Shower Gifts Made Easy with Monogrammed Stationery
It seems like every bride today creates a bridal registry to select gifts from for her shower. Although there is a lot of debate about whether the entire registry idea is a good one, quite often it can be a challenge to go a long with a bride’s specific registry requests. If this happens to be the case, you can always buy her some personalized stationary and give her a gift that she’ll love, even if it is not implicitly written out on the registry.
There are a lot of complications that can arise from a gift registry. First of all, if you happen to live out of town and do not have a store close by to your location where the bride registered, you may have a difficult time getting her a gift from her registry. Also, you may find that the entire registry has been picked through and there are only a few odds and ends left on the fist. What should you do? Give her and egg whisker, melon baller, and a toothbrush holder or skip the registry altogether? And if the bride registers at one store that does not have an item that she really wants, does that mean that she should not be able to ask for it?
For most brides, the registry is considered to be guidelines for people that really are unsure about what they should buy. If you have a better gift idea, such as monogrammed stationery in mind, by all means you should go get it. You’ll find that the bride will use her stationery dozens of times more than she will use a quesadilla maker, melon baller, and many of the other items on her registry.
And if you really want to surprise the bride on the day of her shower, bring along some personalized napkins that are preprinted with her and the grooms name and the date of the weeding. The bride can choose to use these napkins at her shower, or serve them with the cake for her wedding. They will make a great present that will certainly garner the bride’s thanks.
If you are going to a shower and would like permission to skip the registry and instead get the bride something that she will use, permission is granted. Pick out some special stationery or note cards for her and she will be extremely happy that you did. She will use the stationery and note cards up by the time that she even opens the box that the melon baller came in.
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Martha Miller
Last year I went through exactly what Mr. Hoffman stated. I was invited to a wedding where I was attempting to locate a gift off of a gift registry. By the time I was able to finally make it to the store she had chosen which was an hour and a half away from where I live the list was already well picked over. Instead of just settling to buy her some odds and ends I decided to be creative. I finally decided on ordering her personalized stationery. I then did an internet search and found Giftsin24.com. After looking through their site and speaking with their customer service department I was able to make my decision. Let me say that the willingness to help from the staff at Giftsin24.com is definitely what made me confident about my selection. Once I received my stationery I was very impressed by their quick turnaround time and also the high quality notes I received. Don’t be afraid to stray away from a bride registry and get creative like the good old days.
31 August 2010, 9:18 amBarb - Boulder, CO
You are right on, Martha. Giftsin24 has saved me on more than one occasion when it came to turn around time. I live in CO, and most of the time, when I order something online, it takes over a week to show up. Giftsin24 had personalized, packed and shipped my orders and had it delivered to my house in less than a week. I think it was like 4 days after I clicked the order button that my package was delivered to my house. When ever you are in a bind, these people can get it to you….and quick.
31 August 2010, 10:22 amLTM -- Manchester, NH
I live in New Hampshire and have had the same experience — less than a week for delivery of my previous orders with Giftsin24 … the best delivery turnaround I had was 3 days.
1 September 2010, 3:22 pmKerry --- Denton -- TX
Giftsin24 has the best variety of monogram designs, and some of them are unusually nice compared to the designs at other websites.
3 September 2010, 9:01 amC. Cohn
I love the monograms here at Giftsin24, too. I notice that many of the letters in the monograms featured at other websites do not even interlock with each other — the letters are separated by spaces. How is that a monogram ?
6 September 2010, 1:29 pmA M Rodriguez
Personalized wedding napkins are the perfect place to introduce the bride’s new monogram. Take a look at the Firenze monogram in the napkins section here at Giftsin24.
9 September 2010, 9:00 am