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Corporate Gifts

Friday, September 3rd, 2010
Corporate Gifts Logo

Corporate Gifts Logo

Gifts are not just items that you should give on a special occasion. Sometimes rewards can help to inspire an entire workforce :) It can make them feel appreciated, usually that is what is needed to get the best out of your workforce. CorporateGifts2U are specialists in providing corporate gifts, business gift ideas and promotional gift ideas at affordable prices within the UK. We pride ourselves on offering your company a range of corporate wine, gifts, personalised gifts and engraved gifts to suit your business and your budget.

It doesn’t matter what the quantity is, we are sure we can help! In order to discuss options or receive a quote, please call us on 01775 640788, or email us at enquiries@CorporateGifts2U.co.uk and one of our sales advisors will be more than happy to help.

Corporate Wine

We specialise in corporate wine for business and corporate customers within the UK. We can offer competitive prices on a range of wine gifts and personalised wine gifts, as well as standard, personalised and luxury wine gift sets. We have a selection of red, white and rose wines to choose from ranging from £4 – £30 depending on your budget, as well as personalised corporate wine gifts from £6 per bottle (based on a quantity of 50 bottles plus). Wines include Italian, Australian and Chilean wine bottles, however speciality wines can be sourced upon request. As already mentioned, our company also offers wine gift sets, which combine wine bottles with wine boxes, wine accessories and glasses/engraved glasses. Corporate wine gift sets can be custom made upon request to include all or a selection of the recommended wine products. All of our corporate wines, personalised wine gifts, engraved wine gifts and wine gift sets will be delivered within the UK by a pallet courier on a next working day service. So, if you have a tight schedule we can definitely help in getting some corporate gifts sent out to you or an address within the UK. Call us on 01775 640788 for more information on all our corporate wine products.

Personalised Corporate Wine Gifts

Our personalised corporate wine gifts can be split down into three forms; firstly you can choose one of our pre-designed labels to add a message onto. These are ideal for corporate Christmas wine gifts. Secondly, you have the option to design your own wine label, which we will then print out and attach to our wine bottles. If you don’t have a design team – worry not, we do, so a design can be drawn up and emailed through for confirmation. Please note: an extra charge is taken for this service. Thirdly, if you have got the budget, or are looking for a special gift to give to customers or employees then we would suggest engraved wine gifts. These are personalised corporate wine gift ideas with a message (and possibly a logo – dependent upon the complexity of your business logo) and prices start from £16 for a minimum of 20 bottles.

If in doubt or you’d like to discuss options just give us a ring.

Send Champagne in the UK

Is your company looking to send champagne out in large or smaller quantities? We can help, we can provide branded champagne and corporate personalised champagne as well as a huge variety of bespoke champagne gift sets suit to your requirements. Recently, we have sent out Moet et Chandon Magnum Champagne bottles in a gift box as well standard 75cl Moet et Chandon champagne bottles. We have access to the most well known champagne brands including Bollinger, Veuve Cliquot and Taittinger, for example. We can send a bottle box out with these branded champagnes if you are looking for a champagne gift set. However, if you are looking for personalised corporate gifts then choose to create bottles of personalised champagne. You can either design the champagne label yourself, we can design the champagne label for you. Or, you could go for engraved champagne. We can put these personalised corporate champagne gifts into a gift box, should you desire and add engraved or standard flutes to them to create unique and unusual champagne gift sets ideal to give out as business gifts. These gift ideas are also delivered on a next day delivery service via a pallet courier, so once again if you need champagne in a rush for your business, then we can help you.

Engraved Business Gifts

Yes, we offer engraved business gifts too. The range is limitless; including such gifts as engraved pens in a variety of colours, engraved business card holders, engraved keyrings. Other engraved gifts include bottle gifts; engraved whisky, engraved vodka, engraved port and engraved sambuca.

We are here for all of your business gift, corporate gift and promotional gift needs, so take advantage of our service and give us a call or send us an email to discuss your requirements today. If you are on a tight schedule of 3-4 working days, then consider us. We may be able to get some corporate gifts out to you that quick.

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What wine are you? Personalised, Engraved, Vintage?

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

I like doing quizzes… I was doing a bit of research for this post and I came across this: http://uk.quizrocket.com/what-wine-quiz/?srp=1 – try it and it will tell you what kind of wine you are. I was very honest and look what I was told I was: “wine in a box”. I think  you should ALL try it!

