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More wedding gift help (& a poll!)
Ok, so a while ago, I was talking about getting something like this for my friend's wedding gift. I wanted to do another word for "love" since the last name is 5784375398475 letters long, but the idea of using the Polish translation won't work.
Instead, I'm going to use this company and do the wedding date (it's a local company and all local photos, which is cool). But now I need to decide to write out the entire date, just use numerals, or something else?
So. If you were getting this as a gift, which way would you prefer your wedding date?
Re: More wedding gift help (& a poll!)
instead of doing the date could you just use their first names?
like "Sara & Josh" ? Do they have an ampersand character with the nature pics?
I thought about doing their names, too, but her first name is long (poor girl is going to have a super long name when it's all said and done!), and I don't know if there's an ampersand symbol in the images. That kind of made me start thinking about their monogram.
I just don't want to stick them with this super big framed thing that they might not have room for, so I was trying to think of meaningful things that would be shorter. And easier to read.
Gah. Deciding is hard!
I said don't do a date, but IMO, even their monogram may be lost in translation. I think it's a very cool idea, but because their names are so difficult, it probably won't work.
The reason I say that is because with someone's last name, that's something I'd leave up for a long period of time. But a few years after I got married, my wedding date is probably not something I'd leave hanging on the wall (we had a huge portrait made from our wedding pictures and even 3 years after we got married, I feel weird having that large of a portrait up. We've moved on from bride & groom.)
Also because of the slightly abstract nature of the letters/numbers, I think figuring out their wedding date or monogram would be tough to interpret. If I had our wedding date or monogram on the wall, I could see people constantly asking "What's that say?" It's different when it's their names because that's something you associate with them. Random guests won't like think of the couple's wedding date or monogram.
My husband said the same thing...it's kind of hard to read, esp. long words (August, even). They did a mock up of a monogram for me, and it's surprisingly legible & I actually like it a lot better than I thought I would! It's definitely easier to see than a date/numbers.
I agree with you about displaying the wedding date, too - or rather, not displaying it. I have our initials several places in the house, so a monogram might be better for them (they could hide it in the guest bedroom if they really don't want to display it).
I'm definitely leaning toward monogram, if anything at all. We'll see. Thanks for the ideas & suggestions!