Engagement Baubles & First Christmas Married Baubles: The Best Keepsakes for Your Tree

There’s something about the magic of the festive season that makes your newly engaged (or newlywed) status feel even more exciting, so why not mark the moment with a brand-new engagement bauble on the tree?  

According to the Bridebook UK Wedding Report, Christmas Day is the most popular day to propose, accounting for around 11% of all engagements. December is also peak engagement month – so the timing? It couldn’t be more perfect.  

From personalised engagement baubles and engagement ring baubles, to ‘first Christmas married’ baubles and heirloom decorations you’ll want to rehang in the years to come, we’ve scoured the stores for the cutest engagement and newlywed Christmas ornaments around, so you don’t have to.  

Disclaimer: Prices and availability are correct at the time of writing but may change. Always check the latest details with the retailer before buying. 

Personalised Engagement Baubles for Your First Christmas Engaged  

The best baubles to remind you of this special Christmas in all the years to come… 

Lula & Gray Personalised First Christmas Engaged Penguin Bauble – Not on the High Street 

Personalise this adorable ceramic keepsake with your names and the year you got engaged. Each bauble is finished with a tied wide hanging ribbon and presented in a white gift box – so it makes a great present.  

Amaya Rose First Christmas Engaged 2026 Bauble – Debenhams 

When you want the year and the milestone to be front and centre, we love this modern clear bauble filled with fluffy faux snow and a sweet Nordic tree design background.  

Little Darlings Co Personalised Ceramic Bauble – Etsy

Another round and flat ceramic decoration, this time with a cute bow and champagne glasses motif to help you remember this exciting time. It’s also a great budget pick at less than £10.

No Ordinary Gift Personalised Engagement Bauble – Next  

This elegant glass bauble feels less novelty, and more keepsake. Personalise with your names – the elegant white script font, featuring the words ‘Engaged’ and the year come as standard. 

Bombus Personalised Map Bauble – Not on the High Street  

For something completely different, how about showcasing the location of the proposal? This heart-shaped wooden decoration can be personalised with your choice of map location and engraved on the reverse.  

No Ordinary Gift Personalised Metallic Silhouette Bauble – Etsy  

Does it get much more romantic than this keepsake? Choose from three different couple silhouettes and personalise the frosted acrylic moon with the couple’s names and two lines of engraved text.

The velvet ribbon and optional gift box option add the finishing touches.  

Personalised Bee Last Christmas as Mr & Miss Bauble – Not on the High Street 

Is this your last Christmas as a Miss? Mark the occasion with a bauble for the tree – this illustrated design can be personalised with your names and the year, as well as a range of skin tones, hairstyles, hair colours, and outfit designs.  

Kelly Mays Little Shop The Year We Got Engaged Ceramic Bauble – Etsy  

A sweet ceramic piece for the couple whose tree has a modern aesthetic.  

First Christmas Married Baubles 

Beautiful and sentimental designs to help you deck the halls in style  

Amber Davenport UK Personalised First Christmas as Mr & Mrs Bauble – Etsy  

As an alternative to a round ceramic design, we love this simple but elegant hanging decoration from Amber Davenport UK. If you’re giving as a gift, choose the optional gift box add-on and your bauble will be wrapped in a natural chiffon ribbon and finished with an illustrated gift tag, with a message of your choice. 

BaubleBar Milestone Just Married Ornament – Anthropologie  

Not all first Christmas married baubles need to be personalised – even the more general designs that represent love or marriage can be just as symbolic. This jewel-embellished wedding car ornament from BaubleBar is a fun way to mark the milestone.  

Felt Bride Mouse Tree Decoration – John Lewis  

Nod to your bridal era in the cutest possible way with John Lewis’s felt mice… groom mice also available!  

Kelly Mays Little Shop Personalised The Year We Got Married Ornament – Etsy  

This printed ceramic piece feels like a real keepsake. The glossy finish makes it feel even more expensive than it is, too.  

Personalised Photo Christmas Bauble – No Ordinary Gift  

Choose a favourite image from the happy couple’s wedding day and have it presented inside this glass bauble for a truly personalised gift. The base can be inscribed with up to two lines of text, too.  

