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Another great idea is to buy a nice basket (I usually go to the home depts of stores like Ross or TJ Maxx - then you can get a really nice basket for $10 or less) and then buy some nice ribbon in a color that matches their home. I usually then buy a lot of the towels and roll them up, tying with pieces of the same ribbon. You can also get other kitchen/bathroom stuff and wrap them in tulle and the ribbon. So you end up with a beautiful basket they can use again and all the little stuff.
This is probably best for a shower gift, not really formal enough presentation for the wedding.
Another great option if you're crafty but a little broke is to take those great sorority skills and make a photo album for the couple. Just get more formal fabrics than you would for little sister projects. For a friend that got married several years ago, I took burgundy satin and really nice beige lace (wedding colors were burgundy and beige) and satin flowers and made a really nice, professional looking album for her. Don't do this unless you can do a nice job though - it would be embarrassing to hand someone a pile of wrinkled fabric and glue gun marks. For my best friend's wedding, I gave her an album the morning of the wedding, it had some calligraphy I'd done with poems and quotes about marriage, photos of the couple, funny stories about them, and (best of all!) letters of good wishes from her friends and family that I had collected. She was really touched.
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