Wedding & Groomsmen Gifts for Golfers: Something They'll Still Carry in Ten Years
There's a particular kind of gift that gets opened, admired, photographed, and then never seen again. Most groomsmen gifts land there. The engraved flask goes in a drawer. The monogrammed socks get worn once. The custom bottle opener lives in a junk drawer next to three other custom bottle openers.
If your groomsmen are golfers, you have a rare advantage: you can give them something they'll carry in their pocket every single round for the rest of their lives.
Why a Ball Marker Beats the Usual Groomsmen Gift
A ball marker isn't decorative. It's equipment. Every golfer needs one, every round, on every green — and most of them are using a beat-up quarter or a plastic disc that came free with a sleeve of balls.
Swap that out for a solid brass marker engraved with a photo of the four of you on the course the morning of the wedding, and you've done something the flask can't do. You've put a memory into a piece of gear they reach for twenty times a round.
That's the whole idea behind what we make. Not a souvenir — a keepsake that happens to be useful.
What Actually Works as an Engraved Image
We engrave from photographs, not clip art. The engraving is true 3D and tactile — carved from a depth map so the image has real, feelable relief in the brass, not a flat printed picture sitting on the surface. You can run your thumb across a face and feel it.
For wedding and groomsmen gifts, these are the images that land hardest:
The group shot
The bachelor party round. The morning-of foursome in matching shirts. The trip to Bandon everyone still talks about. If the photo has all the guys in it, every one of them gets the same marker and the same memory.
Each guy's own moment
Instead of one image for everybody, engrave a different photo for each groomsman — him and his wife, his kid, his dog, the hole-in-one scorecard he won't shut up about. Same gift, seven different meanings. This is the version that makes grown men quiet.
The course itself
The clubhouse where you got engaged. The signature hole at your home club. The 18th at the course hosting the reception.
The date and the initials
A photo on one side, the wedding date and his initials on the other. That's what the double-sided marker is built for.
A real person on our team looks at every photo before anything gets engraved. If the image won't translate well — too dark, too far away, too low-resolution — we tell you before we cut it, not after.
Which Marker to Get
Three options, and the right one depends on how many faces you're trying to fit and how much you want it to stand out.
The 40mm single-sided marker — $79.99. One image, clean and classic. This is the workhorse and the most common choice for a full set of groomsmen.
The 40mm double-sided marker — $149.99. Photo on one face, date and initials on the other. Or two photos — the guys on one side, his family on the other.
The 50mm Giant double-sided marker — $169.99. More surface area means more detail, which matters when you're engraving a group of five or six people rather than a single face. It's also the one that gets picked up and passed around the table.
Both sizes conform to USGA rules, so there's no "nice, but I can't actually use it in a tournament" problem. Either one goes in the bag and stays there. You can see the full lineup on the custom ball markers page.
The Practical Part: Timing and Logistics
Wedding timelines are unforgiving, so here's the honest version.
Production takes 3–5 business days once the photo is approved, plus shipping, which is free within the U.S. Work backward from your date and give yourself margin — if you want these in hand two weeks before the wedding, order about a month out. That leaves room for a photo swap if the first one doesn't engrave well.
Gathering the photos is the part that actually takes the longest, not the making. If you're doing a different image for each guy, start collecting them early. Texting six groomsmen asking for "a good photo of you and your wife" reliably takes longer than you think it will.
Everything we make is solid CZ121 brass and hand-finished in the USA. Every order carries a 30-day remake-or-refund guarantee — if it arrives and it isn't right, we make it again or you get your money back. You can read exactly how the process works on our how it works page, and the FAQs cover the questions we get most often about photos and turnaround.
Beyond the Groomsmen
A few other places these tend to show up around a wedding:
- For the father of the bride or groom. Especially if he's the reason anyone in the family plays.
- As a gift from the couple to each other. A marker of the two of you, carried by both.
- For the groomsman who can't be there. We hear from a lot of people engraving a photo of a father or friend who's passed, so he's still in the pocket on the day.
- As favors for a wedding-weekend scramble. If you're running a round for out-of-town guests, this is the prize nobody throws away.
The Point of the Whole Thing
Ten years from now, most of what gets handed out at your wedding will be gone. That's fine — that's what wedding stuff is.
But there's a decent chance one of your groomsmen will be standing on a green somewhere, reach into his pocket, and pull out a small piece of brass with your faces on it from a morning none of you have forgotten. He'll mark his ball, take his putt, and put it back.
That's a good gift.