1st anniversary presents

I had the lyrics to our first dance printed for H.

Maybe not everyone's cup of tea, but I have had a boudoir shoot done and will be getting some of the photos for him. I am also writing a book type thing, a bit like the new groom journal things you can get, but with the focus being on parts of the wedding day and our first year of marriage. I have tried to include lovely things that are thoughtful, as a contrast to the set of images he will have of me. I figured they are both paper, so traditional, but not, if you see what I mean.

I got a newspaper from the day of our first date which was in 1999 gift boxed alongside a bottle of wine with a personalised label.

Hi Moonpie

Our site editor recently did a blog about 20 paper gifts for your first wedding anniversary, which might inspire you! https://www.hitched.co.uk/chat/blogs/planwithfran/page/20130417/20-paper-gift-ideas-for-your-1st-wedding-anniversary.aspx

Thansk to AC i think (or maybe footlong?), im currently in the middle of designing a personalised monopoly board for our 1st anniversary..its made of cardboard right so loosely along the paper theme!! Whether or not i order it is another matter, but its the only idea i can come up with !

I went with cotton as the traditional first anniversary present in the UK (I think paper is US). I bought him a lovely shirt. He bought me some socks and some cotton buds. Which was (bizarrely) a far sweeter gift than mine.

I always thought that but Debretts seem to have changed their advice now. Random.

Ah well, he'll get paper this year!

My H bought me tickets to the theatre and I bought him an experience day (all paper related!)

I'm struggling immensely for cotton for our second anniversary though

Just back from doing a boudoir Shoot for him. I'll print some photos and make a little album of them. Despite me being in various stages of undress, I still think his favourite will be the one of me in nothing but his rugby team's shirt. I may do a keepsake print of that for his wallet!