Best Wedding Gift from My Dad

Muro Box as Wedding Gift from My Dad (US)

Emily Gvino

My dad purchased the Muro Box for me as a wedding present for my wedding in June 2019. Music has always been a great connection between us, as he taught me how to play piano. I associate music boxes with my dad because he loves finding interesting ones, but he was always trying to find one that you could play multiple songs on and used to spend hours making the hole punch programmable music boxes.

The Muro Box is perfect because you can play whatever song you like easily, with excellent sound! The Muro Box came ready to play “You’ll Be in My Heart” by Phil Collins, our special song since I was a little girl. He would always play Phil Collins’ CD in the car; my dad, sister, and I would sing along, driving with the windows down in the summertime. We had every word memorized!

Since the song has such a special meaning to us, I chose it as our Father-Daughter dance at my wedding. It’s a beautiful song that perfectly describes a father-daughter relationship. When I opened up the Muro Box from my dad before my wedding and it played “You’ll Be in My Heart,” I immediately started crying! It was such a beautiful, enchanting sound and brought back all of those childhood memories. I tear up just thinking about it. Now, I will always have the Muro Box as a sentimental reminder of my childhood memories with my dad and our special dance at my wedding.

When he explained to me how it worked and how I had the first app-controlled mechanical music box in my hands, I was absolutely blown away! I was so excited by the engineering involved and to be able to play whatever song came to mind. You can easily use the app to update the songs and play whatever suits your mood.

Not only was the song selection incredibly special to us, but the Muro Box itself is gorgeous. You can tell it was expertly designed and it looks so modern. But it holds the vintage charm of what people love about music boxes – being able to see mechanics move as it plays your song. The Muro Box is now proudly displayed in my home and I smile whenever I see it and laugh whenever I let it play.

I highly recommend the Muro Box – it’s a lovely invention! Plus, the Muro Box team is wonderful. Shiao-Chen Tsai communicated very promptly and effectively with my dad, who requested this gift for my wedding. They even shipped their first prototype to us early, because my wedding date was before their official launch! We are so excited that they are bringing the Muro Box to the rest of the world.

Mrs. Emily Gvino

Behind the Story – A Tale from Taiwan

【A Special Request from the U.S.】

A father living in Ohio, USA, wrote to us in early 2019 with a heartfelt request: he hoped to buy a Muro Box in June as a wedding gift for his daughter. He wanted it to be the most meaningful gift he would ever give her—something truly special to present on her wedding day.

At the time, we were deeply moved but also faced a dilemma. Our music box had not yet officially launched, and there were still many uncertainties in production. So initially, we had to politely turn down his request.

【Dad’s Mission】

This devoted father from the U.S. didn’t give up. He wrote to us again and again, earnestly hoping we could help him fulfill his wish. After much discussion, our team decided to take on this mission—one we absolutely couldn’t afford to fail.

He chose the music box for a very personal reason: it symbolized a special bond between him and his daughter. “You Will Be In My Heart”, the theme song from Disney’s Tarzan, was their song—a shared memory woven into countless family road trips and father-daughter bedtime routines where they would sing it together.

For them, this song carried the story of their relationship from her childhood to adulthood. That’s why he wanted to present a music box playing this very song as a wedding gift—something he could give her by hand on that unforgettable day. To make this possible, we worked with a music arranger to adapt the song into a version playable on the Muro Box.

【Mission Accomplished】

This music box wasn’t just the first Muro Box to reach the Americas—it was the very first unit ever officially sold worldwide. (At the time, even our crowdfunding campaign on Zeczec had not yet shipped.) With everyone’s hopes riding on it, we carefully packed it up in Taiwan and sent it across the ocean to the U.S.

To be honest, we were extremely nervous. This was still a pre-production model, and if it were to stop working during the wedding… the consequences would have felt as devastating as ruining the most important day of his life.

【A Mission Fulfilled】

After we shipped the music box, we figured the delivery had gone smoothly—days passed with no news. Just as we were beginning to relax, we suddenly received an urgent email in the middle of the night (due to the time difference). It was Emily’s father in the U.S., asking for help—he didn’t know how to load the custom-arranged song into the music box.

Our whole engineering team was instantly alerted. In the middle of the night, everyone jumped in, brainstorming how to assist someone on the other side of the globe. Fortunately, we were able to manually upload the song into the device through our system. At last, the father could breathe a sigh of relief and take the Muro Box with him to the Caribbean for his daughter’s wedding.

(Note: Now we preload custom songs into the music box before shipping, so gift-givers don’t have to worry about setting it up themselves.)

This episode also inspired us to develop a new feature: adding songs by simply scanning a QR code in the app—just as easy as adding a friend on LINE.

We wish Emily a lifetime of happiness. May the Muro Box now carry on her father’s mission, accompanying her through every joyful milestone and the bittersweet moments of married life.

【The Music Box Is Our Shared Memory】

But the story didn’t end there. Two years later, in 2021, we suddenly received another message from Emily’s father. He told us he had two more daughters getting married—and he hoped to order two more Muro Boxes for them.

To all the loving fathers in the Muro Box community: thank you. Your love and cherished memories have brought to life the most heartfelt melodies ever played on a music box.

Muro Box as Wedding Gift from My Dad (US)

Emily Gvino

Behind the Story – A Tale from Taiwan

"Now, I will always have the Muro Box as a sentimental reminder of my childhood memories with my dad and our special dance at my wedding."

Emily Gvino

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