The gifting industry has decided that romance is: roses, a teddy bear of an unreasonable size, a heart-shaped box, and a photo collage with the word LOVE spelled out in fairy lights.
None of that is about your relationship. It's about the concept of a relationship, purchased in bulk, and both of you can tell.
The specific failure of romantic gifts
They're generic by design. A rose means the same thing to everyone, which is why it's a safe gift, and also why it doesn't say anything.
Meanwhile what your relationship actually consists of is: the flat with the terrible geyser, the argument about their friend Rohan, the six weeks you were both unemployed at the same time, the way they order for you without asking, and one very specific night in Goa that you have been arguing about the details of for eleven months.
That's the relationship. A teddy bear does not reference any of it.
N° 03 · Custom Song - ₹999
A song written from your actual story.
Not a love song. A song about a specific Tuesday - the details, the nickname, the thing that only makes sense to the two of you.
You send us the story on WhatsApp. Voice note is best; people are funnier and more honest talking than typing. Then a writer, a composer and a singer make an actual track out of it.
N° 03 · Custom Song - ₹999. Teaser in 24 hours, finished in 2-3 days.
Why not just generate one
You can. It's free and it takes a minute and it will sound like music.
It will also contain nothing that couldn't have been written about anybody, because the tool doesn't know about the geyser. Play someone a generated song about themselves and watch the fifteen-second mark - there's a moment where they realise their name is the only true thing in it.
The details are the entire product. Everything else is arrangement.
Long distance
If you're in different cities - which, at this age, a lot of people are - this is one of the few gifts that doesn't require logistics. Nothing ships. It arrives on WhatsApp on the day, at the hour you choose.
It's also considerably better than another delivery of flowers to an office reception, which is the standard long-distance move and which everyone has agreed to pretend is romantic.
Monthsaries, since somebody will ask
If you're marking one month, don't spend a thousand rupees. Genuinely.
N° 02 · Voice Letter - ₹499 is the right size for a small occasion, and small occasions are better served by something small and specific than by something that looks like it's trying to escalate.
What not to do with it
Don't play it at a restaurant. Don't get the waiter involved. Don't arrange for it to be playing when they walk into the room while you stand there watching their face.
Send it. Let them listen to it alone. The reaction you want happens in private and you'll hear about it afterwards, which is better.
Practically
WhatsApp us. Three real things about the relationship - the true version, including the argument.
Photos storage hain. Stories memories hain.
SIYAI STORYKEEPERS