Vondels Glass Wedding Car Ornament – Anthropologie  

If you or the couple you’re buying for had a vintage wedding car, perhaps it looked a little something like this? Vondels’ handcrafted baubles are the sweetest – this one is embellished with ‘Just Married’ text. 

Uniqueful 1st Christmas as Mr & Mr Bauble – Not on the High Street  

For something more traditional, this classic, round 1st Christmas married bauble can be customised with two lines of text on the front, and a heartfelt message on the back.  

Olivia Morgan Ltd Personalised Glass Dried Flower Bauble – Etsy  

Some sellers can use flowers from the wedding bouquet to fill your bauble, which makes a genuinely one-off keepsake. One such seller is Olivia Morgan Ltd at Etsy, where you can also personalise everything from the colour of the text to the ribbon.  

Engagement Ring Baubles 

For a playful nod to the proposal, these engagement ring Christmas ornaments will bring a smile to their face  

Kate Gwilliam The Ring Bauble – Maison Flâneur  

Kate Gwilliam’s hand-embroidered baubles really are a work of art. If you or someone you know is celebrating an engagement, this playful sequin design can also be personalised with their initials and date.  

Love Story Ring Christmas Bauble – Love Lumi  

For the couple who love to embrace the kitsch of Christmas, the wooden ring shape inside this bauble from Love Lumi can be engraved with the dates they met (The First Day), got engaged (The Yes Day) and got married (The Best Day) – cute! Choose from a selection of ribbon colours, too.  

Personalised Proposal Engagement Ring Bauble – Create Gift Love  

Planning a festive proposal? This wooden engagement ring bauble is a romantic and fun way to pop the question and continue to relive the moment year after year.  

The keepsake can be engraved with their name, alongside the words, ‘will you marry me?’ and includes a personalised wooden ring, which sits flush inside the bauble itself, to use when you pop the question. The back is also engraved.  

Glass Engagement Ring Box Bauble – Vondels  

There are many iterations of the classic engagement ring box bauble, but this hand-painted one from Vondels, with its classic solitaire gold ring, is our favourite. 

Created Design Co Personalised Engagement Ring Ornament – Not on the High Street  

For something simpler, this statement diamond ring design, engraved with the couple’s names and special year, and finished with velvet ribbon, is the perfect little reminder of where the next chapter of their life together began. 

Luxury & Heirloom Baubles Worth Keeping for Decades 

From crystal and bead-embellished designs to hand-painted works of art, these baubles are designed to be the ultimate keepsakes…  

Annual Edition Bell Ornament 2026 – Swarovski  

Ring in the festive season – and the sound of wedding bells – with Swarovski’s latest Annual Edition ornament for 2026. This immaculate glass design is covered with approximately 1,300 crystals and inside is a gold-plated bow.

Put it pride of place and your tree will be twinkling like never before! 

Katie Larmour Beaded Wedding Cake Tree Decoration – Harrods  

You’ll find a wide selection of bead-embellished designs by Katie Larmour at Harrods, but our favourite for newlyweds is this wedding cake decoration.

It may not be the most expensive in our edit, but the exquisite detail on this fabric bauble, with its golden thread and pearlescent beads in place of icing, will make it one to treasure in years to come.   

Magical Wedding Car Decoration – Fortnum & Mason 

If there’s one thing Fortnum & Mason knows how to do, it’s Christmas.

Painted in soft white and gold, and adorned with festive touches, this glass decoration from the iconic British brand is an opulent and fun way to remember your first Christmas after saying ‘I do’ – or the ultimate wedding gift. 

Snow Angels Hand-Painted Bauble – Tom Martin  

The beautifully hand-painted, glass-blown baubles from Tom Martin are a celebration of the season – and this design in particular feels like a celebration of love. Each bauble is intricately painted from the inside and comes beautifully presented in a signature gift box.  

Holiday Heirlooms Wedding Cake Bauble – Waterford

Waterford’s Holiday Heirlooms collection is the perfect way to mark a milestone, whether it’s an engagement, a wedding, a new home, or a new addition to the family. This hanging wedding cake bauble features delicate pearl embellishments, intricate filigree ‘icing’, and elegant gold detailing.  

