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Gifts for best friend: 14 ideas for her (and for the whole group)
Finding gifts for best friend seems easy until it’s your turn. Your best friend knows everything about you, and you about her, so the gift can’t be just anything. And if it’s from the whole group, it’s even harder.
Here are 14 ideas: for your best friend, for the friend group, for her birthday, for a friend who lives far away and cheap gifts that mean more than anything expensive.
Gifts for your best friend
What you have can’t be bought in any shop: years of conversations, plans, endless voice notes and photos nobody else has seen. The best gift is to give it back to her.
our favourite
1. Your chat, turned into a book
The chat with your best friend, or the group chat, is a diary of your friendship: the drama, the laughs, the plans that went wrong and the 3am voice notes. Nobody else has that story.
With a personalised message book you turn that chat into a printed book, with photos, chapters by date and voice notes and videos as QR codes. If it’s the group chat, you can order a copy for each of you with 20% off.
It’s the gift that ends up on the bedside table and comes out at every dinner. Read our customers’ reviews on Trustpilot.
A girls’ night in kit
Face masks, her favourite snack, a film or series you want to watch and a bottle of wine. In a nice box, with a note.
Matching jewellery
Two bracelets or necklaces that go together. Discreet, to wear every day and think of each other.
Gifts for the friend group
When the gift is from all of you to all of you, what works best is something that strengthens the “us”.
A group getaway
A weekend in a cottage or a city none of you know. The hard part is matching diaries: give it with the date already set.
Group sweatshirts
With the group’s name, an inside joke or the year. For trips, for photos and to remember who you are.
A photo shoot all together
There are always group photos, but hardly ever good ones. A photo session or a photo booth at the next dinner sorts that out.
Birthday gifts for your best friend
On her birthday, what will move her most is feeling you all got together for her.
A video of messages from everyone
Each of you records a minute and you edit them together. Play it with the cake.
A brunch or a spa day
A relaxed plan to celebrate without rushing. Even better at that place she keeps saying she wants to try.
A “things to do together” list
30 plans written on cards: that concert, that trip, learning something new. With the first one already booked.
Gifts for a friend who lives far away
Studying abroad, work, a partner: sometimes life takes her far away. These gifts shorten the distance.
A box of things from home
The local treats she can’t find where she lives, a group photo and a letter. It arrives by post and feels like a hug in a box.
A voucher for a visit
A ticket (or a signed promise) to go and see her. With a date, so it doesn’t stay up in the air.
Cheap gifts for friends (with lots of thought)
Between friends, a cheap but thoughtful gift always beats an expensive one bought without thinking.
A friendship letter
What she means to you, your favourite moments and what you hope to live together. Handwritten.
A playlist of your trips
The songs from the car, the beach and every party. With a cover made from a photo of you both.
Your chat as a PDF
The book of your conversations as a digital version for €12.99. It arrives instantly and can be printed at home.
Ideas that always work
- Something that brings back your inside jokes.
- Photos of you, printed nicely.
- A plan together, with a date.
- A handwritten note, always.
What to avoid
- Generic “best friend” gifts: mugs and cushions with stock phrases.
- Clothes without knowing her style: the easiest thing to get wrong.
- Jokes that embarrass her in front of others.
- Organising at the last minute: group gifts need time to get everyone on board.
Keep reading
- Secret Santa gift ideas: 15 gifts under €20
- Original birthday gift ideas
- Personalised gift ideas: 12 unique gifts
- WhatsApp Wrapped: your chat stats as a book
Frequently asked questions
What should I get my best friend?
Something about your friendship: a book of your chat, matching jewellery or a plan together. What moves her most is a gift that only makes sense between the two of you.
What do you give a group of friends?
Something that strengthens the group: a getaway together, sweatshirts with the group’s name or the chat book with a copy for each of you.
What do you give a friend who lives far away?
A box of treats from home, a letter and a photo, or a voucher to visit her with the date already set.
What’s a cheap but original gift for a friend?
A handwritten letter, a playlist of your trips or your chat as a PDF for €12.99.
Real friends deserve something you can’t just buy anywhere.
