1. Stocks

For her: Okay, so she isn’t interested in the capital markets. But she loves her beauty products and never misses a date to the salon.

Get her stocks in a company that makes products she swears by. Lakme for instance. Hindustan Unilever owns this highly successful brand. And the more your love uses their products; the stock will only go up.

Pantaloons and Marico (the Parachute oil people), are more such bets.

For him: How about Tata Motors or, if you can pull it off, Apple Inc?

Show me one guy who doesn't like cars and gizmos!

Remember: you need to have a demat account.

Tip: Investing in stocks, while being risky in the short term, always pays off in the long term. So stay put on stock investments and don’t hurry to sell.