Personalized Presents & Anniversray Gifts By Year
Dahls…I want to tell you about a sweet tradtiton that my husband & I do every year for our anniversary & give y’all some fun, unique & personalized gift ideas for your own love, family & friends! There are also some beautiful traditions in this post that will help you keep the sweet in your relationship. It’s the little things like celebrating your monthiversary with cards, love notes, flowers & date night. You have to keep the romance alive.
I love gift giving! It always makes me so happy to see the smile & appreciation on a loved ones face when they open that special present you put the time & thought into picking out. My husband & I decided to follow Hallmark’s Tradition of the “Anniversary by Year” gift giving list. They have a list for 1-60th year anniversary gifts of what you are supposed to get your honey for your anniversary. They have traditional & modern choices for each year. Since we celebrate our anniversary of dating, which is a beautiful tradition & excuse for romance, we use the traditonal for one anniversary & the modern for the other.
For example…1st year anniversary traditional gift is paper…modern is a clock.
So for our 1st anniversray of dating my husband and I exchanged persoanlized stationary, love notes, a custom photo album “paper” (which can also be used for the 3rd year for “leather” & an engraved watch.
For our 1 year anniversary of dating my husband took me to Tahiti! Which counted as paper because of the airline tickets haha (I will do a travel blog post on our Tahiti trip really soon!) We wrote each vows…which we decided to make our tradition every year on our wedding anniversary…and read them to eachother that day. We save our vows every year. For our 2 year anniversary of dating he took me to Cabo (where we celebrated my bachelorette party) & he bought me a “cotton apron & bathing suit.
Here is the complete list of the Hallmark Taditional Anniversary gifts by year.
Anniversary | Traditional | Modern |
1st | Paper | Clocks |
2nd | Cotton | China |
3rd | Leather | Crystal/Glass |
4th | Fruit/Flowers | Appliances |
5th | Wood | Silverware |
6th | Candy/Iron | Wood |
7th | Wool/Copper | Desk Sets |
8th | Pottery/Bronze | Linens/Lace |
9th | Willow/Pottery | Leather |
10th | Tin/Aluminum | Diamond Jewelry |
11th | Steel | Fashion Jewelry |
12th | Silk/Linen | Pearls |
13th | Lace | Textile Furs |
14th | Animals* | Gold Jewelry |
15th | Crystal | Watches |
20th | China | Platinum |
25th | Silver | Silver |
30th | Pearl | Diamond |
35th | Coral | Jade |
40th | Ruby | Ruby |
45th | Sapphire | Sapphire |
50th | Gold | Gold |
60th | Diamond | Diamond |
Here are some gifts I’ve given to my family & friends….and some gifts my husband & I have exchanged. I hope they inspire you to get creative & make someone smile 🙂 These traditions have inspired us & keeps the romance special.
Here are some links to great products I talk about in this post!
Cotton, Leather & Lace “Victoria’s Secret” {2nd, 3rd & 11th year Traditional}
Copper Gifts “Nordstrom” {7th year taditional}
Cookware “William Sonoma” {2nd, 3rd & 5th year modern} Glass, Silverware, China
Selfie Toaster “Burnt Impressions” {4th year modern} Appliances
Dahl Pillow “Ballard Designs” {2nd year traditional} Cotton
Personalized Gifts, Raw Cotton, & Glassware Etsy
Etsy Personalized Pet Portraits
Picaboo Photo Books {1st year traditional} Paper
Personalized Recipe Book “Zazzle”
Personalized Necklace “Jenny Present” {11th year modern} Fashion Jewelry
Candy With a Twist “Picture Marshmellows” for {6th year traditional} Candy
Amazon …for everything else! Personalized t-shirts, “11th year Steel} radio flyer wheel barrow...
This is one of the photo books from Picaboo that I make my husband for birthdays, Christmas & of course…anniversaries (paper, leather…) Click on the highlighted link to receive special discounts for my Dolls!
Here are pictures that I had made on Etsy from pictures of our family doggies.
My husband loved the old time photo of our Gracie & Mom & Dad loved the pic of thier pup too!
So Aunt Linda loves her wine & Uncle Dick loves to fish & the 49ers. They have a cabin on Lake Tahoe & thier anniversary is on the 4th of July. The caricature tied in all of these things & brought thier personalities to life. It was thier 50th, so I tied in the gold by everyone at the party signing a congrats note with a “gold” sharpie for the happy couple. It was a hit & looked just like them! I found the artist the same place as I found the artist who did the doggie portraits…Etsy
Candy With A Twist made these edible Marshmellows with my Mom & Dad Dahl’s pic’s on it…I added them to a basket with a personalized casserole dish from “Personalization Mall”
Ok…this is one of my fav presents I’ve ever had made. It’s a pillow for all of our tickets on it. Everything from movie stubs, to concert tickets, to passport pages…I save it all. The pillow was made of cotton & it was for our 2 year dating anniversary. I’ll take you step by step on how to make your own…
- Buy a 12×12 or 20×20 cotton pillow (make if you sew)
- Buy a large poster board at craft store
- Collage together all your tickets
- Bring to a printer who makes T-shirts
- Have them scan your collage, size/format it & print it on the pillow
- November 01, 2015
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December 11, 2018Thanks for sharing this! I never post on blogs but found you googling anniversary gifts & gotta say...this gave me some great ideas. Thanks a lot.
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