Personalised cutting board for a wedding
An engraved olive wood board is the rare wedding gift that stays and gets used. What engraves well, and how it's made.
Most wedding gifts end up in a cupboard sooner or later. A cutting board of olive wood bearing the couple's names and the date ends up on the worktop and stays there, every day, for years. That is why an engraved board is one of the few gifts a couple still remembers years later.
Why a board, of all things?
A wedding gift should be two things: personal and lasting. An engraved olive wood board is both. It is not a decorative object you set out from politeness, but a tool that gets used and grows more beautiful with every year and every drop of oil. The engraving turns a beautiful board into a particular one: theirs.
What engraves well
Less works best. A few proven variants:
- Two first names and the wedding date: simple, timeless, always right.
- The shared surname with “since 2026” or the date.
- A short line: a word, a date, or the coordinates of the registry office.
Skip long quotations. A name and a date age better than a whole sentence, and the wood then leaves the engraving room to breathe.
How your engraving is made
In our engraving studio you choose a piece, type in names and date and see at once how the engraving looks in the wood, before you even order. It is engraved permanently into the wood, each board individually. For a wedding gift, it's worth ordering in good time.
A last note on timing: engraved pieces need a little lead time. Allow a few extra days and the gift will be ready in time. To the collection
