Clever MNers please help me prove DH wrong as he thinks you won't be able to help.....

[PinkMartini]

Do we need to buy a wedding present and if so what?

Trying to make this brief but:

We're going to a black tie party to celebrate a wedding that happened a while ago overseas.(we weren't invited to the wedding) There was no mention in the invitation of a list anywhere and I've searched wrapit and Johnlewis and GTC and haven't found them.

The couple now live abroad - on the other side of the planet so aren't really going to be in our life a huge amount. We haven't met her.

The groom is a colleague of Dh's and came to our wedding (before he met his now wife) and bought us an off-list decanter.

But we don't want to get them somehting that'll be a nightmare to ship.

Knowing him, I don't think he'd be too impressed with a goodgifts style present - planting trees, giving a goat etc.
I've received these in the past and been delighted but I don't think he'd go for it.

Any advice please? If only to prove DH wrong!
TIA

If you get chamagne make sure you wrap it up well

Otheriwise it may get drunk by a guest looking for a drink at the party.

So wrap it with ribbons etc so it obvious it is a pressie iyswim

I presume you are taking a bottle anyway for party

The last thing we wanted when we got married at home (overseas) was bottles, picture frames, anything at all. The idea of a restaurant voucher in the home town is brilliant.

If you are going to get any of the above items, then please have them shipped directly to their home. Remember you are not the only one with this dilemma. I pressume they have invited quite a few people. HTH

Re: too many photo frames - good point. For us it was candlesticks - we could have burned the house down we had so many!