These Kitchen tea ideas are just the beginning! Think back to all the gifts you have received over time and you will remember the ones that have been the most cherished are the ones that weren't necessarily the most expensive, but the most thoughtful or useful. Let this guide you and help encourage other ideas.

• Homemade Keepsake Recipe Book


Buy a blank binder, or make one up yourself with decorative paper and give a few sheets to each invited guest. Ask each guest to collect their favorite recipes for different types of meals such as special occasions like Christmas & Easter, and breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert! Ask them to also personalize it with notes of special traditions and or different ways of presentation. Compile the book by meal category.

• Kitchenware

Ask all guests to bring a gift that starts with the letter of the bride and groom's names. If the bride’s name starts with ‘s’, people can bring salad servers, spoons, salt and pepper shakers, etc. Use first middle and last name initials for a larger variety of items.
Or have a Tupperware party and guests can purchase for themselves, which will add to the Brides free gifts and Tupperware dollars, and guests can also purchase something for the bride.



• Gift Wrapping



For something a little different every guest brings a gift for the bride to be, and a gift wrapping expert shows you all how to wrap the gifts in so many different ways.
It’s a great way to learn how to be creative with your wrapping and sometimes they look too good to open!

• Cookie Cutters and Other Gadgets



When people don’t want to spend a lot of money, and if the bride loves to bake, ask each guest to bring a cute cookie cutter or other baking gadget which the bride or groom can use to bake some fantastic treats for when you go over to visit.

• Keepsake Advice Box

Decorate index cards and an index card box. Ask each guest to write down a marriage tip or household hint on a card. Make appropriate tabs like: 'kitchen', 'laundry room', 'bathroom' 'clutter free', 'Recipe Flops and Fixes', 'Stain removal' ‘Relationship advice’, there are many possibilities.