I am "Wine In A Box"

I am "Wine In A Box"

This got me thinking then, if a quiz can decide that I’m a wine in a box then how can we decide what kind of wine gift to get someone? I mean there are lots of options out there: fine wine, standard ‘cheap’ wines, personalised wine, engraved wine, vintage wines, magnum wines and so many more… so what do you pick and how can you be sure that the choice you make is the correct one? For me I split buying wine into categories:

1) Is it a special occasion or am I buying a wine gift just because?
2) What is the special occasion? – Wedding, milestone birthday, anniversary party (the list goes on)
3) Relationship to the recipient – is it a close relationship or are you just people who know eachother?
4) Budget – how much can you realistically spend?

So this is my train of thought if I was going to buy a wedding gift for a close family friend who I have known for about 12 years. Following the check list above this is how I would determine what kind of wine I would buy:

- It is a special occasion
- The special occasion is a wedding
- They are are close family friend – so not a nobody and someone who has bought me gifts since I was young.
- For people like that you can’t really have a budget. They are a part of your life on a regular basis and something important is about to happen in their life.

The only real choice then is a bottle of personalised wine. Why go for personalised wine? Well quite simply it is the fact that personalisation adds that special touch to any gift. If you take the time to personalise a gift it makes it very thoughtful! BUT I would just go for any old personalised wine gift, I would go for a fine wine; like perhaps a Chianti Classico or a Barolo. Something that would just get better with age, kind of like their marriage. I would also make sure that this wine was anengraved wine gift. Engraving has a more classier touch in my opinion, it also lasts a lifetime (unless the bottle gets broken) but that is the sentiment I would hope to convey with this bride gift and groom gift – I want their marriage to be long and happy!

So when choosing a bottle of wine to give someone take all these factors into consideration and you’ll find the perfect wine gift! I will always advocate a personalised wine gift though, I just think they are special and that is how I want people to feel when they recieve a gift from me. That they are special.

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NO More Socks For Christmas!

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

How many times have you gone Christmas shopping and tried to look for an interesting and unique gift for your dad, uncle or granddad and the best that you’ve been able to come up

No one wants SOCKS for Christmas :(

No one wants SOCKS for Christmas :(

with a pair of Simpsons socks?

When I was a kid my mum used to take us Christmas shopping in mid November. Her main reason for this was that she did not want to brave the Christmas rush when Decemeber came. Now I’m older and wiser I understand why. People go crazy. I’m one of these people who start mid November too, at least the planning of the presents anyway. I usually know what I want to get people, nowadays however I do the majority of my Christmas gift shopping online; just because it’s easier. With online shopping there is a lot more choice I think at Christmas because I feel you can think outside the box. For example I know some people who instead of buying the standard Christmas Gift of festive candles and scented gift packs (Boots and other places sell those perfume sets – I actually love those) they bought their boyfriend a ‘track day’ with Ferrari. That is certainly better than a pair of socks, but for a gift like that you really need to have the budget to be able to buy them.

I think before you start your Christmas present shopping you need to do a few things:

1) Decide who you are buying gifts for. For me it would be my close family (so we’re talking my mum, dad, sister, grandparents x2, my cousin with whom I spend large amounts of time, my aunt and uncle who spends every Christmas with us and boyfriend) and friends (for my it would be my two best friends – guy and girl). As you can see from my list I have 11 people to buy for. Now I know that I can move onto the next point….

2) Sharing the present burden. Me and my sister have a habit of sharing the Christmas present buying. She’ll buy for my dad and I’ll buy for my mum and both of us will go halves on the presents for our grandparents etc. At Christmas your purse strings are probably stretched to the max so having someone to help you out with the Christmas shopping is a real life saver!

3) Now you know who you are buying for, who you are sharing the gift buying with – you can decide on your budget. My BIGGEST and possibly the most vital piece of information that I can give you is this; decide on a budget and stick to it. You know how much you earn, you know how much you can afford. The amount of people I know who put all their Christmas expenses on their credit card and are then paying for it for the whole of the next year. DON’T DO THIS. A realistic budget will help you buy great gifts rather than good gifts because you’ll take the time and effort to research the kind of gift you want to get someone.

