Host: If I am an overnight guest in someone s home, should I bring a gift?
Nancy Mitchell: It's again a very nice gesture to bring a gift when you are an overnight guest. Something that’s always appreciated is food or beverage. Think about this, they maybe having you as the overnight guest, but there maybe other people included as well.
So, fruit baskets or something you picked up from the gourmet market or a bottle of wine or extra beverages, something that is going to help them is always appreciated. Make sure that would something that will a shelf life just in case it doesn’t t fit with their plans for menu or whatever is happening during the period that you are there. Another nice gesture is to while you are there; offer to go shopping for them. A host or hostess has always forgotten something and needs to run out to the market. So offer to do that and then pick up a few extra things for them and of course, you pay for those things that you pick up. That’s a very nice gesture and very nice gift.
If you don t know the couple very well, attend the event; pick up some signals while you are there. Find out what their likes and their dislikes are in food or hobbies or music, theatre whatever, they may love to travel, perhaps a travel book. Later, send a gift after you’ve gone home. Write a lovely thank you note that is specific saying how much you enjoyed, whatever you did with them the meals, their hospitality, a trip they may have plan for you while you were there and then send the gift.
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