#wedding gift

[bornonthebreakofdawn]

Life Update:

So I got married last month (Yey!) and Senny just sent me this beautiful NaruHina art as a celebratory gift!

I love it so much! 😍😍😍

[20thcenturyartgallery]

Wedding Gift

Artist: Carlos Vázquez Úbeda (Spanish, 1869-1944

Date: 1911

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain

[thepastisalreadywritten]

[skyofsapphires]

Diamond & ruby Watch - Queen Mary of Teck

Wedding gift to Queen Mary of Teck by Mr. Gillett

[spacenoirdetective]

Dave Dorman's self portrait and wedding present for his wife.

This is so romantic I can't even.

[blondebrainpowered]

The Mackay Emerald Necklace. This incredible Art Deco piece was designed by Cartier and presented to Clarence H. Mackay in 1931. He gave it to his wife as a wedding gift.

“The stunning Mackay Emerald was mined in Muzo, Colombia. The finest emeralds are found in the region around Muzo and Chivor, Colombia. These green gems were used by indigenous peoples for at least 1,000 years before the arrival of the Spanish conquistadores in the 16th century. Although spurred primarily by their passion for gold and silver, the Spanish quickly recognized the potential of the exquisite green crystals and took control of the mines.

Emeralds became popular among European royalty and were shipped from the New World by the boatload. The great richness of the Colombian mines led to a glut of emeralds in Europe, triggering a brisk trade of the gemstones to the Middle East and India. The Mogul rulers in India were especially fond of emeralds and encouraged a vast gem cutting and jewelry industry. Many finished pieces were traded back to Europe.

The Mackay Emerald is the largest cut emerald in the National Gem Collection and is set in a pendant of diamonds and platinum designed by Cartier, Inc. The Art Deco style necklace was a wedding gift in 1931 from Clarence Mackay to his wife, Anna Case, a prima donna of the New York Metropolitan Opera from 1909 to 1920. The emerald weighs 167.97 carats and is set in platinum with 35 emeralds and 2,191 colorless round brilliant and step cut diamonds. Mrs. Anna Case Mackay bequeathed the necklace to the Smithsonian in 1984, and it is on display in the Gem Hall at the National Museum of Natural History.” National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian

[blookitty]

It finally happened!

I got my first novel length fanfiction binded!

A two year belated wedding gift from my husband, where a lot of people who mean something to me ended up having a hand in it. My bestie for finding someone in her book community to bind it, @lacteaway for the cover art, and another friend had gone and compiled it from AO3 into Word with custom chapter headings and splits.

Just to emphasize how amazing this is, it is literally illegal, at least in the states, for a book publisher to print fanfiction. It is also illegal to charge to bind fanfiction. So someone out of the kindness of their heart bound this by hand on their own time as a hobby and favor.

Although, as grateful and lucky as I am to finally have it, it is rather bittersweet. Two of the people I mentioned no longer talk to me, I find my story now pretty cringe, and I can't get it signed by the man who inspired me to write it in the first place.

It's a culmination of one of the happiest moments of my life with now the trappings of what has happened since. I'll still proudly display it on my bookshelf, but when I look at it, I honestly don't know how to feel.