I recently was invited to a friends wedding. It was their fifth wedding anniversary and I wanted to give them something special for their anniversary gift. I recently learned how to make a Chinese sky lantern. I decided to make sky lantern set for the anniversary party.

The project wasn’t too expensive and I finished them in about 2 hours. The day of the anniversary celebration I was very excited and couldn’t wait to share them with my friend and his wife. After dinner and some dancing, I asked my friend to meet me out in back of his house for my impromptu  gift to him and his wife. They came out back and I lit my five lanterns off.

As I lit each one I said something profound for each one. They were obviously touched by my gift and invited them to light the last one together. It was a wonderful moment and other guests cheered as the last one slowly floated away. This was the highlight of the party. They both thanked me and asked all sorts of questions about the sky lanterns. This was a great idea and I am going to use them again for the next party I’m invited to.