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First wedding anniversary paper/origami gift ideas?

  • My husband and I will be celebrating our first (paper) wedding anniversary this Friday. We're really short on funds, so I'm thinking of folding him something with origami and writing our vows or a poem on the unfolded paper... Any suggestions on what to fold? I'm toying with the idea of using a rose pattern but was wondering if anyone knew of any symbolism for first anniversaries/marriage/love and had origami patterns to match. It's been a while since I've done anything with origami, a few years ago I started making paper roses, but I have no idea what the pattern was (I did find it online and had it as a PDF, but it's long since gone). I don't think it was the Kawasaki pattern, but was something extremely similar and possibly a touch easier. For those who've folded roses before, do you have a favorite pattern or one that you would recommend? I have plenty of time (until, Friday) and patience... Or if anyone has any other inexpensive/last minute paper gift ideas, aside from writing him a nice poem/letter/story (I've done those things many times before, and also for our wedding, so I'm looking for something new) I'd love to hear them. Thanks for reading, and I look forward to your suggestions :) I know I've left this a bit late, I'd originally planned to get our vows letter-pressed and framed, but we've had a lot on our plates these last few weeks, and our anniversary was the last thing on our minds..

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    http://www.origami-fun.com/origami-rose.html is much simpler than Kawasaki, a bunch can look quite beautiful. I'm shit at origami, and used it similar circumstances with not too much difficulty and great effect.

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smoke

I did an origami gift over the summer, and while I don't have a particular patten to recommend, I found it verrrrry helpful to find patterns that I liked on Youtube, and then watch the video as I did it. There are hundreds of origami videos on there.

Ashley801

Some of these are more romantic than others! But all should be relatively inexpensive. A calendar with photos of the two of you Something fun to use could be emails that you sent to each other early in the relationship A poster or print that he likes A good book A subscription to a magazine or newspaper A gift certificate Stationary Deck of cards The flowers you had at your wedding, or any imagery from your wedding would be good to tie into the gift. Also, http://ask.metafilter.com/21756/Paper-gifts-for-1st-wedding-anniversary

kathrineg

I think the origami is a lovely idea. My boyfriend made me a flock of butterflies once (flock? swarm? whatever) which was really nice. They were letters, written on plain paper but each sheet had different coloured writing which looked really good. Google seems to have several instruction pages and styles. The rose is also nice but it's fairly tightly folded so the writing may not be readily seen, whereas something with more flat surfaces will give away that you want him to also unfold and read what's on there.

shelleycat

I'd buy a print (on paper, natch) of something you like on 20x200.com.

liketitanic

I like the origami idea, what if you did a paper http://www.dltk-kids.com/world/japan/mfortune-teller.htm (remember those from elementary school?) with your poem written on the panels inside. You could no doubt work out something to make the poem read differently depending on which panels he opens each time.

jamaro

I don't have specific recommendations, but there are many nice origami designs http://origami.com/diagram.html. The interface is a bit clunky; probably the easiest thing is to search by difficulty level.

number9dream

I sent my sister-in-law a breakfast cook book and a tray so that she and her husband could take turns cooking each other breakfast in bed. Maybe you could give him a tray with a promise of breakfast in bed for the next few Sundays.

TooFewShoes

What about a map? Maybe of someplace you want to visit?

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