Gifts For The Newly Married Couple

Gifts For The Newly Married Couple

When you receive a wedding invitation, your first thought is often what to give as a wedding gift. In order to give a gift that the new couple will like, you have to consider some factors about this couple. Since the trend in modern times seems to be that most couples live together, they probably have all the household items that they need. Another trend of modern couples is to register with a wedding registry where they list all the things that they would like to have as wedding gifts. Many guests find that the prices of these items are more than they are prepared to pay and shy away from this method of gift-giving.

Some couples live far away and come back home to get married. The best wedding gift to give in this situation would be money. If you give large gifts, there is every chance that the couple will have difficulty getting all gifts back with them. They may have to purchase extra luggage or pay for extra weight in order to take the gifts back to their permanent residence.

When you do buy appliances, try to buy something unusual. My son was married last year and the list of wedding gifts included 5 coffee percolators, 3 toasters, and 4 irons. The thing that was funny is that neither he nor his wife drink coffee. Luckily, they were able to exchange the appliances at stores for things they did need, even though they had registered with Bed Bath and Beyond.

Money in a card expressing best wishes is always welcomed. The money you give can help to pay the wedding expenses, allow the couple to take a honeymoon or even help them make a down payment on a house. No matter what they use the money for, they will get enjoyment from it.

BONUS : Glad To Be Married

I am glad to be married. I have been married for almost 8 years and together with my wife for a total of 12 years. As you can see it has been a long time since I have been on a date and I couldn’t be more thankful. I found dating to be difficult back when I was doing it, now there are so many more dimensions to dating, it must be even more of a challenge.

On-line dating is becoming more and more popular and in theory it sounds like it makes the process easier. But, given the type of people you hear about in the news that commit some unheard of crimes, how can you be sure that the person you meet on-line is really that person?

While the dating websites such as, eHarmony.com, date.com, match.com, and many more bring a whole bunch of people to you for easy searching how can you be sure you are getting what you see?

Assuming you are able to weed through the weirdoes and find some real quality people then the service is an excellent idea. You get to pick the criteria you want in your mate. You get to see pictures of them along with their profile. You can contact them ahead of time via email, the safest way to screen potential dates. If the emailing step goes well you can then move to phone calls. Provided all these steps go well and you both feel some chemistry you can arrange a date with each other.

Taken even a bit further, eHarmony.com does a personality profile so they can match you up with what they feel is your ideal match. I have not known anyone that has used this service with eHarmony. I have known several people that have used match.com. They were able to find many dates so the system worked as designed. No marriages came out of the dates but I think it had more to do with my friends and their readiness to commit to someone.

There is no limit to what you can find if you are looking to meet someone. While researching this topic for my website I found so many different options. There are the simple websites mentioned already in this article, just people looking to meet others. There are websites dedicated to gay relationships, blacks looking to meet blacks, Asians looking to meet Asians, various religions looking to meet people of the same religion. Perhaps the most surprising and most disturbing that I came across was married people looking to meet someone to “hook up”. I have not placed any of these sites on my website for obvious reasons but there were dozens of them out there.

Given how the landscape of dating has changed in the last 12 years I can only imagine what dating will be like when my daughter starts dating, not that I even want to think of it.