Newlywed Gift Card Book

The Happily Ever After Starter Pack Pages were created to help you create a thoughtful and practical Newlywed Gift Card Book that fits your budget! With a simple black and white design, the pages were created to gift cash, gift cards, or a combination of the two. Pick your favorite pages and bind them into a book or place them in a 5″ x 7″ photo box for a sweet and practical gift anyone would love.

Two pages printed that say Happily Ever After Starter Pack and Chore Break with a fake plant nearby.

Why A Gift Card Book?

The truth is, everyone can use cash. The problem is, cash is boring to give and receive. The Newlywed Gift Card Book allows you to gift the thing newlyweds want most in an interesting and fun way!

In the past, I created a Printable Birthday Gift Card Book and a Graduation Gift Book. Because they’ve been so popular, I decided to create a Newlywed Gift Card Book as well.

Practical

Of course, you could always choose something off the newlyweds’ registry, and you could even have it sent directly to their home, making it an easy way to gift. But what if you could give a practical gift that the new couple is sure to use? A gift that needs no returns, yet is fun and will put smiles on their faces?

In the design of this gift card book, I left enough space so you could either place cash or a gift card on each page. I suggest you lean heavily on the cash side!

Good For Your Budget

The Gift Card Book allows you to pick and choose pages that you think your recipients will love, yet that also fit your budget. The amount you put on a gift card or the denomination you choose is totally up to you and what makes sense for your personal spending plan. Whether you choose just a few pages or a lot, this gift is sure to be appreciated. Plus, there are a few pages that don’t require any monetary gift at all.

Unique

A gift card book is a unique wedding gift that gives you a fun way to give money and gift cards! It’s a bit of a DIY that lets you express your creative side without imposing a handmade craft on the new couple that isn’t their style.

40% of guests who attended a wedding in 2024 gave cash for a wedding gift, compared to 50% who gave a physical gift. (The remaining 10% opted to give a gift card.)
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What’s In The Wedding Gift Card Book

The Printable Wedding Gift Card Book PDF is made to print on 8-1/2″ x 11″ US letter cardstock and includes the following pages:

Happily Ever After Starter Pack Cover Page
Congratulations Letter – Shown Below
10 Pages Of Gift Card or Cash Holders With Two Holders Per Page For A Total of 20 Gift Card or Cash Holders + A Word Search & Coloring Page

Congratulations
on your sweet beginning!
This Happily Ever After Starter Pack is filled with small surprises to spark joy and make married life a little more fun.
Whether it’s your first grocery run, a spontaneous date night, or a cozy night in, each page is here to help you settle in, laugh a little, and love well.
Here’s to inside jokes, shared snacks, unexpected adventures, and a lifetime of figuring it all out together.
Your happily ever after starts now!

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How To Use The Newlywed Gift Card Book

This newlywed money gift holder is perfect to give as a wedding gift and could be used as a wedding shower gift as well! If you’re hosting a wedding shower, be sure to check out this Wedding Shower Planner to make planning a shower a breeze!

Print the Happily Ever After Gift Card Book on cardstock. (I used kraft cardstock.) Print just the pages you like best and want to use.
Cut the gift card pages. Each page should be about 5” x 7”.
Buy and attach gift cards to the pages you’ve selected for your recipient, or keep it simple and attach cash.
Bind the pages to make a book (I like the Discbound system) or place the pages in a 5” x 7” photo box.

Gift Card/Cash Holders Included With Gift Card Ideas

The Happily Ever After Starter Pack pages were designed to gift cash, gift cards, or a combination of the two. Below are gift card suggestions for each page.

Coffee Date: Local Coffee Shop
Date Night: Movie Theater, Local restaurant, Bowling, Mini Golf
Cash: Denomination of your choice
Gas: Local Gas Station Card
Chore Break: Local Cleaning Service, Laundry Service
Adventure: Gas Card, Local Amusement Park, National Park
Something Quick: Gift Card To A Place Where You Can Order Something Quick
DIY Project: Home Improvement Store
Just Because: Local Store
Fast Food: Local Fast Food Restaurant
Grocery Run: Local Grocery Store
Luck: Lottery Ticket
Bill: Cash
Car Wash: Local Car Wash
Road Trip Snacks: Gas Station
Sick: Local Drug Store, Restaurant That Sells Soup
Rainy Day: Book Store
Household Essentials: Big Box Store
Lazy Night In: Local Pizza Place
Game Night: Local Game Store

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Printable black and white pages for a Newlywed Gift Card Book.

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Don’t be afraid to step away from the wedding registry and get a little creative by giving the sweet couple a Newlywed Gift Card Book full of surprises and good old cash that they will be thrilled to have as they start their happily ever after!

Frequently Asked Questions

You are speaking my language! I designed this book with two pages that don’t require any monetary value. They are a Wedded Bliss Word Search and a Coloring Page. There is also a page for Luck, which would only require a $1 Lottery Ticket. Then, I would use your $50 budget on the Grocery Run, Date Night, and Cozy Night In pages since they are mentioned in the opening congratulations letter. Remember, a date night could be at the Costco food court, a cozy night in could mean popcorn and a movie, and a grocery run doesn’t have to be the whole haul. That gives you eight pages, including the cover page and the congratulation letter!

You could also leave the congratulations letter off and use different pages that work best for your situation!

There are many schools of thought on how much you should give for a wedding gift, but my personal opinion is you should give what works best for your budget. It used to be said that you should give at least the amount of your plate. I think this school of thought is ridiculous simply because you wouldn’t (or shouldn’t) give less to a best friend who had a potluck over an acquaintance who hosted a formal affair.

It also depends on where you are in life. I remember as a newlywed couple gifting a $30 item from a registry simply because that’s all we could afford. There’s no reason to go into debt to give a gift. That’s completely unacceptable. If you’re invited to a wedding and know you’ll be judged on the gift you give, you probably shouldn’t be friends with or go to that wedding. Can you tell I feel strongly about this?

It’s the same with any event. Birthdays, graduation parties, Christmas, or showers. The guest of honor is (or should be) happy you took time out of your busy schedule to celebrate them! That is enough. A small gift is enough. A large gift works only if you’re in a place to give it.

When we hosted a college graduation party for my son, his greatest wish was that friends and family would come and celebrate with him. He didn’t want it to be about gifts, and he certainly wouldn’t want friends and family to go into debt to give a gift. My husband and I spent quite a bit of money on the celebration. We hired a taco truck and tried our best to create a fun event with outdoor games, decor, and sweet party favors. Never did I think guests should give more because we chose to pay $20 a plate for a taco truck. Man, I’m passionate about this!

The point I’m trying to make is that your presence is enough. Make an effort to give a gift, even if it’s small. That’s enough to let them know you took the time and thought to give them something.

Gift card books make it easy to give a little or give a lot. It’s the gift you can put thought into and not bust your budget!

The Knot has a pretty comprehensive Wedding Gift Calculator that I feel has a more realistic view on gift giving than what you hear people claiming you should give on social pages.

I simply use regular tape folded over to make it double-stick. I used two pieces for bills and one for gift cards. I found this to be easy to remove from cash and cards.

Hi! I’m Bridget!

I create printables and DIYs to help you get organized and celebrate special occasions! It’s my mission to inspire you to get creative and find joy in every day!

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