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Dec042008
Contest: Custom Wedding Labels
Looking for a simple and unique way to create personalized wedding favors? Having custom labels made to put on water bottles or wine bottles is a great way to add a personal touch to your wedding. Bottle Your Brand is a great website to find labels for your wedding. You can browse their designs or create your own unique custom design. The possibilities are endless.
Win: 100 custom water or wine labels of your choice from Bottle Your Brand.
How to Enter: Leave a comment on this post telling us about your favorite holiday gift you have received. The winner will be chosen at random.
Contest ends Thursday, December 11 at midnight!
Thursday, December 4, 2008 at 04:00PM
Reader Comments (58)
One of our friends got us a really nice set of highball glasses. It was so thoughtful of them, they remembered us mentioning that we wanted to get a set...but that was months ago!
My favorite holiday gift would have to be my 35 mm SLR that I got back in high school. I started a love for photography that I will carry with me forever!
My favorite holiday gift was my first pearl necklace from my parents the year I turned 21. Every woman in my family has recieved her first set of pearls on her 21st Christmas. My pearls remind me of my family's tradition each time I wear them!
My favorite Christmas gift was oddly enough a jet ski. It's almost a laughable Christmas gift because I couldn't truly enjoy it for about five months, but I remember just being content sitting on it. Many of my fondest childhood memories stem from memories made on the lake and time spent on that jet ski with family and friends.
My favorite holiday gifts were always simply eating traditional North Carolina food at Christmas with my family. Traveling from Boston during college and then New Mexico during graduate school, it was always the food that let me know it was Christmas time and I was finally HOME in NC!
I can tell you my most "un-favorite" holiday gift (from my EX-HUSBAND) . . I asked for pearls . . . I got a garbage disposal. A garbage disposal? From someone who didn't even know how to hang a picture on the wall no less! Thanks Ex-husband!!
Last Christmas I received my beautiful engagement ring in an ornament. This year when we opened up the Christmas boxes and hung it on our tree, it was an amazing feeling to know that it would be a keepsake for years to come. We're even considering using it as a ring box during the ceremony!
My favorite Christmas gift I recieved when I was 4, and yes I remember getting it! I got a Teddy Ruxpin doll. He had a tape player in his belly and his eyes and mouth moved to the stories from the tape player. I carried him everywhere! Every Christmas I get him out and dress him in a Santa suit.
My favorite holiday gift was when I first moved to CO. My stepmother and aunt had both noticed that I had some old books at my house before moving. After moving, they sent me old books that pertained to Colorado. It was a great gesture and made me feel loved from 1200 miles away!
My very first sewing machine! :D I mean it's the gift that keeps on giving, right? I've been able to make so many wonderful items at request of friends and family and I'm currently using to make a few items for our wedding next year.
I have to say that it was last year. My boyfriend at the time (we are now ENGAGED) gave me a COACH purse. It was TOTALLY unexpected and I loved it!
I remember back in highschool one of my friends showed up wearing a cute new pink John Deere sweatshirt (yeah, I grew up out in a farming community so that was cool). I went home and told mom about how my friend's dad had bought her this cute sweatshirt just out of the blue and how jealous I was. After a week I had forgotten all about it. Well dad remembered. Under the tree that Christmas were sweatshirts from Pioneer the seed company dad worked for. The whole family each got one. I was so amazed that my dad had paid attention enough to do that. Mine is little faded and worn, but I still have it!
My favorite holiday gift was from two years ago. My fiance gave me a Fossil watch and a blanket. The funny part was that for Christmas that year I got him...a Fossil watch and a blanket! It was too weird. I guess we should have known then that it was meant to be!
My favorite holiday gift was this fabulous Cole Haan purse I had been eyeing for months. It was the first time in a long time that my parents were able to splurge and surprise me with something that I wanted! That was 3 years ago and I continue to use the bag and get compliments on it daily. My mom is so proud of her great surprise!
My favorite holiday gift was one my fiance bought me last year... we both bought plots of land for eachother in zambia for families to farm on and in return sell at markets... it was a really sweet way to give back and to think about the difference we both hope to make overseas in the future.
My favorite Christmas gift was my Cabbage Patch Kid, Lynette Nann. My mom stood in line for 2 1/2 hours for her at Kiddie City. At the time I made no connection to her standing in line and Santa bringing her on Christmas... I guess when your a kid - the details are no relevant.
What's cool is my niece Taylor plays with her and my twin cabbage patch bunk beds:)
My favorite Christmas present would have to be my fiance's first present to me: a pearl necklace with matching earrings and bracelet. They are priceless to me!
He gave me pearls because I had some {fake} pearls from an ex-boyfriend (that had no sentimental value) but he said that a classy woman deserves real pearls.
They are my absolute favorite because they were his first Christmas present to me and because I will wear them in the wedding next summer. I hope to someday have daughters who will wear the pearls in their wedding(s), and their daughters, etc.
my favorite holiday gift was a picture of my grandmother on her wedding day. it was beautifully framed and showed her true beauty!
My parents and my trainer arranged to surprise me with a horse when I was in high school. It was a high school girl's dream come true. It was the first time I cried tears of joy, though I've done it many times since!
My grandmother and grandfather (now passed away) gave me all of their wedding photo's. At the time, I was like cool, what do I do with these. BUT, now that my wedding is set for March 21 I am going to display them beside my guestbook and remember them in so many ways!
My favorite holiday gift would have to be a surprise trip to Mexico from my fiance! I was just expecting to stay home for the holidays and was totally caught off guard!! We spent five days in Tulum, Mexico and had an amazing time!
When I was about 7 years old, my older brother, who was 11 at the time, had these slippers with Goofy's giant head on the end of them. I thought they were the coolest slippers ever. That year at the holidays he wrapped them up in the comics and gave them to me as a present. I wore those things from the minute I got home from school until I went to bed. For many years after that, until we had grown up and moved out of our parents home, we had tradition of giving each other something of our own that we knew the other admired.
Probably the hugs and cookies I get from my fiance every year.
When we were growing up, we didn't have a ton of money. My mom was a single mom working two jobs to provide for me and my younger sister. My mom had confided to her co-workers that she was worried that she wasn't going to be able to give us the kind of Christmas we had been used to in the past. Her co-workers all chipped in, bringing over a tree, gifts and Christmas dinner.
Now that we're all grown and my mom is re-married, every year we adopt a family to return the favor. Nothing matches that feeling of gratitude you feel getting a gift like that.
My favorite Christmas present was a drawing from my neice who was 3 last year. It showed me and her and she said I was her family. She may not be my daughter, but we are super close. Everything she does for me is special. I have never been so fascinated with another person. Her innocence and wonder just surprises me more and more. Every Christmas with her is so special to me.