU&tmad=c&tmcampid=2&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22439628441&gbraid=0AAAAAD2el1yJWzmqn2gC0uZiCLE8o4OjP&gclid=Cj0KCQjws4fEBhD-ARIsACC3d2_xHTQYxyqyhGVXh5sRu0epVN7iPwPuhQkdIQPbpIFXyBqEzGwpEYEaAhitEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

And this

Neither remotely practical

Frankly if they have a list buy from that. All the presents we got that were not from our list were not at all our taste and were probably regifted. Only one was amazing: an artist who made us beautiful silver candlesticks she made herself.
I did buy a friend a painting I bought from a student when I worked at a graduate art school, but I knew her very very well and 30 years later has moved three times and is always in a prominent spot.