Wedding Gift Ideas

I'm working on an article on wedding gift ideas for westchester-weddings. Figure I can brainstorm here a bit.

We all want our wedding gifts to be original ideas, but it's getting harder to be unique all the time. I'm afraid that by the time I publish the new article, the stuff that was unique while I was writing it will be old hat.

Also, it can be tough to be sure what a couple already has without giving away your idea. If you're best friends with the bride, you probably know what SHE has, but maybe you don't have an inventory list on the groom and tossing his apartment while he's out is usually a bad idea.

You can always rely on the registry to be sure you don't duplicate something, but that's not very original. If you want to be original - stay away from the registry! They'll be expecting everything on it already and the surprise will be minimal.

Warning - although erotic gifts might be unusual, I'd recommend giving them at the bachelor/ette parties or showers. Not really appropriate next to the toaster oven from Aunt Mable at the wedding.

I like the idea of video cameras, those tiny ones that take stills and movies and record sound and are small enough to pass as a cell phone if you're into covert ops - if, of course, they don't already have one. One reason I like this idea is because it can record their new life together from the very beginning, and make it really easy to share their adventures with friends and family via email. And who knows, depending on how they use it it could turn out to be one of those unusual erotic gifts. Okay, that'll be one idea.

How about something totally unique to them, like getting pictures of them growing up from their families and matching them in a collage by age, as if they knew each other back then? This could be odd if there's a big age discrepency between the bride and groom though. Be weird if all his pictures were in black in white from back in the day while hers are in full color and include TeleTubbies. Ditto for matching them by year of photo taken - one of them in a crib and the other behind the wheel of a car could cause snickering.

You know what? Kites are fun. What about getting them a power kite, or a pair of them? This may not be a great idea for a city-dwelling couple (unless they weekend out of town), but there are tons of parks all over the place where they could have a blast re-learning how to fly a kite. There are also stunt kites available for the more coordinated, and just plain single string kites like from when we were kids. I like this, I think I'll use it in the article. Kite site to look at: Fun With Wind. This looks like so much fun, I might get MYSELF a kite for my birthday!

Okay, I better go pick out a kite, more wedding gift ideas can wait....