Is podcast is brought to you by what my reading the UK's most influential wedding Brandt. Hello. Hello. All right, are you doing I feel that we need a different interval time. We come on with the words. Just got her Loom. Hey, welcome to the focus to the podcast today. Yes, we're talking about wedding party gifting. Now I'll be honest. I didn't think this would be a subject that would warrant an entire podcast and huh, but you'd be surprised a you'd be surprised by the amount of DMs. I a direct messages that we've had so many so many can you do a podcast on gifts that we give our wedding party because we want a Things Are. Shit. Yeah be things aren't we? Yeah, and it's either not she totally so excuse the swearing but that's basically what people are asking for and you know, we give you what you want we do and here we are. Let's begin. Yes with you the couple the bride and bride. Let's do that the groom and groom or the bride and groom. Yes, so My husband James. Yes surprised me with a lovely necklace and earring set during the drinks reception. So we had a bit of champagne is the tough part surprise for you. Oh, that's a nice time to give you you differ took me up to the bridal Suite. Oh, well. Oh, I know what what did he want surprised me with this beautiful like blue leather box. Oh, we wait for something else and blue. Containing the Zulu. Oh, which is lovely Anna later on in the evening. Yeah after probably want him any Prosecco somehow I ended up wearing some companies these earrings the necklace another necklace. Oh and some glasses. There's photographic evidence out there. Yeah, so that was lovely. Yeah. Jewelry is really obvious. Yes. It's an and I feel that this particular podcast. We don't need to tell you about and do that obvious things that you can buy for each other like jewelry or cufflinks. Yeah or a hip flask yet blah, blah blah all those things are all very no no very nice. That's it. You want to get yeah. We're here for the alternate. Yeah ideas James got you some lovely jewelry and some fantastic sunglasses. I don't think I got anything off Antony. Equally, I don't think I got him. I legitimately can't remember that. I think I got him a bottle of champagne to have on the morning while he was getting ready, but I don't think we exchange gifts at all as a nice gift. And this is my point like so you can write a newspaper to your wedding, right? You're feeding them. You are all showing them. Yes hook and entertaining them giving them an amazing evening. And then you are expected on top of all of that to buy them a gift. Yeah. No. No, you don't have to do I hope there's not an expectation where there shouldn't be from any family members or friends. Yeah. They are also going to get some sort of gifting a gift for being there. I would never like if someone asked me to dwell multiple occasions. I've been a bridesmaid there was never an expectation for me to get something for doing like I'm well up for being a bridesmaid great time. Yeah. You don't need to buy me anything. I'm just like dead happy to be there is Okay, exactly. There shouldn't be an expectation from anybody now to provide gifts and only soft but if you do and that's why we're here because so many of you have requested it. Let's start with Grooms. Okay, so we don't talk enough about them. We don't Laura again gets us off on every podcast whenever we send our request the team just the first one says the most like hi-yah. I will tell you as well Laura's the queen of gifted. She is she still has that she has the best ideas. It's so she bought her husband a vinyl version of their first wedding dance song. I mean, which I thought was how amazing it's actually if you're a music buff. Oh totally and talking of me. Is it Buffs? Have you seen the sound wave prints that look in half. So your favorite song your first dance all night Laura shows, whatever it might be a song that significant to use a couple am I going to do? Was a thing yet. You can have a sound wave print and all different colors. Not on the High Street is a place you can get them from so you can have like copper gold black, you know, whatever to match your home decor or your favorite youth. My friend Hannah bought whether friend Sarah one of her Son of a Preacher Man for her birthday or to cheer and they've got in like they're all way and it's a song that like, I remember from my childhood and it's like, oh my God, that's so puzzle and it's a lovely like visual decoration if I can't and also significant. Yeah, that's a great idea. Excellent. If I'm honest in general, I like the idea of an experience rather than a tangible item. I mean, I will tell you narrow that as I've gotten older hmm, I much prefer an experience to any GIF is creating memories, isn't it? I'd rather be having