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Please help me find a 1st anniversary present!

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CultureAlienationBoredomandDespair · 06/11/2023 10:23

We’ve had a rough first year of marriage, including having a baby who’s not been well and has just been released from hospital. This means I’ve left it quite late to sort a present out as it’s next weekend. It needs to be something I can order online and up to around £50.

I think in years to come we probably won’t do gifts but it would it be nice to mark out first anniversary with something a little special and to acknowledge how glad I am to have had him to be there through everything.

I’d quite like to get something paper and stupidly I gave him a book and tickets for his recent birthday 🤦‍♀️ so am a bit out I’d ideas. He’s quite private and doesn’t like flashy things or anything that could be deemed tacky or tat. He’d hate anything with our wedding date splashed over it or a big picture of us. I like the idea of paper airplane cuff links but he doesn’t have to wear them for work post-covid so that’s a no go. I think he’d like artwork like this, if it didn’t have the writing on it and was more subtle hints to places we’d been (this one is over budget and in America
anyway).

He love quirky infographics and the Information is Beautiful books so something along those lines would be perfect.

Please help, my brain is scrambled from sitting in hospitals looking at too many things!

Please help me find a 1st anniversary present!
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readingmakesmehappy · 06/11/2023 10:24

I gave DH an antique map of where we were living at the time in a lovely frame. He loved it

CultureAlienationBoredomandDespair · 06/11/2023 10:25

I got him this a few year’s ago, which he loves Miscellany of Curious Maps: The Atlas of Everything You Never Knew You Needed to Know [[https://amzn.eu/d/6E2JVi5 amzn.eu/d/6E2JVi5

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mumonthehill · 06/11/2023 10:32

Framed lyrics of your first dance. Map of where you were married, went on honeymoon , a special place. You could print this out your self and then get a multi photo frame and diy it.

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Lamelie · 06/11/2023 10:34

This is similar to what he liked before.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Phantom-Atlas-Greatest-Myths-Blunders/dp/1471159450/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?crid=1D1J15TN8JAG6&keywords=map+curio&qid=1699266749&sprefix=map+curio+%2Caps%2C120&sr=8-2
Congratulations on a difficult year and your baby!

WeirdPookah · 06/11/2023 11:22

I also gave my husband an antique map like @readingmakesmehappy of the place we went on Honeymoon too, which also included the tiny village we visited that his family ancestors came from.

CultureAlienationBoredomandDespair · 06/11/2023 11:27

I think he’d love the vintage map of where we honeymooned but I’m not sure where I’d find one and if I’ve left it a bit late.

I think he’d really enjoy that book too. Song lyrics may be a touch too demonstrative for him 😂

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WeirdPookah · 06/11/2023 12:08

I got the map from Ebay. They have lots available.

CultureAlienationBoredomandDespair · 06/11/2023 13:47

WeirdPookah · 06/11/2023 12:08

I got the map from Ebay. They have lots available.

Thank you

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Lemonyfuckit · 06/11/2023 13:56

I got my DH a print of the chapel we got married in. Maybe a print of the wedding venue (if available / picturesque) or general area, or antique map as someone else suggested?

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Penguin34 · 06/11/2023 19:30

I had my vows printed and framed

Please help me find a 1st anniversary present!
WeirdPookah · 06/11/2023 20:12

Brilliant! I am glad you got something you are happy with!

CultureAlienationBoredomandDespair · 06/11/2023 21:21

Penguin34 · 06/11/2023 19:30

I had my vows printed and framed

That’s lovely.

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