Mrs. Toucan, Boston
Age and Occupation: 25, Full-time Research Assistant, Part-time Graduate Student
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 25, Actuary
Engagement Date: February 18, 2007
Wedding Date: June 7, 2008
Blogging Since: November 07, 2007
Venue: St. Catherine of Genoa, Jin Asian Cuisine Restaurant
About Me: I’m a Gemini to the extreme. On one side, I’m a girly girl. I read countless bridal and fashion magazines, and have an obsession with keeping up with the latest Hollywood gossip. On the other side, I’m a sports fanatic. Despite being a full-time bride-to be, full-time research assistant, and part-time student, I’m also a full-time Red Sox fan from spring training to October, and a full-time Patriots fan from mini-camp to February. I devote almost as much time researching my for fantasy football team as researching for our wedding!
Gifts for the Groomsmen
July 17th, 2008 @ 4:21 pm by Mrs. Toucan
While I pretty much bought all my attendants’ gifts early, Mr. Toucan, well… didn’t. He wanted to find something really good for them, but was having a really hard time finding what exactly that was…
Around mid-March, I decided to help Mr. Toucan out. My favorite t-shirt store, Threadless was having a “Spring Cleaning Sale,” and I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to buy one of these shirts for each of the groomsmen (and also one for my groom!):
Video Games Ruined My Life T-shirt
As you can imagine, like Mr. Toucan, his dearest friends are pretty big gamers themselves. They all got a kick out of the t-shirts, and at $9 each, it was a definite score!
After this purchase, I had decided to let Mr. Toucan figure out the rest of the groomsmen’s gifts. Unfortunately, Mr. T still had a really hard time finding the perfect gift for his best friends. Week after week, month after month, he would come up with a great idea, only to find out that for some reason, the idea just didn’t work. For example, he thought of getting all of his groomsmen some fancy shades, and then realized 3 of the 4 wore glasses on a daily basis. He thought of beer of the month club, until he realized that one of the groomsmen lives in Spain, so that gift idea was nixed.
Poor, Mr. Toucan! By the week of our wedding, he still had nothing! I think that week, he was surprisingly more stressed out than I was, so I decided to help him out. I threw out idea after idea, and finally, we settled on this:
Swiss Army Knife Silver Money Clip (it also comes in Red and Black)
We had the money clip knives engraved with their names on the back, and clipped in some Best Buy gift cards.
Mr. Toucan ended up being really happy with what he gave them, and more importantly, the groomsmen seemed to really like them!
Who had the harder time buying gifts for their attendants, you or your groom?