4) DON’T LEAVE IT TILL THE LAST MINUTE. Alot of shops hike the prices up on gifts just before Christmas, when you go back in the January sales and you see the new price of something you’ll be horrified at how much you paid during the festive period.

So those are the most important things to remember before you start your Christmas shopping. Once you’re ready to start and you want to start thinking outside the box so you don’t end up buying ’socks’ (or something similar)…. so here are a couple of suggestions that you might want to consider before you start:

1) Engraved Champagne Flutes – I write about these alot in my posts. I know I do. But there is good reason for this. Recent trends in our own sales show that people love them, they are a unique gift that is perfect for celebration. Alot of people by engraved champagne flutes as wedding gifts, but I think that they although they make great wedding presents they also are fantastic for Christmas. What could be better than getting a set of personalised champagne flutes on Christmas day, especially if you are in a couple. Christmas is a time for celebration, you could wake up on Christmas morning, open your presents and toast in Christmas in your brand new personalised champagne flutes! Celebrate this happy day in style! So yes, I am an advocate of personalised champagne flutes, for a number of reasons – not only are they great for celebration (everyone loves to toast with champagne) but the personalisation makes them even more appealing. Personalised messages give that thoughtful and sentimental touch to any gift.

2) Personalised Champagne – so if you are buying someone a set of champagne flutes then you should really buy them a bottle of personalised champagne to go with it. Just like champagne flutes, personalised champagne has that wow factor. It is a classy gift that is perfect for Christmas. As I mentioned earlier people love to toast Christmas in and what could be better than doing it with a bottle that was given as a Christmas present? Again it’s a simple yet thoughtful gift, and it certainly isn’t a pair of socks.

3) If you are looking for gift for your dad, granddad or uncles (socks is usually the norm), then why not think about the following as a great gift for Christmas? – the following being a pair of engraved cufflinks. Every man wheres cufflinks at some point in their life. So whether they use them at New Years Party or 10 years down the line, a set of engraved cufflinks will last a life time! Personalised lighters, engraved whisky and vodka are also great Christmas Gifts too.

BE ORIGINAL.

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Tell us your wedding stories

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

Have you recently got married? If so then we would like to feature your wedding on www.WeddingGifts2U.co.uk. For newly engaged couples planning a wedding can be really daunting and when they have no idea where to start it is nice for them to have a place of reference where they can see the types of weddings that other people have had.

By seeing other weddings and considering ideas from them couples will be able to make informed judgements about their own weddings and create the perfect day that they want. Wedding and bridal magazines feature weddings on a regular basis for this same reason, to help their readers get ideas about what they want their wedding to be like.

So, if you would like to share your wedding story with us then please send us some photographs and some detailed information about your special day. Please email us at: enquiries@weddinggifts2u.co.uk

Every story that is sent to us will be featured on the website, as soon as your story is launched you will be emailed with a link to the page for you to be able to see it.

Thanks!

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The significance of a wedding ring?

Friday, August 27th, 2010
holding hands with wedding rings

holding hands with wedding rings

When the man of your dreams asks you to marry him you hope that it will be with a beautiful diamond ring -  that kind of wedding gift with be appreciated by any newly engaged woman! But when you get married the wedding ring has a lot more significance then just looking pretty on your finger. What does the wedding ring symbolise?

Traditional the wedding ring is seen as the last in a line of wedding gifts that are given to the bride. The first of course being the engagement ring. A European tradition encourages the engraving of the name of one’s intended spouse and the date of one’s intended marriage on the inside surface of wedding rings, thus strengthening the symbolism and sentimentality of the rings as they become family heirlooms. The wedding ring is a symbol that someone is married – it is widely believed that wedding rings are an external symbol of love and commitment between a bride and groom that all the world can see.

King Edward VI-in the 16th century-ruled that wedding rings were to be worn on the left hand because it coincided with the “heart side” of the body and was thus to be worn closest to the heart. This was also in keeping with the Greek and Egyptian tradition of wearing rings on the third finger of the left hand because it was believed that the “vein of love”-also called the “vena amoris”-ran through the third finger on the left hand and was directly connected to the heart.

Nowadays it is possible to commission the engagement ring and the two wedding bands to come in a matching set.

