Creative ideas for gifting tickets?

[Colleen27]

I know we've got some really creative minds here on the DIS, and I know there are a lot of us who favor experience gifts over physical goods. So hit me with the creative ways you've "wrapped" experience gifts so that the recipient has something to open despite the gift being basically digital. I managed to find Metallica tickets for my boys at a price I was willing to pay, which was something of a pleasant surprise, but at $175 a piece after fees the tickets will absolutely be their main gift so I need a great way to present them so they have something to open when we're doing the big gift exchange on Christmas Eve.

 

[Bianca and Bernard]

I know we've got some really creative minds here on the DIS, and I know there are a lot of us who favor experience gifts over physical goods. So hit me with the creative ways you've "wrapped" experience gifts so that the recipient has something to open despite the gift being basically digital. I managed to find Metallica tickets for my boys at a price I was willing to pay, which was something of a pleasant surprise, but at $175 a piece after fees the tickets will absolutely be their main gift so I need a great way to present them so they have something to open when we're doing the big gift exchange on Christmas Eve.

Metallica poster, tshirt, cd all wrapped up with a copy of the ticket purchase?

 

[Dan Murphy]

Maybe a Metallica CD with a printed copy of the ticket email, screenshot of the confirmation/barcode?

 

[Dan Murphy]

Metallica poster, tshirt, cd all wrapped up with a copy of the ticket purchase?

Great minds, B&B.

 

[moniqueand2]

Tape a printed copy of the tickets to a Rock and wrap that up.

 

[PollyannaMom]

DS and his friends are into vinyl decals for their cars. I bet you could find Metallica ones to wrap up.

Or you could print the tour schedule, mark the one their tickets are for (maybe draw arrows with glitter glue?) roll it up like a scroll, and wrap that.

Oooh - maybe even roll it around a pair of inexpensive drumsticks!

 

[easyas123]

I know we've got some really creative minds here on the DIS, and I know there are a lot of us who favor experience gifts over physical goods. So hit me with the creative ways you've "wrapped" experience gifts so that the recipient has something to open despite the gift being basically digital. I managed to find Metallica tickets for my boys at a price I was willing to pay, which was something of a pleasant surprise, but at $175 a piece after fees the tickets will absolutely be their main gift so I need a great way to present them so they have something to open when we're doing the big gift exchange on Christmas Eve.

I like the idea of using a old poster to wrap in!

I have to ask... is this the new tour they just announced, the one with two nights / concerts included per ticket where they don't repeat any songs from the first night on the second night? If so, $175 seems not to bad, I may check that out myself!

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Is your goal for them to have no idea what the gift is about until it's completely open or is the goal for them to have absolutely no idea?

The ideas mostly given already are when you want an overt tie in to what the gift would be about (except for the rock which is actually kinda cute/funny). If you want stealth that would be mostly wrapping in a box of some sort or creating shapes with the wrapping paper (which you could still do).

I was even thinking this but Metallica as the logo then stick the tickets in the seat (if they fit) but I don't think you can find that as they all seem to be more sports (understandably so) oriented

 

[Mysterian]

I would print mini classic Metallica LP album sleeves out of cardstock (each boy gets a different album cover), delivered with with the ticket/email tucked inside. You could even do a printed cardstock record with the message on it instead.
AND throw in some personalized guitar picks with the concert title/date on them as keepsakes.

OR

Dress up like the Lady Justice statue from the And Justice for All album cover, and hand the tickets over in the scales you'll be holding. As you hand over the cards, loudly state: "Your sentence is... METAL!"

 

[Colleen27]

T-shirts might be a good idea, I didn't think of that. It did cross my mind to wrap a CD or album, but I think the boys have taken all their media digital. I know my oldest rigged up a Bluetooth sound system through his whole main floor when he first moved into his house but I don't think either of them even owns a CD/cassette/record player for me to use physical media as the wrapped item!

