Unique wedding gift idea

[pegkerr]

I thought this was a pretty cool idea for wedding gift if you're on a budget. Came in on the Dollar Stretcher e-mail, which you can subscribe to here:

One of the most cherished wedding gifts we received consisted of five wine bottles with hand-made notes attached. The white was to be opened on our first anniversary, the red is to be opened in 2010, etc. The last one being a port to be opened in 2025.

Our best man went to a local wine shop and spent a half an hour with a knowledgeable clerk. Though he didn't know much about wine, he was able to find bottles that were inexpensive now but will age appropriately for their "to be opened" label. And they would be very expensive in five, ten, or 25 years! It's one of those gifts that we will cherish, and enjoy, for a very long time, and it's a reminder of all the good things yet to come.

Moriah

Comments

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

That is nice. Confident, too. [ Though if the marriage does not make it that far, I can see arguing over the bottles being a lot of no fun. ]

[wilfulcait.livejournal.com]

One of the nicest inexpensive gifts we got was that someone matted and framed our wedding invitation. We have it up on the bedroom wall to remind us of how fun our wedding day was.

[annieways.livejournal.com]

What a great idea! We have several weddings to go to this summer; I think I might use this idea for some of them. Now, if I could only think of a gift to give D next Tuesday for our 30th anniversary. The traditional 30th-year gift is pearls. Can't see giving him pearls. Maybe just some "pearls of wisdom" from the past 30 years.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Here's something cool Rob and I doing for our decade anniversaries. We get our anniversary picture taken every year. On our tenth anniversary, we had an additional picture of us taken holding an 11 x 17 of the two of us on our wedding day. On our twentieth anniversary, we will hold up that picture, and so on, every ten years. I saw an amazing picture of a couple that did this every decade for fifty years. It was so cool--seeing the two of them and how they aged together, the pictures they were holding like a tunnel back through time.

[rachet.livejournal.com]

WOW!

This is EXCELLENT!

One of my lifelong friends is getting married next May. I'm going to do this!! I was so stumped on what to get them (both have been married before, both have lived on their own for many years so they're not needing the "traditional" things one buys for newlyweds).

[kate_nepveu]

Neat. I shall make a note of it.

[nmsunbear.livejournal.com]

That's a terrific idea! Pity my friend who's getting married at the end of the month is allergic to wine, because I have no idea what to get and this idea is stellar.

[trinker.livejournal.com]

Ooh. I think that Ben and I might just do this for ourselves.

[theresamd.livejournal.com]

My friends and I (college students with no eye toward getting married or having children anytime soon) discussed this idea once. One guy said that he thought a bottle of wine would be a nice thing to buy for a baby, to drink when they turned 21, instead of a conventional savings bond. The group was split on this being a great gift idea, or an entirely inappropriate one. Thoughts?

A Unique Wedding Gift Idea

[(Anonymous)]

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You can have the original wedding invitation framed with pressed flower art. Its beautifull.