Lapel Pins Made Our Class Reunion
I’ve been on the planning committee for my college class reunion ever since our first celebration back in 1985, the fifth year after we’d graduated. That was a wild one. We were still pretty young and most of us weren’t married or settled down at that point, so the bar was hopping. We gave away embossed shot glasses. Once we hit the ten year mark, things slowed down. I wanted to give away something as a real memento of the event, something that would encourage our class to continue to feel the pride in what we’d achieved and their membership in our exclusive little club. I’d gotten the idea to order lapel pins after seeing how popular they were in commemorating other events like the Olympics and besides, they look really classy.
I was outvoted that year and the following get together as well. I think we ended up printing a run of tee shirts one year and baseball caps the next. They were okay, I guess, but I can hardly remember them and I was the one who helped design the graphics. I suspected that if we’d gone with custom lapel pins instead, people would have really valued the giveaway instead of throwing it into the back of their closet or donating it to a charity. Actually, I remember the teeshirt now. My husband’s using it as an oil rag in his shop. Oh well, we tried. Something happened and we ended up having to skip the 20th graduation reunion, but for the twenty-fifth this year, I pulled out all the stops. I immediately put my foot down when Sarah started to suggested the shirt idea again, then I ran a little presentation I’d put together based on lapel pins from Pin Pros.
Our school crest is a very colorful, but elegant one and prominently features a majestic eagle. I showed the committee a mockup of just how beautiful this design could look as an enamel lapel pin. Pin Pros offers the option of either soft or hard enamel, but by going with hard enamel, the pins are going to last well into the future, at least to our 50th reunion. For those who want to know, hard enamel custom lapel pins are stamped out of brass metal, then up to six different colors of enamel are poured into the depressions formed by the stamping process, fired at high temperatures and then polished for that bright and classy look. They just look fabulous.
This time I won the committee over unanimously. Even though the hard enamel was the most expensive of the lapel pin options, by going through pinpros.com, we got free UPS ground shipping included in the price and with 200 pins at 2” each, we paid only $2.80 for each of the pins. The celebration was a success, the lapel pins were a huge hit and we’ve decided to hold a contest among our kids to design the artwork for our custom lapel pins for 2015.
