Fifteen Finds: Wedding Gifts from Etsy

This week Mad About The House is happy to announce its first ever affiliation. Da Da. Yes, we have teamed up with Etsy for a monthly post called Fifteen Finds where we will hunt out the best of the site and bring them to you. Then, if you decide to buy any of them, Mad gets a teeeny little commission while helps keep Enid cat in treats. Or me in new tights depending on her mood.

So first up, as it’s the season, here are my picks for Wedding Gifts.

 

ENGRAVED FORKS

Milk and Honey Luxuries

£19.93

The trend for personalisation shows no signs of disappearing, so the trick is to find more unusual ideas to personalise. These are the most obvious words to engrave, but the seller has plenty of other choices including: my coffee, your coffee, I do, me too or even, The Best is Yet to Come on a single teaspoon.

PERSONALISED LETTER PRINT

The Quaint and The Curious

£10.63

Sticking with the personal theme, these decorative letters were collected from Antique and Vintage Books (pre -1930) and placed over a rescued vintage desk encyclopedia book page before being framed in an eight by ten creamy white frame.

CERAMIC DISH

Nabil Fahd

£166.11

The point of wedding gifts, I think, is to buy things that the couple wouldn’t necessarily buy themselves and this beautiful dish falls into that category. Admittedly I would rather use it than display it, although it’s more of a display sort of price I grant you. But it would sit very happily on a dressing table holding rings and cufflinks.

ANTIQUE CANDLESTICKS

Eve

£65.12

Come on, they’ve just got married, it’ll be candlelit dinners every night of the week. And in the event of a power, they’ll come in just as handy. This pair of brass sticks is ten inches high and lovely and heavy, which is what you want in a proper old candlestick. Be quiet at the back there with your talk of Cluedo. This is a wedding post.

BESPOKE COCKTAIL SERVICE

Toasted Glass

£40

Now this I love. The best way to do this would be to fill in the questionnaire on behalf of the couple, then Monique will create a bespoke cocktail and send the recipe and full instructions on how to create it. You will also receive a letter explaining why I chose your specific blend. The recipe and letter will be accompanied by a hand painted miniature bottle containing a free sample of the alcohol required to make your drink. The design on the miniature bottle can be used to refect your personality and you can choose from the motifs available on my range of shot glasses, or you can design your own.

 

HANDMADE COASTERS

Vintage Art Factory

£5.32

Well along with all those drinks, they might be needing a coaster or two on which to rest their lovely bespoke cocktail glasses. These are all handmade so you can choose your patterns and your combinations depending on how many you decide to buy for the happy couple.

CERAMIC BOWLS

Blue Sky Pottery Co

£21.26

Small bowls are so useful you can probably never have too many. Perfect for ice cream or nibbles, you can choose your colour combinations to suit depending on how many you want to buy.

MRS AND MRS PILLOWCASE CUSHION

Zana Products

£35.88

Back to the monogrammed theme, but this time it’s monochrome too and I do love a bit of monochrome as regular readers will know. The simple clean font of the letters appeasl to me and I love her Cupid’s Bow lips, not to mention his rather dashing moustache. Now, I haven’t asked, but I’m sure the manufacturer would do you a Mr and Mr or a Mrs and Mrs if you asked. That’s the joy of Etsy, the designers are often happy to alter things to suit.

 

LARGE MERCURY GLASS VASE

The Art of Finer Things

£89.70

I have never been one for buying vases but every now and then in life, there are occasions when flowers arrive and I have nothing to put them in. You know the sort of thing, weddings, births of children, anniversaries, birthdays, Valentine’s Day. Even if your beloved is not one for matters floral (and mine is not terribly that way inclined) a vase of flowers on the kitchen table with some Spring daffodils that you bought for yourself is a thing of beauty (and possibly a gentle nudge). And, having said that I don’t own any vases, this is one that I would be very happy to have. I rather love the antiqued mercury effect and imagine how beautiful it would look filled with a big bunch of blowsy peonies.

 

PERSONALISED CHOPPING BOARD 

Taylor Crafts Engraved

£29.24

As I mentioned earlier, if you want to go down the personalised route, it’s about finding things that are a little more unusual. This chopping board will, perhaps, be used every day by one or other and I rather like the bold design and the idea that the couple were “established” on a certain date.

CUSTOM CAKE STAND

Vessels and Wares

£99.67

In this instance, I might not choose to have the names engraved but maybe the date. Or a phrase like “let them eat cake” springs to mind. Anyway, the point is that there should always be cake. In marriage as in life.

 

RING HOLDER DISH

Promise Pottery

£13.29

Isn’t this pretty? A sweet little ring dish to go by the bed or, more likely, by the washing up bowl as you don’t want to be washing dishes with a socking great diamond on your left hand now do you? Speaking as one who doesn’t have a diamond, socking or otherwise, I can only assume that is how you would feel.

 

PERSONALISED LOVE BIRDS

Diana Parkhouse

£19

Long after the cake has gone, the love birds will remain. And that’s what makes it the perfect little present.

 

YOU ARE SO LOVED PRINT

The Wheatfield

£11.96

Well this might be perfect for the first anniversary mightn’t it but still, it never hurts to have a little reminder does it? The print measures eight by ten.

 

FIRST NAME TEACUPS AND MUGS

Wandersketch

£10.63

Now obviously you could buy these for the bridge and groom but equally the bridge and groom could buy them for their flower girls, bridesmaids and pageboys. It’s a rather sweet idea and a little bit different from the normal stuff. Which basically just about sums up Etsy.

So there you have it, my wedding gift picks from Etsy. I hope you like them.