Ten Creative Divorce Products

Throughout our lives, from birth to death, we acknowledge significant life events with various rites and ceremonies. Baptisms, christenings, confirmations, graduations, birthdays and weddings are some of the traditional celebrations in one’s life. And when we pass on, there are funerals, the final ceremony in the celebration of our life.

A divorce is the final termination of a marital union, canceling the legal duties and responsibilities of marriage and dissolving the bonds of matrimony between the parties. It is basically the death of a marriage, yet people don’t typically acknowledge a divorce with any sort of ceremony.  A divorce is just as significant an event as a marriage but for the most part it just happens without any ceremonies or rites. With an increasing number of people finding this odd, there is now a growing trend to treat divorce as a rite of passage, similar to a wedding.

By acknowledging a divorce with a ceremony, you’ll definitely find the experience to be cathartic, giving you a real sense of closure and helping you to “bury the past and move on to a new tomorrow.”

Due to this growing trend of celebrating divorce, there is an expanding market for divorce products.

Wedding Ring Coffin

When a marriage dies, what should be done with the wedding ring? Until now, millions of wedding rings have been banished to remote corners of sock and underwear drawers. Now you can give these wedding rings the proper final resting place they deserve. The Wedding Ring Coffin is made of solid wood and has a dark glossy mahogany finish. The coffin measures 6 1/4″ long x 2 1/4″ wide x 2 3/8″ high. The interior is lined with black velvet and includes a ring insert to comfortably and securely hold your wedding ring. Each Wedding Ring Coffin comes with an engraved brass plaque bearing a message which conveys your final thoughts about your marriage. At your divorce party, give your marriage an eulogy and the place your wedding ring in the Wedding Ring Coffin. Some people go a step further and literally bury their Wedding Ring Coffin.

Divorce Cake

Wedding cake is one of the most important parts of the whole wedding ceremony, with lots of time and energy put into choosing a design and cake tastings. But what happens when you get divorced? Well, you should get a cake too. …but this time, get a divorce cake!

Divorce Gift Registry

Did your ex get your favorite household things in the divorce? Don’t worry, now you can head down to Debenhams department store and register for some more. Debenhams has launched what is thought to be the UK’s first ‘divorce gift list’ for couples who are splitting up.

Divorce results in one partner leaving and then having the need to fit out an entire new house with cookware, linen and electric goods.

Peter Moore, Head of Retail Services at Debenhams, said: “Divorcing can be an expensive time and registering for a Divorce Gift List means that family and friends can help the newly separated begin their new life.” “Unlike a wedding list which tends to be full of luxury items, I think this is going to be more basic,People will get towels, bed linens, irons, toasters and kettles.” Attridge said.

Go ahead and add lots of stuff to your divorce gift registry. Hopefully all those family members who said it wouldn’t last will be willing to chip in and buy you a little, “I told you so gift.”

Divorce Ring

With this ring, I thee wed …. and with this one, I thee … divorce?

That’s right – jewelers Spritzer and Furman created this symbolic ring to commemorate the ending of a marriage. At $3,200 it’s a cheap price to pay for saying goodbye to someone you (used to) love.

Divorce Photo Album

Italian photographer Gianni Fasolini heard that the divorce rate is going up and got a brilliant idea. People take wedding photos, so why not offer them a divorce photo album as well? “People celebrate a marriage as a milestone in their lives, but a divorce is an important event too,” he explained. The 45-year-old added: “I have been doing photos of weddings and marriage ceremonies for years, day in and day out, and people told me they like having a photo marking important events in their lives.”

“Then I got to thinking that maybe there would be some demand for people marking their divorces and so I started to offer photo sessions for freshly divorced couples – them smiling or shaking hands or in some cases even kissing.

Divorce Music Album

During divorce everyone feels a little depressed. That’s why hearing a CD with the greatest divorce music may be a good option. It combines music from all genres and eras into one package.

Divorce iPhone App

A new iPhone app is offering what it claims to be ‘legal advice and guidance’ to people contemplating divorce.

The £9.99 programme – snappily titled Divorce? A Comprehensive Guide To Divorce In England And Wales – was written by one of the UK’s leading family lawyers, Peter Martin, head of family law at OGR Stock Denton and author of the Good Practice Guides for the UK College of Family Mediators and an examiner for the Family Law Panel.

It contains various sections that ‘intuitively’ guide a user through what their options are should a relationship break down.

There is a chapter devoted to applying for a divorce, while others deal with children, financial issues, choosing a lawyer and working out budgets.

Divorce? can be downloaded to any iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch and is available to buy in Apple’s AppStore.

The app doesn’t encourage (or trivialize) divorce – one of Peter’s first statements is that he’s seen far too many people give up on their marriages far too easily and even links to some marriage guidance counselling sites.

But if you’re a bit further along in that process, the app is a pocket-sized guide that lays out lots of the information you might find useful and that you can discreetly take with you for some quite reading. The app is far from flash – it’s basically a book with lots of hyperlinks embedded. But if you’re thinking about ending you marriage of 20 years then you probably aren’t interested in lots of flash animation and bright colours. At £9.99 the app gives your first lesson in divorce – it’s an expensive business.

Detachable Playhouse for Children of Divorced Parents

Ben Forman designed a unique playhouse called the Detacho Playhouse that incorporate the issue of divorce, something a lot of children face every day yet is ignored by toy makers.

This reconfigurable toy allows kids to work though the often complicated new domestic dynamic — without judgment. One house becomes two, and nobody has be wrong, or take the blame — there’s even a way to configure it so there’s a separate house for mom or dad’s new partner.

Divorce Survival Kit

Give the man who’s going through a divorce a little moral support with this Divorce Survival Kit for Him. The kit includes: A Nudie Book – for those lonely nights ahead; Spanish Fly Pill – if he ever gets another date; Legal Fee Voucher – free consultation with Wee, Fukkem, and Howe Law Firm; Self-Esteem Cream – to rubbed where he needs it most; Toothbrush – to brush the bad taste in his mouth.

Kitchen Utensil

Not only functional, but also therapeutic, “The Ex” Knife Set and Holder ($69.99) is a five-piece knife set plus holder that makes for the perfect gift and a guaranteed conversation piece. Constructed with heavy-gauge durable stainless steel, each knife offers a razor-sharp precision cutting blade and a hollow, ergonomically designed for comfortable handle.

As you celebrate your divorce, remember that it isn’t just the end of your marriage; you’re also at the beginning of a whole new chapter in your life. So celebrate the new beginning! Bury the past and move on to a new tomorrow.