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What are the gifts for each wedding anniversary?

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Gifts For Anniversaries

Appropriate anniversary gift giving for the first, fifth, tenth, fifteenth, twentieth, twenty-fifth and fiftieth years of marriage. Gifts in the early years of marriage were small remembrances, or tokens, such as paper (1st), wood (5th), and tin (10th). In later years of matrimony, gifts gained value, including crystal (15th), china (20th), silver (25th) and gold (50th). The light-hearted nature of early anniversary gift giving, saying "the paper, wooden and tin presents are seldom anything but jokes but, still mean something to many people. Crystal is the earliest that is likely to be taken seriously by the gift-bearers."

Year

Traditional

Modern

1st Wedding Anniversary
paper
clock

2nd Wedding Anniversary
cotton/straw
china

3rd Wedding Anniversary
leather
crystal/glass

4th Wedding Anniversary
books/flowers/fruit
linen/silk

5th Wedding Anniversary
wood
silverware

6th Wedding Anniversary
iron/sugar
wood

7th Wedding Anniversary
copper/wool
desk set

8th Wedding Anniversary
bronze/pottery
lace/linen

9th Wedding Anniversary
pottery/willow
leather

10th Wedding Anniversary
aluminum/tin
diamond jewelry

11th Wedding Anniversary
steel
fashion jewelry

12th Wedding Anniversary
linen/silk
color gems/pearls

13th Wedding Anniversary
lace
furs/textiles

14th Wedding Anniversary
ivory
gold jewelry

15th Wedding Anniversary
crystal
watches

20th Wedding Anniversary
china
platinum

25th Wedding Anniversary
silver
silver

30th Wedding Anniversary
pearls
diamond jewelry

35th Wedding Anniversary
coral
jade

40th Wedding Anniversary
ruby
ruby

45th Wedding Anniversary
sapphire
sapphire

50th Wedding Anniversary
gold
gold

55th Wedding Anniversary
emerald
emerald

60th Wedding Anniversary
diamond
diamond

70th Wedding Anniversary
diamond/platinum
platinum

75th Wedding Anniversary
diamond
diamond

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