10 Unique Indian Wedding Gifting Ideas That Your Guests Will Love

Weddings favors and wedding gifting have always been a part of wedding celebrations. Whether you’re from the groom’s side or the bride’s side, you’ll end up planning for some sort of give away for your close friends and family members. It’s always a wonderful idea to work in a little customized something for your guests to remember your wedding by. After all, they made time to come and be part of your special day.

Traditional Indian wedding gifts have come a long way from the traditional mithai and dry fruit dabbas that are handed over to guests when they depart. Customization and personalization is now a key factor in selecting give aways for your wedding guests. The theme of your wedding and the budget are other factors to keep in mind while picking something out for your wedding party.

Give aways have become a part of every function or ceremony. So if your friends are planning on a bridal shower, you might want to plan a small token give away for them, Mehendi is another ceremony where fun girly gifting ideas are being incorporated. To help you explore and expand your horizons a little more, these 10 unique Indian wedding gifting ideas will add a touch of pizazz to your wedding and make your guests super happy.

And remember, packaging is the key! Not matter what you gift your guests as a token of appreciation; the packaging is what will move this up a few notches. So have a look at these Indian wedding gift ideas for guests and choose your pick.

Unique Test Tube Wedding Gifts

One of the most elegant and personalized favors of all time, bath salts in test tubes is being well received by guests. Why not? These crystalline substance work great to create a soft-scented ambiance for your bath time. Who doesn’t love a long and refreshing bath time?  Not to mention how pretty they look.

You can also stuff in special flavoured tea leaves, giving your guests a change in taste from the usual Indian chai they have. This is one of the best gift ideas for wedding guests at a Indian Wedding as chai pe charcha always wins over coffee conversations! 

Aesthetic Tropical Wedding Gifts

If planning a beach wedding, nothing gets dreamier than giving away candles infused with tropical additions

Fascinating Wedding Toy Gifts for Kids

Here’s a little something for all those little munchkins who are were part of your wedding. These special tiny guests deserve a favor too, right?

Green Wedding Gift Ideas

A lot of money and resources are spent on weddings. The best way to make up for it is by giving it back to nature

Go green in this one element of your wedding, encourage your guests to follow suit

Trendy Mason Jar Wedding Gift Idea

Mason jars are the latest trend in gift packaging and presentation. Be it décor or personalized party favors, they seem to have found their comfortable spot in wedding celebrations too. Fill it up with goodies. Think – homemade cake, pickles, marmalades, jam, M&Ms or gems, nuts, popcorn seeds, dried fruit or anything exotic. The list can go as far as your imagination.

Sweet Treat Wedding Gifts Can Never Go Wrong

Speaking of food, brings us to dessert and how you can never go wrong with giving away something sweet to your guests, because at weddings “kuch meetha toh banta hai na?”  

Other than the boring mithai dabba, think unusual, like:

Cake Pops!

Cookies

Cotton Candies

Cute Macaroons

Crackers and Chocolates

Ferrero Rocher

Mini Gumball Machine

Bridal Shower or Mehndi Party Gift

Mehndi and bridal showers or bachelorette parties are all about girls having bucket loads of fun. To show how much you love your girls, there is no better way than giving away cool and useful party favors.

Nail Polish

Cookies with Mehendi Design

Handcrafted Potlis

Colourful Bangles – Always a Hit!

Mogra Bangles

Colourful Umbrellas – To beat the heat if having an outdoor party

Hand Fans – If umbrellas are a little too tight on your budget

Signature Drinks as Wedding Gift

Choose a DIY option to create your own signature drink or grab miniatures of your favourite drinks and give them as wedding favors at your summer wedding

Geek Wedding Gift

For totally geeked-out couples, a personalized USB comes as close as a unique wedding favor you can give to your guests. If you don’t mind putting in a little effort, store some of your favourite songs or a wedding movie perhaps, that your guests can enjoy.  

Themed Wedding Gift

Having an unusual wedding theme? Let your guests take away a reminder of the fantastic party you threw to celebrate your union. Say, if you’re hosting a vineyard wedding, then personalized wine cork key chains make a great wedding favor. If having a Bollywood themed wedding, then movie souvenirs.

Traditional Wedding Gift

To keep the elders of the family happy, you can stick to traditional Indian wedding favors too. These can be given out to close friends and relatives. Think – silver or jewelled stoned mini boxes, filled with dry fruits or traditional mithai.  If budget is not a constraint, then silver coins in these boxes could be well-received by your guests too.

Find more ideas on theme based wedding gifting here.

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