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Anniversary Gifts

Example Questions That Can Be Answered Using This FAQ

• What is an appropriate gift for a couple’s silver wedding anniversary?
• My friends have been together seven years. What’s the correct gift?

There are two lists of appropriate gifts: a traditional list and a modern-day list.

Note: There is only a traditional gift for every fifth year after the 15th anniversary.

• About.com's Marriage section lists "traditional" and "modern" gifts.
• Wedding Anniversary Gifts, from the Santa Cruz Public Library's Ready Reference section online, as listed in Hostess Book, by the ed. of the Women's Pages of the Milwaukee Journal. The Journal Co., 1928, as reported by Scannings, May/June 85.s.
• Weddings Online's Anniversary Gift Guide lists "traditional" and "modern-day" gifts, and has a tremendous amount of other interesting information about ceremonies relating to weddings as well.