Diwali 2026 falls on Sunday 8 November. If you are buying for a team, that date is the only fixed point in this article — everything else works backwards from it.
The dates that matter
Gifts want to be in people's hands a few days before, not on the day itself. Offices empty out in the week of the festival and couriers slow down badly across the last fortnight of October.
- Land by: 4–5 November
- Dispatch by: around 29 October, allowing 3–6 days in transit
- Order by: mid-October if the quantity is over 50, earlier if you want anything personalised
The single most common mistake is ordering in the first week of November. At that point you are competing with every other company in India for the same courier capacity.
Realistic budget bands
Per head, in our experience of what people actually ask for:
- ₹300–500 — a token for a large team, a vendor list, or an event giveaway. One good object, not three cheap ones.
- ₹800–1,200 — the standard employee gift. Enough for a boxed set that doesn't look like a compliance exercise.
- ₹1,500+ — clients, senior staff, and anyone whose goodwill you are actually buying.
What gets kept, and what gets regifted
Be honest with yourself about the dry-fruit box. It is the default because it is easy, and it is passed along the same evening more often than anyone admits. The same is true of anything branded loudly enough to be unusable outside the office.
What survives is boring to say and true: something a person uses on an ordinary morning. A coaster on a desk, a bottle in a bag, a mug at home. If it has to be stored rather than used, it will be stored and then forgotten.
Two practical rules:
- Keep your logo small or leave it off. A gift that looks like a gift gets used. A gift that looks like inventory gets a drawer.
- Sets beat singles. A boxed set of four reads as considered. One item reads as leftover stock.
What we make
We are a gifting store in Bhuj, Kutch, and our designs come out of the crafts around us — Ajrakh block print, Rogan painting, Lippan mud-and-mirror, Bandhani. They are our drawings in the idiom of those crafts, printed by machine, not handmade pieces. That matters because it means we can do 200 of them and they will all match.
- Diwali coaster set of four — ₹899, boxed. Diya, rangoli, Shubh Deepavali, mithai.
- Kutch coaster set of four — ₹899. Lippan, Rogan, Ajrakh, Bandhani, with the craft named on each.
- 600 ml steel sipper bottles — ₹749. Good for onboarding kits and event giveaways.
- Boxed mug sets — from ₹649.
Before you order anywhere
Three questions worth asking any supplier, including us:
- What is the real dispatch date for my quantity? Not the website's standard lead time — the one for 200 units in late October.
- One address or many? Shipping to fifty home addresses is a different job from one office, and should be priced as one.
- Do you need a GST invoice? Ask before ordering, not after.
Tell us your headcount and your date on WhatsApp and we will tell you straight away whether it is doable. If it is not, we will say so rather than take the order and miss.
Written in Bhuj, Gujarat.