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Did you ask someone to do a reading at your wedding?
Bride2B93
Posted: Mar 28, 2004 08:01 PM+
Posted: Mar 28, 2004 08:01 PM
Did you ask someone to do a reading at your wedding?
My FH and I asked three of our close friends to do a reading at the wedding. I know that they come to the RD, what type of a gift (if any) did you get for them? I am worried because everyone else will be getting gifts and I don't want them to feel left out. Any ideas? Thanks!
Nora101004
Posted: Mar 28, 2004 08:05 PM+
Posted: Mar 28, 2004 08:05 PM
Re: Did you ask someone to do a reading at your wedding?
Are the readers male or female? How old are they? What are you getting your bridal party? Maybe a double frame so they can put a pic of them doing the reading and your wedding picture, or a triple frame and add a copy of the reading. Maybe a smaller version of the bp gifts.
acsdance
Posted: Mar 28, 2004 08:12 PM+
Posted: Mar 28, 2004 08:12 PM
Re: Did you ask someone to do a reading at your wedding?
I was asked to do a reading for a wedding I attended this weekend. I was invited to the rehearsal dinner as well. I did not feel left out when the other girls (BM's) were getting there gifts. Although I was not given the same gift, I was given a gift certificate to get a manicure/pedicure. In addition, I was given a corsage to wear at the ceremony/reception. I thought it was really nice the way they treated the readers. Good luck
nferrandi
Posted: Mar 28, 2004 08:19 PM+
Posted: Mar 28, 2004 08:19 PM
Re: Did you ask someone to do a reading at your wedding?
From what I understand you're supposed to give your readers a little something, but it doesn't have to be as expensive as you may spend on your bridal party. I like the idea of a frame with a photo from the wedding, to give them later, and a nicely printed copy of the reading. You can also get them something that would be personal to them. If you tell us a little about your readers, we may be more help.
pschica
Posted: Mar 28, 2004 08:33 PM+
Posted: Mar 28, 2004 08:33 PM
Re: Did you ask someone to do a reading at your wedding?
something small should be fine - perhaps related to an interest (a new book, bookmark, plant, pen, journal, subscrip to a magizne even)
MegLehner
Posted: Mar 28, 2004 08:36 PM+
Posted: Mar 28, 2004 08:36 PM
Re: Did you ask someone to do a reading at your wedding?
FSILs are doing readings at our wedding, since we are having only BM and MOH. I wasnt planning on getting them anything for RD. We are getting them corsages to wear at the wedding and then when we get out pics back we were going to have a pic of each of them framed.
Boop2704
Posted: Mar 28, 2004 09:25 PM+
Posted: Mar 28, 2004 09:25 PM
Re: Did you ask someone to do a reading at your wedding?
I gave my readers each a $25 gift certificate to Borders.
Bride2B93
Posted: Mar 28, 2004 09:27 PM+
Posted: Mar 28, 2004 09:27 PM
Re: Did you ask someone to do a reading at your wedding?
Thank you for all of your advice!!
DecBride04
Posted: Mar 28, 2004 09:30 PM+
Posted: Mar 28, 2004 09:30 PM
Re: Did you ask someone to do a reading at your wedding?
We have 3 readers as well. We are giving them a nice Book-maker and gift certificate to Barnes-Nobel Bookstore. Don't forget that you should get the male readers a boutonier and female readers a coursage. Do get an invite to the RD as well.
myasmom
Posted: Mar 28, 2004 09:34 PM+
Posted: Mar 28, 2004 09:34 PM
Re: Did you ask someone to do a reading at your wedding?
My readers are in my bridal party...one is my lil sis, my MOh and the best man so they already get a special gift
J.Lo24
Posted: Mar 28, 2004 10:45 PM+
Posted: Mar 28, 2004 10:45 PM
Re: Did you ask someone to do a reading at your wedding?
Posted by DecBride04
We have 3 readers as well. We are giving them a nice Book-maker and gift certificate to Barnes-Nobel Bookstore.
Same idea. We got our GC at Borders though. Here are a picture of the bookmarks we are getting for the females and males. http://www.lillianvernon.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=10001&catalogId=10001&langId=-1&productId=12507&addOn=484&categoryId=&catTree=&clearance=&sid=eas
http://www.monogrammedgifts.com/product.asp?pid=121
Lilith
Posted: Mar 29, 2004 01:10 AM+
Re: Did you ask someone to do a reading at your wedding?
I did a reading at my cousin's wedding and she gave me a gift basket from Bath and boday works.
Snoogie
Posted: Mar 29, 2004 01:16 AM+
Posted: Mar 29, 2004 01:16 AM
Re: Did you ask someone to do a reading at your wedding?
yes we did......the person (mutual friend) who introduced us did a reading......not quite close enough to be in the bridal party, but we are for ever in his debt for setting us up!!
Snoogie
Posted: Mar 29, 2004 01:19 AM+
Posted: Mar 29, 2004 01:19 AM
Re: Did you ask someone to do a reading at your wedding?
yes we did......the person (mutual friend) who introduced us will do a reading......we are v. close to him, not quite close enough to be in our very small sibling dominated bridal party, but we are for ever in his debt for setting us up!!
btrflygrl
Posted: Mar 29, 2004 08:44 AM+
Posted: Mar 29, 2004 08:44 AM
Re: Did you ask someone to do a reading at your wedding?
We also had 3 readers but they were family members & 1 OOT guest...so they were all at the RD, but we didn't give them gifts. We were on a budget...but you could do a small token gift, like an engraved frame or the double sided frame in which you could put a photo and a printed version of their reading. We also skipped gifts for our parents but will do enlargements for them of their choosing.
bellepoque
Posted: Mar 29, 2004 04:38 PM+
Posted: Mar 29, 2004 04:38 PM
Re: Did you ask someone to do a reading at your wedding?
We are also having three readers at our wedding. They will be invited to the Rehearsal Dinner and we are giving each of them books related to their interests--architecture, photography and theater.
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