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Drumroll please… this is a creative and unique wedding gift, that’s also FREE. Yup, $0. Well, it does take a little bit of time, which you should value more than $0. Sorry, I’m an economist. Free is such an attractive price for the frugal, cheap or broke who need to come up with a wedding or shower gift. While still the exception to the rule, it is moderately common to move after a wedding. It might be one spouse moving to where the other lives, or the couple moving. I know of two weddings this summer where this will be the case, one even involves moving from the southern US to Canada for one person! Once upon a time in Rome, I met a guy while standing behind the Pantheon. He was walking around with his bicycle and it was pretty obvious that I was a tourist. He told me that he once went to visit his brother in New York City and was asked all sorts of things about Rome, which he couldn’t answer. When he got home, he decided to become a tourist in his own city and has been visiting places on his lunch break ever since. Thus, he was a wealth of information and he was keen to share it with me. A plaza with statues became so much more once I knew the history of them and what they represented! All in all, a very cool experience.
New City Info Pack
All of that prelude, to introduce this wedding (or post-secondary graduation) gift idea: a tourist info package! Most states/provinces, cities and even small towns, have a tourism office full of shiny, free documents. You can often order these things from afar, too: Brochures for British Columbia Attractions Ontario – includes a myriad of coupons! Ontario – Yours to Discover Visit California – this is because I like their ad on TV Wyoming – Forever West – just to mix it up Pull together some resources for the province or the ones nearby, the region or county if available, plus the town. Bundle together nicely, perhaps in a plastic file folder that closes, like these things: 
Not-Free Additions
If someone is moving to a bigger city, you could buy a map book for them to put in their vehicle. Yes, there are times they are more helpful than a smartphone! If they are moving to somewhere more remote, at least in Canada, you can also pick up a backroads map for their region. These are super useful if they are into camping, fishing, hiking, or getting lost on random roads. Is the destination a large city? There are many guide books available for larger cities, here are some examples: 
And BIL keeps talking about how we told him there would be unexpected expenses with buying a new house and we wrote a check for that as a Christmas present and we were right. (They may still be having unexpected expenses next Christmas!) –
Cash, cash is king. This would be a fantastic way to make a cash gift less boring! Remember – always, ALWAYS, always give a card, with some nice writing in it. For further super cheap wedding or shower gift ideas, click here for our list. To see our full list of unique and creative ways to give money as a gift, please visit the Cash Gift Ideas page.
