Gifts for readers and presenters?

Dipsy46 · July 2009

Is it a requirement to get readers and the presenters of the gifts a gift ? If so any ideas (cheap ones)? Thanks!!!

beersnob · July 2009

I got our two readers and our singer a $25 gift card to stores that they would like

scoetto · July 2009

Maybe I'm not well educated. What is a presenter of the gifts do? Obviously present people with gifts, but I guess I didn't realize you have someone else do that? Could you explain? I would get them a trinket or something. If it's a female reader maybe a nice piece of jewelry. If it's a male, maybe a pocket knife or wallet. Gift cards are good too.

scoetto · July 2009

English FAIL. What is a present of the gifts. Where did that "do" come from?

CubsGirl05 · July 2009

Scoetto-I think it's a Catholic thing, you "present" the Virgin Mary with gifts, so she will grant you fertility or something.

ac_in_dc · July 2009

scoetto, it's a church thing. In a church service after the collection plate is passed, and before communion (in catholic and anglican services at least) some folks carry up the collection money, the bread & wine for communion, and other assorted "gifts" to the altar in a procession.

CubsGirl05 · July 2009

You usually have two people come up and hand the bride adn groom a glass of wine and something else, and then the Bride presents it to Mary.

ac_in_dc · July 2009

nah, the gifts don't have anything to do with Mary usually, it's just part of a regular service.

Mrs.B6302007 · July 2009

I've never heard of a presenter of gifts either. Probably because I haven't been awake very long and I need more coffee, but I find it funny that a gift presenter gets a gift.

ac_in_dc · July 2009

I wouldn't bother to give them gifts, it seems like overkill. Especially the gift bearers!!

CubsGirl05 · July 2009

haha, then I clearly don't know what I am talking about

Dipsy46 · July 2009

ac_in_dc, thank you for explaining. As she said the presenter of the gifts bring up the wine and wafer for communion. We are having a full Catholic Mass. Thank you for all the suggestions and keep them coming.

gkb0910 · July 2009

Dipsy-we are having our mothers bring up the gifts, so we aren't getting them separate gifts for that. I think if it was someone else, I'd just get them a nice card with a handwritten note in it. Maybe a nice candle or something if the person liked that. For our readers, I'm not totally sure yet, but I was thinking a bottle of wine or a gift card to a store or a box of Godiva chocolates. They are FI's sisters and my godparents.

september's bride · July 2009

We're considering getting our readers token things that are special to them - they don't all have to be the same, or even cost the same, as long as your readers appreciate them.One of our readers is getting a bonsai tree (she's taking classes on it and loves it!), one is getting a Coach wristlet and I believe the other one is getting a gift certificate to a place called the Sultan's Tent, which is a really cool Moroccan restaurant with belly dancers and everything, since my friend spent two years in Morocco and misses it terribly.They're just small things, but they're also going to be enjoyed by the people who are getting them.

BrideBuddies · July 2009

We gave our readers nice silver bookmarks engraved with their names. Our aunts & uncles presented the gifts so I think we gave them a giftcard to a nice restaurant. Eucharistic ministers (who were also family members), we also gave some small engraved item... I think we gave his cousin a nice engraved sunglasses case or something. He liked it.Nothing was over $20 or so.

scoetto · July 2009

AH ok! I get it now. I was just at at full Catholic Mass wedding this past weekend. They had the MOH & Best Man do that.

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