Unique Wedding Gifts

Gifts of Services

While housewares are needed and appreciated by most newly married couples, gifts associated with organizing, cleaning, and maintaining the household are more unusual and perhaps even more appreciated. Consider giving the new couple gift cards of certificates for one of the following types of services for useful unique wedding gifts:

• Professional organization consultant
• Professional closet organization installation
• Maid/housekeeping service
• Gift certificate for professional appliance cleaning and inspection
• Gift certificate for carpet, rug, or drapery cleaning
• Gift certificate for air duct cleaning
• Book of car wash or detailing certificates
• Gift card to home improvement store
• Home maintenance calendar or schedule

Gifts of Fun and Relaxation

After months of stressful wedding planning, unique wedding gifts that give the recipients a chance for fun and relaxation are sure to be a hit. Consider gift certificates for the couple to get a massage together, go to favorite sporting or cultural event, a gift certificate visit a new and interesting restaurant, or a prepaid night away at a bed and breakfast. If the couple has certain mutual interests, you can give them a certificate for something they both enjoy. If their interests differ, you could also give separate certificates to the new husband and wife -- after all, newlyweds need time apart to foster their own interests as well!

Banishing the Bills

Depending in how well you know the couple, a unique wedding gift could be in prepaying a bill or service you know they will need when they start their new life together. For example, if your friend is getting married and you know they'll be getting DSL service from a specific company, you could find out about prepaying their first two months of service as your wedding gift to them.

It's the Little Things: Little Gifts that Mean a Lot

Unique wedding gifts don't have to be large or expensive to mean a lot to the recipient. Consider things that would enhance the new couple's life together -- things such as a reasonably priced air purifier, trial memberships to a gym, a basket of scented oil warmers and air fresheners for their new home -- the possibilities are virtually endless. Try to think of things that the new couple would enjoy having or doing, but that they might not purchase for themselves.

What's Your Gift?

Another unique wedding gift idea is to think of what you excel or specialize in that would be of service or value to the new couple. Are you an accountant? Offer to do the couple's taxes. Are you a writer? Write a 'report' of their wedding day and frame it for them. Retail salesperson? Offer to buy some of their remaining household needs at your employee discount. Your unique talents, skills, and pursuits may be just the key to providing the perfect unique wedding gift.

Time Capsule

Time capsules make unique wedding gifts and can be the source of treasured memories. The easiest way to create a wedding time capsule may be by ordering a wedding time capsule kit, which are available through many online retailers. Reasonably priced and complete with specific instructions, wedding time capsule kits are a fun and easy way to create a unique wedding gift.

Browsing for Gifts

If you need something to jump start you imagination for the perfect unique gifts, sites like gifts.com and findgift.com, or even many wedding websites let you browse by a number of different options and types of gifts to find the perfect wedding gift. Whether it is quirky and fun, sweet and sentimental, or just plain functional, with a little thought, you're sure to give the perfect unique wedding gift.