37 Free Gift Ideas That Don’t Suck Entirely
So you’ve got a wedding coming up and that means all the usual hearts, flowers, booze and suits but more than any of this it means buying gifts. You’ve got to get an engagement gift, a wedding present, a gift for the ushers, something for the vicar. WILL IT NEVER END?
He's bought her a slice of cheese. Women love cheese.
Staggered has already had a look at some of the world’s greatest beer-related gifts and suggested a few alternative gifts for men, we’ve also got you some discounts on great gift companies but we wanted to do more, we wanted to rack our brains and try and come up with the Holy Grail of gift giving: presents that cost you nothing but that don’t actually suck.
Let us know how you think we did. We’re ever-so slightly disappointed that we only made it to number two before we mentioned home-made vouchers…
Free Gift Ideas #1-10
1 – Donate the entirety of your long collected Tesco clubcard points and use them to provide a bit of the catering, or a bonus. We’re sure enough Clubcard points translates to a helicopter, surely?
2 – Chip in with the organisation. Make sure the pressure is off in terms of making sure Aunty Barbara has her taxi booked back to the house before eight, etc. You could always go down the homemade voucher route for specific wedding-related tasks (e.g. returning the suits to the formal hire place). Clearly, this is most helpful when you offer it before the wedding day.
3 – Collate and Share a Spotify playlist. The increasingly popular music streaming service allows you to create an individualised, playable list of any number of tracks, and then share it with the world, or in your case, invited guests and friends. Assuming that Spotify has the song in it’s database of course.
4 – Arrange a testimonial amongst friends and guests. You can do it as a Youtube video, a book, a podcast… Try and keep it upbeat though. “7/10… work needed, Dave. Prefer the wife to be honest.”
5 – Write a poem – A poem is such a vastly surprising gift from a man who may well have been drunk enough to fall in a canal with the groom a few weeks ago, it will undoubtedly give proceedings a little bit of edge. What other heinous acts of affection are you capable of?
6 – Write a song – the next step up from a bit of unexpected poetry, nothing says, “I’m buying into your love and so it’s OK that I’ll probably have to drink alone sometimes now”, more than a song. Recommended only for advanced instrumentalists and not complete eejits.
Kittens. Thousands of them.
7 – Volunteer to Look after the cat during the honeymoon. Please, do not kill the cat.
8 – A Collected Photo Album – It sounds sentimental, but if you’re spending more than enough time with your newlywed pals at parties, barbecues or away on holiday, you’d be surprised at how quickly snaps build up.
9 – Prepare a slideshow. Using carefully chosen images, you can distract from the DJ’s inevitably naff dancing with a sentimental audio-visual spectacular.
10 – Indeed, why not prepare a dance yourself, using your physical form to seamlessly express the many facets of the relationship you have observed.
On the following page are some helpful ideas! Mixed in with some not-so helpful ones…
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