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!

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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!

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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

 

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“Top Dad” shirt made with love &  personalized with the kids names

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Personalized necklace from Jenny Present 

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My sweet love had a personalized recipe book made for me for Christmas with “Mrs. Dahlicious” enscribed on it…I cried.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Candy With A Twist made these edible Marshmellows with my Mom & Dad Dahl’s pic’s on itI added them to a basket with a personalized casserole dish from “Personalization Mall”

 

 

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Personalized pillow from Ballard Designs “The Dahls”

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Ticket Stub Pillow

 

 

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

 

 

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    Mrs. Dahlicious custom Apron from Doll Street & will be available to purchase on the blog Coming soon!

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    My baby had this shirt made & wore it all around Disney for Valentine’s Day 🙂

     

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    Cute little idea instead of a gift basket…put all your baby gifts in a little radio flyer wheel barrow. I put a baby pic of the birthday boy on a star cut out attached to the bow & I used it as the name tag.

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Wooden recipe box given to us as a shower gift by my sister-in-law Cheri

 

 

 

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Made a mug for my hot chocolate addicted husband from “Personalization Mall”

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Raw cotton, white porcelin mason jar from Etsy {Lavalier Emporium}, wooden electronic salt & pepper mill grinders from Williams Sonoma

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Had a “Selfie Toaster” from Burnt Impressions made for my Mama Dahl with both her sons baby pics on the toaster burner templates. She LOVED it! A put it in a box with bread {Brett} & Butter {which was Braden’s nickname growing up because his baby bro couldn’t pronounce brother :)}

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Raw cotton stems available on Etsy

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Galvanized bucket with drink dispenser. Great for a gift & for the 3rd year {modern} anniversary gift. Available on Amazon.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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A wedding gift from our cousin Missy & great idea for the 3rd midern anniversary! {Personalization Mall}                                                                                                                  

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Custom Cutting Board with our wedding date 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nanci Dahl
About me

Welcome Dahlings, I’m so happy you’ve taken the time to drop by my circus. I started this blog because I hope to inspire my fellow dahls with tips on how to be happy, healthy & fabulous! There will be fashion, beauty & travel tips from years in the entertainment industry. Everything from planning a party to trying to get pregnant…you’ll find it right here! We’ll talk about my “letter to God” to find my soul-mate, getting married in just 6 months, moving across the country from Nashville, Tennessee to Orange County, California and combining our country-coastal lifestyles together. I come from a big Italian family so there will be food & lots of it! I’ll share my Dahlicious recipes I learned how to make while being a contestant on MasterChef…and some family recipes that I will most likely be disowned for sharing ;) Please leave me any questions, comments or concerns…I really appreciate all your sweet support! I’m looking forward to getting to know all my dahls & making some new friends!

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Reply December 11, 2018

Thanks 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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