Check out our comprehensive list of wedding anniversaries and anniversary names from the 1st to the 30th. Select the one that’s next for you, and gain some wonderfully creative inspiration. Including how best to celebrate this special day… and traditional, modern and quirky gifts you can buy for your partner.
1st Wedding Anniversary
Congratulations on your 1st wedding anniversary. You might very well be thinking to yourself, where did that time go? It only seemed like yesterday you were making a commitment to spend the rest of your life… read more
2nd Wedding Anniversary
The celebration of your 2nd wedding anniversary is popularly known as the Cotton Anniversary. Like the interwoven fibres of cotton, the second year of marriage brings a couple closer together as their lives… read more
3rd Wedding Anniversary
Also known as the Leather Anniversary, your 3rd wedding anniversary is all about durable, warm, strong and flexible qualities that highlight stability in a relationship. The 3rd wedding anniversary is… read more
4th Wedding Anniversary
A 4th wedding anniversary is popularly known as the Fruit and Flowers Anniversary, representing a couple’s blossoming partnership. To mark this fourth year of marriage, flowers are an appropriate… read more
5th Wedding Anniversary
Can you believe that the two of you are now celebrating your 5th wedding anniversary and have been married for half a decade? How quickly time goes by – at least for many couples. Clearly a 5th wedding… read more
6th Wedding Anniversary
Celebrating your 6th wedding anniversary is a perfect time to rekindle the flames of love and passion that brought the two of you together in the first place. Sugar is a theme you can use… read more
7th Wedding Anniversary
The key symbols representing your 7th wedding anniversary are copper and wool – both known for producing heat. Highlighting warmth, comfort, safety and security, these elements are… read more
8th Wedding Anniversary
Celebrating an 8th wedding anniversary is another opportunity to commemorate your wedding vows in style. Finding the right gift that shows your partner how much you… read more
9th Wedding Anniversary
Can you believe that the two of you have shared almost a decade of marriage together? Ample reason (if one were needed) to make sure you find a meaningful, exceptional and personal anniversary gift for your loved one… read more
10th Wedding Anniversary
This is the first seriously epic milestone of your married lives: the 10th wedding anniversary. Popularly known as the Tin Anniversary, it marks 10 years since you shared your wedding vows – an initial decade… read more
11th Wedding Anniversary
After the excitement last year of celebrating your first decade of happy marriage, renewed congratulations for your 11th wedding anniversary. The steely resolve of your shared lives is highlighted during this year’s celebration… read more
12th Wedding Anniversary
The journey to your 12th wedding anniversary has no doubt been eventful – in a positive way, of course. Hopefully, you have been able to sail on smooth waters, although some couples will have encountered… read more
13th Wedding Anniversary
Ignore superstitions and urban legends when you celebrate your 13th wedding anniversary, also popularly known as the Lace Anniversary. For many, the number 13 is associated with… read more
14th Wedding Anniversary
Ivory is a wonderfully appropriate traditional symbol for your 14th wedding anniversary – albeit with an important caveat when it comes to buying gifts. Rare and beautiful… read more
15th Wedding Anniversary
The years are starting to add up in quite impressive fashion as you celebrate your 15th wedding anniversary. Clearly, your lives together are bringing you enduring joy, love and… read more
16th Wedding Anniversary
As there is no traditional gift or symbol associated with the 16th wedding anniversary in the United Kingdom or United States, there is no official “popular” name for this year’s celebration… read more
17th Wedding Anniversary
Seventeen years married… As you celebrate your 17th wedding anniversary, are you feeling like a teenager again? Well, just a little. Looking back at what it means for many to be 17, the most… read more
18th Wedding Anniversary
Eighteen… the age when grown-up children frequently leave home to study and many parents are once again on their own. Perhaps this is the case as you celebrate your 18th wedding anniversary… read more
19th Wedding Anniversary
Your 19th wedding anniversary is popularly known as the Bronze Anniversary, symbolising a tougher, resilient and more durable relationship after nearly two decades together… read more
20th Wedding Anniversary
For many, this 20th wedding anniversary is most likely the first to be celebrated with your children, other family members and close friends. So congratulations on this amazing personal… read more
21st Wedding Anniversary
Last year you reached the significant milestone of being married for 20 years and celebrating your China Anniversary. That certainly doesn’t mean, however, that this year’s 21st anniversary should feel anything like an anti-climax… read more
22nd Wedding Anniversary
Your 22nd wedding anniversary might not seem particularly special – if only considering its numerical significance. However, every year of a successful marriage deserves to be recognised in style… read more
23rd Wedding Anniversary
Your 23rd wedding anniversary is represented by diverse symbols that give the celebrations a sparkling significance. Silver plate is both a traditional and a modern gift… read more
24th Wedding Anniversary
Music is in the air if you are celebrating your 24th wedding anniversary. Popularly known as the Musical Instrument Anniversary, this is the year when the soothing – and often romantic… read more
25th Wedding Anniversary
Your 25th wedding anniversary is a momentous and joyous celebration. After a quarter-century together, your relationship is a shining example of love and commitment – so an especially effusive congratulations… read more
26th Wedding Anniversary
The 26th wedding anniversary is often a time when couples start to reframe their lives. After the festive jubilation of the previous year’s silver milestone, the focus returns to everyday aspects of married life and… read more
27th Wedding Anniversary
There are no traditional symbols commemorating the 27th wedding anniversary – but that is no reason to be deterred. Twenty-seven years is an impressively long time to be married, and fully justifies… read more
28th Wedding Anniversary
The 28th wedding anniversary is frequently a year of major adjustment. As you celebrate 28 years of marriage, this is a wonderful moment to reflect on how far the two of you have journeyed together… read more
29th Wedding Anniversary
You might still be 12 months short of another major marriage milestone, but celebrating your 29th wedding anniversary is just as important as any other. The numbers tell it all… read more
30th Wedding Anniversary
It has a wonderful ring to it: 30th wedding anniversary. A magnificent moment for any married couple achieving such a remarkable milestone. Also referred to as the Pearl Anniversary… read more
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