Gift an experience—and use paper to deliver the message. Surprise your better half with paper tickets to a concert, a sporting event you'll both love, a Broadway show, the ballet, or any other night out that celebrates your mutual interests. Or, go grand: Splurge on plane tickets for a spontaneous celebratory trip.
Gift your tickets, hotel stay, or itinerary as a paper gift by printing the tickets out (or making them yourself).
Posh Prints
Add new inspiration to your home by having some of your favorite wedding photos printed and hung—or source fashionable photographs that bring a different vibe into your newlywed space, like these Studio 54 photos found in WeWoreWhat's Danielle Bernstein's Soho loft.
Photographs by Allan Tannenbaum
Picture Perfect
Have a mint-condition copy of your wedding invitation suite custom framed. When done thoughtfully, invitations make beautiful, unexpected pieces of art for your home, and provide a chic visual reminder of your love story and wedding day.
Invitation suite by Dempsey & Carroll, wedding program, illustrated by Rachel Moranis, by Bella Figura
Write It Down
For the spouse that loves to put pen to paper, gift a chic journal to celebrate your first year of marriage. Opt for notebooks with a motif that means something to you as a couple, be it evocative of your wedding day colors, your decor motifs, or the style of your newlywed home.
Fill out the first page (or two) with a hand-written love letter expressing a heart-felt recap of your first year together as a married couple. Consider including your vows here, or how your love has grown since first reading them at the wedding.
D.L. & Co. journal SHOP NOW
Love Notes
Memorialize your vows into a beautifully designed letterpress print by a talented stationer. Frame your new print as a keepsake to display in your new home together, or gift it to your spouse in a velum envelope, to have as an heirloom. This gift will last far beyond year one—odds are, future generations will look back on your vows and cherish them if they're artfully preserved.