I like the idea of using a old poster to wrap in!

I have to ask... is this the new tour they just announced, the one with two nights / concerts included per ticket where they don't repeat any songs from the first night on the second night? If so, $175 seems not to bad, I may check that out myself!

Yes, and those weren't the cheapest tickets for the Detroit stop - the back half of the upper bowl were about $40 per seat cheaper, but I'm a fan of being at/near the front of the cheap seats so I went up one price level. I was pleasantly surprised, considering the quality of the lineup. Good seats are pretty pricey - I think main floor standing room was around $300 (yeah, I did consider mosh pit tix until I saw the price) and front half of the lower bowl was even higher than that. But knowing how Metallica is about their tours, they were probably quite intentional about keeping the cheap seats relatively affordable for fans.

I would print mini classic Metallica LP album sleeves out of cardstock (each boy gets a different album cover), delivered with with the ticket/email tucked inside. You could even do a printed cardstock record with the message on it instead.
AND throw in some personalized guitar picks with the concert title/date on them as keepsakes.

I love this! I knew I'd get good ideas here. One of the boys plays guitar and the other bass, so the guitar picks would be perfect too.

 

[AppleDumpling]

What I’ve done in the past with tickets is put them in an envelope and attach them to the string of a balloon filled with helium. Wrap the balloon/s up in a big box and when they open it, the balloons float up in dramatic fashion with the tickets dangling in front of them.

Note that it’s much better to use Mylar balloons for this, as the helium lasts for a few days. If you use standard latex balloons, you would have to wrap the box within a few hours of when it will be opened, or they won’t float.

 

[Dan Murphy]

What I’ve done in the past with tickets is put them in an envelope and attach them to the string of a balloon filled with helium. Wrap the balloon/s up in a big box and when they open it, the balloons float up in dramatic fashion with the tickets dangling in front of them.

Note that it’s much better to use Mylar balloons for this, as the helium lasts for a few days. If you use standard latex balloons, you would have to wrap the box within a few hours of when it will be opened, or they won’t float.

Just don't do this outside.

 

[dmetcalfrn]

Saran Wrap ball with clues to unwrap and tickets at the center.

 

[AppleDumpling]

Just don't do this outside.

LOL, you’re right, I forgot that part.

Wasn’t thinking of someone opening Christmas gifts outdoors. Too cold here.

 

[Colleen27]

What I’ve done in the past with tickets is put them in an envelope and attach them to the string of a balloon filled with helium. Wrap the balloon/s up in a big box and when they open it, the balloons float up in dramatic fashion with the tickets dangling in front of them.

Note that it’s much better to use Mylar balloons for this, as the helium lasts for a few days. If you use standard latex balloons, you would have to wrap the box within a few hours of when it will be opened, or they won’t float.

Just don't do this outside.

Or in my MIL's living room, which is where we exchange gifts. When I googled for ideas that one kept coming up, but the room is two stories tall and we need scaffolding for DH to clean the ceiling fan/change bulbs. So unless I'm bringing the BB gun and making it a target shoot, I'm not attaching anything to balloons there!

 

[AppleDumpling]

Or in my MIL's living room, which is where we exchange gifts. When I googled for ideas that one kept coming up, but the room is two stories tall and we need scaffolding for DH to clean the ceiling fan/change bulbs. So unless I'm bringing the BB gun and making it a target shoot, I'm not attaching anything to balloons there!

Or use an extra long string?

(Oh well, I tried. You got some other good suggestions here. )

 

[kymom99]

I bought my son eagles concert tickets a few years ago. I wrote him a cheesy poem and put it in a card. It wasn’t bad if I do say so myself

 

[Luv Bunnies]

I like to put big gifts in with more mundane stuff to trick them. They open the box and see a bunch of socks or underwear and start to put it aside. Then I ask if there's anything else in there and they start digging. My boys are adults and, for some reason, it still works on them!