Scrounge around for some pictures of you and your mate together from when you first started out dating and wooing. Make a collage and put it on the fridge to remember your pre-baby lives.
It can be as easy as tacking up a few old favorites that have been sitting in a drawer (bungee-jumping, wine tasting, skinny dipping?) or as high-tech as you want.
I did this for our dating-aversary using Kodakgallery.com a few years back and it was a big hit (still on our wall!). If you go this route, you’ll want to pick a square number (4, 9, 25…) to avoid the weird repeat feature. You can use as few as four pictures or as many as a hundred.
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Wow… this is a great idea! I’ve been looking for something creative to give my wife for V-day.
Thanks for saving me!
i love this. i think i would throw in some photos of nostalgic places or romantic items from that time, too. get the whole feeling going. thanks!
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I love this idea!
A spin-off idea: This year for xmas my husband made me an hour long playlist of all the songs that we were into the summer we started dating (for us, this was 1994, so think Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, NIN, etc.). I LOVE it!
Lovely idea! I’m going to link it up in a roundup.
Picasa, Google’s free, downloadable photo software also has a nice collage feature, among other things. Nice if you’d rather keep your personal photos out of the “cloud”. Also great software!
heather — cool idea! I went to kodakgallery’s site and I can’t figure out how to do it, though. I don’t want to download the picasa software since my computer is bursting at the seams already, so I was really hoping this kodak thing would work without a download. Help! What do I do?
@ErinG I couldn’t find it either. How frustrating!
Ah hah! Well @Erin G, this wouldn’t have saved you in time for Valentine’s Day, but maybe it can get you through an anniversary. Here’s the answer to where oh where did the collages go?
thanks!!
This is a very cute idea. Every time I start to get down about my husband and I not getting to have the same relationship we used to, I always look back at our good times. A lot of women who have been married for 20+ years and their kids have moved out, leaving just them and their husband, say to cherish each other. They remind my husband and I to take the time out to love each other. It’s important to dedicate some effort to your partner, otherwise when your kids are gone you’ll forget how to enjoy being together. Little things like this collage are great tips to keep some excitement in your relationship.
I made a slide show for my hubby for Valentine’s Day. I organized it into Dating, Married and Family life sections and set it to music. I totally surprised him and he loved it. I play it for my 4 month old and she loves watching the pictures change and the music!
Now on Shutterfly, you can find this option under PRINT, COLLAGE.