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ellabee

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iconnumber posted 04-20-2008 05:36 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for ellabee     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Maybe I'm cynical, but when I think of engraving for a wedding gift one of the first things that jumps to mind is that roughly half of all marriages in the U.S. don't last.

This is a point in favor of the older custom of engraving with the bride's maiden initial(s). Less romantic, true; but traditional and practical.

I love the older entwined, hard-to-read script engravings of initials. In the event of a divorce, maybe the one who ends up with the tomato server can take comfort in the illegibility of such a monogram...

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ellabee

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iconnumber posted 04-20-2008 06:01 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for ellabee     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Re: Dale's example of laser engraving on stainless steel --

De gustibus non disputandum, but for me this image evokes tattoos more than engraving. {Brrr.}

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silverhunter

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iconnumber posted 04-21-2008 03:56 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for silverhunter     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Good to know, there are only four words to engrave "a lot of strength", while the marriage and while divorcing.

On the day of our marriage I say to things to my wife. First I wish her a lot of strength for the coming year, second I ask her how she hold out a life with me.

I think a wedding stands also with humor it doesn't matter which kind of.

Here in Holland they speak about a silver wedding day after 25 years, gold for 50 year. (It's a long way to go!).

Perhaps it's a sport if idea to make it a international Olympic number. Knowing that some people in Japan become sometimes 126 years old.

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Kimo

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iconnumber posted 04-21-2008 03:15 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Kimo     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
While I agree that the majority of marriages seem to eventually not work out these days, I do not agree that it should in any way affect the way a gift is given or the reason for giving it. Giving silver without the etiquette approved style of engraving seems to me to be akin to making conversation with the bride at the reception and asking her if this is her first wedding. Implying that the newlywed's marriage is destined to fail and they are doomed to a life of serial shattered marriages is not the sort of thing a proper gentleman or lady does.

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