My niece is graduating from uni this week. I’ll be going, and after speaking to my brother it seems that they’re taking a “we paid for her degree, that’s her graduation present” approach to it. And while I understand that angle completely, I still want the day to be special for her. I remember at my graduation everyone else seemed to be getting bunches of flowers, and having crowds and crowds of family there to celebrate them. I do remember feeling sad when I was growing up that while my parents paid for lots of things for us, they never made things feel special, which is probably a completely ungrateful angle, but now as an adult I’ve realised that it’s simply down to the fact that I prefer thoughtful gifts to expensive ones, and I know that my niece is very similar to that.
Im thinking a card, flowers, maybe a graduation charm for her Pandora bracelet? Her cohort had a tough time doing college through covid, she never got a school graduation/debs etc so want to make her feel special and know how proud we all of her. Is a cake too much?