Your Wedding Gift List is your chance to fill your home with coordinated things. Take time to choose the styles and colours you will love for a lifetime.
Traditionally, the Gift List helped couples to set- up home together. However, nowadays, with many couples already living together, organising a list is essential to avoid receiving something you already have. Sending your list with your invitation is quite acceptable as not only do you create a worry free, more enjoyable shopping experience for family and friends, you are also more likely to receive your preferred gifts.
You can set up a Wedding Gift List with independent retailers, department stores, DIY outlets, and through specialist on-line wedding gift companies. From their product ranges you choose the gifts you want to be included on your individual list. Family and friends can then either visit the store, order on the phone or on the internet.
The supplier will then administer this list for you, deleting gifts purchased and noting who bought what, ready for your thank you cards. Gifts will then either be delivered to your guests or to you. (Most specialist wedding list suppliers will allow you to exchange items before they are delivered to you.)
Not all your guests will choose to buy from your Gift List; they may already have a gift in mind for you. But at least youve made it easier for everyone else.
Alternatively, rather than a gift list you could have a wish list where monetary contributions are made to a  special project, for example, a garden landscape or a professional interior design for a room in your house. Another idea is to contact your travel agent; many offer a personalised gift card service where guests can make contributions to your honeymoon.
They administer the list for you and may even give discounts off your holiday booking.
To the couple who really do have everything, consider setting up donations to your favourite charity and ask a representative of the charity to collect the monies on your wedding day.
So, whether you have a gift list or a wish list or, one of each, accept all gifts with good grace.
- Decide on who will provide your Gift List/Wish List well in advance as some companies take only a limited number of clients
- Decide on the gifts/wishes to be included at least six months before your wedding day and definitely before sending out your invitations
- Choose gifts from all price ranges. Include some from your wish list - several guests could club together to buy you that sauna for the garden!
- Ask your venue to provide a safe place for gifts brought along on the day and for a safety deposit box to store any cheques or vouchers you may receive
- Appoint someone, usually the Best Man, to be responsible for transporting your gifts
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