A wedding anniversary is the annual commemoration of a love bound that two people made. The importance of an anniversary and the way it is celebrated varies from one culture to another.
Convention has it that because each wedding anniversary signifies a milestone, a specific gift should be exchanged by the couple or gifted to them by their family and friends. No one exactly knows how these stories and old wives takes their place. The main thought behind it is that the materials of the gift for each wedding anniversary correspond with the strength and quality of the marriage at that stage. For instance, fundamentalists believe that a gift of paper or made of paper for a couple’s first wedding anniversary represent the delicate and fragile nature of relationships.
There are many people who still follow this tradition of materials and some use to take ideas out on them on mile stone wedding anniversaries like 1st, 5th 25th, 50th and 75th. The tradition of material according to wedding years is as follows, according to U.S and U.K.
Anniversary | UK | UK |
1st | Cotton | Paper |
2nd | Paper | Cotton |
3rd | Leather | Leather |
4th | Flowers | Silk |
5th | Wood | Wood |
6th | Sugar | Iron |
7th | Wool | Wool |
8th | Bronze | Bronze |
9th | Copper | Potter |
10th | Tin | Tin |
15th | Crystal | Crystal |
20th | China | China |
25th | Silver | Silver |
30th | Pearl | Pearl |
35th | Coral | Jade |
40th | Ruby | Ruby |
45th | Sapphire | Sapphire |
50th | Gold | Gold |
75th | Diamond | Diamond |
Gifting is not confined to the traditional material only. Many people don’t even bother about them and buy what they love to give. When thinking for an anniversary gift, flowers and chocolates are the most popular. A friend of mine lives in abroad with his family in the UK. Unfortunately, he is always not at the hometown on his wedding anniversary. He used to send online flowers UK to his wife. The interesting part of the gift is that the number of flowers is always equal to the number of wedding years.
You can always complement your wedding gift with flowers, chocolates, cakes and balloon for an added effect. The tradition of using the material as a wedding gift can easily be used by gifting something awesome in that material that is according to the time and taste of the receiver. Gifting according to this traditional list is a fun and the gifts will be remembered with the years of celebrations.