Traditional wedding anniversary gifts vary depending on the source, but common categories include paper, cotton, leather, fruit/flowers/silk/linen, wood, iron/candy, and ceramic/bronze. Each category has associated gift ideas, such as calligraphic poems for paper and leather-bound books for leather. Personal taste and creativity can be used to blend tradition with individual style.
Traditional categories of wedding anniversary gifts aren’t universally agreed upon. Some years offer a choice, depending on which source you look at. Here is a conglomeration of different sources to show the range of categories considered standard for the most commonly celebrated years.
anniversary
gift
Name
Carta
Second
Cotton/Calico
Third
Leather/Linen
Quarto
Fruits/Flowers/Silk/Linen
Quinto
Wood
Sixth
Iron/Candy
Seventh
Rame/Lana
Eighth
Ceramic/Bronze
Nono
Willow/Ceramics/Straw/China
Tenth
Tin/Aluminium
eleventh
Steel cabinets
Twelfth
Silk/Linen
Thirteenth
Protection payment
Fourteenth
Ivory
Fifteenth
Crystal
Twentieth
Chinese
Twenty-fifth
Argento
Thirtieth
Pearl
thirty-fifth
Coral/Jade
Fortieth
Rubino
Quarantacinquesimo
Sapphire
Fiftieth
Oro
Fifty-fifth
Emerald
Sixtieth
Diamond
Seventy-fifth
Diamond/Gold
Some of these categories have particular types of gifts associated with them, and some may not seem obvious. The card, for example, is often interpreted as a calligraphic poem, a book or a framed paper of some importance to the couple, including a photograph. Cotton or calico can take the form of a special piece of clothing or a particularly attractive quilt or tapestry. Leather goods include leather-bound books or albums, jewelery cases, wallets, purses and garments.
Fruit and flower anniversary gifts include elaborate food baskets and live plants, and can cover both categories at once with the gift of a fruit tree, such as a cherry. Wooden objects included carved statues, jewelry boxes, and music boxes, as well as live trees and wooden furniture. Ironware includes patio furniture and other decorations, wine racks, lanterns, and decorative wrought iron pieces.
Copper can take the form of sculptures, jars, vases, lanterns, vases or jewellery, while wool can be a beautiful blanket, plaid, shawl or other clothing or furnishings. Pottery can include tableware, and for punster, the combination of pottery and willow could lead to willow pottery, the popular pattern developed by Josiah Spode from a Chinese pattern. One might also turn to wicker, which is often made from willow, for an anniversary gift. There are many possibilities for each year, and it can be fun to see how creative you can be, blending tradition with personal taste and style.
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