I made a Polaroid image transfer onto watercolor paper for some friends a few years ago. It was a picture of the sunrise over the mountain on the morning of their wedding.

the wedding is the beginning of june.

i made a wooden box for the rings that was pretty tricked out.

for a condo??! nuh uh. i don't think that would be useful!

how about a centerpiece/candleholder.
or a light?

Gonna buy me a condo
Gonna buy me a Cuisinart
Get a wall-to-wall carpeting
Get a wallet full 'o credit cards
I gonna buy me a condo, never have to mow de lawn
I gonna get me da T-shirt wit' de alligator on

Wo, used to live in Jamaica
But I don't live dere no more
Had to change me lifestyle
Do t'ings I never done before
So now I'm just a lonely Rastaman
Living in dis American town
Gonna sell me Bob Marley records
Gonna get me some Jackson Browne

I gonna buy me a condo
Gonna buy me a Cuisinart
Get a wall-to-wall carpeting
and get a wallet full 'o credit cards, eh
I gonna buy me a condo, never have to mow de lawn
I gonna get me da T-shirt wit' de alligator on

Wo, gonna cut off me dreadlocks
T'row away all me ganja
I'll have a tupperware party
Maybe join me a health spa
I'll get a bowl of plastic fruits
And a microwave oven, too
Then I'll have the neighbors over for a weenie barbeque

Gonna buy me a condo
Gonna buy me a Cuisinart
Get a wall-to-wall carpeting
Get a wallet full 'o credit cards, oh
I gonna buy me a condo, never have to mow de lawn
I get a funny little T-shirt wit' de alligator on

Ain't gonna work in de field no more
Gonna be Amway distributor
Ain't gonna work in de field no more (no, no)
Gonna be Amway distributor

(Ja) Ja, ja, ja, life is so very hard
I need a (ja) ja, ja, ja jacuzi in me back yard

Oh, I gonna buy me a condo
Gonna buy me a Cuisinart
Get a wall-to-wall carpeting
Get a wallet full 'o credit cards, eh
I gonna buy me a condo, never have to mow de lawn
I gonna get me da T-shirt wit' de alligator on

What'd you say?

I gonna buy me a condo
I gonna buy me a Cuisinart
Get a wall-to-wall carpeting
Get a wallet full 'o credit cards, oh
I gonna buy me a condo, never have to mow de lawn
I gonna get me da T-shirt wit' de alligator on

What'd you say?

I gonna buy me a condo
Gonna buy me a Cuisinart
Get a wall-to-wall carpeting
And get a wallet full 'o credit cards, oh
I gonna buy me a condo, never have to mow de lawn
I gonna get me da T-shirt wit' de alligator on

Not gonna get you a diamond ring
That sort of gift don't mean anything
Not gonna get you a fancy car
Girl ya gotta know you're my shining star
Not gonna get you a house in the hills
A girl like you needs somethin' real
Wanna get you somethin' from the heart
Somethin' special girl
It's my d*ck in a box, my d*ck in a box babe


To all the fellas out there with ladies to impress
It's easy to do just follow these steps
1: Cut a hole in a box
2: Put your junk in that box
3: Make her open the box
And that's the way you do it
It's my d*ck in a box... my d*ck in a box babe

i knew this was coming!

we have some rappers in dis bitch yo'

here's a beatbox to go with it


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i made all my friends that were married wedding gifts.... a few tables, wall hanging thingies...... i would recommend a center piece or a 4 person dining room table....... depending on your skills and time....

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I just got married, and I would suggest that you get something on the registry as well if you are going to make them something. I got lots of stuff that I had to get rid of, and it would be even harder to get rid of something someone made for me, if I didn't like it. I'm not trying to be a downer, just sharing experience from the recieving end.

If you are set on making something, which could be really cool, try to combine something they need with symbolism of their marriage. Like a headboard for their marriage bed if they don't have a bed they like. Something like that.

Hope that helps.

agree with sarah - don't make anything bulky

if you really have those tools, make a pen. shigeru did.

