As a bride, your wedding is your special day and what makes it extra special are the friends and family who stand up with you, especially your bridesmaids. And so, it makes sense to give special care to the gifts you would give these special women.
What type of gifts are you looking for$%: Delicate, feminine$%: Elegant$%: Practical$%: What budget do you have in mind for each gift$%: Once you answer these questions, you can narrow down your choices.
A relatively simple silver or gold locket, depending on your color scheme, is a perfect gift for those in the wedding party, perhaps with small pictures of the wedding party and bride and groom inserted in each side, for example. Or, to go simpler for smaller budgets, a wrist corsage matching the wedding flowers can be pressed and saved for memories.
Want to go with something more practical$%: Simple leather clutches in black or brown, gray or burgundy, for example, in muted colors that go with the scheme of your wedding, can be used by bridesmaids for years to come and provide a practical, fond token of appreciation from you. Because they would be in neutral colors, they would go with a variety of outfits beyond the color scheme of your wedding.
Care to go a little fancier$%: If pearls are what you're looking for but the real things aren't quite in your budget, faux pearls are very well made these days and can look very authentic. They provide a simple, elegant accessory and go with any color scheme. Of course, if you've got the funds to do so, you can also provide strands of real pearls or a single pearl suspended on a chain. It looks just as elegant as a strand of them and because it's a much less expensive option, you can use the real thing. Another option is to provide pearl earrings. If you don't care to use pearls but would prefer to go with something black, onyx is relatively inexpensive and tasteful. Just as with pearls, onyx stones can be provided in earrings or pendants, in gold or silver settings. And alternatively, mother of pearl or opal are two other tasteful and elegant options of relatively inexpensive jewelry that you can provide for your bridesmaids.
Of course, shoes are always a welcome addition to any woman's closet and a practical gift that will keep on giving all year for your bridesmaids are the shoes they'll wear with their dresses. To make them wearable beyond just your wedding, go with a basic color such as black, gray or white, instead of dying to match the dresses, for example. Or, if your color scheme does happen to be red, go with red shoes as well. These are usually welcome in most women's closets.
Finally, if the bridesmaids' dresses happen to be the bare shouldered kind, you may want to go with wraps as gifts that your bridesmaids can wear and that can be used for other occasions as well. Simple silk wraps for warm weather or cold weather wraps made of more hardy material such as velour are relatively simple to make if you're already having dresses made or can be found at select stores.
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