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How to Buy a Fifth-Year Wedding Anniversary Gift

By eHow Holidays & Celebrations Editor
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Celebrate five years of marriage with gifts of wood or clocks, the traditional anniversary gifts. Silverware represents the contemporary alternative.

Difficulty: Easy
Instructions

Things You'll Need:

  • Anniversary Greeting Cards
  • Firewood
  • Grandfather Clocks
  • Mantle Clocks
  • Picture Frames
  • Women's Watches
  • Silverware
  • Gift Certificates To Local Restaurant
  • Museum Tickets
  • Spa Gift Certificates
  • Symphony Tickets
  • Theater Tickets
  • Calendars
  • Theater tickets
  1. Step 1

    Decide between the traditional gift and the contemporary for the 5th anniversary of your marriage. When shopping for a couple, keep both partners in mind.

  2. Step 2

    Ask around for insight into the couple's taste and style, if you don't know them well. Try to think creatively, not literally.

  3. Step 3

    Interpret silverware as nourishment. How about serving pieces of soul nourishment à la a spa getaway, a weekend at a bed and breakfast, a gift certificate for dinner or enrollment in a class?

  4. Step 4

    Consider a traditional fifth-year gift of wood: a picture frame, firewood, a cello or a salad bowl. Or how about planting a tree for your partner?

  5. Step 5

    Interpret clocks - the other traditional gift - to mean watches, calendars, weekend getaways, babysitting, maid or chef services, or a grandfather or mantle clock.

  6. Step 6

    Imagine something they wanted and didn't get for a wedding gift, if you prefer unconventional gifts. Consider something fun like tickets to a symphony.

Tips & Warnings
  • If you do buy silverware, make sure it matches what they have, in spirit if not in pattern.
  • Monogrammed cake servers make for a thoughtful present. Or how about silver chopsticks?

Comments  

hedd said

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on 3/23/2007 And what about beautiful Wooden Celtic Love Spoons? Perfect as 5th Anniversary Gifts:

http://www.fifthweddinganniversary.com/

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