a I don't think the stuffing nobody nights stuff today, but no, sir. Up to be gifted and experience and also in this circumstance. It's almost like be gifted experience extends the joy of your wedding day and if I had my time again and I wasn't this selfish, I would consider buying James exactly that so he's a real foodie. So he would really appreciate like a gastronomical experience like away for a weekend. Yeah a chef learn how to make something eat it afterwards and it's sending that wedding experience, you know, we've got some ketchup for to after absent as well as the honeymoon or whatever. It might be along those lines. You might have a partner who's really into wine or gin. Yeah. Lots of wine engine tasting experiences that you can go on estrogen makes the great gift. It does Grooms. We asked our creative director and co-founder Adam what he thought about this, so I'm just going to read it out for you cause he never Some stuff on the podcast never often because he's very sarcastic and doesn't really give me any advice. So, you know, it's his fault that I'm actually going to read this one out the sternritter. Are you ready for this? The key is to set a budget find something that he likes but wouldn't lie wouldn't usually buy on a regular basis and if you can buy something that is really personal but that has longevity then by that correct. So something that's almost at is not quite to the extent of an heirloom. Yeah, but that they can keep for a long time and pass it on. Yeah, so just highlight that he sent me another message saying perhaps don't bother with tech right as it evolved so quickly true good point true, you know couple of months down the line. Yeah, something's changed. And then he said also don't sent a fruit basket. Can you imagine you know perishable Goods? No perishables you guys in like sending you? Aim, high Charlotte's just atmosphere just a basket of like grapes. He's a bit of Golden Delicious maybe pineapple that I was thinking. She knew what I'd quite like a basket, of course on so yeah. Well and I mean age to the road a bottle of Prosecco on the morning. I think that's quite beautiful. You know, who you're buying for you do this is the point though. They want a pair do who you're buying for your marrying them. You should know them you what do they really love? What would they really appreciate? What would be thoughtful what? This is my exactly where it doesn't have to be macros, but just does it. No, it doesn't the main people. I think that we've had queries over is what to buy your bridesmaid. Yeah, isn't it? Yeah, Lorna who manages the content on rock my wedding? Hello, Lorna Aluna. She was gifted a spa day, right and an afternoon tea as a gift as a bridesmaid for while of the wedding so she went to so they have the spa day the morning before the day of the wedding. So they all got such a about like the wedding. Yeah, they got like a treatment. They got to you know spend the day together as bridesmaids a bit of relax, I guess before like the main event and then the afternoon tea that meant that after the wedding, right? They all got together again as a group. Oh, I love it could reminisce about the wedding have a look at the photos talk about all the funny bits that are the members of the party might have not been involved in etcetera. So what again it's this whole experience tonight. I think that's a really and I think our days, you know, you don't have to be in to spar days to enjoy a spa day and I'm not yeah, you don't you're not a fan of yeah, you're not a fan but I'm quite happy to sit there. But yeah, I was going to say if you go and really love the skirt. Yeah, and you can happen after the party dude is right at my street because if you do want to buy something tangible a great way of doing that is to purchase something that can be used on the morning of the wedding. Hmm that's going to so it's going to be useful. Yes, and that your bridesmaids can use again. Yes afterwards. Absolutely. Love a robe. I mean who doesn't love a rope not a rope when I was bridesmaid. We had robes and I love it. Keep it in my wardrobe as wear it all the time and my friend actually put them in a little box with a nice candle and a lovely card and it was ever so nice you just sort of put this little personalized hamper package together for us. It's which is a place where from the morning and then be able to use it and then be able to use it. Again, it's that memory of the wedding. And yeah that's associated with it. And I mean these things they weren't they weren't necessarily expensive items and they didn't need to be it was just the thought that she sat there found these little gifts to give us and taking the time to you know package to them so nicely and it was just it was lovely and completely