Personalised Wedding Anniversary Gift — Silk-Embroidered Bookmark

A personalised wedding anniversary gift: a bookmark hand-embroidered in silk thread on sheer silk organza, 12 × 4 cm, on a hand-wrapped silk-cord frame with a tassel. Send us a picture and the words you want, such as initials, names or a date. We draw a design draft for you to approve, then embroider it by hand.

£197, with free tracked UK delivery. We send your design draft within three working days, and your bookmark is embroidered and sent within 2–3 weeks. Choose a black, red, navy blue, grey, green or purple frame. Once you approve your design, the work starts, so it can’t be cancelled or returned unless it is faulty.

A wedding anniversary gift in silk

Silk is the traditional gift for the 12th wedding anniversary, and many UK lists pair linen and silk for the 4th. For any year, a bookmark stitched with your initials and the year you married, or the flower from your wedding day, is a marriage anniversary gift that lives in the book they love: for her, for him, or for you both.

How it works

1. Send us a picture and your words. After you order, email your picture to info@royalchou.com with your order number, and tell us the words you would like: initials, names or numbers such as a date.
2. Approve your design draft. Within three working days we draw your design on the bookmark, with a choice of lettering styles, and send it to you. Nothing is stitched until you approve it.
3. We embroider it by hand. Your bookmark is hand-embroidered in silk thread by our studio. Because it is made by hand, the finished piece will differ a little from the drawing.
4. It comes to you. Sent from the UK by tracked courier, in our black gift envelope, within 2–3 weeks.

Anniversary gifts, weddings, birthdays and someone special

• A wedding anniversary: the flower from your wedding day, with your initials and the year you married.
• A wedding: a flower from the bouquet, with both names or the date.
• A birthday: their birth flower or favourite bloom, with their initials.
• Someone special: a flower that means something to you both, with a few words of your own.

Our example: two birds of paradise

This bookmark was made as a fourth-wedding-anniversary gift: two birds of paradise, the flower the customer asked for, with the couple’s initials and their year stitched in the lower corner. We have blurred their words in the photographs.

The design is stitched on sheer silk organza, so it shows from both sides; your words read the right way from the front.

Details

• Size: 12 × 4 cm
• Frame: hand-wrapped silk cord in black (as shown), red, navy blue, grey, green or purple, with a tassel
• Ground: sheer silk organza
• Embroidery: silk thread, stitched by hand by our studio
• Words: up to two lines, around 20 characters maximum, in small lettering in the lower corner
• Designed in London and sent from the UK

Questions

Which wedding anniversary is silk?

Silk is the traditional gift for the 12th wedding anniversary. Many UK lists also give linen and silk for the 4th.

Can I send my own photo?

Yes. Email it to info@royalchou.com with your order number. Please send a picture you took or have permission to use; we may decline designs based on other people’s artwork, logos or characters.

What can you embroider?

A flower or a simple motif drawn from your picture, with your choice of words: initials, names or numbers such as a date or a year, up to two lines and around 20 characters maximum.

Can I see the design before you stitch it?

Yes. We send your design draft within three working days, and nothing is stitched until you approve it.

How long does it take?

We send your design draft within three working days. Your bookmark is then embroidered and sent within 2–3 weeks. UK delivery is free and takes 5–8 working days, or the next working day with Express (£15). EU delivery takes 5–8 working days. If you need it by a particular date, such as your anniversary, email info@royalchou.com before you order, so we can confirm it can be made and delivered in time.

Do you deliver outside the UK?

Yes, to EU countries, for £25. Import VAT or customs duty may be due on delivery and is paid by the recipient.

Can I cancel or return a personalised bookmark?

You can cancel your order until you approve your design draft. Once you approve it, the work starts, so your order can’t be cancelled, or returned unless it is faulty. This doesn’t affect your legal rights if it arrives faulty or not as agreed.

How do I look after it?

Keep it flat, away from damp and strong sunlight, and never iron over the embroidery.

Looking for a ready-made design? See our silk embroidered bookmarks.