Wedding Gift Ideas for the Bride That She Will Adore

Weddings are a very special occasion, they celebrate the love that’s been built and cared for between two people, and it commemorates a big step in not just their lives as a couple, but as individuals as well. There’s a lot that goes into making a wedding happen, and depending on the size of the wedding things can get very hectic. But at the end of the day, it’s all about the couple and their joy. 

And one of the things that brings a lot of joy to the day is gifts! Gifts are given to the couple from their family, friends, and loved ones on this special day because they want to share in their love. There are a lot of ideas out there, in the past we’ve collected Last Minute Wedding Gifts Any Newlyweds Would Fall in Love With, but specifically in this instance we are talking wedding gift ideas for the bride. 

These gifts are a mix of both sentimental and fun, because we love a bit of both, especially on the wedding day!

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And speaking of GiftYa…

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Omni Hotels & Resorts has it all: restaurants with delicious dishes and drinks, award-winning spas, golf courses, top class amenities, amazing views, and rooms with beds that are as comfortable, or even more so, than your one back home. They create an entire atmosphere using all of these things and more to make your next vacation, or in the case honeymoon, something you’ll definitely want to come back to.

With locations all over the United States and Canada, you’ll be able to plan your next trip with the idea that you’re going to stay in a place that’s all about luxury. The wife-to-be will be able to celebrate many more milestones with her partner at any of the many Omni Hotel & Resorts.

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Starting Off With a Classic: Flowers!

It may be a cliche gift, but it’s a good cliche gift: flowers! Flowers can work for so many occasions and for a wedding you can really go all out! For the day full of all things love, flowers can really spell out what words cannot, especially if you are saying your thanks from abroad and can’t make it to the wedding itself. Now of course you can go for a regular flower arrangement:

• 1-800-Flowers is a service that creates stunning bouquets for an occasion or celebration- including weddings! They’ve got a wide range of premade ones, flowers that reflect the current season of the wedding, and gift baskets to go with said flowers.
• Farmgirl Flowers is another flower service that has a range of garden flowers that deliver from coast to coast. They are a women-led business that helps handcraft beautiful bouquets that reflect so much meaning.

And don’t forget a nice vase! Especially these customizable vases which you can have engraved with the couple’s names and date of the wedding on, this way even when the flowers eventually wilt away, the new blooms you put inside will still be in the vase of celebration:

• This Vera Wang Wedding Engraved Crystal Leaf Vase For Weddings & Anniversaries from Things Remembered for $160.00 is made of crystal and features this carved vine and leaf design on the vase itself. You can get it engraved with up to 4 lines of text in your choice of fonts. 

• Crystal Plus has a Pre-Designed Love Infinity Waterford Giftology Lismore Candy Bud Vase for $135.00 and it is made of Lead Crystal. There is also a pre-designed carving on the piece that adds a bit more “oofmp” to it. (And yes you can add the couple’s names and date on this as well).

A Wedding Star Map and Jewelry 

This is a gift we’ve recommended in the past, and that’s because we truly love it so much. The date of a wedding is special, it marks the occasion with the number(s) of the day you said “I do” and that date is celebrated not just that day, but for every year after when your subsequent anniversaries come up. 

So to properly recognize the day we have a star map! It’s a map of the stars that are up in the sky in that location on the day of the wedding, now obviously you won’t be able to have this gift made until after, but wedding gift don't always have to be an “on the day” thing:

The Night Sky is a service that makes not only custom star maps, but also custom star jewelry. But for now we are looking at just their maps and you can get their Night Sky Classic Star Map Print in four colors: Midnight Blue, Black, Grey Blue, and Aquamarine, along with four print types: Classic, Foil, Glow In The Dark, and Canvas. (Price varies depending on how you customize your map).

We said The Night Sky does jewelry and here it is! This is their Night Sky Sterling Silver Star Map Necklace which comes in a few different materials: Sterling Silver of course, along with Black Onyx, Green Onyx, 18k Gold Vermeil, and 9k Solid Gold. It also doesn’t have to be a necklace if the bride isn’t a necklace person, they also have a bracelet and locket option. (Price also varies depending on how you customize jewelry).

