bridesmaid gifts
It might be early for me to be worrying so much about this but.. I've been doing a lot of looking around online for bridesmaid gifts and I'm having some trouble figuring out what to do! First let me just describe my bridal party:
MOH: tall, masculine lesbian, wearing a suit in the wedding. does not do girly. cannot buy her a cute clutch or feminine jewelry or anything like that.
Attendant#2: oldest sister, kind of a hippy/tomboy, straight but not into much of anything girly. outdoorsy, all about being eco-conscious (she takes her own mason jar to coffee shops ok. not even one of those normal reusable plastic or metal to-go mugs. a glass mason jar with a screw-top lid. ok.).
Attendant#3: other older sister, totally opposite in terms of personality from oldest sister. Girly type things ok for her, but nothing Too girly.
Attendant #4: old college roommate. completely different from any of the above, this girl is the definition of feminine class. Never leaves the house undone up. A place for everything and everything in its place kind of a girl. Could totally do the traditional bridesmaid gifts for her, or I could do a more personalized thing.
Sooo HALP. Clearly the Sugared Lemon Clutch (pictured above) from eclu would not work as a gift for all of them, as much as I love it. So I've been trying to find a way to get Something that's basically the same to give to all of them (like a bag or a neato In Touch Clutch), and then maybe something else that's personal. But I don't have a huuuge budget for this.
I could of course just find a necklace that would suit the three more feminine bridesmaids (like THIS? LOVE), and then some kind of nice accessory for my MOH (personalized belt? pricey but awesomely androgynous ring?). I just want to do more than that. But I can't be spending $100 on each girl so I've got to narrow down my ideas.
What are you all thinking about doing for your attendants/bridesmaids/whatever-you're-calling-them?
Labels: Bridesmaids gifts, Miss Fairfax
posted by Miss Fairfax at 2:12 PM
5 Comments:
hmm, based solely on what i gave my girls the shoe pad things might work (you know, those super awesome things that make ANY shoe comfy), mugs with their initial & a Dunkin GC stuffed in it... maybe something like that?
everyone always tends toward things for their BMs to wear... what about something they could just use?
i know that's not a tremendous help but i hope it maybe stirs up some other ideas.
i gave my girls:
*flip flops to wear at the wedding (and after! they were navy and had a plastic flower on them from JCrew)
*green shawls (from Target) because a couple of the girls had bare shoulders that weren't allowed at the ceremony)
*manis/pedis - i took them the day before the wedding to get our nails done.
Total spent ~$70/ea. I went a little overboard but hubs got his groomsmen a hot towel shave at the Grooming Lounge and paid for the bowties they wore in the wedding.
These were a little "girlier" than what you're looking though ;)
I haven't thought that far in advance yet. I'm a little worried because my bridesmaids run the gamut and I have one that is totally allergic to all metal (bye bye jewelry). I'm about 11 months out from my wedding though so I'm not panicking... yet :)
This etsy shop has really neat cufflinks...we have a girl wearing a suit too, but she is a GM, we are getting all the GMs cufflinks...maybe that is something you can get the one BM that is wearing a suit
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5051117
I am trying to finalize this whole gift thing myself...I figure it is never too early to check off the little things...I just finished the BM gifts with pashminas I got off ebay...8 silk pashminas for $50!
all great suggestions, thanks everyone! we've been looking at that etsy shop for cufflinks for the groom, hadn't occurred to me to get them for my MOH. that's a great possibility.
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