Any nice ideas for a (token) first anniversery gift please?

[Helzapoppin]

Hi

It's our first (paper?) anniversery in a couple of weeks time. I'm a bit stumped for ideas for a little gift for DH. He loves books and reading and music too, although I thought perhaps something photo-related might also be nice. I seem to have left it a little too late to do anything really creative (and am 7 months pregnant and wouldn't want a project to interfere with vital biscuit eating, pretending to work time). I did expensive photo frames/Mont blanc pen gifts when rich and childless and I'm treating him to lunch out so a token (could stretch to about £50 at a push) would be my limit.

Any ideas would be really helpful!

Thanks :)

A nice watch?

An old, rare record of his favourite band (if his favourite band happens to be from the era of records of course!)?

A first edition, mint condition copy of his favourite book?

A collage of photos of your time together, presented in a nice frame (sorry if that's too much of an interfering with biscuit eating time project!)

An onion wrapped in brown paper and this poem for them

Was going to suggest a 1st edition book too. Doesn't have to be too expensive (assuming his favourite isn't Dickens or Shakespeare).

SamsG - wow! I like that! (And the PAPER wrapping ideal.)

Leave him, the bastard

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... oops, wrong thread. Actually it's nice to something positive in relationships.

I love the onion poem (altough might leave the last three lines out!)- that's a splendid idea. There's some nice Japanese origami paper around somewhere which would look good . I also found a personalised lithograph with names and wedding date on (a bit ironic as I have a mental block on our anniversery date- having managed to get the first batch of wedding invites printed with the wrong date on them!).

Happytourer- ha ha! I did wonder if it was politic to post in this section!

How on earth would I go about finding a first edition? I wouldn't know even where to start to look. He likes Wittgenstein (philosophy degree...) and science fiction of any kind.

Did you have a Poem or Reading at your wedding you both liked? I had this framed from our first anniv and have got it in our bedroom behind the door where only we see it when the door is closed.

How about tickets to a show/play/gig etc? It's technically paper and you can both have a night out together before bump turns into baby.

Ooooh here's something:

here

I did a Premium bond!

And another:

First edition of the Jungle Book - signed!

I bought my DH a picture drawn from a photo - twas from "not on the high street" -www.notonthehighstreet.com/letterfest/product/personalised-house-portrait. You could take a piccie of where you got married, or a "special place".

It is a lovely gift, and like all the best pics it's hanging in the downstairs loo!

My DH loves newspapers so I got him the Times copy from the day he was born. There's a site online that does them all nicely in a hard-back book; he loved it!