Small keepsake project for a special day
Like the headline already says, today is a special day. Not for you but for us. We have been married for 15 years today. Ca-RA-zay! I honestly can’t believe it. Saying it out loud makes me feel so old.
We actually have two anniversaries but pretty much only celebrate our legal anniversary. What I mean by that is that we got married by magistrate a year before our church wedding. We wanted to get married in my home town church, so in order for me to be able to leave the country and come back in, we had to get all the legal stuff done first. So by law and name we are married for 15 years today.
After we got married we left for a weekend in Baltimore where they were having Baltimore Preakness celebrations. We had some great days!
Look at us two baby faces. It sometimes seems to me as if those two kids are strangers.
This photo was taken at a crab house in Baltimore. |
Well anyways. I just wanted to share a small project with you guys today.
As it so happens, I still have the coaster on which my hubby wrote his phone number on in the bar we met. Yup, we met at a bar and I was 21 years old. I knew the minute I walked into the bar that I wanted to meet the guy leaning against the back of the wall. He was quite the looker (and yes he still is)!
I also still have the movie stub from our first date. He took me to see “The English Patient” because his sister was obsessed with it. Since I was born and raised in Germany I can only say that I don’t like WWII movies. But I liked him! 😉
I previously had those two crappy looking pieces of paper hanging in our basement bar, since we met in a bar. But for our anniversary I thought I’d give them a little overhaul.
This is so simple and you can do something like this even if you don’t have a silhouette cameo.
All I did is spray paint some old frames white and cut out gold vinyl on my cameo to fit the glass. You can also use spray paint or gold leaf if you don’t have vinyl. On the one frame I put the gold behind the glass and on the other frame I stuck it to the front of the glass. It was kind of hard to get the air bubbles out but I did it.
On the one frame I added some gold sharpie detail, sorry but couldn’t help myself, you know me.
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You could also cut out a heart shape instead of the circle and square but I didn’t want to get too “schmoopy“. Love this word, thanks Seinfeld and I miss you!
Tschüß,
such a sweet project and i love how they look, too! you guys were babies- so cute!!!!!!! happy anniversary- i wish you many many more!
Thanks and yes we were. I’d actually be mad if my kids would get married at 23 (well Jarrid was 27 so not as young as me 😉
Thanks Kristin and I love Seinfeld. It was the best show ever!!!
Love the updated change! Have fun on your date. =)
Thanks and we will!
Happy Anniversary to you both!! Isn’t it funny that our past sometimes seems like it happened in another life? Well, mine does anyway. 😉 Have a great date.
Thanks and yes, it’s strange but also important to remember, right?
We don’t even look the same!
Really sweet and sentimental. Happy anniversary! I met my husband in a bar too 🙂 We joke about what we will tell our daughters someday…ummm…Mommy and Daddy met in a bar and there was a lot of alcohol involved and that is how great love stories begin. Ha!
LOL, right? Great story for the kids. But that’s where we hung out all the time, at bars, which I won’t tell them.
Maybe I’ll tell them: “Can you believe that the one and only time I went to a bar, I met your father?” Haha, just kidding!
Happy anniversary! And what a cute project that is! I love it. Those cuttings came out amazing!! How cool you saved those little mementos!
Thanks Megan!
Congratulations and your darling project is so romantic! I love that you kept that scrap of paper!
You are so practical…that’s a good thing, glad you will get something done that will make you happy….good hubby!
Have a great date night.
Thanks Karen! I guess it’s the little things that make it romantic, right?
The fact that you saved the movie ticket and the coaster is so awesome. I seriously have nothing from when we dated…i suck at that sort of thing. We were legally married before our ‘actual’ wedding too…but we celebrate our anniversary on the date we had our ceremony. Every year our legal date passes by (which is about 5 months before the ceremony date) and we don’t usually even remember until a week later. Happy 15 years! Have a fun kid-free dinner tonight.
Thanks!
I usually don’t save stuff like that either but for some reason those two things made it 😉
We are always in Germany on our church anniversary and somewhat celebrate with my family but not really. This year I’ll be in Germany alone that day. I guess I’m choosing to celebrate the day where I legally changed my name in my passport. It was a big thing for me.
I love how you made your memories into pieces of beauty! You will treasure them for years.
I also think your choice for your “gift” is priceless. I would do the same type of thing!
Thanks Patty
you are both adorable in the first picture: too cute! 🙂 Congratulations on your 15th anniversary! hope you will have a nice dinner tonight with your husband. those frames are so special and they turned out beautiful too! funny because I’ve kept similar things from my husband too! framing them was a great idea Julia 🙂
Thanks Ingrid.
Happy Anniversary! Love how you framed your mementos…very creative!
Vielen Dank Moni!
Aww, what a sweet gesture and great blogging material, too, but I’m sure that wasn’t crossing your mind! 🙂 Wishing you both the Happiest Anniversary, you both couldn’t be any cuter!
Haha, no that didn’t cross my mind all those years ago! And thanks Pam.
so sweet — what a great idea!
Thanks!
Happy happy anniversary!!! I am a memento keeper and I LOVE how you framed yours. So special and what a great reminder of those first few encounters that I’m sure were filled with butterflies in your stomachs! So fun…I hope you enjoy your night out! Congratulations!!! Jesse @ Scout & Nimble
Thanks Jesse. Yes they were filled with butterflies 😉
That’s a wonderful idea! Congrats to you two for being married for 15 yrs!! 🙂
Lovely! Great way to showcase something meaningful and adorable. Where’d you get the gold vinyl?
Anyway, Happy anniversary! Hope you guys had a fun date night!
Happy Anniversary! Love it and of course love the gold! I need to order some of that vinyl.
Sorry I am late. Happy Anniversary You Two! I think you are the cutest couple and family.