We love love love reader mail. While your regularly scheduled writer is presumably laying on some tropical island, dodging monkeys, we are not traveling, not in a tropical area, and working under hideous lighting for far too many hours a day. We are like our own version of high/low, but something we agree on is our love for reader mail. Please! Send us anything! We’ll do our best to answer it.
Anyway! Today’s question:
Hi Lil Bunny,
I have a question for you. I’ve been invited to a really good friend’s fiancee’s bridal shower. I’m not going to know a single soul there – I’ve only met her twice, it’s really far from where I live (but not far enough where distance would be my only excuse), and I really dislike parties. I don’t know this girl at all, so can you help me pick out a completely excellent gift, under $50, that will make up for my absence?
Thanks!
C.
Ah, C. We, too, have been known to bail on bridal and baby showers, and we generally believe that sending the nicest gift humanly possible is the best way out. That, and a heartfelt – but not overly sentimental – card.
For bridal showers, we have a default gift. We’ve sent it to our best friend (yes, we skipped her shower), we’ve sent it to fiancees of friends, we’ve sent it to our Loved One’s relatives we couldn’t pick out of a crowd. We’ve always gotten really great feedback, so we’ll keep giving it until someone tells us to stop. Or, all of our friends are married. Either way.
Personally, we don’t love Philosophy products – we find them drying. But we think they smell great, have excellent packaging, are vague enough to be appropriate for everyone without being impersonal and they always present well.
Anyone else have other ideas?
-LB





