How to show you love someone with "Love Tokens"

The best gift for someone you love is one that is genuinely personal — something that says you thought about them specifically, not just grabbed something off a shelf. Love tokens offer a way to do that with very few materials and a lot of meaning.

What are love tokens?

Love tokens are small physical objects — traditionally coins, wooden discs, tokens or pieces of card — each carrying a short message. They can be reasons you love someone, promises, shared memories, or inside jokes. The person keeps them and returns to them over time. They work because the messages are yours, not a generic sentiment someone else wrote.

Love tokens are popular as love tokens for him — a distinctive anniversary gift for a boyfriend or husband that has nothing in common with the usual options. They work equally well for a wife, girlfriend, or a best friend celebrating a milestone birthday. The gift is the messages, so the material cost is almost irrelevant.

What to write on love tokens

Start by writing down everything you love about the person without editing yourself. Then pick an angle:

• 10 reasons I love you — specific and factual. The way they make you feel, things they do, qualities you rely on.
• I love you like... — more playful. Works well for someone with a sense of humour.
• Promises — things you commit to. More meaningful for a long-term partner.
• Memories — specific shared moments. Hard to replicate and impossible to forget.

Ideas for love token messages

10 reasons I love you (starter ideas):

1. You are always positive
2. You are my best friend
3. You make me a better person
4. We are stronger together
5. The way you make me smile
6. The way you believe in me
7. You have a heart of gold
8. All the fun we have
9. Your support
10. Your amazing cuddles

I love you like... (some less serious options):

1. A squirrel loves nuts
2. Nachos love melted cheese
3. Tea loves a good biscuit
4. Loo roll likes getting replaced when it is finished
5. Pigeons love pooping on statues

Where to buy personalised love tokens

Our personalised wooden love tokens come as a bag of 10, each laser-engraved with your own message. You write the messages, we engrave them. They are particularly popular as love tokens for him — a genuinely personal anniversary or Valentine's gift for a boyfriend or husband — but work for any recipient and any occasion. Made to order in our workshop in North Wales.

Pete, Cherry Grove Craft