Wedding rings have come to be a symbol of enduring and everlasting-or never-ending-love, much like the circle is a never-ending shape that has no beginning and no end. Couples spend a lot of time and effort selecting or designing the perfect rings that represent their love for one another. These rings are also a public and outward sign of their commitment and promised fidelity to each other. But most importantly, they are personal symbols most significant to the man and woman who have promised to share the rest of their lives and love together.

Like any gift exchanged between men and women the wedding rings are no different. They are wedding gifts to one another that symbolise the eternal love that they share for one another.

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Small yet sentimental gifts…

Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Engraved Wooden Pen

Engraved Wooden Pen

In this post “Signing the marriage register” there is a lovely discussion about how an engraved pen transforms the legal signing of the wedding register into a sentimental occasion between the father of the bride and the happy couple. This got me thinking about how easy it is to give a small yet thoughtful gift and it means so much to someone. On that note I am going to stick with the theme of engraved pens…

Why would an engraved pen make a good gift? I think if you are going to buy a gift like that for someone then it should be for someone that you know loves to write. Either they are a writer, they keep a journal or they work in an office and are in constant need of a pen! My aunt is a lawyer, she is constantly working on briefs and is in and out of meetings! There have been plenty of times that I have telephoned her with a legal question and she has been left stuck looking for a pen so she can write a memo to herself that I called her. So what better gift for her than an engraved pen. Rather than give it to her on her birthday or at christmas present I think giving it to her as a ‘just because’ gift is better. That means that she wouldn’t be expecting and so it would have more value! Personalising any gift adds extra value to it, perhaps not in terms of cost, but more in terms of sentimentality and thoughtfulness.

If you think about wedding gifts alot of couples ask for ‘no boxed gifts’ on the wedding invitation or they register at certain shops and ask for only gifts from there. Alot of people when couples have registered for wedding gifts buy them vouchers for particular shops, that way the couple can buy the gifts that they really want. I know someone who rather than getting gifts from the registered list or buying vouchers, bought the couple two gifts. The first was a set of cuflinks that were engraved for the groom and the second was a compact mirror that was engraved for the bride. She told me that when a couple gets married people buy them “couple” gifts, however she felt that they were still two individuals who although were getting married they still deserved to be recognised as two people and thus she bought them wedding gifts reflecting that. Those two gifts probably made a nice change from the endless vouches that the couple recieved and also as small gifts they seemed to fit the -’no boxed gift’ rule.

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The Groom is just as important as the bride!

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

The groom at a wedding is just as important as the bride. I know everyone goes on about the brides big day – but there wouldn’t be a big day if it wasn’t for the groom. He is sometimes a little forgotten at times. Now I don’t think that should be the case. So when thinking about the type of gifts you are going to get for the happy couple you should think about groom gifts too.

In Muslim weddings – the wedding is more to do with the groom. There is a whole ceremony called Nikah where the groom and the father of the bride enter into a contract to ensure that the bride will be well cared for and looked after in the groom’s family. This is usually a public event where all the family and friends witness this agreement. It is at this point that the groom also pay the dowry requested by the bride. This whole ceremony just involves the groom. I like it you know. The groom gets his show and the bride gets her’s with her big entrance and gorgeous dress.

Usually the groom gifts are left to the best man to sort out. Afterall the bridesmaids will get a gift for the bride therefore it is seems fair that the bestman and the groomsmen sort out a nice groom gift – when you think about the kind of gift to get the groom; REMEMBER he will be married, so it needs to meet the approval of his new wife! You don’t want him sleeping on the couch on his wedding night. 

Here are a couple of great ideas for groom gifts:

1) I mentioned in a previous post about engraved champagne flutes and how they are a perfect bride gift, they are the same for the groom too. The two champagne flutes can be engraved with a personalised message. Each flutes could have different messages on them – one for the groom and one for the bride. Give them as a set and you’ve got not only a great wedding gift but also a great groom gift too.

2) If you do want to get a wedding gift that is groom specific then I think you should think about an engraved wedding gift and with that I mean “engraved cuflinks“. They would make a really special gift for the groom on his wedding day. He could wear them with his tux – also if in all the panic he has forgotten his cufflinks, then by presenting him with the cufflinks on the morning of his wedding will sure help him out!!

3) If you are the best man and you fear that after marriage you are going to lose your best buddy to the domestic life, then what could be better then to get your best friend and engraved photo frame with a picture of you two at some crazy event where you pretty much laughed all night! I know to a guy that may seem like a really soppy gift. But if you think about it in terms of the bride – she is less likely to display a beer keg in her house than a beautifully engraved photo frame that is a touching gift from the best man….

