What to give your daughter for a wedding?
The daughter's wedding is an event no less significant than her birth. In the wedding turmoil, it is important not to forget to prepare a gift for your daughter - just for her, and not a general present for the young, which you will present on your wedding day. A present for a daughter is both a desire to pamper her (after all, from now on this care will fall on the shoulders of her husband), and a manifestation of parental blessing, and a tradition.
Traditional gifts
If we turn to traditions, then one of the gifts to the daughter-bride from the parents can be considered a dowry. However, to be fair, this is not so much a gift as a contribution to the still not equipped life of young people. The dowry began to be prepared since the time when the bride was still a girl. Heirlooms, table and bed linen, cuts of elegant fabric, dishes, cutlery were placed in the treasured chest with a dowry.
Today's brides can also be presented with the same items to make it easier for her to equip her family nest. Today there is no need to save up a dowry, since everything you need can be bought in one day without any problems. At the same time, it is important to focus on the daughter's tastes, ask her about how she sees her house with her husband. Better yet, go and choose the dowry with the bride.
In old families, especially well-to-do families, on the day of marriage or on the eve, the mother passed the family treasure to her daughter. If you have one, present it to her. As an option, you can donate some kind of jewelry of your own, which has not so much a high material value as a great sacred value. As a last resort, you can purchase a new piece of jewelry, bequeathed to your daughter to make it a family.
It is better to present such a gift to a daughter for a wedding from a mother tete-a-tete, accompanied by instructions that will help in family life. You can take your daughter for a walk, to the spa, or simply prepare a homemade gala dinner. The goal here is not just to convey the jewel, but to confidentiality, to bless.
Instead of jewelry, if the family is a believer, you can donate a prayer book, a corresponding icon to the house of the young, so that it will protect the newly made family. But you cannot give your own pectoral cross: it is believed that this way you can convey your fate.
Instead of family jewelry from father and mother, you can present gold and silver coinsthat depict wedding scenes and motives - it will turn out symbolically. Coins can also be passed on to the next generation, and their value will increase.
Modern gifts
Even if you are not going to follow traditions, you should give your daughter-bride something that will help her in family life, will be useful or will remind her of her parents.
If funds allow, it's time to present the girl with an apartment, dacha or a car. This will turn out to be a good present not only from a practical point of view (a young family can immediately celebrate a housewarming party or use a donated car), but also from a legal point of view. Since the gift is received out of wedlock, the spouse will not officially be able to claim it. Of course, your daughter shouldn't talk about such details, but at the same time, your parental heart will be calm.
Household appliances are a good gift, and it is better if these are units that facilitate women's labor: a multicooker, a vacuum cleaner, a dishwasher, etc.
It is difficult to consider a bedding set as a gift for a daughter getting married. At the same time, it is a necessary present for a married couple. Get out of this by complementing your bedding set with a beautiful negligee for your daughter or a certificate for a lingerie store.
A good gift option is a set of dishes, but let it be a large and expensive set that you can use on holidays. A set of cutlery, for example, made of silver, with engraving, will also be suitable. You can put on the devices the names or initials of the young people, the date of their wedding.
If you want to make a more practical gift and present dishes for everyday use, it is better to purchase a gift certificate. The newly minted spouse will have great pleasure choosing dishes for her home.
Almost every girl will be delighted with a set of good cosmetics, perfume or a certificate in a store where you can buy them, especially since after organizing a wedding and family life, a girl may not have a free amount for such purchases.
Original gifts
In general, any (well, almost any) present can be made original by carefully considering how to present it. For example, you can give a pair of tea, or you can supplement it with a small tray with legs. These traditionally serve breakfast in bed. So you can subtly hint to the future son-in-law what should be your daughter's awakening and morning meal.
Another interesting gift option is a genealogy book. You can purchase ready-made options or create your own design by ordering the implementation of the idea from an advertising publisher. Such a book will become a real family heirloom, and filling it out will bring the newly-made spouses and their families closer together, because when filling out the pages of the book, you will need to get acquainted with relatives, learn their stories.
Money cannot be called an original gift, but this present, without a doubt, is necessary for a young family. However, even they can be presented in an original way. This requires a houseplant with small, fleshy, rounded leaves. People call it "money". Bills rolled into a tube should be tied to the branches of the money tree.
Certificates for various services and events can also be attributed to original presentations.It can be a certificate for two (for example, on a honeymoon trip or a trip to a restaurant of a newly-made bride and groom) or just for a daughter (a certificate to various shops, beauty salons, a photo studio, etc.).
One of the most popular gifts is, of course, the organization of a honeymoon. It is important to choose a travel itinerary taking into account the characters and preferences of a young family. You can present a certificate for a trip or tickets in an original way by adding a globe to the gift. In the place of the world where the young people are going to go, their photo is fixed.
Another option is to organize or financially support the organization of a bachelorette party. As a rule, the girl has to spend her "hard-earned money" on him. This kind of care and financial support from the parents will come in handy.
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