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Anniversary gifts - Traditional & Modern

This is actually a pre-marital photo of my eldest nephew & now neice who have many happy anniversaries ahead of them! Christopher is a bit of a traditionalist so he'd probably choose from the first column for their anniversaries & I think Sian from the modern, but either way, they'll have some lovely presents from each other.

Anniversary	Traditional	Modern
1^st	Paper	Clocks
2^nd	Cotton	China
3^rd	Leather	Crystal/Glass
4^th	Fruit/Flowers	Appliances (please no!)
5^th	Wood	Silverware
6^th	Sweets/Iron	Wood
7^th	Wool/Copper	Desk sets
8^th	Pottery/Bronze	Linen/Lace
9^th	Willow/Pottery	Leather
10^th	Tin/Aluminium	Diamond jewellery (yes please!)
11^th	Steel	Fashion jewellery
12^th	Silk/Linen	Pearls
13^th	Lace	Textile furs (I’d prefer the real thing…)
14^th	Ivory	Gold jewellery
15^th	Crystal	Watches
16^th	Wax	Peridot
17^th	Shells	Furniture, watch
18^th	Feathers	Porcelain, Cat’s eye jewellery
19^th	Chilli pepper (?)	Bronze, Aquamarine
20^th	China	Platinum, Emerald
21^st		Brass, Nickel
22^nd		Copper
23^rd		Silver plate
24^th		Musical instruments
25th	Silver	Silver
26th		Original pictures
27^th		Sculpture
28^th		Orchids
29^th		New furniture
30^th	Pearl	Diamond
31^st		Time pieces
32^nd		Conveyances (cars etc!)
33^rd		Amethyst
34^th		Opal
35^th	Coral/Jade	Jade
36^th		Bone china
37^th		Alabaster
38^th		Beryl, Tourmaline
39^th		Lace
40^th	Ruby	Ruby, Garnet
41^st		Land
42^nd		Developed real estate
43^rd		Travel
44^th		Groceries (Really?)
45^th	Sapphire	Sapphire
46^th		Original poetry tribute
47^th		Books
48^th		Optical goods
49^th		Luxuries – any kind (to make up for last year)
50th	Gold	Gold
55^th	Emerald	Emerald, Turquoise
60^th	Diamond	Gold, Diamond
Every year after		Diamonds
100^th	10 Carat Diamond!

July 05, 2014 by Sue Smith

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Anniversary gifts - Traditional & Modern

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