Traditionally wedding gift lists are designed to allow couples to choose and manage desired gifts from a department or online store, which is then made available to friends and family. As items are purchased the list is updated to ensure that the same gift is not brought by multiple guests.
Creating your wedding gift list couldn’t be any simpler, right?
But what happens when the gift you really want is not available with the shop that you have registered with? Or you would prefer for your guests to make a donation to the charity of your choice in place of a gift?
There is only one real solution, to move away from department store wedding gift lists to embrace the flexible wedding gift lists now available online.
Penny Parrott created e-weddinglist.co.uk a completely flexible online wedding list in answer to frequent requests from friends and family for a wedding list where they had complete control over what was added to the list while allowing their guests the freedom to buy their gift from anywhere. “The idea for the website came from my family when we discussing my brother's upcoming wedding, we all agreed how impersonal it was to order a gift online and then have the store wrap it and deliver it for you in a job lot with other presents. It just seems to take the joy out of giving a gift to wish the happy couple well in their future together”.
As our lifestyles change the types of gifts that are now desired has diversified, wedding gift lists are no longer dominated solely by the request for household items meaning wedding lists need to adapt to our every expanding needs. Online lists such as e-weddinglist.co.uk offer couples the flexibility to mix gifts for the home with more unconventional suggestions such as contributions to a honeymoon or even to add links to other online gift lists.
Charlotte Taylor and David Mannigan got married in September and used e-weddinglist.co.uk after it was recommended by a family member. “We already had everything we needed for our home and we could not ask for contributions to our honeymoon as we had already booked and paid for a two week getaway. However while looking through a bridal magazine we read an article about couples who were asking their guests to contribute to different aspects of their honeymoon.
We thought this was a great idea as we had been interested in a number of activities that we would really enjoy while we were away but had not made any definite bookings. So we used e-weddinglist.co.uk to list everything we wanted including a day llama trekking, water skiing lessons and an upgrade to our honeymoon suite. Thanks to our guests and e-weddinglist we had the most amazing trip which we will never forget”.
It is clear from reading stories like that of Charlotte and David Mannigan that the gifts modern couples really want are increasingly unique and branch further away from tradition, but fortunately it has never been easier to get what you really want.