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The best luxury Christmas crackers to elevate your festive tablescape
Delight your family and friends with our lavish picks 🎄
Invented by sweet maker Tom Smith back in 1847, Christmas crackers have come a long way since then, but are still an integral part to a wonderful Christmas experience. They're perfect for sitting down at the dinner table, when everyone comes together and enjoys delicious Christmas food from turkey to mince pies to Christmas pudding - a great way to always get the fun started is a Christmas cracker.
While normal Christmas crackers have become known for their bad jokes, flimsy hats and plastic games (although there is nothing wrong with a traditional one in our eyes, too, of course), many brands have started to bring out their very own luxury Christmas crackers. Filled with everything from practical mini gifts to luxurious miniatures from your favourite beauty brands, they're not only stylish additions to your Christmas table, but they're also guaranteed to make your guests feel extra special this Christmas. "Many of them are even gifts in themselves," says James Cunningham, GH's homes editor.
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M&S 8 Luxury Christmas Crackers With Name Tags
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Cosmo Gets Crafty Personalised Reusable Christmas Crackers
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You can even buy personalised luxury Christmas crackers from retailers including Not On The High Street and Etsy, with sellers offering handmade personalised options that people can reuse every year and fill with their own special mini gifts again and again. The perfect mini gifts to fill your own crackers with, can be anything from mini bottles of red wine to a pair of earrings - whatever you know will make them smile.
To help mark the quintessential Christmas party moment, most luxury Christmas crackers also still come with a paper hat and joke, making them simply an upgraded version of a traditional Christmas cracker.
To help you find the best luxury Christmas crackers to buy this year, we've created a round up of some of favourites available right now, including options from John Lewis, Selfridges and more.
Featuring gold foil detailing, this beautiful cracker is illustrated with beautifully festive turtle doves. Brilliant on the table as a gift itself (really, this is the ultimate party favour!) or tucked into a Christmas stocking.
The cracker gifts include: hand and body washes in Geranium, Rose, Jasmine, Citrus and Sage (five of Bamford's most-loved signature fragrances).
Affordable and stylish, we love these white glitzy Christmas crackers. Complete with name tags, these M&S luxury Christmas crackers will add a personal feel to your dinner table, creating a welcoming feel to your home this Christmas.
The cracker gifts include: A trolley token, mini screwdriver set, bottle opener keyring, nail file, nail clippers, mini scoop, toast tongs, or a honey drizzler.
These beautiful crackers are made using paper handcrafted by artisans in Nepal. They're an excellent talking point for your tabletop.
The cracker gifts include: a mini origami star and a mini star garland (both Fair Trade and made from Nepalese lokta paper), a Fair Trade felt mushroom decoration, an organic beeswax lavender essential oil wax melt, a packet of bird feed, and a set of three mini pencils.
Fresh from the luxury department store's iconic food hall, this set of crackers is perfect for food and drink lovers. The beautiful chevron design, in eye-catching ombré with pink and purple tones, will add a contemporary look to each place setting.
The cracker gifts include: a metallic champagne stopper, a Creme de Cassis miniature, a Sloe gin miniature, mini pots of Greek Forest honey and Spanish orange blossom honey.
Cosmo Gets Crafty Personalised Reusable Christmas Crackers
Not only are these reusable Christmas crackers, but they're ones that are guaranteed to add that personalised feel to your Christmas table. Embroidered with a pretty snowflake design and calligraphy, you'll be eager to get these luxury Christmas crackers out every year. They are also super easy to fill with your own gifts, jokes and hats.
Rockett St George 6 Silver Disco Christmas Crackers
The ultimate party starter, we adore these trendy Christmas crackers from Rockett St George. Labelled with disco references, these luxury Christmas crackers will transform your dinner table and add a fun night fever feeling to your tablescape. These Christmas crackers are perfect for those who are all about letting loose and having a blast on the big day.
The cracker gifts include: Bottoms Up Bottle Opener Keyring, Kiss Kiss Gold Lip Balm, Black Star Coin Keyring, Lightning Bolt Iron On Patch, Hello Darling Compact Mirror or a Black Disco Iron On Patch.
If you're hosting a Christmas party at yours, what better gift to give to your guests than a gorgeous Christmas candle. Available in a traditional red floral design or a white starry print, these home fragrance Christmas crackers would also be wonderful stocking fillers too.
The cracker gift includes: A festive candle
Charbonel et Walker Milk Sea Salt Caramel Chocolate Truffles Christmas Cracker
This festive gold Christmas cracker will add a opulent edge to your dinner table this Christmas 2024. Whether you have a few guests or it's just two of you, these chocolate truffles pair perfectly with an espresso martini after you've devoured your Christmas dinner.
The chocolates include: Milk Chocolate Sea Salt Caramel Truffles.
If you know someone who loves the L'Occitane, then why not treat them to a festive cracker this festive season. Perfect for laying on the dinner table or using as a stocking filler or small gift, these luxury Christmas crackers are full of mini beauty surprises. What more could you want?
The cracker gifts include: Mini Cherry blossom shower gel and hand cream, Shea butter shower oil and hand cream, Verbena Hand cream gel and shower gel, Almond shower oil and delicious hand cream.
The White Company Winter Cracker Hand & Nail Gift Set
Nothing says Christmas like The White Company. The perfect addition to your Christmas table or stocking, these Christmas crackers are a sell-out every year and we can see why. Winter is one of The White Company's famous festive scents, being a magical combination of spicy cinnamon, rich warming clove and fresh zesty orange, it never fails to please.
The cracker gifts include: Winter Hand Wash and Hand & Nail Cream.
William Morris At Home Bird & Yare Festive Fabric Cracker Gift Set
Known for their stylish yet quirky designs, William Morris' Christmas crackers will add a unique edge to your Christmas dinner table. You can also use the fabric Christmas crackers over and over again and fill with your own mini gifts in the future.
The cracker gifts include: fragrance-free lip balm and clementine & clove hand cream.
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