Texas wedding gifts range from steak branding irons to family quilts.
Texas wedding gifts, like Texans, can be very individualistic and still in good taste. Texas gifts lean toward Western themes and the state's long history with ranching and cowboys. Oil makes a mess, and not a very good wedding present, unless it is a fractional interest in a well. Other Texas wedding presents focus on cooking and a Texas hearth. For the rest of the new home, high-quality handmade Texas items make good choices.

Kitchen Gifts
Kitchen gifts make good wedding presents for Texas newlyweds. Texas wines help start first dinners, and Texas wine toppers remain on the job for the half-full bottle. Texas-shaped steak branding irons can be used indoors or outside. Texas pottery gives a Texas theme to a new home. Texas-shaped trivets, Texas dinner bells and Texas aprons can all work as wedding gifts.

Other Room Furnishings
A handmade quilt in the Lone Star pattern makes a versatile gift. Also known as the Texas Star, this pattern gets its name from the nickname for Texas, "the Lone Star State." Newlyweds can use the quilt in its traditional role as a bed cover or use hang it on a wall as artwork. Other furnishings include a state flag throw pillow and a horseshoe picture frame with the tips of the shoe pointing up.

Texas Gift Cards
Gift cards to long-established Texas restaurants let newlyweds get out and experience historic eating places. Depending on where the couple lives, Joe T. Garcia's and Cattleman's in Fort Worth, Green Pastures in Austin, the Menger Hotel's Colonial Restaurant in San Antonio, Gaido's in Galveston and Goode Company Barbeque in Houston make good choices. For a practical gift card, provide a card to a locally owned combination hardware and giftware store. A gift card to such a store lets the couple shop together when something needs fixing as well as get things they did not know they needed until after they tied the knot.