Guide to Wedding Anniversary Gifts

Below is a year-by-year guide to the traditional wedding anniversary gifts with some suggestions on what you can buy your significant other or married friends.

Year One: Paper
Ideas: tickets to a gig or experience day, date night idea cards, gift voucher, portrait/art, books, love letter, wedding photo prints, personalised stationery, magazine subscription

Year Two: Cotton
Ideas: personalised robes, personalised towels, bedding/quilt, cotton flowers, tableware (tablecloth, placemats, napkins)

Year Three: Leather
Ideas: handbag, purse or wallet, suitcase, leather photo album, belt, shoes, diary/journal, furniture, passport holder, luggage tags

Year Four: Fruit & Flowers
Ideas: flower bouquet, plant, fruit basket, chocolate-dipped strawberries, floral-scented perfume or candle, pressed flower art

Year Five: Wood
Ideas: wooden photo frame, special wine in an oak box, personalised sign, keepsake box, romantic weekend in a log cabin, hike through the woods, plant a tree, kitchenware, furniture

Year Six: Sugar
Ideas: afternoon tea, chocolates, biscuits, sweet-smelling candles or perfume

Year Seven: Copper & Wool
Ideas: cashmere clothes, woollen blankets, copper home or kitchenware

Year Eight: Bronze
Ideas: bronze ornament, homeware, cookware, unusual jewellery or art/sculptures, bronze-coloured accessories

Year Nine: Pottery & Willow
Ideas: willow hamper, pottery making lesson, personalised mugs, kitchenware, dinnerware, vase, wicker furniture

Year Ten: Tin
Ideas: keepsake box, candlesticks, engraved hip flask, a gift in a metal box

Year Eleven: Steel
Ideas: watch, cufflinks, hip flask, cocktail shaker set, bicycle, cookware

Year Twelve: Silk
Ideas: silk pyjamas or robes, lingerie, silk sheets, ties, scarves

Year Thirteen: Lace
Ideas: lingerie or lace dressing gown, tableware (tablecloths, placemats, lace-edged napkins)

Year Fourteen: Ivory
Ideas: ivory may have once been given as a 14th wedding anniversary gift, it is now an unethical choice due to the decline of worldwide elephant populations, instead, give gifts that feature elephants such as art prints or ornaments or donate to an elephant sanctuary

Year Fifteen: Crystal
Ideas: jewellery, glassware, vase, chandelier, candlesticks

Year Twenty: China
Ideas: dinnerware, vase

Year Twenty-Five: Silver
Ideas: jewellery, cufflinks, watch, photo frame, pen, silverware

Year Thirty: Pearl
Ideas: jewellery, a diving experience, anything adorned with mother-of-pearl or pearl-like accents

Year Thirty-Five: Coral
Ideas: underwater experience, coral-coloured homeware such as napkins, cushions or candles, dinner at a seafood restaurant

Year Forty: Ruby
Ideas: ruby jewellery, red flowers, red wine

Year Forty-Five: Sapphire
Ideas: sapphire jewellery, sapphire blue-coloured accessories or homeware

Year Fifty: Gold
Ideas: gold jewellery, watches, home accessories

Year Fifty-Five: Emerald
Ideas: emerald jewellery, emerald green-coloured accessories or homeware

Year Sixty: Diamond
Ideas: diamond jewellery
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