To ask for help with wedding gift for colleague?

[Dinosauraddict]

Hi, I really need some help, so hope IANBU to ask here! My colleague is getting married, we all get on but aren't close (none of us socialise outside of work, very different characters, clearly aren't going to wedding etc). I've done a team card and collection so we can wish them congratulations and got about £85 which is great. Colleague is male, none of us have ever met his STBDW. I need to get something this weekend, and I really need ideas??? So far options I'm considering include - nice champagne flutes, maybe some chocolates or fizz, perhaps a jokey book about married life? I am married and found we got quite a lot of duplicated stuff (Mr & Mrs mugs in particular) so want to avoid that. The couple have lived together for years, own their own home so don't need starter kit, and they haven't asked for anything particular. If there was a gift registry I wouldn't know about it (and this is a surprise so I don't want to ask). Sorry for length - but help?

Just give them the cash.

I would go for a bottle of champagne and a John Lewis voucher! Don't buy loads of tat.

Play it safe and get department store vouchers? John Lewis? That way they can buy something for the home or split them if they need something personal like clothes?

The cash

What does everyone who donate want to do? I would give them all a choice of a) giving them the cash left after card as a gift.
B) bubbles/champagne and any cash leftover as a gift
Or any other suggestions

I think cash and or bubbles

I'd give money.

On my last day at work before my wedding they gave us a big bottle of champagne. Neither of us like champagne so it will end up being regifted.

Bottle of champagne and a voucher.

Cash in a card or John Lewis or similar voucher.

Do you know where they are going on honeymoon? My work gave me local currency

I second the John Lewis vouchers.

I would also say some nice champagne and a JL voucher. It’s very hard to buy to suit the taste of people you don’t know well (and even those you do sometimes!).

Bottle of champers some nice chocs and a £50 voucher for a department store. All wrapped up in cellophane and ribbon. I'd be chuffed with that.

I fail to see how champagne flutes and a jokey book is better than Mr & Mrs mugs??? I hate tat of other people's choosing so I'd go for cash or vouchers!

No champagne either! Maybe they don't drink!

Everyone who's given money has agreed we'll get an actual 'gift' and there's a mini presentation thing in the office next week so I need something physical to give them. (I got a lovely well thought through meaningful present for a colleague who got married last year and I think I'm expected to replicate that, but I knew that colleague very well.) I have a John Lewis in my area as was thinking of hitting there tomorrow for something nice, it's just the 'what'. I could include a gift receipt in case they hate it? I don't know where they're going on honeymoon unfortunately.

Just get them a gift voucher for John Lewis and be done with it.

@tupperwaretowers - I am happy to wrap anything in cellophane and a large ribbon!

@SRK16 - it really is hard when you don't know their taste, it's not like I've ever seen their house or anything!

Photo frame, you can’t go wrong with a reasonably plain photo frame.

Do u have an engraving shop. We received a lovely engraved frame with our names and wedding date on. Lovely and bit for when we get our pics back.

@edwinbear and @Qwerty19 that's a really nice idea. I think Timpsons do engraving!

Cash Cash CASH! Or vouchers, but yes, just the money.

Booze is a no no - anything that comes into this house goes straight out in a raffle.

Why people persist in buying presents when they have no idea of the couples likes or tastes or preferences, its just buying stuff for stuffs sake - don't engrave it - they cant recycle anything personalised

Do u have an engraving shop. We received a lovely engraved frame with our names and wedding date on. Lovely and bit for when we get our pics back.

Noooooo do not get engraved tat!! They can’t regift it and will just end up chucking it in the bin

Just get vouchers OP. They’d definitely want those over some glasses that don’t match their existing set or some jokey gift that will end up in the bin

Can’t go wrong with a beautifully wrapped Marinoni frame from Liberty’s

Photo frame.