The traditional two-year anniversary gift is cotton! For our anniversary (way back in August) Will told me that he wanted to have a "cotton" quilt made, but he wanted me to pick out the colors and patterns. We found this place online, based out of Southern California, that makes handmade custom quilts:
I wanted the quilt to reflect our wedding colors - brown, teal, & ivory. I also found this really adorable double wedding ring design that was popular in Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries. "They consisted of rings that could be interlocked (www.womenfolk.com/quilt_pattern_history/wedring.htm)."
Here is the beautiful finished product that just came in today...
The patterns used are some of my favorites - toile & paisley! They spent about 250 hours of careful labor to construct this work of art! All of the arches hand-appliqued and the entire quilt was built to my custom specifications. Kona cotton was used for the background fabric, which is an extremely high quality material & makes for the perfect traditional two-year anniversary gift! I still plan on taking it to be embroidered with our initials and wedding date to give it the perfect finishing touch.
It has been a long 3 months waiting on this gift, but it was well worth the wait! Coincidentally, it came in on the three-year anniversary of the day Will proposed to me! So special!
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