Return gift ideas for Seemantham!!

Depending on how long you have before you travel, you can go online and order gift items in bulk. Not sure if it would be appropriate for Seemandham functions (especially since everybody in India looks for traditional things) but maybe you could get a souvenir photo frame of the city you live in. Sometimes if you google "wholesale gift items" you can find stuff.

Where in India will you be for the seemandham? If it is Chennai, lots of shops in town area will have gifts. I usually pick up stuff for Navarathri Vethalai Paaku from there.

 

Tambulya site has lot of options like incense stands, kumkum boxes, potli bags. You can also buy transparent pouches and keep a mehendi cone, haldi kumkum, bindi pkt, hair clutch , sweets etc in that and give to all the ladies.
you can also get small jewelry boxes within your range. If you want to gift uniquely , you can order for cupcakes and pack 2-3 in a beautiful box and give. You can also make paper bags by urself for packing the gifts if you have time and if it is not stressful for you.

 

Kalpana,

First off....CONGRATS
One of the posters above had mentioned jewellery boxes. My husband's maami presented us with a small box made of velvet which holds bangles. Can hold approximately 10 "kambi valai". I will try and post a picture of it. Very cute, very useful. And being seemandham, you can put the manjal / kumkumam and some bangles also inside and present it.

 

Last year for our son's upanayanam we bought a beautiful agarbathi stand from there. It is in oxidized metal, with a small 1/2" Ganesha on one end. Shaped like a mango leaf. Price at that time was Rs.65 a piece. We bought a lot - about 500 to give both sides of our family.

 

I will post pictures of both the items later on today.