Wedding gift ideas for the bride and groom

A soft bouquet or box in white, baby roses or pale mauve is the gift that reaches a bride most often before her wedding. If you know the colours of her party, match the flowers so they sit well with the photos and the kosha, the bride's stage. A bouquet is light and made to be held, while a large box or a flower basket is a luxurious gift that stays in her room for days.

You will find every kind under flower bouquets and baskets and boxes.

On the wedding day the bride moves between home and the salon and the hall with no time to receive gifts and open them. So send her gift the day before or have it reach her on the morning of her big day before she leaves for the salon. A WhatsApp link lets her choose her home, her family's home or the salon, and the slot that suits her.

A single gift goes out in the evening slot of the same day when she sets her location before 4 pm. To have it arrive in the morning slot, from 10 am to 4 pm, order it the day before. Some gifts need longer to prepare. The time is on each gift page.

Her sister is the closest to her and knows her perfume and her favourite colour, which makes her gift more personal. The natural choice is flowers with perfume in one arrangement, such as baby roses with My Way by Armani or pink roses with Miss Dior. If there are several sisters, join together for a piece of silver she wears on the wedding night and keeps afterwards.

Torn between two perfumes? Send her both as options and she keeps the one she likes.

When the group pools for one gift to the bride, you can go a level up to something luxurious such as a large flower arrangement, flowers with perfume or a silver set. Write all your names on one card so she knows it comes from all of you. If you cannot agree, pick several gifts from the same level and let her choose the one she likes, paying half their average price now and the balance after her choice.

For a gift that stays with the bride for years there are sets, necklaces, earrings and rings in 925 silver, some of them gold-plated. Jewelry is delivered inside Riyadh only and takes days to prepare, so order it early. The preparation time is on each piece's page and you do not need her ring size because the bride chooses it herself from the link.

For the sabahiya gift that the groom brings his bride, see milka and sabahiya gift ideas.

Perfume is the gift a groom receives most from his family and friends, because he uses it every day. When you are unsure of his taste, well-known names are safer, such as Bleu de Chanel, Terre d'Hermès and Gucci Pour Homme. Send it the day before the wedding so he can wear it on the night, and he sets the place and time from the link.

If you know his favourite perfume, give him its newest edition or a bigger bottle. If you do not, put two or three in front of him and he chooses one. There are also flowers with a men's perfume in one gift, such as blue delphinium with Sauvage by Dior.

Fine chocolate is another gift, opened in his family's majlis on the wedding day or kept for the two of you afterwards. His mobile number is all you need, because the link reaches him on WhatsApp and he chooses where and when to receive it.

If the gift is for the bride and groom together, a vase suits their new home because it arrives arranged and ready and goes straight onto the first table. Send it once they are back from the honeymoon or settled in, so someone is there to receive it and enjoy it. You do not need their new address, since the link goes to the bride's mobile and she sets the location.