Having been to many weddings and gifted for all of them, might I suggest a themed gift. Here are some of the ones that I've done:

-Couple who loves baseball= we gave them a little "vignette" of a baseball picnic, complete with miniature piece of astroturf in the bottom of the box, tickets to a baseball game, and an outdoor picnic set decorated in team colors

-Couple who loves treasured gifts= homemade frame with photo of home city in black and white and blown up. Also a nice classic wall clock that goes with anything.

-Couple who needs basics and/or you don't know much about them: white bath towels rolled in sequence and stacked sideways to resemble a wedding cake. Tie with giant ribbons around and decorate with fake flowers. Place on a nice simple ceramic or metal serving platter that they can use for anything.

-And for my best friend, for whom I was the maid of honor: we got this wicker storage container and lined the bottom and sides with grass, like you would put in an easter basket. We then got a whole slew of kitchen utensils.....spoons, spatulas, tongs, a cookie dough dropper, etc. and we made little flowers out of colored paper, and stuck them to the front of the utensils. Then we distributed the utensils throughout and propped them up with pastel washcloths and dishcloths in between - and we got a virtual "kitchen" garden! It was cool.

Er, yeah. I'm a big nerd. It's all about the presentation!

cant go wrong with a rice cooker

are your friends architects or normal people... building something is a safer bet if they're architects...

if they're normal people, unless you know them REALLY well, i'd go with the registry or make something relatively small that they can easily hide in a closet when you're not around if they don't like it...

like sarah, i'm speaking from experience... when i got married we got a few things that made us just say WTF? for instance, someone that knows us relatively well got us crystal doves... they're a nice expensive gift for most people, but in our clean lined modern condo? i don't think so...

it took us about 2 years to safely re-gift the couple of WTF items that we got that we couldn't return...

I would second architphil's question if they are architects or normal... Just after I graduated, a couple of my non-arch friends got married. I thought it would be a cool "designer" gift to give them a small Aalto vase.

A couple years ago when visiting one of them, I noticed that they use is it for storing all their loose change! Guess they would've preferred a Calphalon omlette pan!

Hey at least they use it for something. The WTF items we received can't even be given away. Unless someone here is interested is a glass and metal, rectangular, solarpowered, light-up address sign. Its got patinna'd "copper" ivy leaves surrounding the numbers of you house. I suppose its to be placed in the grass by the curb. It lights up at night!

Any takers???

I'll send it to you for FREE!!!!

I built a small table from this company
http://www.bartleycollection.com/

My friends have never stopped talking about what a great gift it was.
Plus it's sitting out in their living room. Where are all the other gifts they got?. Who knows. Mines been there for 10 years

the last wedding gift i gave was an ice cream machine. not sure how much rotation it gets but last time i spoke to the groom, he said they tried making coconut ice cream...

the next wedding i attend, the couple will receive a fondue set...

for my own wedding, i constructed the 'envelope box' as a piece of sculpture, that after the wedding, the top was taken off and it is now a planter in my living room. I made it quite large, to take an indoor tree.

the box for the rings is a cool idea too - from holz.box

I used to paint for friends that were getting married (granted this was before work | architecture began to totally consume me)

If you really want to go all out, I would suggest a floor-to-ceiling bookshelf. Even if they don't use it for books, it could be useful for storing other things via the clever use of boxes/containers.

My husband and I recently purchased three floor-to-ceiling bookshelves that really helped us to "graduate" from our Home Depot wood shelving.

If you were to make such an extraordinary gift, I do not think it would be inappropriate to talk to them beforehand about what they could really use. For instance, my husband's grandmother made us an intricate afghan for our wedding; however, the colors clash with almost everything we own. If it matched, we would definitely use it a lot more and keep it out more often. We could have easily told her ahead of time what our colors were, and she could have matched her yarn. (I don't think I'm being too selfish or ungrateful here. As others have stated above, there are many WTF gifts that go unused as a result of poor planning.)

You could make a hand carved wooden "hoppa" (sp?) like in "Meet the Parents!"

you could find something here since you have access to a lc