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Five Gifts Every Bride Needs

25 Thursday May 2017

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Five Gifts Every Bride Needs

By: Allison Ryder

 

 

Everyone is always searching for the perfect gift for your best friend, sister, niece, etc. for their bridal shower. You don’t want to simply get something off the wedding registry with no thought attached to the person you went through thick and thin with. We all struggle with this eventually. Trying to come up with the perfect gift that’s meaningful but also useful, and not just going to end up in the back of the closet somewhere.

 

We’ll give you some place to start.

 

 

The first gift is making a basket of wine. One bottle for every monumental aspect of the happy couple’s first year. Attached to each bottle of wine should be a short and sweet poem associated with the reason they’re opening it. Examples would be: first fight, first Christmas, first baby, first house, wedding night, first Thanksgiving, first Anniversary, and so on. This allows you the freedom of choosing wines they love or all different kinds to taste test and personalizes it to help them get through their good and bad times together.

 

 

The second is taking something that the bride to be wants, off of the registry and filling it with all kinds of other necessities. An example would be filling that new mixer with personalized kitchen towels, measuring cups, and any other small kitchen equipment customized to things she likes (a corkscrew if she loves wine, cupcake holders if she likes baking, etc.). You can pretty much do this with anything off the registry. For a new coffee pot, you could do personalized coffee mugs with it, for the bedding set, you can add a personalized blanket with their date on it, and so much more!

 

 

The third is a tear jerker and will never be a washed-out gift. Making a scrapbook for the bride to be from finish to start of your journey’s together leading up to this monumental moment will be an overly-appreciated and sentimental gift that pairs nicely with anything. Include photos, memories, and even old concert or movie tickets. Anything you have to make it extra special and personal. Might want to wrap some tissues for this one!

 

 

A honeymoon basket is the forth. Bridal Showers tend to focus on all the new inventions and necessities the bride and groom will need after the wedding day when they’re settling into their new home, but what about the honeymoon? You can find out where they’re going and give a credit towards something in the vicinity where they can go or something they can do, or you can get a ‘honeymoon fund’ bank to fill with some money, while also filling the basket with everything they no longer have to think about it. Fill it with things such as: sunscreen, tanning lotion, bride and groom flip flops or bridge and groom attire, beach towels, his and her travel cups, advil, tums, sunglasses, honeymoon bound luggage tags, aloe vera lotion, magazines for the plane, or a bottle of champagne, just to name a few.

 

And last but not least, an alternative gift for the bride to be is a masterpiece with the touch of Pinot’s. Here at Pinot’s Palette, we host many bridal showers and we offer a keepsake painting for an additional fee. This is the perfect gift for a bride to be. We have plenty of different choices but a great one to do, especially from bridesmaids or a family would be to do one of our paintings with trees in it. Instead of leaves on the trees, everyone would place their finger in some paint and place their fingerprint on the canvas to create the artistic leaves. Not only is this a beautiful piece created by one of our many talented artists, that she will be able to display in her new home, but it’s something personal and one of a kind for her to cherish for all the years to come.

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18 Tuesday Mar 2014

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life is about moments. it’s about bucket lists, and dreams, and passions, and physical connections. it’s about kissing, and love, and taking chances, and traveling. it’s about doing things that scare you, and doing things that give you a piece of life you never had before. it’s about learning new things, and exploring. so when a person wants you to be a part of that, it’s because you mean something to them and this thing they’re going to do means something profound and they want to share it with you. that’s not to be feared, nor neglected, nor ignored – it’s to be appreciated and embraced. because that moment. it means something. and one day, you’re going to find yourself looking at that photograph and you’re going to feel something too. sharing moments with someone…. that’s the key. that’s what it’s truly all about. it’s not where you’re going, it’s who you’re going with. it’s who you’re sharing it with. that’s what matters.

– allison ryder

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12 Wednesday Mar 2014

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i’m on the road of change; the twisted turns of new beginnings, the uproar of controversy, the raceway to everything imaginable and impossible. i’m an artist. a writer. a romantic. an adventure seeker. a risk taker. a lover. a baker. a photographer. a racer. a bartender. an advice giver. a daughter. a friend. a sister. an aunt. i’m a lot of intricate and complex puzzle pieces striving to impact the world through the written word. books will never be extinct as long as i am alive. it is an amazingly powerful thing to know why you were born; to know your purpose – to have dreams and passions, and courageously and fearfully pursue each and every one of them but at the end of the day, always bring it back to that one thing you know you were meant to do. i want to move people, shock people, touch people.. with my words, and i’m going to do just that. i’ve always been told it’s not logical how i live my life. my dreams aren’t logical. my beliefs are not realistic. i am not doing what “i’m supposed to do.” but i am doing what i believe is right. this is my life and i am going to live it my way. judgment, criticism, disappointment. i can take it. i can’t take living a life for somebody else, living it the way they want me to. i work hard, no matter what the job is. i take things very seriously, sometimes too serious – work and relationships alike. because my heart knows the value of the things i pursue and you can tell me i’m wrong and i’m not on the “right road,” and maybe it’s not acceptable to you but it’s my road, and it’s my journey.. so you can embrace and accept who i am and how i live my life or you can respectfully get out of my way. because nothing you say can stop me. i don’t give up. once my heart and my time is invested, my entire being is invested and that’s who i am.

my focus in writing is quotes, poetry, and fiction (mostly action, romance, and supernatural). “words left unspoken” was my first book published through Janson Media in 2010. i have this ability, if you will, the purely empathetic ability to place myself in someone’s shoes and vividly imagine their battles, feel their pain. i wrote the majority of this poetry throughout my high school years and the book was meant to reveal the untold scars and battles of everyday life. it reflects a darker, deeper, and more intense aspect of life.

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/words-left-unspoken-allison-ryder/1028964739?ean=9781889131849

my writing has drastically transformed since this book was published. i am not the same person i was four years ago. i have been touched and moved by experiences and people in such a way that my entire art has transformed and it’s about that time to show the world how i’ve grown.

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