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Lately I’ve been thinking about what to give Mr. Blueberry for the wedding. Like so many other brides, I want his gift to be romantic, yet practical. Sentimental, yet not embarrassing.
I’ve tossed around a few ideas… cufflinks? He didn’t really express any interest in those. Money clip? Too groomsman-ish. Wristwatch? He doesn’t like things on his wrists, and I already gave him a pocket watch (which he loves). All my other gift ideas are more “birthday” or “Christmas,” not really “wedding.” (And he reads this, so I’m not listing those ideas here :P).
Maybe we’ll just forego the wedding day gifts to each other. Hey, it’ll save money. Or, we can exchange gifts sometime other than the “bridesmaid delivers it 15 minutes before the ceremony begins” thing. That will give us more freedom as to what we can give–it won’t necessarily have to be something small for him to wear on his person, and can reflect his personality more :).
What did you give/are you giving your FI for the wedding?
i really love the idea of writing each other a handwritten note right before the wedding. there’s something about a handwritten letter from the heart that really gets me :).
i think most brides and grooms are most likely at a point where they know they love and appreciate one another with or without a tangible and/or elaborate gift.
Well, he’s getting cufflinks before the wedding because (and I was surprised by this) he actually WANTS them. Shocker. Anyway, I’m getting my license as a gift to him. Sad that it had to come to that. 
I got my husband an iPod. If you order online, there is free engraving. So I had engraved with his name and part of our song (which is also engraved on our wedding bands).
He got me tickets to see Spamalot on our honeymoon. Amazing seats, I must add.
He gave me a handwritten card and a box of my favorite candy, which I had given up for 3 months before the wedding. I ripped right into that box! We have the pictures of me reading the card and opening the gift. Those picutres really do say 1000 words about our relationship. I forgot and didnt get him anything….
I’m thinking about an old fashioned pocket watch with a compass and if not that, just a pocket watch style compass with something engraved on it. FI is a geologist and loves to travel, so I think he might enjoy that.
I’m not giving him anything. But we’re not the types to give each other anything anyway on special occasions.
I got him a framed print by a great local artist. It’s hanging in our living room now.
I am getting him a new watch. I had bought him a new watch for his first birthday we were together, and a few years ago he lost it. Since we didn’t have much money at the time, we got a cheap replacement, which he is still wearing. He will be graduating college and starting a new career a month before the wedding, so I want him to have a nice watch.
I got him a pair of cufflinks and a humidor filled with cigars.
I’m getting him a new bed for us! We slept on an old futon for a long time, then assembled (poorly) an antique bed my parents gave me that is soooo wobbly and creaky and shorter than our legs, that I finally had to agree to his new bed request for the wedding. Even though we’ve been living together for 3+ years, I like the idea of starting our “new life” symbolically with a new bed at least! We probably won’t get it for a few months afterwards though since we’re planning to move fairly soon and have no real desire to assemble and unassemble beds that much!
I think we’re going to exchange handwritten notes to each other before the wedding. I don’t think there’s anything he wants (not a cufflinks type of guy) and I already have everything I want. =D
We are both in the financial industry so I custom-designed him a tombstone — not the kind for burials, but the kind to commemorate business deals (mergers & acquisitions). It’s a piece of lucite with colored graphics. One side shows our names as a “merger” (recognizing our former mutual employer as the financial sponsor) and the other side shows the timeline of our literally decades-long relationship, highlighting key events leading up to the wedding, with our first meeting being the “IPO.” It can be displayed at the morning-after brunch, and then in our china cabinet. : ) I think he will love it and be surprised. It was done by a company that specializes in this for the M&A industry, so it looks very authentic, and I had them keep to the style of a routine M&A tombstone.
This idea could be applied to any kind of momento — tickets, brochures, fabric from the dress you wore your first date, etc. — captured in a lucite slab, framed, or arranged in a shadow box. It’s not too expensive, just requires some thought and planning ahead.
i would like to get him an antique hamilton watch. he just started wearing a wristwatch again after carrying a pocketwatch for years.
i am particularly interested in a hamilton because he also loves trains (he proposed to me after we spent all day at a train museum).
I have no idea! He is not really one for jewelry, etc. I do like the idea of the handwritten note.
FI’s bday is 10 days after our wedding, so I need to come up with that, too.
We agreed to keep it to the roses we gave each other during the rose exchange portion of our ceremony. It’s the one part that kind of got me a bit misty-eyed, anyway. Other than that, I gave the wedding and he’s giving the honeymoon. What more do we need right now, anyway?
Since my hubby and I were engaged for over 3 years (long distance for most of that), I wrote to him in a journal about our relationship, the wedding, and just general thoughts and mushy things. I saved all the letters/cards he sent me and stuck them in the pages. I gave him the two journals at the rehearsal dinner and he said he stayed up until 3am reading them the night before the wedding. We still like to leaf through it and remember some of the things we went through during our engagment. Big hit!
I wrote my hubby a hand written note. Like you, I couldn’t think of anything else to get him…But really, the note was so much more meaninful to him than anything I could buy.
Kristina
I’m planning to get him a map - not sure if I’ll do a contemporary map or go for an antique map. He loves maps and I figure it’s something we can hang in our house and enjoy together.
Is he into sports? A few years ago I gave FI an autographed poster of his favorite Yankee. Maybe something along those lines.
Or an activity he can do together after the honeymoon? My sister gave her husband a day at a race track - testing out race cars.
My husband planned a golf outing the friday before the wedding. So I snuck his clubs away and had them re-gripped and re-shafted for him. You could also do an “i owe you” gift.
Like on your honeymoon, you could arrange a special outing or activity and that could be your gift.
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Mrs. Blueberry, Kansas City Age and Occupation in 06: 21, Full-time Student Fiance's Age and Occupation: 23, Full-time Student Engagement Date: September 10, 2005 Wedding Date: May 25, 2007 Venue: Wynbrick Center - a historic mansion in my hometown. About Me: We're having an intimate, 125-ish person wedding with a full-blown dessert reception. When I'm not obsessing over wedding stuff or studying for my BA in English, I'm usually playing with our two kitty cats, blogging, doing crafty things, or hanging out with Mr. Blueberry!
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