Engraved Gift Creations

The problem with personalized gifts, such as one that’s an engraved stainless steel key chain bottle opener, with the name of the receiver on it, for example, is that you can never be able to re-gift them. In today’s trends, re-gifting is actually quite acceptable. Except that some people are just too careless to do it the right way.

I had been witness to a wedding once where the bride and groom happily opened their gifts in front of the crowd. It was even videotaped for posterity. Everyone was ooh-ing and aah-ing and clapping as each present was unwrapped. And then the couple opened one present that had some inscriptions on it. The bride thought it was dedicated to them, but as it turns out, it was a wedding gift three months ago. They knew it because, they went to that wedding, too. Imagine the embarrassment for both the gift giver and the couple.

The lesson to learn from this is fairly simple. If you have to regift, take note of two things:

1. That the present isn’t a special one, without any inscriptions or engraving. In other words, you cannot recycle personalized presents. Unless of course, it comes with initials, and yours just happens to be the same ones as the one you would be re-gifting it too.

2. That you shouldn’t re-gift within the same circle of friends. Because chances are, they are familiar with the presents and may in fact be the one who bought it for that friend!

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