Engagement present for couple who don’t need anythjng

Calendargirl, at the time we set a wedding date (just over 50 years ago now) dh thought ‘getting engaged’ was desperately un-cool. So although I’d have quite liked an engagement ring, I didn’t push it.

He later bought me a lovely emerald and diamond ring right after the birth of dd2, which TBH meant a great deal more to me.
A neighbour said, ‘You got that for a GIRL’?
To be fair, she was from a non-Brit culture in which boys were very much ‘best’.

Daddima

For a ‘vow renewal’ last year I gave a couple who have been married for years a ‘ Highland Title’, so they can be Lord and Lady of the Glen!
Just a useless bit of fun, but they enjoyed it, and have given the certificate pride of place!

I’ve just noticed this is a year old!
Still, may be useful to someone.

I've done this twice with great success in the past .
I would certainly do it again .
Take some really good photos of them .
Contact an artist who works from photographs and have a portrait done .
This would make a great wedding gift as well .

Circa 1974 when my then best friend got married I naturally bought her a present and some incredibly pretty wrapping paper for it. I lived rurally and it was an epic trek into town. When I got home I realised the words on the wrapping paper said "On Your Engagement". I was so cross with myself but the point is that engagement presents have obviously been a thing for at least 50 years.

I know this is an old thread !
But so is the idea of an engagement present , I got engaged over 55 years ago and got bottom drawer , presents , but the best one was a book token , with instructions to buy a cookery book !
I bought a Marguerite Pattens latest offering and still use it

aggie

I know this is an old thread !
But so is the idea of an engagement present , I got engaged over 55 years ago and got bottom drawer , presents , but the best one was a book token , with instructions to buy a cookery book !
I bought a Marguerite Pattens latest offering and still use it

Same here, aggie. We got engaged in 1972, and all our gifts were useful ones, but then couples didn’t live together before getting married. I remember getting three ‘dollies’ made fron dishcloths and tea towels wrapped around a wooden spoon with a face drawn on it, so that must have been a ‘thing’. I also remember washing lines and clothes pegs.

This sounds like a lovely option.

Beautiful glasses that shimmer under candlelight with champagne and sweet kisses.

kittylester

A good bottle of bubbles with special glasses.

just what I was about to suggest. Expensive pink champagne and some beautiful rock crystal cut glass glasses.

How about a day at a spa. Let them get pampered and relaxed for a day. Or a voucher for a meal at their favourite restaurant?

They are probably married by now!

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Voucher for a meal in a local restaurant.
Board game

I wouldn't have thought an engagement present was necessary as they have both been married before. Most second marriages insist on no presents or ask for donations to a specific charity.

On the other hand, I know someone who has been married three times, and renewed her vows eight years into her third marriage, holding a second reception and with a present list asking for 'anything from Le Creuset.'

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