India is a land of festivals, All festivals are a time to get together with family and friends, glittering lights, following religious rituals, relishing delicious food, and lots of celebrations and joy. India is a secular nation with a wide diversity and hence it is a land of festivals. In India, we celebrate a lot of festivals including Diwali, Eid, Christmas, Holi, Pateti, etc.
Festivals are an opportunity for everyone to come together across generations, from kids to elders. Hence, everyone looks forward to festivals with a lot of eagerness. During festivals, lots of love and appreciation are showered on you along with gifts. You also reciprocate the same. With every festival, you must be wondering what gift should you give. Well, we understand the dilemma of choosing gifts, so we will do our bit in suggesting some good festival gift ideas.
Traditional gifts
Sparkling lights are an integral part of all Indian festivals. So, gifts like candles, diyas, LED candle lights, lanterns, aroma oils for diyas and other forms of lights are wholeheartedly accepted by everyone. These days you get fancy diyas, candles, and lanterns of many colours, fragrances, shapes, etc, making them perfect for gifting. The pleasant smell from aroma oils will make anyone feel good instantly and bring in the much needed positive energy. While the older generation prefers traditional diyas, the younger generation prefers LED candle lights as they are environment-friendly. You can choose the gift accordingly.
Many festivals have mythology behind them. So, idols of Gods along with pooja thalis are a popular gift during festivals. Every day, when the recipient will pray in front of God, he/she will remember you for the lovely gift.
From the GyFTR website, buy Archies Gallery or Ferns N Petals gift voucher and save up to 30%. During the festival, the gift voucher can then be used to buy the traditional gift that you have finalised for the recipient.
Bring good luck to others
You have an opportunity to be someone’s lucky charm by giving them a Fengshui gift like a laughing Buddha, wind chime, Bonsai tree, tortoise, crystals, bamboo, emperor coins, etc. The good thing about these gifts is that many people believe they will receive good luck only when they receive these gifts from others rather than buying these items on their own. So, when you gift a Fengshui item, the recipient will be more than happy to accept the gift. A tortoise is a symbol of longevity, emperor coins are a symbol of wealth, the sound of wind chimes bring in tranquillity, crystals clear negative energy and bring in the much needed positive energy, laughing Buddha brings in success and joy, and the Bamboo plant brings in good luck.
Any of the above gifts can be bought using the Archies Gallery or Ferns N Petals gift voucher. The voucher can be purchased from the Gyftr website with up to 30% savings.
Fashion
People love to get all dressed up to look their best during festivals. The major highlight of festivals is wearing your best attire along with your favourite jewellery. The idea is to stand out and get noticed by everyone and get maximum compliments.
While some prefer to get into their ethnic wear during festivals, others feel comfortable in casuals. So, you can choose to gift garments, personal accessories, beauty or personal care products during festivals. Perfumes are great to gift. All you need to know is the recipient’s favourite perfume brand.
In the fashion segment, GyFTR offers a wide variety of vouchers with savings of up to 20%. If you are planning to buy garments for someone, then you can purchase vouchers of brands like Beverly, Celio, United Colors of Benetton, Aurelia, W, Biba and many more. Once you buy the voucher, head to the merchant, online or offline and purchase the garments for gifting.
If you are planning to gift something in the footwear segment, then GyFTR offers vouchers of Bata, Relaxo, New Balance, Call It Spring, Woodland, Puma, Hush Puppies, etc. with savings of up to 15%. You have the option to either buy the footwear for gifting or gift the voucher and let the recipient purchase his/her own choice.
In the beauty and personal accessories category, GyFTR offers vouchers of brands like Voylla, Helios, The Body Shop, Titan, Inglot, Fastrack, Hidesign, etc. with savings of up to 15%. It is best to gift these vouchers and let the recipient by the gift of his/her own choice.
Mithai, chocolates and dry fruits
We Indians have a sweet tooth. For everyone, kids to elders, festivals are yet another reason to enjoy their favourite mithai. So, mithai as a gift is always accepted with a big smile on the face. These days, the younger generation has become health conscious. But, festivals can always be used as cheat days to savour some delicious mithai.
If you feel mithai has a short shelf life as it is perishable, then you can choose to gift chocolates. These days you get custom made chocolate hampers specially made for gifting during festivals. The hampers are designed in a wide price range to suit everyone’s budget. You can buy a chocolate hamper from Cadbury, Chocopie, Ferrero, etc. Apart from chocolates, another good option for gifting is cookies. You can buy freshly made cookies from the popular local bakery or go for cookies of well-known brands like Karachi or Britannia etc.
GyFTR offers vouchers of Archies Gallery or Ferns N Petals with savings of up to 30%. The gift voucher can be used to buy sweets or chocolate hampers or dry fruit packs, which can then be used for gifting.
Gold or silver
It is considered auspicious to gift gold or silver coins on festivals. They are a symbol of wealth and prosperity. Apart from silver coins, you also have the option of gifting silver utensils or pooja thali and other pooja accessories. Another option is to gift designer jewellery.
For gold coin vouchers, GyFTR offers up to a 2% discount. For gold and diamond jewellery vouchers, the discount offered is up to 5% discount and for designer jewellery vouchers, the discount offered is up to 20%. Purchase the vouchers and gift them.
Gift cards
We hope, we have given you enough gifting ideas for festivals. If you are still not sure, what gift to give, then please don’t strain your brain so much, unnecessarily. Just head to the GyFTR website and buy a gift card of Amazon, Myntra, Archies or some other popular brand and gift it. Just make sure the gift card receiver has enough products to choose from while using the voucher. The Amazon website is an ocean of products. The gift card receiver will find many products of his/her choice to buy.
Final thoughts
With all the above gift ideas for festivals, we are sure that now you will never run out of gift ideas. All you need to do is to bookmark this page. Whenever the next festival comes up, you can refer to this page and voila! you know what to gift. Happy gifting for the happy festival 😊