03 August 2007

5 Practical Gift Ideas Below $20 that Are Sure to Please Your Groomsmen

Interesting groomsmen gifts below $20 include beer mugs and shot glasses, movie and game tickets, dinner coupons, personalized apparel, traditional groomsmen gifts, and pledge coupons.

Your budget is something you need to consider in choosing gifts for your entourage.  You have to come up with a good combination of both meaningful yet inexpensive gifts.  Here are some cool groomsmen gift ideas that will help you out:

Let them enjoy with beer mugs or shot glasses

Beer mugs and shot glasses always make good gifts to the guys in your entourage.  With the important details of your wedding printed on them or any engraving, you can get them for as low as $5 each.  You can present these gifts to your groomsmen after your wedding rehearsal dinner and have them use it for the first time while you propose a toast for them.  This alone makes your gift and your wedding a memorable one.

Treat your guys to a game, movie, or dinner

Nothing can be more exciting than having some fun with your buddies.  Purchase game or movie tickets for you and your groomsmen, costing around $10 for each game and $5 for each movie.  You can also treat them out for a meal within your budget.  Complete the gang by tagging along your best man.  You can also choose to just give your guys two dinner buffet stubs for them and their partners to enjoy, which will only cost between $5-$18.

Gear them up with personalized apparel

You can find a wide array of personalized shrits starting at $12.  A fun way to present them is to get away from the usual white-colored to different colored shirts for each of your groomsmen with the same color print.   You could have it the other way around, too.  Give them all white-colored shirts but printed using different colors for each of your groomsmen.  You can also use this style for caps costing at least $13 or face towels at $15.  Logo-themed shirts, caps, and towels you can personalize are also available.

Give them the traditional groomsmen gifts

For as low as $9, you can give each  of your groomsmen a pair of cufflinks they can use on your wedding day.  You can also find a variety of key rings, pocket knives, and card holders for as low as $4, lighters for $8, and luggage tags for $18.  You can personalize these items by engraving the initials of your groomsmen to give it a special touch.

Do them favors

According to Melissa Mayntz in an article entitled Cheap Groomsman Gifts, pledge coupons are also great gifts you can give your groomsmen.  You can actually do favors for them such as cleaning their cars, doing their laundry, and doing other chores for them.  This is probably the cheapest yet the most fun and memorable gift there is to give your groomsmen.

You don't have to be extravagant to give a meaningful gift.  With the budget you have in hand, some idea on what interests them, and with the way you give them their presents, you are sure to create a memory in them that they will always cherish.

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