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Great gift giving ideas for the wedding couple
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
What to give? You could take the easy way out, and just check the couple's bridal registry. But then again, there's a world of things out there that might make a nice surprise:
- A wedding pair in naive sculpture top the Wedding Wishes Bottle Stoppers ($30) by Christopher Radko. They'll help save that leftover champagne -- if there is any left over after the wedding celebration -- and serve as a sentimental reminder during feasts of the future.
- "Bridal Waltz" ($140) is a teardrop-shaped glass paperweight from Caithness, designed by Helen MacDonald. An abstract bridal couple, dancing on confetti, dreamily inhabit this world of clear glass with bubbles that refract light.
- Another classic in glass is the Hellenic Urn vase ($1,195) from Steuben -- a timeless design that will help celebrate anniversaries to come.
- A design full of time is one of the Anniversary Clocks from Howard Miller. Most are timepieces under a glass dome, like the Ave Maria, which has dual chimes, solid brass tiara and revolving pendulum. A quartz movement plays Westminster or Ave Maria chimes on the hour. There's a light sensor that silences the chimes when a room darkens, to not disturb light sleepers.
- The bubbles are inside and out when the bridal pair tastes champagne from the J.G. Durand crystal Celebration flutes ($39.99 a pair), from Fortunoff. Bubbles are a part of the design, and the flutes match a chiller ($99.99).
On the Net:
Caithness --
http://www.caithnessglass.co.uk
Fortunoff --
http://www.fortunoff.com
Howard Miller --
http://www.howardmiller.com
Christopher Radko --
http://www.christopherradko.com
Steuben --
http://www.steuben.com
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