How to Buy an Anniversary Gift
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Anniversary gifts will make your anniversaries the happiest occasions in a couple's life. Whether celebrating your first year, or marking 25-year or 50-year milestones, anniversaries are times for couples to celebrate their enduring love. Giving presents to celebrating couples is customary.
Tips on buying an anniversary gift
Once you’ve set a budget, you’ll need to know the appropriate gift for a particular year. Consider the couple’s age. Younger folks married just a short time could probably still use household and kitchen items. Older couples would appreciate gifts to complement what they already have.
Themes
You can buy anniversary gifts according to traditional schedule guidelines. Anniversaries gifts marking year milestones include:
- 25th anniversary: silver
- 30th: pearl
- 35th: coral
- 40th: ruby
- 45th: sapphire
- 50th: gold
- 55th: emerald
- 60th: diamond
Gift suggestions
Values of the anniversary gift that you choose should reflect the significance of the years that have gone by, and mirror more expensive items or tastes. This list contains suggestions for both spouses and friends. Tie your choice of gifts to something they like to do as a hobby or together.
- 1st Paper. Frame a poem or love letter or commission an artist to sketch a wedding photograph on quality paper
- 2nd Cotton. Clothing, apparel items
- 3rd Leather. Briefcase, handbag, leather jacket, wallet
- 4th Linen. Imported linens
- 5th Wood. Artisan crafted jewelry, memento, cigar and other boxes
- 6th Iron. Wrought-iron, golf clubs
- 7th Wool. Sweaters, gloves, hats
- 8th Bronze. Sculpture
- 9th Pottery. Decorative vases, customized garden items
- 10th Tin/Aluminum. Metal sunglasses, digital camera, men’s tools, bicycle
- 11th Steel. Kitchen knives. Collectible knives and swords
- 12th Silk. Scarf, pajamas, apparel
- 13th Lace. Antique tablecloth, table runner, apparel
- 14th Ivory. Piano, candlesticks, clock, pipe
- 15th Crystal. Waterford, leaded glass, Swarowski, Polish crystal, crystal jewelry
- 20th China. Trip, imported place settings
- 25th Silver Tray, tie clip, goblets, antique coins, picture frames, broaches
- 30th Pearl. Earrings, necklace, mother-of-pearl inlaid items, string
- 35th Coral. Trip to tropics, coral beaded necklace, pendant
- 40th Ruby. Jewelry
- 45th Sapphire. Jewelry
- 50th Gold. Watch, clock, jewelry, chains, bracelet, broach
- 55th Emerald. Trip to Ireland, jewelry, ring
- 60th Diamond. Watch, jewelry, earrings, bracelet, rings
- 65th Blue Sapphire. Trip to Caribbean, Hawaii, jewelry
- 70th Platinum. Wedding ring, jewelry
- 75th Diamond. Customized jewelry
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