Bridesmaids gifts: Three of the bridesmaids have been my closest friends since high school, so I had 10 years of photos to look back on. I made a photobook, organizing our photos by major trips and events and hobbies, and printed it at My Publisher. MyPublisher regularly has huge sales where you can save up to the cost of an entire book, so plan ahead! They have customized software that makes it easy to lay out the pages, but if you're Photoshop savvy, you can lay them out yourself (as I did). I think the books came out to be less than $30 each with the cost of one book deducted.
The books are very time-consuming, and I wanted to avoid making three different book layouts, so for my sister and best friend, I bought a photoframe with 12 spaces and framed pictures from our long histories together. I left a space open for a wedding picture that they could put in later.
Groomsmen gifts: Our wedding had lots of video game details, so we purchased custom Nintendo mushroom cufflinks from The Clay Collection on etsy. Great quality from her - we were really impressed! She was game to make some additional custom requests as well, and was super professional. The groom sported the green "1-Up" mushroom and the rest of the groomsmen got red mushrooms.
A veerrryy close runner-up for awesome groomsmen gifts were these awesome awesome awesome recycled art clocks from Pixel This on etsy.
Wedding favors: We celebrated both the groom and bride's cultures by pairing a selection of Polish chocolates and Taiwanese tea. The homemade tag requests that people enjoy them together and think of us (and also a friendly reminder to share their wedding pictures on our website)! They were bagged in little red netting drawstring bags with prints of a Chinese bride and groom. My parents bought the bags in Taiwan.
Side note: wedding favors are a great way to get your wedding party involved. There's not much that you can hand off for your wedding, but this is a wonderful task to give to eager families who want to help. Our parents took care of the research and purchasing of the favors for us. We took care to keep it under $2/guest.
Parents gifts: We gifted our parents after the wedding with large canvas prints of our family pictures from the wedding. Canvas print were courtesy of Costco and they were GREAT quality. A little pricey but they'll last a long time.
No pictures unfortunately, we had them shipped directly to our parents!
