Wedding Anniversary Gift Baskets
Wedding anniversary presents mark an important day in a married couples’ life and celebrate another successful year together. After the thrill and excitement of the wedding has past the arrival of a first wedding anniversary is a special milestone for newly weds. Traditionally paper is the designated gift type for the first year although this can include pictures and photographs, celebratory certificates even paintings. Specialist stationary retail outlets these days offer an amazing array of beautiful writing papers and accessories. For a more contemporary present clocks and watches are now in vogue.
Each successive year of marriage brings with it a traditional present type and now contemporary, less traditional options have been added.
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Year Traditional Contemporary
1 Paper Clocks
2 Cotton China
3 Leather Crystal
4 Fruit/Flowers Appliances
5 Wood Silverware
6 Iron Candy
7 Wool Desk sets
8 Bronze Pottery
9 Pottery Linen
10 Tin Leather
11 Steel Jewellery
12 Silk Pearls
13 Lace Textiles
14 Ivory Gold
15 Crystal Watches
20 China Platinum
25 Silver Silver
30 Pearl Diamond
35 Coral Jade
40 Ruby Ruby
45 Sapphire Sapphire
50 Gold Gold
55 Emerald Emerald
60 Diamond Diamond
The difficulty in choosing a wedding anniversary present is that the gift must combine two different tastes in one gift, although that may not always be the case as many couples share similar interests. A good Ruby anniversary gift is a bottle of red wine dated to the year of the wedding, an original artwork with a gilded frame makes a fine Golden Wedding Anniversary present and for a 60th why not investigate diamond cut crystal wine glasses. An unusual 30th anniversary present could be Name A Star, where couples have a real star named after them.
Hobby Hampers – themed gift boxes and themed gift bags are a great alternative to sending a hamper.
Fossicking around independent art galleries and antique shops is a great way to source presents for years connected with pottery, bronze, tin, steel, wool, iron and china. Premium cotton bed sheets and pillow cases would suit silk, lace and cotton years and a gold pen set makes for a nice 50th wedding anniversary gift.
Gifts between husband and wife need to be carefully selected and personal. For example anniversary years which designate precious metals and stones an elegant piece of jewellery is always welcome, especially rings and earrings. Years with linen or textiles why not give a personalised family tree quilt, for pottery years a Hand Casting set would make an unusual but intimate present. Anniversary years denoted by wood, paper and metals a portrait painting framed in wood or metal provides an enduring gift. Another interesting Diamond Anniversary present is giving a Butterfly Release where the couple release hundreds of butterflies into the air.
