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What to give? You could take the easy way out, and just check the couple’s bridal registry. But then again, there’s a world of things out there that might make a nice surprise:

• A wedding pair in naive sculpture top the Wedding Wishes Bottle Stoppers ($30) by Christopher Radko. They’ll help save that leftover champagne — if there is any left over after the wedding celebration — and serve as a sentimental reminder during feasts of the future.

	(AP Photo/Fortunoff)
	Toast the newlyweds with this pair of Celebration flutes and matching cooler from Fortunoff.

• “Bridal Waltz” ($140) is a teardrop-shaped glass paperweight from Caithness, designed by Helen MacDonald. An abstract bridal couple, dancing on confetti, dreamily inhabit this world of clear glass with bubbles that refract light.

• Another classic in glass is the Hellenic Urn vase ($1,195) from Steuben — a timeless design that will help celebrate anniversaries to come.

• A design full of time is one of the Anniversary Clocks from Howard Miller. Most are timepieces under a glass dome, like the Ave Maria, which has dual chimes, solid brass tiara and revolving pendulum. A quartz movement plays Westminster or Ave Maria chimes on the hour. There’s a light sensor that silences the chimes when a room darkens, to not disturb light sleepers.

• The bubbles are inside and out when the bridal pair tastes champagne from the J.G. Durand crystal Celebration flutes ($39.99 a pair), from Fortunoff. Bubbles are a part of the design, and the flutes match a chiller ($99.99).

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