Hostess gifts

I think a small thank you gift is nice. It can be just 5 or 10 bucks.

View Quoted Comment I agree with this, it doesn’t have to be big but it’s appropriate etiquette since they spent money to host

A small gift is recommended. Some ideas are candles, hand lotions, box of chocolates and a bottle of wine.

Yes I would give something small. I gave mine bath salts and a gift card

I didn’t, but my MOH and I got married back to back so our thank you was throwing the other girls shower lol. Generally though yes a small gift or bottle of wine

I think it’s a nice gesture but doesn’t have to be very expensive or elaborate. FH is going to bring flowers for the hosts (two of my aunts) and I at the end. I’ll obviously write thank you’s to them after the fact. And I was thinking of getting engraved picture frames from things remembered with a pic of us from the shower. But depending on what your host(s) like you can give a gift card for a massage/mani pedi, set from bath and body works, gift card to a favorite restaurant/store, etc.

A nice personal thank you note is absolutely required. A small gift is optional. But is often done. Or else, left until a bridal luncheon or rehearsal dinner and given there. Sometimes when showers are given by some people in the wedding party, brides give them a larger single gift, for the wonderful shower, and for being my bridesmaid. But the thank you note comes right after the shower, though instead of giving lots of small gifts every time you turn around, many people combined what they would have spent in several little things, to one big gift. Especially when someone has done many other services for you. My great aunt/ godmother gave us a huge supply of letterhead stationery in each of our names, and both on one , since we were not changing names. And boxes of nice, simple note cards suitable for the Hank you notes, 400 with envelopes. No occasion, she had been saving things for years. And a hope chest, really a blanket chest/ window seat. Helped my old school mates with a shower in a distant city. Baked our 3 layer 15" cake, 10 pies, trays of streusel, and 200 pastries for the wedding, with me and Mom. Was a pro. Baker when younger. Picked up 3 families from different countries, some groom's family, at 3 different airports, bringing one group down from Montreal. Rounded up, cleaned, 13 portacribs for our nursery room, and 6 rocking chairs, letting my brother drive then in her panel truck 2 states away. I did not do anything but notes til the end. But no little gifts, just round trip airline tickets to see family in Greenland. Most people I know combine gifts like that, not repeated small ones, but either way is okay. Etiquette says, you owe a thank you. The multiple ways to do it are all fine.

I would provide a gift, hosting is a big responsibility. I gave my mom a spa gift card and my MOH a deviled egg plate (she wanted one), and a gift card to a local workout studio.