unexpected. But just it was just wonderful amazing photographs. She's all the time. You don't have to spend a fortune. Absolutely H&M. Yeah. They've got the most amazing like lace line. Monet's 19 pounds ninety-nine. Is that it? I've got a pink one. Oh, you can buy one too. And they also come in Black to it in the show notes. Yeah, we will Lisa who looks after all our DIY projects. Mmm, if you've not noticed any of those yet so good. We have just kind of really up the ante and bespoke but my wedding my DIY Lisa designs them loose Stars them. Yeah, she's pretty good as she is pretty See good so far. We've done a hanging hoop War. We've done a confetti station and we've done a wedding order of the day sign on a crate. We have dead cheek dead quick have a look at DIY on our menu on what I did not know that you came. There's probably I'll pop a link in the toilet. So Lisa receives one of her bridesmaids gift a monogrammed makeup bag. Oh no all of the bonus. Clipper sensation called you can use on the morning show years afterward. Yeah, I had a little makeup bag from my friend Anna which is the perfect shape and fit all my stuff in it's one of my favorite guests out actually like that till your bags. You can get a monogram personalized envelope shape bag from Katie looks turn. Yes so many different colors. Yeah metallics. You can get them monogrammed they can have bride. Ed's maid maid of honor mother of the bride's you get with the whole wedding this Shorty and issues all of that lovely. And so depending on how much you want to spend you can put some little bits and Bobs in there for them as well. Don't be really nice gift useful gift yet personalized gift. I'd like that what you can put in your bag generally makeup because that's what everybody should buy me and that's what you should generally not gonna make it. I'm gonna make a bag so rock my wedding is collaborating with Birch. Next we are how exciting is that? Isn't it? Today is the 29th of April today is a day that are limited edition rock my wedding Birchbox is released how exciting 29 pounds. Yeah for over a hundred pounds worth of makeup and skincare gold. He's an absolute bargain. It's limited edition. So please do. Yep. Go on to the Birchbox website. Look for at My Wedding by one. I'll link it obviously obviously will link it in the show notes, but you know, there is only Ooh, so many thousand that are available. Yes, I go have a look go and have a look at what's in it. We've chosen skincare and makeup products that would suit the vast majority of people. It is aimed at Brides if you like, but would also make a great present for bridesmaids and just anyone who's looking to update their makeup or skincare. Yeah, so it includes Bobby Brown crushed lip color in bade, which is a like movie nudes. It's all Universal shade. We've got Smashbox superfan mascara, which is super glossy black separates lashes. Oh amazing. We've got the cordially overnight Vino perfect night cream travel-size. Oh, yeah love called Lee's their skincare. We have the floors through Discovery set which is actually eight different fragrances a wholly different ones. And then hopefully you can find one that you like a lovely we have the Becca shimmering skin perfector in opal right? So for cheekbones brow bones Cupid's bow NE, but you want to highlight again Universal flattering color a coal creatives Infinity brush in aqua green. Oh now it's a very dense brush zode. You can use it for eyeshadow application right concealer. All right, very specific height is Fitted bra. Yeah, I one of those the bushes like I know that they sell millions for different things. Yeah, I think if you've got a really good quality brush with the right sort of bristle mountainous that makes sense. Yes, then you have to sort of like try it out for yourself. Yeah with your makeup use of multiple. Exactly. And I and I do live a multi. Yes brochure. This one is great because obviously we've tried it and we've picked it. You have a full-size space. Mask, which is one of those ones with like the eye holes that you kind of put on you I look at that face. I love that and does that make great amazing things you skin? Absolutely. We have a full size nails Inc. Limited edition nail polish in nude girl, which is like ammo lilac gray. I would say it's very very very similar to my favorite nail color, which is why I chose it. Yeah hazing for the big day. Yeah off your bridesmaids because it's such a suits all suits all coloring all bridal gown out. Yeah type thing. We've got an Anna sui lip color top coat but makes your lip color matte interest, which is obviously very modern very so you might have a favorite player that just the don't do it mattered if you know you might want something but instead and and oh ok gold