Anniversary gifts by year
Wedding anniversaries celebrate your everlasting love for each other, and they are a good reason to spoil your loved one with a DIY gift, a romantic dinner, or a gorgeous diamond necklace - your pick!
Anniversary Year & Gifts ideas for Traditional / Modern meanings
First Paper / Clocks
Paper : A love letter, note book, address book, diary, book, love story, IOU love cheques
Clocks : watch (engraved for extra sentiment), antique fob, pocket watch, clock cufflinks
Second Cotton / China
Cotton: Sheets set, lingerie, clothing, carry bag, dressing gown, towels.
China: Pottery, vase, additional pieces to wedding crockery, pottery class, jewellery box, jewellery, ticket to China (maybe a little overboard),
Third Leather / Crystal/Glass
Belt; shoes/bag (women do love shoes and bags, men find them handy too; ipod/camera case - less romantic, but handy; champagne and champagne glasses (great on a romantic picnic); jewellery (this could be listed for each year, it is never wrong to give jewellery); keyring
Fourth Fruit/Flowers Linen (Silk) / Appliances
Favourite flower in a pot or in a painting; cut flowers are a great gift anytime; fruit accompanied by a picnic/chocolate dipping sauce/champagne. Grooming products are more romantic than a blender for anniversaries. Maybe a foot spa, electric shaver, coffee machine
Fifth Wood / Silverware
A log cabin somewhere lovely (big gestures are nice); holiday in a log cabin, or with a log fireplace; table; wooden sun lounge; chopsticks and dinner at a Chinese restaurant; photo frame; walk through the forest; Cake server (with cake); cheese knife, letter opener (with love letter to open) candle snuffer (with aromatic candles); photoframe; money box; jewellery box; keyring; jewellery; cufflinks
Sixth Candy/Iron / Wood
Seventh Wool/Copper Desk Sets
Eighth Bronze/Pottery Linens/Lace
Ninth Pottery/Willow Leather
Tenth Tin/Aluminum Diamond Jewellery
Eleventh Steel Fashion Jewelry
Twelfth Silk/Linen Pearls
Thirteenth Lace Textiles/Furs
Fourteenth Ivory Gold / Jewellery
Fifteenth Crystal / Watches
Twentieth China / Platinum
Twenty-fifth Silver/ Silver
Thirtieth Pearl/ Diamond
Thirty-fifth Coral (Jade) Jade
Fortieth Ruby / Ruby
Forty-fifth Sapphire / Sapphire
Fiftieth Gold Gold
Fifty-fifth Emerald / Emerald
