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title: "Mara Ellison — Gifts for Couples"
description: "Couples gifting editor at Gifts for Couples. Former wedding registry consultant writing about gifts for couples: weddings, engagements, anniversaries and the…"
url: https://gifts-for-couples.com/authors/mara-ellison/
site: "Gifts for Couples (gifts-for-couples.com)"
language: en-US
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# Mara Ellison — Gifts for Couples
Former wedding registry consultant writing about gifts for couples: weddings, engagements, anniversaries and the couple who says they need nothing. Not a certified planner and not licensed in any profession.
Mara spent nine years helping couples build wedding registries, which is an unusually useful seat for this subject: you watch what guests actually buy, and months later you hear which of it survived. The pattern was consistent, and it is basically what this site is about — the gifts couples still use are rarely the ones that photographed best on the day.
She started Gifts for Couples for the guests rather than the couple. Guests get the hardest version of the problem and the least information: two people, one budget, an unfamiliar home, and often nothing to go on but a registry that has already been picked clean.
She is not a wedding planner and holds no certification in event or gift planning. She writes buying guides, answers reader mail herself, and corrects the site when somebody tells her it is wrong.
## How Mara works
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## Topics
- gifts for couples
- wedding and engagement gift etiquette
- wedding registries and off-registry giving
- anniversary gifting by year
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