Hi my best friend ( for 24 yrs ) is getting married and i really need an unusal idea for their wedding present. I dont want to go down the normal line. I did think about paying for them to have a family photo shoot as they both have children to a previous relationship, so i thought it would be a nice idea for her to have a photo of them alltogether ( especially as 2 are grown up living in harrogate ) BUT the only ones where you pay and have a gift voucher seem to be a small photo for around £ 50 which doesnt seem much of a present. Any ideas please as my head hurts from searching and im not getting nowhere!!! lol. thanks

You can get bottle of champagne here:


http://www.corkingdesigns.co.uk/

not very original a bottle of champlage I know but with it being engraved makes it a bit more special and something they can keep.

Other than that what about restaurant vouchers or a night in a hotel/spa?

try debenhams for the photo's?

Why not ask some of the photographers on here, they will often do a very good package far cheaper than a lot of the commercial well known places.
I know I've looked at places like the ventura place, for a good package you're looking at well over £100, a photographer once told me she'd do it for half that.

I recently bought my friend a really nice photo album and had digi pictures printed at boots and got some pictures of facebook to create a really nice album. come in at about £28.00 - she will keep that for ages... lol

How about....putting something in their wedding card telling them to reserve a date, then book a meal in their favourite restaurant...with u of course and get a limo to pick them up, and have a few little suprises at the restaurant? i.e a mini wedding cake, bottle of champagne? it all depends on what you want to spend.

there's a place on Eccy Road that does photoframes with words cut out of the mount, if you see what I mean - so your photos spell a word. They do single ones for names and things, and double height ones so you can write both their names - thye can spell whatever you want.

I was going to get one for my friends wedding but you need to give them a week's notice so it can be made and I'm not that organised.

why not book a Partylite show with me we have some fabulous gift ideas and as a lot of people haven't heard of us the gifts are unusual & unique to us. You can visit our website at www.partylite.co.uk to give you an idea what we have and as a hostess there will be FREE gifts for you too

Or there's a website:

http://www.bobbooks.co.uk/

The most thoughtful/special things we received were:

-Matching personalised pillowcases with the design that we used throughout our wedding (invitations/table plan etc) embroidered onto them. They set them out on the bed on our wedding night in the honeymoon suite!
-While we were on our honeymoon, reception told us that we had a special Spa experience booked for us by my Bridesmaid
-Oh's best man put together a photo album of pics from the stag do, and one of my BMs did one of our hen weekend.

Because I already had my house and most house stuff I asked my friends to do something that put some of themselves into their present rather than buying something and even though it turned out that I married someone who was auditioning to be the new antichrist, some of the presents which were full of personal good will are still here and will be treasured forever.

My best friend made a two-person dream catcher and also wrote a book about the process she was going through and why. The book was even covered in offcuts of the fabric from my wedding dress.

Another friend went on a course to learn how to make stained glass, then made a beautiful stained glass mirror as a present.

Another friend bought us some plain glasses and engraved them herself with monograms.

I do favour personally made gifts- anyone can go and throw money at a shop and come away with something that cost huge amounts of money but which is either inappropriate or had no thought put into it (or both).

Time and love investment should be cherished. Putting your soul into a present shouldn't mean spending lots of money on a gift.