Gift for him

After 5 years of knowing each other, I was getting bored of giving each other watches, mobiles, clothes, boots, jewelry….. you get my drift and therefore I put my thinking cap on (and surfed net ) to find innovative ways of surprising him…. Something that had a personal touch and was intimate for both of us….

For our first wedding anniversary…. I planned an album (not online, but a leather bound where u can flip pages), which was to have everything that we did together for the “first” time… like - first day after marriage, first time we went scuba diving, first birthdays, first holi, first karwachauth, first camping trip etc…..

I got pics printed… a few enlarged…. The size of the album was 10”x12”….. It was a beautiful blue leather bound album where you can pull the plastic sheet and put each picture in any orientation……. I bought a lot of beautiful colored paper….. and I made the album like a collage…… I cut hearts and flowers and confetti….. I wrote messages and dates and special things……… the album also had tickets & bills of special nights....In between the album I pasted few pictures, which I had made thanks to the online collage maker…. I got these collages printed as well…… The first page of the album was a picture which was like a collage of several pics……. And the last one was a picture which was a dream sequence of everything we had to do in the future…….

I used to make the album when he used to go to the gym…. even had few of his friends take him out for beer right after gym one night…….. I went crazy trying to keep it a surprise for him….. it took me about a week to complete it…… but the result was something very personal….. & he could see the pains I had taken…….. that night on the anniversary dinner, he showed the album to everyone and let them oooooo and aaaahhhhhhhh over it ……..:)………… and then he swooped out his surprise…. a beautiful solitaire diamond ring……. Oh well!!!! One priceless gift for another….. ;)….. that album is the pride of our living room now…... and the ring of my hand...:)