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Wedding present advice please

mattc

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Need some help.

Only son of one of my best friends is getting married next year. We've been invited for a couple of weeks to Thailand and EVERYTHING is on my mate once we land. He will literally be spending millions on the event (not quite Ambani standards but you get the idea).

You can therefore imagine the only son has never wanted for anything in his life (though he is not spoilt).

So my problem is what do you buy a 28 yr old and his wife who have everything they want already.

If it helps they both lived in London for a number of years so have some affinity to that part of the world.

And yes, I have suggested to my mate he hire Mike Tyson for the wedding.
 
Hard to say without knowing your budget, but I'd go for something unique and personal, maybe a drawing or painting of the couples favourite pet/treasured object?
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My son got married this year and it reminded me again that while people get anxious about giving the right gift, the couple are so overwhelmed by the whole affair that each individual gift becomes insignificant.

The important thing is to wish them well and try to keep it personal.
 
I still cherish a beautiful passport holder I was given for my 21st, and an engraved pen.

A friend of mine is a snake charmer, and his bride to be a funeral director, so we bought matching bathroom towels, labelled Hiss and Hearse. And a coat for myself!
 
Hard to say without knowing your budget, but I'd go for something unique and personal, maybe a drawing or painting of the couples favourite pet/treasured object?
Given the generosity of the whole event I thought somewhere between £500-1000.

I had considered having something unique made but don't know what!

As far as our generous host goes he's asked me to bring some Chateau Musar so he and I can drink it together one of the evenings.

He's being very kind to my wife too. When he realised this whole wedding coincided with her birthday he thought that was fantastic and he's having the wedding planners arrange a special day for her too.
 
Given the generosity of the whole event I thought somewhere between £500-1000.

I had considered having something unique made but don't know what!

As far as our generous host goes he's asked me to bring some Chateau Musar so he and I can drink it together one of the evenings.

He's being very kind to my wife too. When he realised this whole wedding coincided with her birthday he thought that was fantastic and he's having the wedding planners arrange a special day for her too.
Does your friend want another friend? I would be glad to volunteer! 😲
 
Posh weddings, nice .👍

Mate of mine wife works for a local catering firm , Few years back there was a BIG wedding in the vicinity . The catering company she worked for got the gig....

Catering for the wedding caterers, thats right , the wedding caterers had their meals prepared by someone else so as not to interfere with their work for the bride and groom .
 
I think the suggestion of something personal is the best idea, painting based on a photo (them, a pet or their house), sculpture or even quality bed linen set. I would then take a photo of said item, pop in an envelope and hand them that on the day to save transporting and possible damage
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We got married abroad and therefore didn’t ask for gifts because we thought that our friends and family had spent enough by coming out for the wedding.
The fact that they were there was enough for us.
I wish you’d had a word with my missus before we went to the USA for her nephew’s wedding a couple of months ago. I ended up consoling myself with the fact that the expensive wedding present (a large donation to their honeymoon fund) cost just a fraction of the trip.
 
I wish you’d had a word with my missus before we went to the USA for her nephew’s wedding a couple of months ago. I ended up consoling myself with the fact that the expensive wedding present (a large donation to their honeymoon fund) cost just a fraction of the trip.
The situation wasn’t helped with my younger brother getting married 8 weeks before us in Las Vegas!!
We’re quite closely aged so we’ve got a lot of mutual friends. This meant most of our guests holiday allowance for 2003 was taken up with weddings in Vegas and Skiathos with a weeks skiing in St Anton for a combined stag do!!
 
We give 50 quid cash enclosed in a card to friends of family - up to 250 cash card closer relations - nephews/nieces and recently my
step-brother got married, we gave 1k. Just tell the person re cash in car, not the amount but there is cash in there

Years ago, we'd search high an low for gifts, and what we like they not like. With the cost of living (not in your mates sons' case) - money helps.
Almost of all of my family is ok, ie not living hand to mouth, they all have their own homes, a couple are rich, not super rich but worth several mills and live in mansions - however, we treat all of them the same, ie not looking how rich or not as the case may be, but it is getting more accepted in my culture that giving cash and in case of very close family, a token present along with it often costing in the region of 100 - it saves us time search for presents and it saves the recipient of the gift possibly just leaving it in the cupboard or tossing it in the bin🤣

Therefore, he can spend/save, top up on something they want/enjoy.

Enjoy your wedding
 
Could you commission a good local artist to paint a scene of where they first met?
 
and don’t forget that whatever gift you choose, it might have to be transported there and back..

Silly question maybe, but what happens about import VAT etc. when the happy couple come back into the UK with loads of stuff they've been given abroad? :dk:
 

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