- A video of a man’s anniversary gift for his girlfriend went viral on social media
- The gift-in-a-box was hashtagged #10YearsinaBox #handmadewithlove
- The man who made the very personalized gift was lauded by online users
- Positive comments has reached more than 8,400 as of posting
How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. So goes the first lines from the Sonnets from the Portuguese, but there’s one man who didn’t count the ways. Rather, he preferred to ‘summarize’ his love for the apple of his eyes by coming up with a surprise personalized box that he himself made.
The uploader of a video that has gone viral on Facebook, Gerard Santos, is the very person who produced the surprise box as a gift for Jobel Fernandez, his lady love. April 11, 2006 marked their special day and this year is their tenth anniversary.
On his Facebook, the man from Zamboanga City shared his labor of love on April 13 which he said took two weeks to make; with the caption:
This is the surprise box in our 10th anniversary video
bigyan niyo rin ng ganito ang girlfriend/fiance/wife ninyo. she’ll surely love it! Anything is extra special when it’s personally hand made and not just bought at a store or made by someone else. Took me 2 weeks to do it though. Enjoy!
“I can do all things” -Phil. 4:13
#10YearsinaBox #handmadewithlove
Amazingly, the clip showing the details of his surprise gift for his girlfriend has already gained nearly 1.400,000 views, almost 49,000 shares and 58k plus reactions. Moreover, there was an outpouring of admiration for the very creative and diligent boyfriend; receiving more than 8,400 positive comments. A real wow!
It was later identified as patterned after an “exploding box” – an aye-catching photo album style that could hold a hundred pictures or so. And take note, the box was just one of the surprises he prepared for her.
Meanwhile, and unsurprisingly, Santos seems to have been flooded with questions on how to make it, which he answered via another post; enumerating steps, materials and tips.
He also shared that one does not have to do this kind of gift on every anniversary; that even a simple candle light dinner would do. However, because it’s a milestone, their tenth anniversary, he really wanted to make something extra special; saying: “… para kahit matatanda na kame.. Masasabi namin sa isa’t isa balang araw.. “naaalala mo pa ba yung 10th anniv natin? Ang saya nun noh? … ” para kiligin pati ang arthritis.” [so that in our old age, we would be able to tell each other, ‘do you remember our 10th anniv? we were so happy …’]
And what did the viewers of his video said? Well, watch the clip first and see for yourself just how envious many girls were!
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