Eiffel mask. You know what I'm after. Some I'm us get me this box are reduces puffiness. That's what either calls almost arises. I'm on it all of that. I'm on it 29 pounds get yourself or your towels at over a hundred Birchbox brought my wedding released today whoo-hoo go on our Instagram and you'll see all the lovely images because the box is beautiful. We're proud of that box. I want ya talking about beauty. I also like the idea that you gift your bridesmaids. Beat experience so my sister and I I built her a manicure and pedicure. I'm Deborah wedding. So we build it quite a bit in advance so that we knew that would be sort of sat next to each other with that our manicure. So that makes us so we sort of look at the colors and picked up a want to do had a good chin wag had a massive box of maltesers. I'm really enjoying this is like idea of pre-wedding gift in. Yes. Yeah the Net post reading yet absolute and something that is relevant to To the wording so you both had like lovely nails and toes it was relaxing your have a chart and it wasn't like, you know, so again expanding that creepy wedding stress and that was sort of like my gift to her if you like it guess it something that's perhaps a little bit obvious but a huh, no, oh is flowers. Yes. Now I gave my mom my mother-in-law like a box full of flowers that are Flora stood. Yeah of various blooms that are featuring. Edging right, you know, but again you should do as you do. Yeah, Victoria who puts together a lot of our Real Weddings gifted the David Austin Rose called Wedding Day to their parents and the idea was that they planted them in their Gardens. And so they flowered each summer, which is isn't that lovely it's not so much of here's a bunch of flowers. That's you know, one day it's going to pop it's clogs and a few. Days, man. I wish I could only plant this new Garden. It's a permanent memory. It's something lovely. It's a beautiful flower and again that whole like longevity thing. Yeah, how about getting a flower subscription? Yes Flume and wild postbox flowers. Yes, send them flowers and then every month, they're getting it running man. That's a little reminder. If you're watching the food that was a lovely idea. Yes, instead of presenting them with that bouquet of flowers on the wedding day. You will perhaps you do still give them the But it's to go with a subscript. Yeah, absolutely gift that will yeah, it's that whole longevity thing. Isn't it? Really nice now again going back to this whole gifting thing. Do you have to buy something where we all know? Why didn't the not the cheapest things in the world, you know, and it was your only stretches. So this is it. So have you got the time to make something well, and I know he's talked about gifting before the big day. What about after the day? Yeah. You got your wedding photos you have for the lots and lots of potential. There is for my parents the Christmas. So we got married in the meso in the December for their Christmas present. We made them like a big canvas. Okay, I had about 20 different images on from the wedding that relevant to them as so images of them of us the family and I have mine and he's passed away now, you know, and that was something that they probably wouldn't have been able to create themselves. And also because we know that people don't print your photos while they don't keep them on their Buell re or on a yeah laptop or whatever. It is IE me. Yeah, so actually to buy a frame. This you put it on your wall if that talking about that this Christmas my mom and dad moved into a new house and for their Christmas present, we built them a gallery wall. That's amazing of like all the grandkids and it's the same sort of principle is this yeah, you know lovely frames it was something that you can't buy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and it was obviously very thoughtful and it was a menu house and so our parents we they each had a A picture from our wedding of Anton died in a frame but we also gave them framed photos from their weddings. I love their that we actually had at our wedding because neither of them have any of their wedding photos up in their homes as part of the wedding day. We printed pictures from their wedding day and frame them and then gave them to them as gifts and now they have them in their homes and it's lovely to go and see that they've got them on display. Yeah, and that's another God so He pinned simple to do yet. It meant so much to them. Yeah that we'd thought about City and that's a healthy we keep them out too is it's like-- thoughtful with regards to who you're buying it for and that personal aspect. Yeah. Absolutely one is you read out a couple of gift ideas that we've had from our readers yellow roses short 88 a personalized hamper put