Okay, I admit it. I was super excited about the quesadilla maker I registered for and received on my wedding day from Macy's. (And I still use it today!) After all, gifts don't have to be expensive to be awesome. But if what if you were a guest at the biggest wedding of the decade? What on Earth would you buy the royal couple who truly has it all? If money were no object, of course. We asked some people to suggest unique gift ideas for the royal couple, Will and Kate. (Who, by the way, have asked for charitable donations in lieu of gifts in real life.)
Helen of InviteSite, a couture letterpress studio based in Brisbane Australia, suggests love letters made of the finest paper.
"Fine artisan handmade paper with deckled edges and a custom personal watermark (sewn into the papermaking frame) in the paper," she says. "Paper is made from cotton-linen rag (eco - up cycled from old clothes. The way fine paper was made for 2000 years). Fine double sized and burnished surface for exquisite writing surface. Only a few papermakers left in the world, who know how to make this kind of paper."
But don't expect your thank you note written on this stock. "These papers are only for love letters between them," imagines Helen. "Not meant to ever be sent to anyone else in the outside world."
So romantic! And maybe they want to write these letters while on holiday? The CEO of Honeyfunds.com, a honeymoon registry company, suggests the gift of luxury travel. And he knows just where they should go.
"I would give the Royal Couple ownership of a private villa at the super exclusive Mayacama Golf Club in Northern California," he says. "I've been there, its breathtaking. The Madera House would be a perfect wine country honeymoon retreat they could return to time and again."
Sounds pretty swank. But Barbara Ann Michaels thinks she has a better idea. She does costume and adventure weddings in NYC at the Jester of the Peace. And she has a gift that even Harry Potter would approve of.
"Invisible-to-Everyone-Else Cloaks so they can go anywhere in the world, whether to the local chip shop or Times Square and be completely alone. They could run through the streets nakeder than Kate was in her see-through dress," she imagines. "Make love on monuments. Walk off with flowers in any color and scent...tossing them before other lovers they'd see. All the while they'd hold hands without holding Court."
And Dan Willis of Denver, Colorado takes her idea one step further. With, perhaps, the ultimate gift for one of the busiest couples in the world.
"I would get them both look-alike body doubles to fill in for them at official functions so they could escape someplace quiet and just enjoy each other from time to time without the world watching," he says.
I have to admit, those all sound like great, romantic gift ideas. But as for me, I'm sticking to my gut (literally)--and going with the quesadilla maker. I'm guessing even the couple who "has it all" doesn't have one of these...
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