Engagement gift ideas on a budget please?

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So my sister has recently got engaged and I'm delighted for her. But also flat broke in the mouth of Christmas and in the midst of other financial things happening. I'm not in any major difficulties but it will be a tight few months and I need to budget carefully and tighten my belt overall.

Does anyone have any ideas of what I can do to mark this for her abs get fiancé with a nice engagement gift that won't break the bank but is still appropriately nice enough for a sibling? Thank you!!

Is an engagement gift even a thing?! I wouldn't get her anything! Just be happy and excited for her and offer your services as chief bridesmaid/maid of honour. Get them a card and write a lovely heartfelt message if you feel you must do something.

I don't think you need to buy them anything. Just congratulate them and express your wishes for their happiness.

Bottle of wine/champagne and a card. Nothing else needed.

Card and if you feel the need to buy a gift make it a bottle of fizz to share or a voucher for meal/cinema treat presuming they’re saving up for the wedding.

A lovely bunch of flowers and a card, that’s all you need to do

I got a terramundi money pot with “Wedding Fund” on it as an engagement gift. We thought it was a great gift and really useful as we ended up saving quite a lot of money in it!

You really don't need to. Do buy a Christmas gift for future BIL, to show him he is welcome and you already consider him family.

If you absolutely must, 2 champagne flutes and a bottle of fizz. But seriously if funds are a worry just don't.

A card. I appreciate that families and friendship circles do things differently, but amongst my friends, workplaces and family, no one that I know of has given or received an engagement gift. I really don't think it's a thing. Unless you know for certain that it is for her, in which case a bottle of wine.

Thanks all for the replies, I'm separated now but when I got engaged I was blown away by how many people were really generous and got us lovely gifts. Obviously we expected nothing other than a congrats so I thought this was the done thing now.

If you want to get her a little something, how about a “wedding planning” notebook? There’s various ones for sale, just a notebook really with “wedding planner/planning” written on the front. Just a token thing for her - and unless she works in events, or can afford to pay a planner, organising a wedding is a lot to get your head round.