Give a simple but meaningful wedding or anniversary gift using special song lyrics to your friends and family this year!
Hey everyone- it’s Valerie from Occasionally Crafty, here today with a fun idea for a wedding or anniversary gift. My husband and I got engaged on Valentine’s Day. We had already been talking about marriage, but since he was in the middle of finals, I didn’t expect a proposal anywhere near Valentine’s Day. We went out for dinner, and he dropped me off at my apartment, telling me he loved me but that he had to go home and study.
After he left, he called me on the phone and told me he left a gift on my car for me. I lived in a third floor apartment, so I ran down the stairs to pick it up. It was a small jewelry box- the perfect size for a ring. He told me not to open it until he could be with me the next day. Was it “the ring”? I wondered. As I returned into my apartment, I screamed as I saw a man inside my living room waiting for me. It took me a minute to process that it wasn’t an intruder, but my boyfriend, down on one knee, waiting to propose to me. After I got over my initial shock, I of course said “yes”, and now we’ve been married almost 15 years!
We still laugh about how he scared me to death that night. I’m not sure that was the reaction he was going for.
This year on Valentine’s Day, I gave him a gift that I hope he found as meaningful as I did. This would be the perfect gift for a wedding or anniversary for anyone in your life as well!
I took a photo of the two of us from our recent family picture session and framed it. Then I cut out the song lyrics from a favorite song back in our dating days in vinyl, and applied it to the glass in front of the frame. I used my Silhouette Cameo to design this, but if you don’t have a machine you could purchase your own decal online (many people will make custom designs for you!)
FYI- I used Lavanderia script for my song lyrics.
I made a red velvet bundt cake and gave this to my husband for Valentine’s Day, or for us, “Happy Engagement Day”.
Thanks for reading- I hope you’ll stop by my blog and see what I’ve been up to- like my No-Sew Interchangeable Fitness Tracker Wrap
or my Rolled Paper Flower Shadowbox.
Have a great week!
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Valerie is a creative blogger, wife and mother, an avid reader, a sometimes crafter, and a lover of all things music. After graduating from BYU with a degree in music education, she moved to Phoenix to teach high school band. She left her teaching career to raise her three kids (currently 10, 8, and 5) and became a blogger in hopes of sharing her love of simple, beautiful projects with other busy women at Occasionally Crafty. Her favorite thing to make is anything for seasonal/holiday. She is happiest when at home with her family, snuggled up with a good book.
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I absolutely love this! Our song is printed and framed but yours puts ours to shame. It’s beautiful. <3
Now I want to know what your song is, Trish!