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Traditional and modern anniversary gifts

Looking for gift ideas for your friends' and relatives' wedding anniversaries? Wondering what to ask for for your own anniversary? Most people have heard that the twenty-fifth wedding anniversary is the Silver anniversary, and that the fiftieth is the Golden anniversary, but there are traditional gifts for the first fifteen anniversaries as well, and then for every fifth anniversary after the fifteenth! There's also a modern version of this list of traditional gifts, which changes the order of many of the traditional gifts and replaces others with more contemporary items. Read on to see which gifts go with which anniversaries!

 

Traditional

Modern

First

Paper

Clocks

Second

Cotton

China

Third

Leather

Crystal/Glass

Fourth

Fruit/Flowers

Appliances

Fifth

Wood

Silverware

Sixth

Candy/Iron

Candy/Iron

Seventh

Wool/Copper

Desk Sets

Eighth

Bronze/Pottery

Bronze/Pottery

Ninth

Pottery/Willow

Linen/Lace

Tenth

Tin

Leather

Eleventh

Aluminum

Jewelry

Twelfth

Silk/Linen

Pearls

Thirteenth

Lace

Textiles/Furs

Fourteenth

Ivory

Gold Jewelry

Fifteenth

Crystal

Watches

Twentieth

China

Platinum

Twenty-Fifth

Silver

Silver

Thirtieth

Pearl

Diamond

Thirty-Fifth

Coral

Jade

Fortieth

Ruby

Ruby

Forty-Fifth

Sapphire

Sapphire

Fiftieth

Gold

Gold

Fifty-Fifth

Emerald

Emerald

Sixtieth

Diamond

Diamond

 

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