So while most people know that the traditional first year anniversary gift to give is paper. I’m sure a lot of people don’t know what kind of gift to give for it to follow under that tradition. It’s not like you want to give them a ream of printer paper right?
First let’s talk about how paper become the traditional first year anniversary gift.
Essentially, the paper serves as a reminder that you’re writing the story of your lives together, page by page. Your first anniversary marks the completion of the first “chapter” in your marriage.
I knew that when our first anniversary came around that I wanted to give a traditional paper gift of some sort. I decided shortly after what it would be. Since we wrote our own vows to each other I knew that I would getting them designed, printed and framed.
They looked great and my wife likes it as well. Later on after our anniversary, I came up with another great gift. Which would also work perfectly to give as a “paper” gift, I took the sheet music from our first dance printed it and framed it. Now the framing of this can be done many ways. I’ll go over a few.
You can simply frame the first page, this would be the cheapest option as well as a good option if you don’t have a lot of space on your wall. The first page is good because your only buying one frame, I Always like to matte anything I frame. But it’s not needed if it’s not your thing.
You can buy individual frames and mattes one for each page of the music. This is going to be the most expensive depending on how many pages there is for your song.
I framed all the pages in one page and made it more like a collage
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