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First Christmas, Lettered in Holly and Candy Canes

The words First Christmas run across the chest in tall stacked letters, each one wound with holly, striped candy canes, snowflakes and small glittering diamond rings. Most holiday greetings stop at the greeting. Here the proposal is tucked into the lettering itself, so the news is already there before anyone reaches the script line underneath. We built the design for the couple whose first December together comes with a new title.

Below the letters, a snowman couple sits close on a plaid blanket in front of a crackling fireplace. One wears a top hat, the other a small bow, and they lean into each other facing the flames. Two stockings hang from the mantel, string lights wrap the pine garland, and a tiny ring box waits beside two glasses of champagne, as if the question was asked a moment ago. Lanterns and wrapped gifts sit at the edges of the scene. Curling script underneath reads by the fire, engaged. It is a quiet room, and the two of them seem to have it to themselves.

An Engaged Christmas Shirt With the Ring Box Waiting on the Mantel

This engaged Christmas shirt belongs to the person who said yes and the person who asked, each wearing the same news in the same room. It fits the tree-trimming night when you are still getting used to the word fiancé, and the family dinner where someone asks to see the ring one more time. A sister or close friend can also pick it out for the new couple, since the snowmen carry no names or dates and stand in for whoever puts it on. We like that the scene reads as a real evening, with the fire low and the champagne poured. Years from now, when the wedding photos are framed on a shelf, this will be the shirt from the first Christmas you spent engaged, and the story of that December will come back with it.

Is a snowman couple by the fire only for a proposal made in December?

No. The script line says engaged without naming a month, so the shirt suits any couple spending their first Christmas after the ring, from a spring proposal to one made last week. It also works for a holiday engagement party or a first visit home with the news.

Put the snowmen by the fire on, and the ring box on the mantel will tell the story before you do.