A meaningful wedding gift is an expression, how much you love the bride and/or the groom.
The uniqueness of the gift enhances the care that has gone into its selection and your diligent efforts to merge it with your friend's personality.
A center point is, to find a personal idea, which should revolve all efforts in searching for Unique Wedding Gift Ideas.
In the absence of a clear cut direction, selection of wedding gift is a very difficult and complicated process and even when you weigh all the options, you are not sure if your friend would appreciate it or not.
Normally in a wedding, you are invited as a friend of the groom or the bride, but sometimes it may be that you are closely associated with both.
In such cases it would be better to give a universal gift like a crystal or dinner set or a useful accessory/appliance for their home which both could use and remember you by.
In the west, invitees to a wedding are few and far between. Only close friends and associates are called and so, selecting a wedding gift is not too difficult, as there are fewer chances of duplication of gifts.
Very much contrary to this, a typical village marriage in India will have registers to record the gifts, be they, in cash or in kind, and even go to the extent of reading each invitee's contribution for all to hear.
Many times, we imagine that a traditional gift would be ideal, not realizing that the recipients prefer a more practical gift.
An expensive but handy flask or even a CD collection of your friend's favorite music would be an ideal gift. Most important of all is, that you should select a wedding gift, which is chosen by your heart and soul.
Be sure to characterize your gifts with a personal touch. For example you could choose a personalized family guests book and you start to write a poem for a wedding with date and your signature.
Amongst a group of friends, no two are completely similar. Though you may be in each others company almost all your free time, every man has that different personality profile that separates him from the rest of the pack.
One such item that caters to a persons character is the perfume of his liking, while an expensive pen would be a writer's delight.
A masculine watch to match your friend's body language or an elegant bracelet will let him know how far you are willing to sacrifice to make him happy.
In my opinion, traditional wedding gifts are boring and do not elicit your expected response. A silk tie with clip, a beautiful leather wallet or belt and even some embroidered hand kerchiefs could qualify to be a very a personalized gift.
A really unique wedding gift could be two tickets for one of the most popular musicals in the world, such as "Cats", "Dance of the Vampires" or "The King of the Lions". If you further give his spouse a special gift, it would indeed evoke a welcome surprise.