Whatever you get as a groom gift, remember when you buy this that he is just as important as the bride on ‘his’ special day – afterall I’m sure he only plans to get married once!

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Wedding Gifts

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

We launched a website a couple of months back: www.WeddingGifts2U.co.uk, this website specialises in all things wedding related. Whether it is gifts for the bride and groom or a bottle of vodka for a stag night – they have what you need to make your wedding go smoothly – well in terms of gifts anyway!

Here is a quick suggestion if you are looking for a great gift idea for the happy couple – and that is champagne flutes. In my last post I mentioned how we had a new range of champagne flutes in and our range of wedding flutes are great for the happy couple. Have a set of personalised flutes engraved with a special message to create a really unique gift.  Below are a few testimonials from a couple of our sites – from these I think you can tell how popular they are!

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Engraved Champagne Flutes with Heart Stems
Very pleased with my purchase. Champagne engraved flutes are very sophisticated. Thank you. Received within ten days of ordering and most importantly before the wedding.
Star rank:

Barbie Girl (23/08/2010)

Black Engraved Flute in a Gift Box, Fusion Engraved Champagne Flutes Set
Delivery and service was outstanding. The crystal champagne flutes were beautifully engraved and the black flutes were stunning although the engraved area appears to have altered the finish on the glasses. still a lovely present none the less
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Swest (05/08/2010)
Simple Engraved Flute Single
The flutes look beautiful, the engraving looks very professional & precise & the flutes will fantastic bridesmaid gifts at our wedding tomorrow (31st July 2010). Thank you so much.
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Miss Nadine Lay (30/07/2010)

Engraved Wedding Flutes Set
Fantastic service and the engraving on the glasses is beautiful. Really happy with them which is fantastic as i was quite nervous about ordering something like this on the internet.
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Leanna Wood (11/06/2010)

Engraved Hearts Champagne Flutes
I was very impressed with the presentation box which displayed the glasses to perfection. The personalised message on the glasses was set out just as I expected. A big thank you to all.
Star rank:

Jean (26/05/2010)

Engraved Silver Plated Love Champagne Glasses
A fantastic service and really pleased with the personalised champagne flutes. Would certainly use again.
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Claire Stephenson (13/08/2010)

Engraved Silver Plated Love Champagne Glasses
i was just delighted with the engraved champagne flutes i ordered from you for my nieces wedding gift, and she was most appreciative of them, they were stunning…friends and family were most impressed also…
Star rank:

Miss Isabella Mearns (11/08/2010)

Our customers are all really happy with their engraved flutes purchases… and we think you will be too!

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New Champagne Gifts

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

New engraved champagne flutes! Ok basically in this post I am just advertising to you. I know that isn’t what you want to hear but I think I just need to tell you about them because that way I know that you know about them and then I know that if in the future you are looking for some champagne flute then you will be fully informed and I won’t feel like I haven’t done my job properly!!

We have just added a brand new range of champagne flutes to our collection, these flutes are great as birthday presents, wedding gifts – if you are looking for a bride gift or groom gift then they are perfect. Engraved Champagne Flutes are a simple gift idea that you can give to pretty much anyone (above the age of 18) you can engrave the flutes with a personalised message and create a really unique gift that will be loved when the recipient recieves it.

Here are a couple of articles that also explain why champagne flutes are a great gift idea:

http://www.champagnegifts4u.co.uk/Engraved-Flutes-for-Wedding-Gifts-article.php

http://www.weddinggifts2u.co.uk/Best-Gifts-for-Bride-article.php

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Do you have a great wedding story?

Friday, August 20th, 2010

Engagement Ring and Wedding Ring

Engagement Ring and Wedding Ring

www.weddinggifts2u.co.uk would like to hear about your wedding stories. Do you have a great story to tell us? If so then please email us some information about your big day. Each story will be featured on our website.

Send us some photos of your happy day and a write us a review – what you enjoyed? What stressed you out? Tell us about the how you planned your wedding!

The great thing about your wedding stories is that you will be providing advice to brides to be and helping them when they are planning their wedding!

Send us your wedding stories to: enquiries@weddinggifts2u.co.uk

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