And if you’re looking to support independent artists, Etsy has a lot of options for a Star Map like:

This Custom Star Map Print from OurLoveTag on Etsy for $35.51+ where you can choose to get it as an unframed print, unframed canvas, framed print, framed matte print, or as a framed canvas. You can also choose sizes which range from 5x7 inches to 24x30 inches. Pick a style, add the names, a quote, location, date, and the coordinates if wanted.

A Shutterfly Gift Card

Weddings = LOTS of photos, so give the bride a place to place them all!

Buy A Shutterfly Gift Card

Shutterfly is the online service that specializes in all things photography and photography products. They can put your favorite photos on cups, mugs, cards, stationery, posters, blankets, pillows, and more. 

We know when a wedding occurs there’s going to be lots and lots of photos, so having a keepsake like a customizable album to open and DIY when you get all those photos back would be so fun!

Choose between one of their many templates of photo albums or build one from scratch where you can pick what kind of cover you want, the page material/finish, and any extras to make it more fancy. If you want to see an example of what their products look like check this one out:

This is the Watercolor Floral Wedding by Kim Thoa Photo Book that’s currently on sale for $59.88 (normally priced at $60.48). It comes in six different sizes: 8x8, 8x11, 10x10, 11x8, 11x14, and 12x12. There’s also four cover types and three page types: Soft Cover, Hard Cover - Glossy, Hard Cover - Matte, Premium Leather Cover, Standard Pages, Standard Layflat, and Deluxe Layflat.

You can Purchase a GiftYa Gift Card for Shutterfly here!

A Custom Metal Sign

Custom signs for the home have been all the rage recently and there are plenty out there to choose from, we looked around and thought this design we found on Amazon works really well as it’s sleek, well thought out, and can work with any living space:

This Custom Metal Sign for $19.52 is a cute gift for the bride to hang up in her home, you can add their names, their family name, and an “est date” to top it all off. With a little bit of filigree added around the middle to make it something that pops.

Frosted Shelf Décor

From the title you might not know what we mean by “Frosted Shelf Décor” and that’s quite alright, let us show you:

This is the Laurels of Love Personalized Wedding Frosted Shelf Décor from Personalization Mall on sale for $34.29 (normally priced at $48.99) and just like the last gift this can work quite well in any home. It’s a cute light-up art piece that will sit on a shelf or table anywhere in your home that represents the special day. You can add two lines of text and date. The one pictured above is the “Small” – there is also a “Large” one that is taller and available on their website.

The “look at you getting all married and shit” Candle

We couldn’t very well not add a novelty/funny gift idea off this list now could we? As we were crafting this gift guide we came across this amazing candle also from Amazon that definitely is an automatic “get” for the bride-to-be:

The BaubleDazz Funny Wedding Gift on sale for $15.99 (normally priced at $18.99) is a perfectly simple, yet fun, gift idea for the bride. This 7oz Lavender Scented Soy Wax Candle says “look at you getting married and shit” which is exactly the response anyone close to the bride will say cause it’s a huge milestone. Look at them getting married! They did that!

A Beaded Bracelet for Well Wishes

Just like metal home signs are all the rage right now, beaded bracelets are even more so on the trend and what better than to give someone a trendy bracelet that has well wishes engraved in the packaging:

The “MANVEN Something Blue for Bride to Be” bracelet for $15.99 on Amazon covers the “something blue” in the tradition and is again, a simple yes, but meaningful gift that any bride will appreciate, especially when they read the message that goes along with it.

A GiftYa Select Gift Card

Get the future bride a gift she can use at her favorite store or restaurant!

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We’ve sprinkled in a couple GiftYa Gift Cards in the guide so far, but this one is by far our favorite.

Here’s why:

If you have trouble trying to pick a gift card that the bride will actually like/use, then you might be interested in a GiftYa Select Gift Card as this gift card lets the bride choose the brand, that way you don’t have to make that decision. They get to!

All you have to do is decide how much money you want to give and the customization of the card itself. The recipient will then be able to do all of these things with said GiftYa Select card:

• Select a merchant of their choice (like maybe a food-delivery service, because cooking after a wedding is no fun)
• Activate to a Visa, Mastercard or Amex
• Use as an eGift
• Get a Visa gift card mailed to them
• Transfer to their Zelle Account

Pretty cool right?

You can Purchase a GiftYa Select Gift Card from GiftYa here!

And there you have it! Those are some wedding gift ideas for the bride that are both sentimental and fun. A mix of home additions and things they can use for after the wedding is what makes a gift guide good.