How to Buy a First-Year Wedding Anniversary Gift
Celebrate one year of marriage with paper gifts from the traditional list. Clocks represent the contemporary alternative. Of course you can get creative and buy whatever you like, but if you want to do it the traditional way, here's what goes.
- Difficulty:
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Instructions
Things You'll Need
- Chef Services
- Gift Ribbons
- Theater tickets
- Newspaper Subscriptions
- Tissue paper
- Anniversary Greeting Cards
- Wrapping Paper
- Garden Sundials
- Magazine Subscriptions
- Mantle Clocks
- Music Gift Certificates
- Women's Watches
- Gift Bags
- Personalized Stationery
- Grandfather Clocks
- Gift Bows
- Calendars
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Decide between the traditional gift and the contemporary for the first anniversary of your marriage. When shopping for a couple, keep both partners in mind.
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Try to think creatively, not literally.
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Shop successfully for a couple by asking around for insight into their taste and style, if you don't know them well.
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Consider the following paper gifts, if you opt for a present from the traditional list: engraved stationery, a book, a scrapbook, a newspaper or magazine subscription, or even a tree to plant in the backyard.
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Interpret clocks to mean watches, calendars, weekend getaways, babysitting, maid or chef services, or a grandfather or mantel clock.
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Consider a more unconventional purchase. Think of something they wanted but didn't get for a wedding gift, or something fun that would enhance their marriage, such as rock-climbing lessons.
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Tips & Warnings
An expensive gift might overwhelm the couple so opt for a moderately-priced item.
The card enclosed should set the mood; funny cards indicate joke presents.
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Comments
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Polina Starodubtseva
Feb 21, 2011
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therese50
Aug 28, 2010
A couple of anniversaries ago my husband had a very special gift handmade for me, it is made from a recycled book, it is extremely decorative with paper filigree roses and very ornate 3D gold paper hearts. Mine has a poem that we said to each other in place of wedding vows, so it is very special to us, and photo's of us on our wedding day. Many visitors pass comments on the book as it sits on the mantle on its own display stand, they all say how unusual and beautiful the book is. The lady who makes these original gifts works out of her own home, but she also has a website Google Pages from the Heart gift books. She will make gift books up for almost any occasion ,but with them being a book (paper)and decorated with paper decorations I think they would make a particularly unique and appropriate first anniversary gift.
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writer7
Aug 12, 2010
Good tips. How about a portrait or family album filled with pictures for a personal touch.
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Larry Fike
Aug 12, 2010
You can wrap something non-traditional in paper, and then jokingly announce that the wrapping is the main gift that honors tradition. (Depending upon your spouse's sense of humor!) Fun article. Thanks.
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scentbygod
Apr 17, 2009
Great 5*
