Your wedding day is more memorable if you let other people at your feel they are being appreciated. It is always an etiquette to end the wedding by thanking everybody who spend their time and support to the one very special moment of your life. After all, there are several people at your wedding, particularly your groomsmen, best man, bridesmaids and maid of honor, who will do anything to make your big day as perfect as possible. A groomsman or best man will be proud of his new role as the groom’s confidant. The ring bearer is at the ready always. However, despite of their their priceless support, they aren’t expecting anything in return. So you want to commemorate the bond of friendship towards them by giving them special wedding gifts. And you want to carefully choose special wedding gifts for both male and female attendants, as careful as choosing a perfect ring for your bride.

You want to show how thankful you are having them around at your wedding, as well as thanking them for their support and advices. Also, you wan to thank them for all the good times you have shared with them. With one special gift for each of these people, you have shown them that they really have a special place in your heart.

Perhaps they have unwrapped many keepsakes long ago, some were from their family, some were from their high school friends, and others are from their college buddies. It may not make any difference, but the mere fact that there is a conveying thought within each gifts is what really matters most.

The bride and the groom may give their wedding gifts to their attendants during pre-wedding parties. The groom may hand a gift to each of his groomsmen at the rehearsal party. This is the groom’s last gathering with family and friends before the wedding, therefore it is the perfect time for him to commemorate the past while looking for to the future. Just like the groom, the bride may also give gifts to her bridesmaids and maid of honor at this time.

When choosing wedding gifts for your ever supportive attendants, make sure to choose gifts that will obviously appreciated. This is where personal and unique gifts work best. For younger attendants like the ring bearer and flower girls, something less sophisticated might appeal to their youth. Gifts for groomsmen and bridesmaids can be identical to one another. However, gifts for best man and maid of honor should be set apart. If you want to make a great impact, consider choosing gifts that are related to each of their interests, likes and hobbies.

However, before you dream of giving the most special gifts to those people at your wedding, make sure you have enough budget to spend. Wedding these days can really cost a fortune, so you want to somehow cut your wedding expenses by giving inexpensive bridesmaids gifts, groomsmen gifts, as well as affordable wedding favors for your guests. Having an inexpensive wedding ideas, however, doesn’t mean you have to compromise the quality of keepsakes you want to give. In fact, there are inexpensive wedding ideas yet can still be very beautiful and appreciable for everyone.

Janet R.
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11 Responses to “Inexpensive Way of Saying Thank You at Your Wedding”

1. Bunnypup says:

   February 12, 2011 at 11:19 pm

   How do you get over the fact that your wedding day sort of…bombed?
   First off, I should start by saying that me and my husband are very lucky, and I’m very grateful to my in-laws, who live in a different country far away. They organised and held their traditional wedding ceremony for us, and made me feel very welcome when I flew there to meet them all for the first time. I don’t underestimate for a moment how hard it must have been for them to host such a huge occasion. All the local people were excited because a foreigner was marrying the little boy they’d used to know, and they all came to see me…it was lovely

   Unfortunately, my parents didn’t want anything to do with our marriage. They cut us off while we were still engaged, disapproving of my husband for totally unjust reasons. We didn’t have that much money, but we still needed to have a UK ceremony for legal purposes, and it is that which sort of hurts a bit… I felt as though all the effort went into our foreign wedding, instead. Everything had to be perfect for the family and local onlookers, and nobody really cared about the wedding that happened in my cultural tradition.

   In our UK wedding, we got a taxi to the registry office, which was late in picking us up, so we were stressed even before we got there – we’d also been up ALL night the night before, cooking for our guests because we couldn’t afford a restaurant meal, so we were shattered on our own wedding day. There were only three guests plus ourselves, but it was still a lot of work. We walked to the supermarket to buy drinks for all our guests in the morning, and then had our guests ALL phone us up to tell us that they didn’t know where the register office was, despite the fact that we’d put all the details and even a map on the invitation!

   There was the humiliation of having to stop and pay the taxi driver outside of the register office in front of everyone…it just seemed as though everything was haphazard and casual compared to the foreign wedding. We had to do it all ourselves, which didn’t help, and I know my husband loved me and really did his best to make it nice… even his family, though, were insisting that our UK wedding should be held on a day which was auspicious in their culture – I felt like saying, ‘You’re having your own big occasion later, now please let me have mine without butting in!’

   How can I get over this? I feel petty and selfish and stupid…but the only wedding day I’m ever going to have in my culture is gone, and parts of it really sucked. We couldn’t afford a photographer, and the pictures are dark and some are blurred. I didn’t even really have a proper dress – we bought an inexpensive Christmas party dress from a supermarket clothes brand. I didn’t want everything to be really expensive – it wasn’t the money. I just wanted someone other than the pair of us to at least pretend that they cared and that our UK wedding was just as important…we’ve been married for a year. Thanks
   My husband has actually apologised for the stae of our wedding, without me even asking him, which was so sweet…but I just feel so sad whenever I look at our wedding photos. I was so tired, and overwhelmed, and missing the people who should have been there with me (my parents and rest of my family) that it wasn’t really as happy and vibrant a day as it could have been…
   fizzy stuff: Well, you know, I kept saying to my husband that we should plan ahead…but he didn’t want to. He would get all funny and impatient when I suggested looking for a dress or stocking up on food/drinks…I couldn’t have done anything to change that. He wants what he wants…that was the motto.
2. Bexi-Boo says:

   February 13, 2011 at 5:21 am

   Your husband loves you that should be the only thing that matters!
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3. fizzy stuff says:

   February 13, 2011 at 5:23 am

   It wasnt a vibrant, breezy day because you didnt prepare well for it. I hate to say this because you did the best you could, but it does sound haphazardly-planned. Making food the day before? Even if I am on a budget, I would not attempt such a tall order on my wedding day. A dress you didnt even like? Why didnt you look for a bargain dress months before the wedding? There are deals out there, you just have to search. Why did you wait until the morning of the party to go buy drinks? That is something I would have done weeks in advance.

