Imagine a beautifully curated gift box, and upon opening, you get the message, “Will you be my bridesmaid?”
These boxes are trending among new brides — they often include an array of personalized goodies like water bottles, jewelry, and accessories that make the day of the ceremony that much easier. Make sure to match the colors to your wedding theme!
1. Planning and organization items. Make your besties time management easier with products like planners, calendars, and save the date keychains (bonus points if it doubles as a keepsake with her name engraved on one side and wedding date on the other).
2. Items that take the edge off of her financial obligation. Do you want all of your bridal party to wear matching pajamas, jewelry, hair accessories, or something else? The bridesmaid proposal box is the perfect time to provide items that can be used later.
3. Something personalized. Even if it’s only a monogram, adding that individual touch elevates your gift box to the next level. The font style allows you to start pulling the colors and vibe of your wedding.
4. Something useful. Velvet scrunchies are all the rage, currently. They’re useful, beautiful, add texture, and care another fun way to add in traces of your wedding colors. Other useful items that I am loving are coin purses, cozy socks, and slippers.
5. Something living. Bring vibrancy to your bridesmaid surprise with tiny succulents, dried flowers, baby’s breath or a single floral stem. A packet seeds with a wedding flower is yet another chance to reinforce subtle hints of your wedding color and themes.
Finding the perfect container for your perfectly curated items doesn’t have to be expensive or complicated — you can make just about any box or basket beautiful. Check out your local resale shops, they often have a plethora of pans, trays, and baskets. You can use your wrapping supplies to bring it all together if you don’t have matching boxes/bags.
Finishing touches. Choose coordinating tissue paper, crinkle paper, or another filler of your choice. Top it off with a ribbon.
Most importantly!? Have fun! And know, your bridesmaids aren’t “expecting” anything from you, so, whether you’re giving a proposal box, single gift, or even just a hand-written card — they’ll still love you!
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