Bride's gift from groom

I honestly didn't care if my husband gave me a gift or not on our wedding day, but he ended up surprising me with concert tickets!

We completely skipped that part. Our wedding/honeymoon were our gifts to us as a couple. I honestly didn't even know this was a thing until WeddingWire. What blew me away were his thoughtful and heartfelt vows.

We have decided not to do gifts for this exact reason! Lol We are already spending so much money on this wedding, and so much time planning, we didn’t want to have to worry about stressing over finding the “perfect” gift for one another on top of everything else. Instead, we will be exchanging letters to one another prior to the ceremony (we really wanted to do this since we are just taking traditional vows, and not writing our own), and our “gift” to one another will be our rings and our commitment to eachother. TBH, it has alleviated so much stress doing this!!

We also skipped gifts for one another at the wedding itself. We did get a bunch of stuff for "us" on our honeymoon.

We didn’t do gifts either. It was too much to add to the list. I wrote him a heartfelt card that took several hours, probably days to write.

I had no idea that gifts were a thing! My FH keeps telling me he wants to give me a kitten for our wedding gift haha

We aren't giving each other gifts, it seems redundant to us.

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Okay this is adorable though!

View Quoted Comment Thank you! Kind of hoping he does it haha

We’re going to skip buying each other gifts.

I wanted to write letters to each other and open them the morning of the wedding when we were apart. I also suggested a small gift, $15 or less. What he came up with was SO thoughtful and true to us as a couple.


If I were you I would talk to your soon to be hubby and discuss his expectations and your expectations. Is he expecting a gift? Good luck!!

Some ideas I've seen have been nice handbags, earring/ necklace/ bracelet sets, a fancy pair of shoes, scrap books, honeymoon experiences, a new watch, a nice robe, or a new dress (obviously not for the wedding lol). I've seen some really pretty necklaces that combine birthstones too that I think would make nice gifts if you like the color combo.

Mine wrote me a nice card and gave me diamond earrings the day of.

I gave my husband a pin with pictures of all of his loved ones, including our dog, who had passed away for him to wear inside his suit jacket. I gave it to him a few days before the wedding because it was so sentimental. He gifted me a diamond tennis bracelet before our first view.

Oddly I asked him not to give me anything my rings were enough and were a fortune in my opinion. . However I took special care to gift him his favorite Tag Huer Monaco watch that was stolen from his home years ago along with several other high quality watches. He has been wearing an Apple Watch ever since and I couldn’t stand looking at it on his arm any longer. Ironically, a week before the wedding I misplaced it and actually think I may have accidentally thrown it away as it was in packaging and I assumed it was trash. So I had to rush out and buy another. Yes expensive as hell but the look on his face when he received it was priceless!!

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I made the mistake of telling him I found the most perfect LITTLE gift for him for our wedding day. That sent him on a tailspin I explained that he didn't need to reciprocate, because he was gift enough for me ... but you know how that turned out. I was just curious what other brides did/received.

Well I dont know what he will give me he knows that I will love bc it's from him. He asked and I always tell to think out of the box or think of what you gave me before and tell him top that. Lol lol I thought we were the ones that do that but they do as well lol lol. But what ever he does give you that you will love it bc now he will he you husband so it will mean even more and love it

Initially I really wanted to do gifts, and got upset when my FH said "isn't the ring my gift to you" LOL. Looking back, yes...the ring is actually the gift and is more than enough. I requested we dig deep for our vows, write them by hand, and frame them after.

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Oh man, I did this too and now my fiancé is freaking out lol. I'm just giving him a tie patch to go on the backside of his tie with photos of each of his grandfathers on it. He's super sad that both have passed so they won't be in attendance and I figured this was a nice way to include them.

If we were spending more money on gifts I'd be getting him cuff links with our dogs on them lol.

My husband and I skipped the gifts for each other. We got married and will take a honeymoon. I don’t really need the gift when I have the man