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Top 5 Gifts for the Bride

I know a number of people who enjoy the whole year’s worth of wedding planning, but with engagement parties, bridal showers, intermittent holidays (including birthdays and Christmas) and the wedding itself – it can be downright problematic trying to find something to give the bride on the day of her wedding or at any other time.

You can have a great bridal registry, but if you have more than 20 people purchasing various gifts, you’ll need to put more than 100 different items on it. That can be a bit more than cumbersome. So here are my five top gifts to give a bride to be and they don’t need to be on the bridal registry – she’ll likely enjoy them all the same.

Top 5 Gifts for the Bride

  • A Thin Digital Camera – Digital cameras are getting more and more compact. Every bride to be has a hundred different things to do and to remember. A thin digital camera will fit in her purse and let her take snaps of the different items she wants to remember so she can compare them all together later rather than trying to remember a certain shade or pattern
  • Comedy Gifts – A gift of comedy can be a funny book, a funny movie, or tickets to a comedy club – planning a wedding is stressful as all get out so giving them something to make them laugh is a great gift
  • A Day at the Spa – Go in with the other girls and pick up a spa gift certificate that lets her get a manicure, pedicure, hair done and even a massage – talk about shedding the stress and pampering her
  • Travel and Guide Books – Do you know where they are planning to have their honeymoon? Do they have more than one place they are talking about? Give her some guide and travel books to the different destinations so they can check out the different options and make their planning easier
  • Scrapbooking The Year of Planning – This takes some time and thought, but gather snap shots from their courtship, engagement party, wedding showers, holidays and more – all the things leading up to the wedding – put it together in a themed scrapbook celebrating their romance and leave some blank pages at the end where they can add their wedding photos – a great cover piece can be the engagement announcement or wedding invitation!

What other great gifts can you think of that are bride centric?

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About Heather Long

Heather Long is 35 years old and currently lives in Wylie, Texas. She has been a freelance writer for six years. Her husband and she met while working together at America Online over ten years ago. They have a beautiful daughter who just turned five years old. She is learning to read and preparing for kindergarten in the fall. An author of more than 300 articles and 500+ web copy pieces, Heather has also written three books as a ghostwriter. Empty Canoe Publishing accepted a novel of her own. A former horse breeder, Heather used to get most of her exercise outside. In late 2004, early 2005 Heather started studying fitness full time in order to get herself back into shape. Heather worked with a personal trainer for six months and works out regularly. She enjoys shaking up her routine and checking out new exercises. Her current favorites are the treadmill (she walks up to 90 minutes daily) and doing yoga for stretching. She also performs strength training two to three times a week. Her goals include performing in a marathon such as the Walk for Breast Cancer Awareness or Team in Training for Lymphoma research. She enjoys sharing her knowledge and experience through the fitness and marriage blogs.