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Cool or Lame?
Okay, paper is the most stupid first anniversary thing ever. And the "modern" anniversary gift of clocks isn't much better. And all of the ideas I'm reading online I either find lame (framed stock quotes? meh) or too expensive for us right now (plane tickets for a second honeymoon? you buying?). *vent over*
So, I came up with this idea, but I need to know if it's actually decent or if it's going to go over as well as framed stock quote would* go.
*I should clarify that I just find this lame because I know we'd NEVER put it up in our house and I can just see DH unwrapping it and being like "Wow, hon, you really couldn't think of anything made of paper, could you?"
My idea is to do a nice Blurb book that's a combination of text and photographs. I'm thinking of writing the text as though it's a short story or novel or something (i.e., "As S walked into the room, C's eyes lit up. She'd never seen him around the theatre before, and she was instantly curious."), and filling it with photos from throughout either (1) our dating life leading up to the wedding, or (2) our first year of marriage, or (3) our life together up until now, dating - first anniversary.
I'm thinking it could be a kinda cool thing for a few reasons. First, I could repeat the gift every five-ten years, building the "series" of books of our life together. Second, even though I do scrapbook, this would be a way to combine that with my creative writing. Third, I can't think of anything better.
What do you all think? Cool? Lame?
Re: Cool or Lame?
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I think its a Cool idea!
Actually, for our 1st yr dating anniversary, I made a scrapbook of all of our major events for K (mainly photos & ticket type stuff - no written story bc I totally suck at writing creatively), but I love the idea of writing a narration to your story as a couple. My DH really liked the book, and actually got a little choked up by it. So I think it depends on your man... is he into momento type stuff??
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Honestly, its NMS at all. Then again, I'm not really into the whole traditional anniversary gifts thing (well, until 2019...not gonna say no to diamonds
), so I guess take my opinion for what you will.
I vote for doing something that seems appropriate for the two of you as a couple at this point in time. If that's the blurb book, cool. If its a weekend getaway, that's cool too.
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I would LOVE that, and I love the idea of doing a series of them.
However, it wouldn't be something that would make my DH that excited. He just isn't very sentimental.
Even so, I'd still do one for "us" to collect and make more of over the years, but not count it as "his" gift. That is just because of my DH's personality though.