together by me now. I'm not as nice. Yeah that goes back to like what my friend did for us. A beautiful monarch of an aide a bracelet which was to that clip nature can't bother do it yourself. We all know there's time restrictions and stuff like that Studio C dot code. Okay. Yes. She does amazing how all these boxes with you can choose your own stuff or she has a creative team that will pick the right things for you. So please do have a look at that when she Two great ones for Crimson groomsmen Atlanta hasn't she yes, which are great because it is a struggle to buy gifts for guys. And yeah, it's kind of like been here and suddenly it's you know, again, it's this whole we want to give you, you know unique idea. Yeah, but it's either sort of quite expensive items like watch it. Yes or things that you'd already or do you have but already have so it's getting samples that she makes Artur. They're great, aren't they? Yeah. Absolutely. Rachel. Mary Hawkes bought her bridesmaids personalized French. It quotes oh cute I think he's cute. Yeah so similar to your friends sound wave that yeah, but again, absolutely Natalia 1 1 2 but her flower girls fluffy sheep skin lamb soft toys and her bridesmaids necklaces with their first initials. Oh, I like that again. It's that whole person. I've seen like it. Well, it's not know and they're very simple and elegant yet. I can they get you know, lots of people are going to appreciate ya an initial. That's it on a you know, yeah. Lovely fine chain and everything Jesse's underscore Adventure Sport her bridesmaids Alex Monroe bracelets with ferns to reflect the location of the wedding again. I'll that's great isn't it? So, it's your it's jewelry because you know, it's a good go-to, but it's relevant to the day and every time when I was I wasn't a bridesmaid for a friend of mine, but I helped set up her day did I flowers and all that sort of stuff again didn't expect to get anything, but she bought me a necklace with a A this beautiful like sideways cross on it because she had the most gorgeous Church ceremony. So she bought me that to remind me of her wedding ceremony and I don't own anything like that. But every time I put it on I think I'm like transported back to that specific time because it's relevant to that experience and that's thing like definitely have to buy a gift because well quite one of our readers SJ Willis isn't getting any gifts. Oh Heard a highway exactly exactly and there they go. I'm good on it because like we just said yeah really don't have to get gifts if it's stressing you out or you can't afford it and it's not in your budget do it and also your wedding water whether it's groomsmen and bridesmaids whatever it is, you know, if you've paid for the dress or you've paid for their shoes, maybe it's a case of like I'd really like for you to pay to get your hair done. Yeah. That is that is go along with a lovely thing to do you don't need Need to do that and yeah, buy them something tangible honest. I'll put that or afternoon tea or whatever and I think this is the thing, you know, some people do some people want to use the people can afford it. Some people can't but don't feel like it has to be led by everything that you see on Instagram. Yeah. Well the indeed you here on a podcast and do just so you know, and with that I think that's it. Sure. I'll give you some useful. I hope we have so happy. Gift shopping. 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You spoke, we listened and here it is. Series 2 episode 6 is all about the best bridal party gifts. You didn't want shit. You didn't want twee. We have avoided both of those things and come up with some gorgeous bridal party gift ideas for you to shower your nearest and dearest with. Rock My Wedding have teamed up with Birchbox to bring you an amazing beauty box which makes the perfect gift - you can get yours here! We also talk about making sure you have your day your way and so if you don't want to buy any gifts or spend any more money (we all know arms and legs get spent on weddings these days) then quite frankly, you don't have to! There should be no expectations. You do you. Bridal Party Gifts From niche gifting to things you can find easily on the high street we've got all angles covered so get comfy grab a cuppa/wine/gin and get ready for 25 minutes of chat all about bridal party gifting. You're welcome. Find some great gifts right here: RMW X Birchbox Katie Loxton Pouches Oliver Bonas Make Up Bags Sound Wave Print Studio Seed Gift Boxes Flower Subscription Afternoon Tea in the Midlands Spa Days at Hoar Cross and Cowley Manor Build Your Own Hamper For your newly engaged bridal party babes - RMW Your Day Your Way. Visit rockmywedding.co.uk/podcast for full show notes and tonnes of wedding inspiration! 