Summary: Quality antique furniture makes a great 17th year wedding anniversary gift. Find out more about buying antique furniture for an anniversary gift with tips from an antique appraiser in this free video about selecting wedding and anniversary presents.
Blake Kennedy is a graduate personal property appraiser, certified estate specialist and member of the Certified Appraisers Guild of America. Kennedy has owned Kennedy Brothers...read more
"Are you having a hard time finding that seventeenth year anniversary present? My name is Blake Kennedy and I'm with Kennedy Brothers Estate Services, I'm here to see if I can't help you out with that. The seventeenth year is a special year, the seventeenth year is the furniture year, that's what you can buy for your spouse on that seventeenth year. It's the year that the kids are probably out of the house, they're away to college, all that furniture that's been warn out throughout the years, it's time to go out and buy something special for each other. Furniture is a very, you can go cheap and you can go high, you obviously can go to all the furniture stores and buy that piece of furniture, like The Rooms To Go or American Signature but you might want to go to a special antique shop and see if you can't get that special antique piece that nobody else is going to have, that's going to be in your family, it's going to be an heirloom that you're going to pass onto your children because you're going to say "I remember when we bought that for each other on our seventeenth year anniversary". Furniture, you want to look for a very well built piece of furniture, you want to make sure they have the nice dovetails, make sure it's a European piece, whatever you like, your style, go out and find it. If you go to one of those antique shops, make sure you negotiate a little bit because it's a good time to buy a piece of furniture on that seventeenth year anniversary. My name is Blake Kennedy, good luck finding that special piece."
eHow Article: How to Buy a 17th Year Wedding Anniversary Gift