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When it comes to shopping for a wedding gift, four words will help ensure a gift the bride and groom will love. The four words: Stick to the registry. However, if the couple hasn’t registered or if you want to get them an additional gift that’s a bit more personal than bathroom towels or nonstick pans, it’s wise to pick something that reflects the couple’s personality and passions. If one of those passions is travel, you’re in luck because options are as varied as the countries and cultures that span the globe. Here, the perfect gifts for travel-loving couples.
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For Their Home
A love of travel and a fascination with maps often go hand in hand, and most travel lovers will appreciate items that represent their wanderlust in cartographic form, such as a globe, a scratch-off map to mark their travels, an artfully framed map of their favorite place, or this print, with two hearts that show the maps of two different places. Airport code coffee mugs and posters are another fun way to bring some international flair to their home decor. (Scratch-off world map, $22.99, available on Maps International Amazon; Heart map print, $88.54, BOMBUS available at Not on the High Street; Airport mugs and posters, starting at $19.90, Airportag)
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For Creating Memories
Give a travel-loving couple the tools they need to document their future trips. A high quality leather journal is always useful for jotting down experiences and memories while traveling. If you know the couple’s been relying on their phone for photos, they might appreciate a better quality travel-friendly camera or a GoPro, if they’re more active. And a gift card to a photo printing service like Shutterfly will ensure that their photos make it off the digital screen and into a frame or coffee table book. (“HERO Session” waterproof camera, $199.99, GoPro)
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For All Their Travel Tech Needs
Where travelers go, so go their devices, so kit your couple out with portable technology that will enhance their trip: a universal plug converter to stay powered up, a waterproof phone case so spills don’t ruin their trip, noise-canceling headphones to ensure a quiet night’s sleep on the plane, and a selfie stick for the perfect photos of the happy couple on all their adventures.
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For Traveling in Style
Long gone are the days when traveling was a glamorous — or even comfortable — affair. Help make the couple’s travel a little less unpleasant with comforts like an ultra-luxe travel blanket and pillow or a soft sleep mask. Or bring a little style to their travel with monogrammed leather luggage tags or passport holders. (Leather luggage tags, $65, Mark and Graham)
See More: Do We Have to Get a Gift for a Couple Having an (Expensive) Destination Wedding?
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For the Honeymoon or Other Future Travel
The gift that travelers can always put to use is the gift of more travel. Chip in on the cost of future flights with an airline gift card (most major airlines offer them) or go for a hotel gift card for a particular chain or for a booking site like Hotels.com so they can splurge on a luxurious room. Or contribute cash towards experiences with a gift card to a site like Viator.com, which sells tours and activities around the world. If the bride and groom love cruising, you can even opt for a gift card to their favorite cruise line.