I’m a 2025 bride, here’s my top 10 dream luxury wedding gifts

Because who wouldn’t want to start married life arguing over an unethical housing development on Old Kent Road? For board game lovers and to keep you entertained well into your married years, a classic board game with luxury touches such as red and black lambskin leather board and pewter pieces sounds like perfection.

Created with happy couples in mind, this hand-woven wicker basket is filled with celebration worthy treats that will help significantly dull the post-wedding blues. Imagine the joy of popping a bottle of champagne that you don't have to share with 250 of your nearest and dearest? Heaven. 

The thought of getting a toaster on your wedding day might be clichéd enough to result in eye rolls from some, but not if it was this gorgeous Dolce & Gabbana x Smeg offering. Dolce & Gabbana’s home collections are must-have bougie maximalist types who want to inject colourful eclecticism into their homes (an honorary mention here for their Stabilo highlighter collaboraton.)

Candles are something my new husband is being forced to enjoy every single night of the week and will do until the day I die. This particular new wife isn't going to take housework seriously, but even in a messy house where the washing-up has reached health-hazaard status, lighting a gorgeous candle grants you access to the boujie world of Dior and makes the world seem at peace.

Hermès tablewear is iconic for a reason and you're spoiled for choice when it comes to patterns, shapes and uses. My heart was captured by the cheery Soleil designs, which I know would bring joy to my new husband even if all I served on it was beans on toast. Just don't do a Kendall Jenner and return your pieces on the sly... 

The secret to marital happiness? I think it might be an oak and marble bar in your living room for parties and cosy nights in. Taking cues from the flawless interiors of members club White City House, thanks to natural variations in the Marquina marble bar, no two are exactly the same. There's plenty of storage for bottles (perfect for the sherry connoisseur I want to become in old age) and hanging wine glasses. 

Newly married men love wearing matching pyjamas with their wife, right? I can't imagine any complaints when it comes to sumptuously soft lightweight cotton in chic animal prints (a signature for the brand) that look so good you could wear them out and about (probably.) 

A word of warning, I have a good friend who lamented the breakdown of her first marriage but had a particularly sore spot for the luxury luggage set her ex-husband got in the divorce proceedings. Globe Trotter are the last word in luxury luggage and this 4-wheel check-in bag is sure to last you a lifetime. I would plump for the jaunty orange shade, which would be a doddle to spot at baggage claim too.

Words I dream of hearing from a dinner party guest, "is your cutlery drunk?" No philistine, they're just fabulous. This squiggly set is by Seletti famous for their quirky, tongue-in-cheek aesthetic. One of their pieces even earned a place in Moma, and if it's good enough for the elite New York art scene, it's certainly good enough for my South East London flat I say. 

I may have a slightly rose-tinted glasses approach to married life, but I imagine I will spend lots of time sitting with my husband quaffing champagne and gossiping about those who aren't as happy as we are.

In these fantasy situations, there is an attention grabbing wine cooler between us, filled with something French and delicious. This oyster shaped gargantuan champagne bucket is the perfect blend of beauty and impracticality boujie types adore. And I love it.