Wedding Gifts for Couple

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Wedding gifts for a newly married couple At an Indian wedding the gifts arrive faster than anyone can look at them. They are stacked on a table, opened later or much later, and a fair number are still in their wrapping when the couple moves house. Somewhere in that pile are three of the same thing. So the useful question is not what is nice. It is what survives that table. Two things do. A piece that goes somewhere specific in the home they are about to set up, and a piece nobody else thought to give. Everything below is one or the other. What to give The divine couples are the traditional answer and they remain the best one. A Radha Krishna pair is the most given wedding gift in India, for its association with devoted love, and if you take one recommendation from this page take that. A Lakshmi Narayan pair carries preservation and prosperity together and is the more usual choice in Vaishnava families. A Lakshmi Ganesh set is not about the couple at all but about the household they are starting, which is why it suits a wedding and a housewarming equally. On the belief that a Radha Krishna murti is unsuitable for a married couple, since somebody always raises it: we went looking for a source and could not find one. The pair is the central worship form of the Nimbarka, Gaudiya and Pushtimarg lineages, there is a marriage narrative in the Garga Samhita, and Phulera Dooj commemorates it every year. Give it without worrying. Away from the couple-deities, the Kamdhenu cow with her calf is the safest thing on this page when you do not know the family. It is domestic and generous rather than devotional, so it needs no place in a mandir and assumes nothing about which deity they keep. A pocket temple is the other, and it is quietly the most practical gift here: a shrine that closes, which suits a couple who may be moving cities within a year and have nowhere permanent to put a murti yet. For a first home rather than for the couple themselves, the housewarming pieces apply: a