How to Buy an Engagement Gift for a Boyfriend or Girlfriend

The question has been popped, and you are now engaged to be married. You have the engagement ring, but you want to do something else—something special. Here's how to buy an engagement gift for a boyfriend or girlfriend.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Make a list of your sweetie's likes and dislikes. This seems obvious and a little silly, but just writing them down often will often generate ideas.

2. Keep an eye out when you are shopping. Oftentimes, if you just keep the idea of an engagement present in the back of your mind, the right gift will present itself.

3. Think outside the box. Your engagement gift does not have to come in a box. It could be a weekend trip to your significant other's favorite city or perhaps a poem you write.

4. Buy something you can share as an engagement gift. Get tickets to the opera or a series of movies you can enjoy together.
   

5. Have multiple levels to your gift. Try to make it personal by incorporating an inside joke or infusing a secret meaning into your gift.

6. Think of a creative way to surprise your fiancé(e) with the gift. Presentation is just as important as the gift.

Tips & Warnings

• Do not get anything too expensive or extravagant. It is going to be hard to upstage a marriage proposal, so this really is one gift where it is the thought that counts.
• Add as much personal flavor as you can. Use notes, jokes or anything else you can think of to make your gift unique.
• Do not rehearse too much. What you say should come right from the heart.

[Haoie]

on 7/30/2008 This might be nice, in the off chance I actually get hitched [ha].