Brides: 4 Gifts You’ll Need to Give Before Your Wedding

As the bride-to-be, every week may start to feel like Christmas when the gifts start arriving at your doorstep throughout the wedding adventure. You’ll see the items fly off your registry and you’ll start to get paper cuts from the envelopes filled with delightful cards and generous gifts on your wedding day. But before you take inventory on the presents addressed to you and your fiancé, spend some time picking out the perfect gifts for a few key players helping you out with your wedding day. Here are four people you’ll want to wrap up something nice for.

 

1. Your Gals

When you select who you’re bridesmaid are, you’ll want to ask them to take on that fabulous role with a fun little gift and perhaps a sweet card too. But on the day of the wedding, you can also surprise them with another thank you for being here for me gift, whether it’s a piece of jewelry they can wear with their bridesmaid dress or something more casual like a robe to get ready in or a decorative tote bag to carry around their bridesmaid essential throughout the day.

 

2. Your Groom

Consider getting your groom a surprise gift to send over to him on the morning of the wedding. The gift can be something personal and meaningful between the two of you or something fun you think he’d like to wear on the wedding day – think funny socks or cufflinks.

 

3. Your Tag Team of Helpers

Maybe it’s your mother and the mother of the groom, or a close family member or friend, that’s been by your side through the planning process and helping you out with all the decision-making. To say a giant thank you to them for their time and brain power, you can get them a little gift, like a gift certificate to a spa or take them to get their nails done before the wedding.

 

4. Your Trusty Vendors

Most couples will tip their vendors on the day of the wedding, but if you don’t want to give them cash, you can get them a small gift instead, especially If they’ve gone above and beyond for you and your wedding day.