About Us

Ribbon & Tag is an independent British website about personalised gifts: choosing them, personalising them and giving them well. We write about engraved glassware, photo frames, keepsake boxes, cufflinks and sweet jars, and about the occasions they are given for.

Not a shop

The happinessisagift.co.uk domain was once home to an online shop selling personalised gifts, which no longer trades from this address. We are a separate, independent publication. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to that business, its owners or any other gift retailer. We do not sell products, take orders, process payments or handle deliveries, and we cannot help with orders placed with any shop in the past.

Gifts for every event

What we kept is the subject and the spirit: the idea that a well-chosen present, made personal with a name or a date, is one of the simplest ways to make someone happy. All occasions are covered, from birthdays, weddings, christenings and anniversaries to Christmas and Father's Day, and the departments of the old shop live on as independent guides: By Occasion, Glassware, Keepsakes, Gifts for Her, Gifts for Him, Kids and more.

Our Luck & Play department covers gifts for poker players, racegoers, golfers and anyone who enjoys a flutter, with lottery syndicates and Premium Bonds explained.

How we work

Our guides are written and edited by the Ribbon & Tag editors. We check facts against official sources (the Gambling Commission, NS&I, HMRC, the royal household and the organisers of sporting events), hedge where details change from year to year and update articles when they do. Prices mentioned are rough guides only. Nothing on this site is financial or legal advice.

Brand names and trademarks mentioned belong to their owners and are used only to describe them. Photographs are from Wikimedia Commons and are credited under each image.

Corrections, ideas or questions? Contact the editors.