   Laugh it off. It was what it was! So you two arent the best planners! Oh well.

   And you know what. Other people, whose wedding days dont go as the envision, have to live with it. They dont have the option of saying "Well, at least our OTHER wedding was great!"
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4. Juliet W says:

   February 13, 2011 at 5:25 am

   I would try an focus on the future you have together!

   You can’t sadly go back and change any of it so why get upset about something you have no control over?

   Every anniversary try and do something special and cherish each other. It’s sad that your family didn’t want anything to do with your day, but hopefully in time, they will except him.
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5. Muthusamy Pillai says:

   February 13, 2011 at 5:27 am

   Can always get a divorce and try for the perfect wedding again!
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6. Miss Redcorn says:

   February 13, 2011 at 5:29 am

   You could throw a housewarming/fall seasonal party. Invite your friends and family to come. Ask them to help celebrate a belated anniversary at this party.

   If your parents can’t accept your husband, then you have a lot of issues to work through. They don’t have to like him, but he’s family, and they should love him. I get the impression that there must be a reason that they don’t like him–if you changed your faith practice from theirs to his, they have to accept that. If they don’t, then it’s THEIR problem.

   Don’t be down. Celebrate the happiness you have with your husband, and take a mini-vacay somewhere. Enjoy the time you have with friends, and have some babies. Your parents will come around, possibly, when grandbabies are in the picture.
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7. monkeytoes says:

   February 13, 2011 at 5:31 am

   It was one day, you have the rest of your lives together. Regardless of the details of the day, it had the desired outcome – you got married! Try to think on the positive side.
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8. truefirstedition says:

   February 13, 2011 at 5:33 am

   At the wedding, did you end up married? Yes?

   Then the wedding was a success. It didn’t bomb at all. The only thing that really mattered was accomplished, and now you have the rest of your life to spend with the person you love.

   So do something nice for yourself NOW. Go on a vacation with the hubs. Or book a photography session, just you and him in your favorite outfits. Get a fancy cake and celebrate being happily married for a year. Your attitude is what determines your happiness – not having a perfect dream wedding.
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9. Mother M says:

   February 13, 2011 at 5:35 am

   Remember this poem:

   "I dreamed of a wedding of elaborate elegance,
   A church filled with family and friends.
   I asked him what kind of a wedding he wished for,
   He said one that would make me his wife."

   Your husband not only loves you but adores you.
   You had a wedding where you became his wife.
   All the things you say you ‘miss’ are just materialistic "stuff"
   What you HAVE is soooo much more important and valuable
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10. Perse says:

    February 13, 2011 at 5:37 am

    The only good I can see from this is it could provide a very valuable learning experience to you.

    After your title, I was prepared to find some natural disaster or horrific event interfered with your wedding day, but just about everything you described that went wrong was your own doing. I would like to write it off as hindsight is 20/20, but common sense would have told you you wouldn’t be happy with the wedding you were planning and had.

    You didn’t have to stay up all night the night before your wedding.
    You could have hired a professional photographer.
    You could have put your foot down with family.
    You were unorganized and ill-prepared.
    You could have waited and saved money for the wedding you wanted.
    You could have found the dress of your dreams.

    You can’t put in no effort and expect your ideal wedding to just happen.

    I would take responsibility for what went wrong, accept it, learn from it, and move on.
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11. Avis B says:

    February 13, 2011 at 5:39 am

    Compared to these Brides and Grooms YOU had a wonderful wedding day . . .

    The Groom’s Uncle had a massive heart attack (and died) as he walked across the banquet room floor to find his assigned table. The Bride and Groom were at a park having their after ceremony pictures taken, they had no idea what happened until they arrived at the banquet hall and saw the ambulance in the driveway. The Bride’s parents chose to cancel the reception for over 200 guests because so many people witnessed the man’s collapse and the recitation (by the emergency response team) which upset the guests (all of those dinners were paid for and never consumed).

    The Bride’s Father was arrested the day before her wedding. The BIG wedding never happened, a much smaller wedding occurred about six months later.

    The Groom’s limousine was hit broadside by a racing motorcycle driver. The limousine driver, the groom, and four groomsmen were all rushed to the hospital in serious and critical condition about 90 minutes before the scheduled ceremony time. The wedding was postponed for several months.

    Most of the Bride and Groom’s wedding gifts which were put into a monthly rental storage unit immediately after their wedding were lost in a fire about two weeks after the wedding.

    Answered by: A Certified wedding specialist / A Professional bridal consultant / A Wedding ceremony officiant
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