Bridesmaid gift idea...NEED HELP!

Re: Bridesmaid gift idea...NEED HELP!

• [Deleted User] member

  

  September 2010

  Only you know what they like. I don't like the whole idea of a questionaire. Do you not know your BM's well enough to know what their interests and hobbies are? I would think along those lines and go from there. And btw, the gifts for the WP were one of our larger non ceremony or reception related expenses. We each had 6 BM's and GM's and I think H spent about $600 on his 6 guys. And I think I spent about $350 on my BM's and 2 FG"s and 1 RB.

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• tesskerr member

  

  September 2010

  I don't know my best friends favorite color.... ok pink for one, yellow for another, bu then again she loves blue...

  
  

  I think the questionnaire is great, I would need one and that doesn't make me (or you!) a bad friend.

  
  

  If I was doing the bags myself I would put in... 

  
  

  favorite candy of theirs and mine (jelly bellys)

  favorite drink of theirs and mine (cherry dr pepper)

  something really personal (I love pink kitchen stuff, so pink mini tongs or pink polka dot tea towels) but your friends may love hello kitty, or OPI nail polish in all the black shades etc

  You could put in some scented body product travel size's (Creative Nail Design have great shimmery lotions)

  I would put in something new that I love for them to try... I love Bastiste dry shampoo, it's a miracle and I know my GHD addicted friends would love having their blowdry last an extra day

  I also saw the other day the cutest mini bottles of Chambord in gift boxes. Again I know my friends love it, so that would go in...

  
  

  I could go on and on. I think personalize some things, put you could give everyone some of the same stuff aswell. You could do each bags items in the girls favourite color too if possible.

  
  
  

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• sister2groom

  

  September 2010

  Yeah, a questionaire seems kind of impersonal. Plus, I don't really have an overall favorite color (my favorite dress is red, clutch is yellow, car is silver, etc.) The same for scents, etc. If it is an inexpensive gift, I would rather someone look around and find something on-sale of higher quality that I could actually use than something that's cheaper or random in my "favorite" color, but maybe that's just me, I don't mind mixing things up with trying new colors.
  
  You could always get hair/body products. TJ Maxx/Marshalls have great prices on nice hair products.
  
  You have to know something about them. Do they love Starbucks (get them a mug and gift card)?
  
  
  

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• elisabethb29

  

  September 2010

  I did Vera Bradley clutches or wallets (all on sale), then little things: hand soap, mini lotions, and lip glosses from B&BW.  I think candy and nail-polish are cute ideas, but really choose just anything you think they'd like... as if you were shopping for their birthday, but if you want little things, you could do like a mini wedding survival kit... gum, gatorade, chapstick, lotion, a small snack (granola bars, a 100calorie pack of something).  But I think I would prefer something a little more substantial that could be used... but you said you were doing a personalized tote, which sounds cool.  Hope you find something you're excited about!   And I'm sure whatever you decide, they'll appreciate it and all the thought you put into it

  DS was born 11/30/12... so in love

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• aerinpegadrak member

  

  September 2010

  I'd be kind of hurt to get a questionnaire from a bride.  Presumably you're very close to these girls since you asked them to be in your wedding, so the questionnaire shouldn't be necessary.  It's sort of an admission of defeat, that you don't know these girls as well as you should.
  
  To fill the bag, think about what they'd ACTUALLY want.  It's all well and good to try to find out their favorite lotion scent or nail polish color, but if they don't actually use and like lotion or nail polish, it's still destined for the trash.  They don't all have to get the same thing, or even the same type of thing.  That extends to the bag as well; I know very few people that actually carry tote bags, and none of them would use one that had their name on it.
  

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  Sometimes I feel like people think that brides are delicate little flower princesses who get all dressed up and pretty for one special moment of their dreams, when really they're just normal people who just happen to be getting married. Things shouldn't have to be sugar-coated for grown-ass women. -mstar284

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