hand blown glass, blown glassI’m 23 years old and have at the moment had no experience at all with weddings. Never been to one and have only had one friend who has tied the knot which I unfortunately missed the ceremony a couple of years back. That is why I was having so much trouble thinking of a wedding gift for a friend who invited me to his wedding next month. I won’t miss this one. They didn’t created a registry because the ceremony is going to be kept very small. Apparently, his fiancé’s parents live out of country so only they and her brother will be coming for her side. On his side will be his family and a handful of friends. They were dead set from the get go that they’d fork over all of the cost of the wedding. They didn’t want hand outs, which I admire.

This is another reason the guest list is very small. Anyway, I’ve been told the wedding gift has to be for both of them. I had no idea where to start until visiting My Glass Beautiful at http://www.myglassbeautiful.com/. Immediately after coming to the first page, I knew a set of hand blown glass champagne glasses would be a classy move. Hand blown glass is spectacular in its own right. Whether it is a decorative piece or in this case, an extremely well-priced Champagne Glass seen in the picture above, hand blown glass is fantastic.

The plan is to buy a few of the champagne glasses and then have the initials of the couple etched discretely around the rim. Maybe I won’t even have to do that after getting them but I won’t know until they are in hand. Didn’t even think of going the hand blown glass route when thinking up wedding gifts. If you can believe it, I had priced out a bread maker. Makes me laugh just thinking about it now. I don’t know if anyone really needs a bread maker when local bakeries sell a loaf for less then 5 bucks right out of the oven.

Now I’m worried about transporting the hand blown glass wedding gifts on the plane. I’m going to take extra care wrapping them up. If airport security makes me open the bag and unwrap them….Well I don’t even want to think about that. At the moment, I’m just pumped to have another chance to see what a wedding is all about. The bachelor party is going to be the high point.