Love / Appropriate Wedding Gift for a Polish girlfriend of several months? [37]

Sure, weddings can be fun, but buying gifts for your best friends can be an expensive endeavor. Now that wedding season is upon us and the invitations are rolling in, you're probably wondering how you can afford to get your friends something nice without racking up big credit-card bills or worrying that you might look like a cheapskate when you give them a present that's actually in your price range.