Personalised and engraved gifts for birthdays and anniversaries are truely are unique way to express that special message. Personalised presents for special occasions such as anniversary and birthday can add a touch of class, uniqueness, identity and ownership. A personalised gift when chosen correctly can make that difference. So, go ahead, have a look through our range for men and women.

Get Personal - with Personalised Gifts

Anyone can buy a gift, but to make it even more special – and show that you’ve given it so much more thought than just picking it up the shelf – you can personalise, or engrave your present with any message.

A personalised gift can hold so much sentimental value for years after the event; the birthday greeting, or messages of love can remain as fresh in the recipient’s mind as the day they were sent. They can also be an outlet for words you feel you cannot say to someone directly – the words ‘sorry’ or even ‘I love you’ come to mind as they are especially private and laden with meaning. When engraved on a present or gift that the bearer could wear, i.e. a locket or cufflinks, or on something that they could always treasure such as a vase or clock, they could never forget the depth of your feelings.

Of course, to personalise a gift does not always mean just adding your message. My Red Packet can bring you a personalised newspaper – with you in the headline! So you don’t have to be a five-minute celebrity Z-lister to get your name in the paper, (someone should tell these people how easy it actually is!). You can also buy a copy of an actual newspaper from the day you were born - find out about all the other life-changing events happened that day.

For the soccer fanatics, who truly adore their team and believe they must be the original, and best, fan – you can own part of the club (certain clubs only). Buy your loved one some shares and they can pretend they are on the same level as Roman Abramavich (and wish they were a penny behind them). You, the buyer of the gift, will be held in such high esteem with his mates down the pub!

My Red Packet stocks lots of official team gifts that can be personalised with your message, and we also cover other sports as well, e.g. golf, racing, rugby, with a whole range of gifts that can be emblazoned with your message.

For any woman or teen who wants to be the next Britney Spears, give them their own label perfume, courtesy of My Red Packet. Hey, they can even have their own sidewalk star – Hollywood style. Their friends will be SO jealous!

As if these gifts weren’t unique enough, you could send a message into space. Declare your love for your other half – you never know who (or what) could be passing through! The message is coded then sent into the black stuff with a laser telescope and could theoretically be picked up a thousand years from now. Now that is something different, and certainly gets round that feeling of “what do I buy someone that already has everything?”. Would they really have E.T’s undivided attention?!!

Each special event is amazing enough, but with My Red Packet, you could make it even better. Personalised Giftsor engraved giftsare gifts that keeps on giving!

How personalised gifts say it with words

With the commercial possibilities and competitive nature of the gift industry, there is no wonder that you can buy almost every present and have any message adorned on its face. But with so much choice and with the popularity of personalised giftsincreasing, how do you present your loved one with something unique?

There are items out there suitable for birthday presents, anniversary presents, wedding presents or just a gift to say how much you think of someone, but the real uniqueness comes from the message. You say what you want to say. The majority may go with ‘Happy Birthday Bob’ but how many presents will Bob receive that say ‘Now then, Old Man, not another birthday!’ (probably a good thing?!).

Or how about proposing to someone using a personalised gift ideaas a starting point? It is common nowadays for men in love to conjure up a situation so unusual in order to propose to his wife – because if he doesn’t go to any effort, he doesn’t care that much – is that right, ladies? Of course that’s not the case, but this could be what goes through the man’s mind as he struggles to come up with a way to propose that she will remember for the rest of her life..............

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Personably Personalised Gifts

It’s one thing to buy someone a present but a step further to thoughtfulness to ass a personalised message. There are plenty of gifts in shops, catalogues and on the internet that you can be spoilt for choice, but it is still conceivable that two people could easily the same ‘unique’ gift.

Therefore, by putting your own stamp/label/message/inscription on the present, you are not only adding an extra dimension to the gift, but making it something no one else will own.

For example, come Valentine’s Day, how many women will have a necklace bought for them by their husband or partner? Maybe hundreds of thousands across the globe. How many will buy a silver necklace with a heart-shaped locket on the end? Narrow this down to around 30 percent of the necklace recipients. But how may will then have “I love you Sharon, from Wayne” engraved on the reverse? You may get this down to the number of fingers on one hand. And even then it would be a coincidence rather than a purchase planned by the masses.

Say one of your friends had just moved house and you bought them a bottle of champagne to celebrate. Pop down to the corner shop and you can pick a bottle of champers up nowadays. But if it’s that easy to do, it loses its charm slightly – because the other thirty or so friends before you have all done the same thing. But if you then had printed on the bottle’s label – “Congratulations Tina and Tim. Wishing you every happiness in your new home!” – whose bottle would be opened last, if at all?

Having a message adorned on your gift shows that you have not just blithely picked up the present from a shelf without looking or clicked on an online trolley with a jerk of your right arm – you have actually spent time thinking about the person who is to receive the gift. The message can be as cheeky, heartfelt or congratulatory as you like which gives even more opportunity to create a present hugely unique.

For any silver or silver plated product you can choose to engrave it. It shows the same sentiments as a personalised message but whereas the labels sit in top of the gift, engraving a present means it can’t be rubbed off or lost anywhere; it is part of the item itself. Every time the product is used your message will be read and remembered. You don’t even have to have a message engraved across an item – for cufflinks or something like a hipflask, to engrave the recipient’s initials tastefully across its surface adds to its elegance (and also stops someone else claiming it’s theirs!).

You could even use the personalising facility for more unusual purposes. For example, you can buy a special dinner plate that can be personalised. Say you were looking for a different way to propose to your girlfriend. Cook her a fantastic dinner, served under the soft glow of candlelight. As she finishes off her scrumptious meal she becomes aware of something written on her plate. With her appetite sated, she sees your words “Julie, will you marry me?” emblazoned across her crockery. As she looks across the table, gobsmacked, you’re sat by the candles with a diamond ring in your hands. It’s certainly different!
Or you’ve had your eye on a guy in the office for months but he’s really shy. On his birthday, everyone gives him presents. You give him a bottle of champagne (fully wrapped) with the words “Fancy drinking this together?” on the front. Just make sure he opens it when he gets home to minimise any embarrassment should he not be that into you! It’s a novel way of letting him know how you feel…

There are so many possibilities where the personalisation on the gift can be even more important than the item itself - because the message comes from the heart and not from a warehouse somewhere down the M25.

It’s always nice to get a present, for any occasion, but adding a personal message makes it even more special.