Traditional Gift Lists

Although department stores remain the most popular provider of wedding lists, several other companies are gaining in popularity, offering an even wider choice of gifts. Several online companies, allow you to include all the toasters and dinner plates you want, in addition to a golfing weekend, a row of vines in a French vineyard and a helicopter trip.

If you are keen gardeners, you could have your list at the at a garden centre where you can include plants and garden-related products. Wine connoisseurs could set up a wine-related list to fill up that wine cellar.

For the couple who has everything, or just wants to give something back, you can set up a charity gift list where you set your list up for donations to charities. Gifts could be anything from a first aid kit to an eye operation, to a tree being planted.

If you want to steer away from household items altogether, how about a honeymoon gift list? With an estimated four in ten couples now asking for money towards their honeymoon in place of traditional gifts, a honeymoon wedding list makes perfect sense.

Here you divide up your honeymoon itinerary into affordable portions so that your guests can buy you anything from a night in a hotel or a romantic meal, to an elephant safari or hot air balloon ride. This means that not only do you avoid the awkward situation of asking people for money, but your guests feel that they are actually buying you a tangible gift. Speak to your travel agent, who may be happy to open a special account and supply personalised inserts to go in with your invitations.

The final option is cash or vouchers. Easy for your guests as they don't need to think about it until they are on their way to your wedding, but usually only an acceptable option for couples paying for their own wedding and where it is well known that you are saving for a house deposit or similar.