Do make sure it's the KITCHEN AID..the only one to get, it lasts forever...and get the best model, the one with the adjustable bowl level.
While I'm busy dispensing advice, let me suggest that you offer to try and do some cooking with her on occasion..Believe me, open a bottle of wine, and make something together..dude, it's possibly the MOST fun that a man and a woman can have with their clothes on and all four feet on the floor..I had to kind of "clean that up" for the poster police...it's really quite sexy...look, view it as foreplay...
Believe me, get her the super delux Kitchen Aid mixer with every possible attachment, and you BOTH will have a very merry Christmas..
One last point...don't worry about the color. Just make sure that where you buy it will allow her to exchange it for a different color..Sometimes they don't want to do that if the box is open..
Then I am glad to have bought something difficult for her to lift! Besides, previous experience has shown me that this relationship will last until say, Super Bowl halftime. It usually takes that long for a gal to discover that our relationship reached its peak with buffalo wings and beer, and gets no better from there.
LOL.