When a young couple announces to the world they re getting married, they re telling us they are about to begin a new phase in life. When your grandfather, father or boss announces that they re retiring, they re telling us their life at work has come to an end. While a engagement and retirement gifts are not always given to the newly engaged couple or retirees, it s a great way to tell an ecstatic couple how happy you are for them and to let a valued employee know how appreciated they are and how they ll be missed.



An engagement gift is typically given soon after the engagement is announced or at the engagement party,

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if there is one. Engagement gifts need not be very expensive. They can be something romantic, sentimental or a little bit whimsical. Sometimes close relatives may pass down family heirlooms as engagement gifts. It s also a great idea to gift the couple something that they can use at the wedding or in the run up to the wedding. Whatever type of engagement gift you choose, the couple is sure to value your thoughtfulness, and your shared enthusiasm for this very special time of their lives.


Popular engagement and retirement gifts tend to be celebratory in nature. Gifts like a fine box of chocolates or a bottle of champagne (with or without a set of champagne glasses) or a CD

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of romantic music are bound to be appreciated by any couple in love. Romantic gifts are also great choices for engagement gifts. After all, the run up to the wedding can get a bit stressful. Choose from scented candles, spa baskets, a pedicure and aromatherapy set or a body tattoo set (the couple gets to paint tattoos on each other with chocolate!). These are great ways for the bride and groom and the retiree to relax and spend some quality time with each other and their families.


An engagement also the marks the beginning of the long and sometimes rather harrowing process of planning and preparing for a wedding. Any gift that is likely to make that process easier is

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sure to be a great engagement gift. Ideas on these lines include guide books on planning a wedding, a wedding survival kit, a wedding countdown clock and a subscription to a bridal magazine. If you are a close family member you may even offer to pay for the services of a professional wedding planner. That s an engagement gift that many young couples will really appreciate.


Everyone will have wonderful memories so consider giving the engaged couple or retirees a photo album or scrap book it can be great way to treasure those memories for ever. Another great idea is a guestbook picture frame so they can frame their pictures and surround it with

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wishes and comments written by the guests at the engagement or retirement party.


Yet another idea for an engagement gift is to gift something that you know the bride or the groom (or maybe even both) will need for the wedding such as a guest book or a personalized cake knife or cake server or even the cake top. Another idea we like for an engagement gift is a wedding certificate holder engraved with the names of the bride and groom. It s a great way for them to store their most treasured memories.


Whimsical gifts are also great gifts. For instance, you may want to give the just engaged bride to be a manicure set after all

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everyone will be wanting to see the rock on her finger. And remember the old saying about how a bride must wear something new, something old, something borrowed and something blue. Maybe you would like to give her something pretty and blue that she can wear for her wedding as an engagement gift.


Retirees who are unable to work anymore and have to face the end of their working life will probably be on a limited budget and have to adjust to not having enough money. Hopefully it was a choice they made and they weren t force against their will to retire. If not, cheer them up with a special gift. Buy them

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something they won t be able to afford any longer. Practical gifts are great gifts for retirees. They would appreciate a beach totes to use in their new lives while relaxing at the beach. Or buy them travel bags they can take with them on a cruise or vacation.


For the newly engaged couple, there are a lot of personalized bags for men and personalized bags for women that they can use to work out at the health club, lift weights at the gym, dance or go to yoga classes and when they play sports or golf on the weekends. You can wish them both the best in their new lives. For the newly

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engaged couple, they re about to face a new beginning. Wish them well!


Shirley Tan is the owner and operator of MyBusinessGifts.com, an online site that s a great source for ideas for business gifts, retirement gifts and gifts for men and women.
Additionally, most of the items can be classically engraved, embroidered or personalized and made into corporate promotional gifts.