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Create a Romantic New Tradition for Giving Anniversary Year Presents
How many couples waste valuable time and money choosing anniversary gifts for each other that conform to the traditional anniversary gifts year after year? Shopping for the right bronze or pottery gift to celebrate an eighth year wedding anniversary or searching for the perfect leather or crystal present to commemorate a third anniversary is time consuming and frustrating. Ideas run thin and the gifts chosen usually end up being either silly or useless.
Why not begin a new and original family tradition for giving anniversary year presents that is guaranteed to delight and satisfy men and women alike and create family heirlooms at the same time?
Starting this year, give each other a custom-made portrait of the two of you created from a photograph especially chosen to symbolize and memorialize the year you spent together. Planning, photographing and choosing each of the anniversary year presents will turn into a family event which will become a thoughtful and loving tradition…and when the portrait arrives in time for your anniversary day it will be a surprise and delight for both of you.
A Unique Photo to Painting Anniversary Year Present
Throughout the year, make a point of setting aside time every few months to photograph significant moments shared by you and your partner. Whether it’s a photo of the two of you giving the dog a bath or washing the new car together, it will only take a few moments and can be a lot of fun too.
Be ready to document important events by carrying a small digital camera with you whenever you go on a family outing or visit a favorite place. Get friends or family members to take both posed and candid photographs of just the two of you having fun together.
Use significant backgrounds – standing at the front door of your new house, showing off the new baby, holding up the college diploma one of you just earned; any props or objects that symbolize the most significant events that occurred during your current anniversary year.
If you do want to follow the traditional paper, iron, brass, cotton, straw, china, etc. anniversary gifts year by year you can add the appropriate props to your photographic portrait. Use your imagination and you’ll come up with great original portrait ideas.
A Few Hints for Great Anniversary Year Present Photographs
Add something to the photo portrait that shows the year it was taken; for instance, matching dated sweatshirts if your favorite football team won the Super Bowl that year, or a newspaper or magazine showing a significant news event of that particular year.
Include in your photograph something that symbolizes that year’s anniversary. For example, the traditional fifth anniversary gift is wood and the associated flower is the daisy. Have your portrait photo taken leaning on a tree holding a handful of daisies, or wearing matching daisy chain crowns and sitting on your favorite wooden park bench.
Add something to the photo that symbolizes a key event in that particular year – a new house, a new car…especially a new baby. A photo taken at the Grand Canyon, at Disneyworld, or with the Eiffel Tower in the background will set the date of a memorable vacation.
If you share an interest in canoeing, jogging, tennis, or Cordon Bleu cooking…or just relaxing on the beach…take informal photos that incorporate your hobbies or sports.
As the years go on your anniversary year gift photographs may be taken at a retirement dinner, the christening of a grandchild, or surrounded by all your children and grandchildren.
Ordering Your Photo to Painting Portrait
Save the best of your “couple” photographs on your computer in a special album entitled “Anniversary Year Presents”. Date and add captions as you go and you’ll gradually build a photo album that will save aside your best photographs and also become a record of your relationship.
About a month or six weeks before your wedding anniversary, set aside time for you and your mate to choose your favorite photograph, the one that you both agree symbolizes the best things that happened to you as a couple during the year. Make the choosing of this joint anniversary year gift photograph a special event too, and involve your children or other family members in helping to make the best choice.
Send your chosen photo electronically to http://www.paintyourlife.com, the premier website art gallery for creating photo to painting works of art. Their instructions are simple and easy to follow and they offer the widest range of possibilities for creating a custom made portrait.
You can chose to have your digital photo make into a genuine oil painting, a watercolor, a drawing in pencil, ink or pastel, or a portrait painted in Acrylics. Alternating mediums, sizes and frames adds variety and can also be a significant part of each year’s gift…a wooden frame for a fifth anniversary, bronze frame for an eighth anniversary, sterling silver for the twenty fifth, for example.
Lasting Reminders of Your Relationship
As the years go by you might have a large oil painting of your favorite wedding photo over the fireplace (presented on your first wedding anniversary), an informal watercolor commemorating your tenth anniversary in the family room, several Acrylic and pastel portraits displayed in family rooms or bedrooms showing happy moments and special events from the years in between.
Each year when your Paint Your Life photo to portrait arrives you can plan a special anniversary dinner or party around the unwrapping and hanging of the painting…or you can open your special gift to one another over a romantic candlelight dinner for two.
Each and every portrait will become a family heirloom and a significant reminder of a special anniversary year gift given and received.
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