Does M&S Sell Engagement Baubles? 

Marks & Spencer’s only engagement bauble offering this year is this pair of beaded hanging champagne flutes, which features a miniature disc reading ‘2026’. Newly engaged couples or their loved ones can snap up the decoration for £8, and despite being labelled as an engagement bauble, we think this could work equally well for couples who are celebrating their first Christmas married.  

Some of our other favourite high street stores that offer a great selection of similarly celebratory baubles include John Lewis, Anthropologie, Next, Debenhams, Liberty and Harrods.  

When Should You Order a Personalised Christmas Bauble?  

It’s never too early to order a personalised gift such as a Christmas bauble, and we recommend ordering any personalised festive decorations by late November to ensure you receive them in time for decorating your tree.

Handmade and bespoke designs that are hand-painted or feature pressed flowers, for example, will need the longest lead time, so allow up to six weeks for those. 

Elsewhere, for standard personalised baubles, most sellers will publish a Christmas order-by date of late November or early December, and high street stores are your best bet for last-minute options.  

If your chosen seller sends their orders via Royal Mail, note the last posting dates for 2026 below: 

Starting a Christmas Bauble Tradition as a Couple 

If the festive season is your favourite holiday (perhaps you’re even considering throwing a Christmas-themed wedding), then starting a Christmas bauble tradition is an undeniably special and fun way to kick off the happiest time of the year.  

Why not start by adding a new bauble each year to mark a particular milestone: your first Christmas engaged, your first Christmas married, your first in a new home, or with a new addition to the family, and then each wedding anniversary after that. 

If you’ve just got engaged, our wedding planning checklist breaks everything down step by step, and when you’re ready to start looking, you can browse wedding venues on Bridebook.

Engagement Baubles & First Christmas Married Baubles: FAQ  

What is the difference between a bauble and an ornament? 

A bauble is a round, ball-shaped Christmas decoration that’s often hung on a tree, while an ornament is a broader term that describes all kinds of decorations, hanging or otherwise. The two terms are often used interchangeably, though.  

Is an engagement bauble a good engagement gift? 

An engagement bauble makes a great engagement gift, especially if the couple got engaged or are planning to get married around the festive season and the bauble is personalised with their names, a date, or photo, for example.  

Can you hide an engagement ring inside a Christmas bauble? 

Yes! You can get clear, fillable-style baubles that snap or screw open so you can place an engagement ring inside, as well as specially made wedding proposal baubles.  

We highly recommend lining the bauble with something soft, such as tissue paper or faux snow, to stop the ring from becoming scratched.  

Should an engagement bauble show the engagement year or the wedding date? 

If you want to purchase an engagement bauble with a date on it, it’s best to personalise it with the date of the engagement.  

It’s designed to commemorate the proposal and celebrate the year the couple got engaged – adding a wedding date to a bauble before the couple are married feels somewhat premature!  

Are engagement baubles only for couples who got engaged at Christmas? 

No, while engagement baubles do make a great gift for couples who got engaged over Christmas, they’re not limited to those couples.  

Many buy or receive these keepsakes to celebrate their first Christmas together as a soon-to-be-married couple, no matter what month of the year they got engaged.  

How do you store glass baubles, so they last for years? 

The best way to store glass baubles is to wrap them all individually in bubble wrap or acid-free tissue paper to protect them and place inside a compartmentalised box, if you can get hold of one.

Avoid using newspaper as the ink can transfer.  

If the baubles are especially delicate, you might even want to consider removing the hooks, so they don’t scratch the glass. If you’re stacking your baubles, keep the heavier baubles at the bottom and place the lighter, more delicate ornaments on top.  

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Danielle Wilkins

Danielle is a London-based freelance journalist and former magazine editor who has more than 18 years' experience in the media, having worked across some of the UK's leading bridal titles and women's glossies. In her freelance career, Danielle has written for publications including the Guardian, HELLO! Wedding and The Independent, covering motherhood, beauty and travel as well as wedding and bridal content.

Last updated: 3rd Nov 2026

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