Trendy gift baskets to match every occasion

Receiving a gift is a nice experience. You open the gift wrapper with trembling hands and your face lights up seeing the beautiful gift inside! Certain intriguing gifting trends are observed with changing time. Targeting an age group of 25-45, gift baskets are designed with innovative product mixes as well as healthy and trendy items. Attractive and youthful packaging adds further charm. It seems the young generation is moving away from glitz and glamour of huge gift packs with flashy gold or silver wraps. To certain extent, the magic is gone out of 2 or 3 tier cakes. Rather, gift baskets are conceptualized based on the theme “the more the merrier” and “small is beautiful”.

Gourmet gifts have their own appeal, of which sweet items always top the preference chart. Previously gourmet gifts were planned in a bit crude manner, just stuffing the basket with chocolates, cookies and other sweets. Now, lots of thoughts and novel ideas go into designing the gourmet basket. Taking into consideration that customers appreciate a large selection of products, these baskets are prepared with assortment of items of varied sizes. Thus a chocolate basket is most likely to include all sorts of combinations like cookies, wafer rolls,  bars, truffles, Almond Roca, chocolate drizzled caramel popcorn, biscotti, etc.; a sure way to indulge in chocolate delights! The interesting thing noticed is that darker chocolates are more in demand these days.

Theme based gourmet gift is another hot trend being lapped up by buyers. Browse website of any reputed gifting company and you will be intrigued by varied themes on offer. Ideas are inspired by a special day or a particular event, like birthday, marriage anniversary, outstanding performance in exam or a sports event, etc. It can be planned for a specific season, e.g. autumn gift. Theme baskets can be designed based on certain tastes too like Chocolate Delights, Cocoa and Coffee treats, Salty treats with sauces and dips. Customers’ insistence on organic and healthy food products have prompted service providers to come up with interesting additions like roasted garlic salsa, olive oil chips, tortilla chips, herbal tea, etc. in gourmet gift baskets.

Another hot favorite gift idea which surely pleases women of all age groups is spa gift basket. An organic spa package comprising bath salt, soap, shower gel, body butter, scrubs, floral scented body lotions and sachet, is a touching way of saying “Stay beautiful always!”. If you are not really satisfied with themes offered by the gifting company then feel free to come up with own theme and request a customized basket based on that. Smaller baskets are preferred than huge ones, simply because you can buy a variety of baskets, based on different ideas. This proves to be cost effective and a sure way to please your loved ones.

Gift baskets have a greater WOW factor than wrapped gifts. Besides you need not go through the hassle of shopping individual item and then wrap these up in one pack. The gifting company takes care of each aspect and makes sure that the basket is prepared precisely the way you want. Only a gift expert can ensure that your gift basket idea never goes wrong.