Great Gifts for Couples

10 Tips For Finding Gifts For Couples

1. Things They Like To Do:

This is probably where you should focus most of your attention. What brings these two people together? If it’s a love of hiking, then an athletic or outdoor store gift card is a useful gift. Did they meet at a yoga studio? Call up the front desk and see if you can surprise them with a paid-for private couples class. When two people are in love and both love doing something together, you’re more than likely going to find a winning idea somewhere in that shared space they both adore doing with one another.

2. Things That They Need

If a couple shares a home together, then they probably have a long list of things they can use or need. Anything from housewares to decorative pieces might be something that they can truly use in making a home together. If you’re leary about giving a couple with a small home more stuff that contributes to their clutter, consumables, like fruit baskets, might be a solid choice. Think twice about gift certificates to cleaning services, such as professional maids, though. Not everyone is comfortable with such professionals coming into their home, which would put them in a bind about accepting your gift gracefully.

3. Don’t Focus On Just One Of Them

Chances are good that you know one of them better than the other. That can lead to possible gift ideas you know they would love, and that can feel like a safe bet. However, keep the needs and desires of both people in mind. Just because he joins her at the opera on a regular basis doesn’t mean he wants to see even more opera tickets show up. He might be just tagging along because she joins him at baseball games.

4. Favorite Restaurants

Couples that live together love being able to spend dinnertime together and talk about how their day went. Those couples not living together might love dining out just to spend time together doing something everyone has to do several times a day anyway, which is eating. Want style points? Get them gift certificates they can use for dine-in, delivery, and take-out. One thing you should stay away from, potentially, is giving them gifts to restaurants where you hope to bump into them more often or even join you at. Give them their space.

5 Matching Clothes

If you weren’t even thinking about this before reading it, then just put it out of your head before it gets a chance to stick. If you were thinking about this already, please also put it out of your head!

6. Put Your Own Relationship Out Of Your Head

Congratulations to you if you’re currently in a relationship. Most people want to be with someone, and you are. Still, don’t shop with your own relationship in mind. For that matter, if you’re not in one, that can make it a bit harder to shop for people in one, so keep your feelings in check.

7. Don’t Try And Fix A Couple

Is a particular couple known for their love of interpersonal fighting? Giving them both kickboxing lessons and relationship therapy books isn’t going to help your interpersonal relationships with them.

8. Shared Experiences

Couples usually love spending time together. It’s really the only thing about a relationship when you get right down to it. Whether it’s movie tickets, an afternoon together at an amusement park, or just a streaming device so they can binge-watch something together, give them the one thing that can never be replaced: good memories together.

9. Leave Your Agenda Out Of It

Does the couple in question involve one of your children? Are you hoping for a grandkid from them? Parenting books and weekend reservations at a romantic retreat might seem like great gifts to you, but you’re laying it on too thick. Respect and honor their freedom to determine the course of their own relationship.

10. Just Be A Copycat

If you’re still totally stumped about what to get a couple, just ask others you know that have gotten them gifts in the past. They’ll likely remember a few effective gifts they either gave or saw others give in the past. You don’t want to just repeat an identical gift from before, necessarily, but it should provide you inspiration for your own ideas.