The best way to present your present is to be present and surprise your guest of honor.
A great way to reveal the tribute gift is to include a print out of the invitation emails in with your greeting card.
As your guest of honor reads them they will slowly come to realize there is a website somewhere out on the internet with thoughts, feelings, memories, and well wishes just for them, all compiled by you!
You'll see them light up with anticipation about what they'll find there. This is a great emotional reward for you, the presenter.
Soon as they realize what's waiting for them, get them in front of a computer with internet access and gather all the guests around, if you haven't already. You can go to the tribute website earlier and be prepared if the computer is in another room, or you can bookmark the website for a quick click on a computer in the same room. You can have somebody bring a notebook computer to the party and when you give them the signal they can sit across from the guest of honor at a table or somewhere where they are facing them. They "need to look something up" if they're asked what they're doing. Then your shill can open the notebook so the back of the screen is facing the guest of honor. When your special someone starts fidgeting because they want to go see the tribute website, your friend with the notebook can just turn it around 180 degrees so the screen is facing the guest of honor.
Make sure you ask for the tributes to be read aloud so everyone can share in the experience.
About Me
- Tribute A Gift
- I wanted to do something special for my father's 80th birthday. I decided to make a tribute to him like my sister-in-law Robin did for her mother. Robin collected thoughts and good wishes from people who knew her mother Shirley and printed them on decorated paper.
Lots of us gathered at Shirley's house and we had a very special time. Shirley read them aloud and our hearts were touched in a powerful way. Especially Robin and Shirley.
This is what I wanted for my father. Except I did it on the web. And it could not have worked out better. My mother caught my eye while my father was reading his tributes and mouthed the words "this is the best thing you've done IN YOUR LIFE".
We occasionally laughed and cried as dad read each of his tributes. We had an evening we'll never forget. I was happy I could make my father feel so special, and proud of myself for putting it together.
Weeks later, my mother suggested I might help other people experience the same profound and warm emotions that we enjoyed with my father. And that's why I created "Tribute A Gift".
See TributeAGift.com for more.