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Mrs. Sunbeam, San Francisco/Grove City, PA Age and Occupation: 26, Grad Student & Office Manager Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, Motion Designer Engagement Date: May 10, 2008 Wedding Date: September 2009 Venue: Harbison Chapel & The Maple Lane Farm About Me: Mr. Sunbeam and I are high school sweethearts. We both come from a small town in PA but are growing to love the California lifestyle. He loves wine and I love cheese... the perfect combination! When I'm not drooling over wedding blogs, I'm attending grad school, out being a foodie, or attempting to "walk" our cat at the park. Two things guaranteed to excite me are wedding cakes and breaking out my suitcase to travel. Mr. Sunbeam and I are personalizing our hometown wedding to celebrate our high school sweetheart status and PA roots with a few CA touches. After ten years of dating we couldn't be more excited to call each other husband and wife!
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Gifts for the Gals

October 15th, 2009 @ 1:28 pm by Mrs. Sunbeam

When it came to choosing a gift for my bridesmaids, I went with a traditional choice and gave each a piece of jewelry that they could wear to the wedding and hopefully for years to come. When choosing the pieces I had to take into consideration that I had given the girls free range to chose a dress of any style, which meant different necklines, and the fact that one of my ladies doesn’t have pierced ears. The final factor was finding something silver at a time when gold was all the rage, to go with our wedding colors.

Gifts for the Gals :  wedding bridesmaid gift Necklac05

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The first find was from the ever fabulous Anthropologie. I stalked the Anthro site for months waiting for something perfect to come along.

Since two of my ’maids had strapless dresses, one being the girl without pierced ears, I thought a necklace would work perfectly. At the time, the necklaces were just coming out so I had to do a rush order to my parents’ house and cross my fingers. They seemed to go over well and looked great for the wedding!

For the remaining three girls I really wanted to get earrings, but I was being picky over price and style. Then I came across Elephantine. Rachel, the gal behind the site, had made a few necklaces for her Etsy shop and I thought one of them would make a great pair of earrings! After a few emails back and forth, Rachel created three pairs of custom earrings and sent them to PA. Here’s how they turned out, with various shades of silver and various textures for character.

Gifts for the Gals :  wedding bridesmaid gift Rad0171

(photo by Rad Photographer)

I really love the earrings and wish I would have had some made for myself! What did you gift your ladies? Did you have anything custom made?

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18 Responses to “Gifts for the Gals”

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Miss Moonbeam (message)  1,732 posts, Bumble bee

Great choices!

 
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Mrs. Mouse
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Mrs. Mouse (message)  5,821 posts, Bee Keeper

Beautiful jewelry!

 
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thefuturemrsjewell
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thefuturemrsjewell (message)  1,829 posts, Buzzing bee

great gifts! I adore the really cute earrings… (said by another non-pierced ear gal!)

 
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Mrs. Espresso (message)  1,310 posts, Bumble bee

Perfect gifts! So classy!

 
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RAllise (message)  498 posts, Helper bee

Loving that necklace!

 
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I made necklaces for them (it’s super easy, and can be done mindlessly in front of the TV), and the one whose dress didn’t work with a necklace just wrapped it around her wrist three times as a bracelet.

I like what you picked! For me, I was going for not just handmade, but also something they honestly could wear again, even if the dresses went direct to eBay.

 
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Miss Spaniel (message)  6,809 posts, Busy Beekeeper

So pretty! I’m thinking of having brooches custom made, but haven’t committed to anything yet. ;)

 
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Miss French Fries (message)  2,218 posts, Buzzing bee

I was thinking jewelry, but I have no clue what I’m going to give them. I love those earrings, though!

 
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Miss Scissors (message)  7,343 posts, Busy Beekeeper

I love that jewelry. The necklace is particularly drool-worthy. :) Definitely wear-again pieces, as cliche as that sounds.

 
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Miss Paisley (message)  243 posts, Helper bee

A bunch of pretty jewelry just went on sale at Anthro, so I picked out pretty earrings for all the bridesmaids and earrings + necklace for my MOH. They’re so pretty, I even picked out a pair for myself and now I have to get my ears pierced to wear them!

 
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Jessie516 (message)  5,480 posts, Bee Keeper

Wow, great choice! Your gals will love them!

 
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KMSull (message)  6,442 posts, Bee Keeper

I LOVE Anthropologie! They have amazing stuff. Love the necklaces… good choices!

 
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pvaulter718
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pvaulter718 (message)  2,116 posts, Buzzing bee

They’re both really great choices! If I was your bridesmaid, I would be all about wearing either one!

 
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alishaneva
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alishaneva (message)  2,152 posts, Buzzing bee

Love those! I wish I had been gifted such great jewelry as a bridesmaid in the past!

 
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kmattso2
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kmattso2 (message)  1,046 posts, Bumble bee

Those earrings are so cute…love the necklace too!

 
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Miss Giraffe
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Miss Giraffe (message)  4,187 posts, Honey bee

I have no idea what I’m getting my girls yet. I have to come up with something :).

 
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Miss Poodle (message)  3,386 posts, Sugar bee

I Love the earnings!! SO CUTE!

 
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Ajewelry

I think its not so if the gift is precious and costly it represents your love otherwise not, but i believe that your gift should represent a cool aesthetic sense , by this your loved one would respect you a lot that you have searched that gift with effort and with the core of heart.

 

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Mrs. Sunbeam, San Francisco/Grove City, PA Age and Occupation: 26, Grad Student & Office Manager Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, Motion Designer Engagement Date: May 10, 2008 Wedding Date: September 2009 Venue: Harbison Chapel & The Maple Lane Farm About Me: Mr. Sunbeam and I are high school sweethearts. We both come from a small town in PA but are growing to love the California lifestyle. He loves wine and I love cheese... the perfect combination! When I'm not drooling over wedding blogs, I'm attending grad school, out being a foodie, or attempting to "walk" our cat at the park. Two things guaranteed to excite me are wedding cakes and breaking out my suitcase to travel. Mr. Sunbeam and I are personalizing our hometown wedding to celebrate our high school sweetheart status and PA roots with a few CA touches. After ten years of dating we couldn't be more excited to call each other husband and wife!

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