9 yr old BM Gift

Re: 9 yr old BM Gift

• kat1114 member

  

  January 2015

  I think focus on getting her something fun that she likes vs. the sentimental. My 11 year old cousin and H's 12 year old niece were both bridesmaids in our wedding. They like Hello Kitty a lot, so I got them a Hello Kitty diary set and wrote them each a nice card.

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• amelisha member

  

  January 2015

  Yeah, I wouldn't worry too much about it being long-lasting necessarily. However, at that age I would have LOVED "real" jewelry as a gift for something like this. Something like a little gold pendant necklace or birthstone and silver earrings that came from an actual jewelry store. If she's that kind of kid and would love to feel grown up and fancy, that might be a nice thought. Not something for her to wear for the wedding, just a nice piece of non-costume jewelry. That kind of thing isn't terribly expensive, either.

  
  

  I got a few pieces like that around that age and they were some of my favourite gifts and I wore them well into my teens.  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• novella1186 member

  

  January 2015

  We have close friends of the family with daughters around that age. One year for xmas my mom bought them both a pretty jewelry box with their names engraved on them that they are obsessed with. She also got them a cute necklace (kid necklace) to put in there. 

  
  

  I got them both purses from the kids department at target with fancy chapsticks in different flavors, colorful bracelets, etc. because they're at that age where they want all the fun grown-up stuff (like purses and jewelry) but I felt like they're so young that kid versions would suit them just fine. The 8 yr old was carrying the purse around the entire night, and kept finding little toys and stuff to put in it. It was adorable. 

  
  

  This year for Xmas I got them both art kits and a pad of watercolor paper because they're into art stuff now. 

  
  

  Maybe stuff like that... treat her like an adult with the gift, but a kid adult, ya know what I mean? 

  

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• theartistformerlyknownas member

  

  January 2015 edited January 2015

  See I would go a little more toward sentimental. What about a fun locket that will make her feel grown up and fancy but be able to wear? Or a charm bracelet with things she likes, plus something that represents your wedding?

  
  

  I was a super sentimental kid though. I still have the Jesus cake topper from my first communion cake. The base has a little drawer in it that I hide my safe key in.

  
  

  ETA some of these are pretty cute... 9 year old me would have loved the fake Origami Owl ones that hold the charms inside the pendant.

  http://www.evesaddiction.com/silver-lockets/229?refcode=gsrch&promo=G30&gclid=CNPpjPyCo8MCFZFefgodgTAAFQ
  

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• tcnoble member

  

  January 2015

  We have a 10 year old and 7 year old standing up in our wedding... One has a large stuffed animal collections so I'm getting her a build a bear of her favorite animal dressed in a wedding dress, and a gift card to Target - the other one is obsessed with lotions and bubble bath so I'm getting her some things from Bath and Body Works and a gift card to Target. They're both sensitive to certain earrings so I didn't want to go that route. 

  
  

  Like another PP said I think it's important to treat them like "adults" but kid adults, so they're still getting that individualized gift.

  

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• classicalandedgy member

  

  January 2015

  amelisha said:

  Yeah, I wouldn't worry too much about it being long-lasting necessarily. However, at that age I would have LOVED "real" jewelry as a gift for something like this. Something like a little gold pendant necklace or birthstone and silver earrings that came from an actual jewelry store. If she's that kind of kid and would love to feel grown up and fancy, that might be a nice thought. Not something for her to wear for the wedding, just a nice piece of non-costume jewelry. That kind of thing isn't terribly expensive, either.

  
  

  I got a few pieces like that around that age and they were some of my favourite gifts and I wore them well into my teens.  

  This is what I would do.
  

  

   

   

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• princessleia22 member

  

  January 2015

  I agree with the "real" jewelry.  At around that age I got a necklace with a single pearl pendant and I loved that necklace.  I wore it any chance I got all while growing up.  Sadly, around senior year in high school the chain broke and the pendant got lost. It was very sad. 

   

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• Inkdancer member

  

  January 2015

  I still have my first piece of "real" jewelry: a gold and amethyst ring my mom got me for my 5th birthday. I can't wear it on my fingers, but I keep it.
  
  My inclination is to give her something like that. A small cross pendant, or pearl earrings (if her ears are already pierced) or something similar that she can treasure for a long time.
  

  

  

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