This week, the NY Times has some suggestions for wedding gifts from stores affiliated to museums, reasoning that those stores have wonderful gifts that are appealing to "people who are tired of shopping in the same old places — and might enjoy spending a couple hours in a museum as well." We wholeheartedly agree - when you know the couple well, that is.
If you are wedding gift shopping for a couple you're vaguely acquainted to (or if you're in charge of the shopping when your significant other knows the couple better), you should stick to buying something off their registry. But if you know the couple and have a sense for what they like and might be a good complement for their home, definitely explore what museum stores have to offer.
The Times features some pretty items, but a few items we like are the River Stones Platter at the MoMA Store ($140 - warning, it's hand-wash only), the silver Ketubbah picture frame at the Met ($110), and orloff bowl at the Cooper Hewitt ($69). Do you have suggestions for non-registry items or stores?
And here's a wrap-up of this week's NY Times Weddings & Celebrations:
- There are 42 weddings/same-sex unions announced, plus the Vows column.
- There are 21 photographs of couples.
- The youngest bride is 25, the oldest bride is 64.
- The youngest groom is 24, the oldest groom is 71.
- The Vows couple (64-year-old bride, 71-year-old groom) met over JDate.
- One bride works for the Health Department, as "director of education and community partnerships for the lead poisoning prevention program."
- One couple met while working as volunteer teachers in Russia.
- One bride is deputy food editor at Everyday Food, host of the Everyday Food TV program, and great-great granddaughter of the founder of Gimbel's and Saks Fifth Avenue. Her uncle, Arnold Lehman, director of the Brooklyn Museum, officiated the ceremony.
- One bride plays Detective Stabler's wife on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; her groom reports on law for the Wall Street Journal and is the lead writer of the WSJ Law Blog.
- One groom is a Marine who served in Afghanistan in 2001 and 202 and in Iraq in 2003. He met his bride while at Harvard, where he's studying for his MBA.
- And one couple first dated for three weeks while attending Rutgers Prep high school. They rekindled their romance after their 10-year reunion - and both now work at Rutgers Prep.
