Gift for Brothers Engagement

Flan45

Hi,

Would appreciate a bit of advice, what would people recommend as a gift for a brother and soon to be sister in law on their engagement?

Thanks

Waesfjord

a bottle of bubbly.

simple as.

hunnymonster

please don't get them glasses or photo frames..... Or if you do decide to go down that route, come take a look in our attic, we've boxes of un-used one's from when we got engaged. I really don't know why people thin we might need these things.

I would give them a couple of quid in a card (with a sentiment of a helping hand with saving for the event) and maybe make an I.O.U. promising to help with dress shopping/venue screening/general duties in the run up to the wedding. When planning a wedding, it's absolutely invaluable to have someone who just asks "what do you need done" without any "opinions|" that have to be aired.

Along the lines of bubbly (which I like as a suggestion) other things that will be used include a voucher for a meal (if you know where they are considering for their reception, that would be ideal. They can go and get an idea if they like the place) or a weekend away if you're flush.

The best pressie we got was silverware, not something you could guess in advance, but rather than guess, my mum asked me what I would like, that I could keep for a lifetime and that I would never spend the money on myself. The worst was a wild rose (colour we both hate) in a cracked flowerpot filled will mud taken from our own garden!


ATEOTD though, we don't know the couple so the above are just suggestions from my own experience. That a think about the people involved, they might well prefer a photo frame.

tatli_lokma

Personally I wouldn't go overboard on engagement gifts - it's nice that you want to give something, but I don't think is expected or necessary. The idea of the meal voucher is a nice one, or equally a voucher for somewhere they can use it in the wedding - eg blacktie for suits, or a cake shop for the wedding cake/jewellers so they can put it towards the wedding rings etc etc. But that only works if its not a long engagement and they have already started making these types of decisions.

Another nice idea would be a voucher for a photographer so they could get a professional engagement photo done. my MIL and SIL gave this to us and we have a lovely photo of us which shows the ring. Its nice cos other than our wedding photos every other photo of us as a couple are taken at parties etc and are nice but not so nice that you would frame them! This was the first photo we got that was actually nice enough to frame! (I'll admit I was a bit nervous and wooden at first in front of the camera, esp when the photographer initially wanted to do some cheesy lovvie dovy gazing into each others eyes type shots, but once we'd established thats not our thing and got him to take a more relaxed 'natural' looking shot it was fine.)

Flan45

Thanks for the replies.