So, unexpectedly, one of the hardest decisions I've had to try to make in the wedding so far has been the gifts for my bridal party. I'm still weirded out by how hard it's been. All of my BMs are very dear to me, but they are all VERY different from one another, in both body and personality.
At first I thought of doing monogrammed robes for everyone, but at least one of my BMs would need a custom sized robe from a specialty company, which would push me way past my budget (which I feel bad about since I love to give generously, but I'm just not a rich person). So I threw out that idea and moved on.
My next thought was accessories. Jewelry sets were out since at least one BM doesn't have peirced ears, and doesn't wear earrings. Also, they all have wildly different styles, and I didn't want anyone eyeing each other's different peices and wondering if I spent more on one person over the other (I'm so scared of melodrama that I'm almost allergic).
To complicate matters, I have a friend who is a jeweler by trade, and she told me that her wedding gift to me will be to design something for the bridesmaids to wear for the wedding (which is a faux pas for a bridesmaid gift, but I didn't want to hurt her feeling by saying 'no', and just planned on getting a seperate gift for them on top of it). I've managed to steer her away from jewelry because of the above reasons, and we are working on small cute hair-peices for everyone.
So, I finally ended up deciding on the second gift as a set of nice sandals for everyone with interchangeable inlayed rose decorations. I intend to present them to the group to wear when we go get pedicures together before the wedding. My main concern is along the lines of: would it be more fun for them if I got a pair too, so we could all wear them together as a group? Or would that make it less of a gift to them, if I got a pair too?
*sigh*
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