36th Wedding Anniversary

Traditional, Modern and Symbolic Anniversary Gifts

Below is a list of both traditional and modern gift materials, as well as classic flower and gemstone symbols, which mark a couple’s 36th wedding anniversary in countries around the world

Traditional Gift – UK		No Traditional Gift
Traditional Gift – US		No Traditional Gift
Traditional Gift – Spain		Silica
Traditional Gift – Germany		Emerald
Traditional Gift – Russia		Bone China
Traditional Gift – France		Muslin
Traditional Gift – Italy		Silica
Flower Gift		Tea Rose
Gemstone Gift		Cameo
Modern Gift		Bone China

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About 36th Wedding Anniversaries
How to Celebrate Your 36th Wedding Anniversary
Common Questions About the 36th Wedding Anniversary
36th Wedding Anniversary Gifts for Him
36th Wedding Anniversary Gifts for Her
36th Wedding Anniversary Gifts for Him, Her… and Parents

About 36th Wedding Anniversaries

As you celebrate your 36th wedding anniversary, there are no traditional items to symbolise another wonderful year of married life together. However, you could opt for a modern-day equivalent that is popularly associated with 36 years of married life: an exquisite gift made from bone china.

This soft-paste porcelain is stunning to look at and adds a regal and elegant touch when placed in your home. China is also noted for its strength and durability, thus symbolising a long-lasting marriage.

How to Celebrate a 36th Wedding Anniversary

If you have been maintaining a tradition of choosing travel destinations associated with gifts that symbolise each year’s anniversary, you will no doubt be planning another special trip to mark 36 years together.

With china being the contemporary showpiece of 36th wedding anniversary celebrations, now would be a great time to visit the vast and enchanting country of China.

Take in such venerable sights as the Great Wall of China or the Dragon’s Teeth Mountains in Yangzhou, a town in Guangxi province (south-western China). It is a hugely popular place to visit, for both western and Chinese travellers, thanks to its sublime natural beauty.

Great love affairs start with champagne and end with tisane.” Quoted by: Honoré de Balzac

36th Wedding Anniversary Gifts for Him, Her… and the Couple

Depending on your budget, a memorable and lasting gift would be a complete service of china, especially fitting for a couple who don’t have one yet and who entertain quite often. If they already have a service, additional matching or complementary pieces would also work particularly well.

For the couple who enjoy tea, a new bone china tea service that complements their living or dining room décor would be a much-appreciated and appropriate gift.

Alternatively, a bouquet of flowers always adds a stunning personal touch. Or you could book a lavish Chinese meal for just the two of you, or with friends and family.

COMMON QUESTIONS ABOUT THE 36TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

Q: What is the 36th wedding anniversary called?
A: The 36th wedding anniversary is popularly known as the Bone China Anniversary.

Q: What is the 36th wedding anniversary gemstone?
A: The 36th wedding anniversary does not have a traditional gemstone for this year but a modern gift option is a cameo – a piece of jewellery, typically oval in shape, consisting of a portrait in profile carved in relief on a different-coloured background.

Q: What is the 36th wedding anniversary symbol?
A: The symbol for a 36th wedding anniversary is bone china, noted for its strength and durability – and thus symbolising a long-lasting marriage.

Q: What is the 36th wedding anniversary colour?
A: The 36th wedding anniversary does not have any specific colour associated with it, so you are free to choose any colour theme you wish for this year’s celebration.

Q: What are the traditional and modern gifts for a 36th wedding anniversary?
A: We do not have a traditional gift for a 36th wedding anniversary; however, the modern gift for this year is bone china. Select a gift that reflects his, her or the couple’s special interest – be it a figurine, fine bone china tea set or personalised photo mug.

Q: What is the 36th year anniversary flower?
A: The 36th wedding anniversary flower is the tea rose, a garden rose with flowers that are typically pale yellow with a pink tinge and have a delicate scent said to resemble that of tea.

36th Wedding Anniversary Gifts for Him

What can I buy my husband for our 36th wedding anniversary?

Fun and quirky gifts are perfect for anniversary celebrations. If you cannot find exactly what you are looking for here, check out our other anniversary pages for hundreds more gift ideas.

• Sports equipment (relevant to your husband’s active pursuits)
• Wine or whisky tumblers
• Gadget accessories (desk fan, zoom lens, mini-drone for phone or tablet)
• Gift vouchers (books, gadgets, etc.)
• Quirky gifts (barbecue apron, T-shirt, etc.)

36th Wedding Anniversary Gifts for Her

What should I buy my wife on our 36th wedding anniversary?

We have more great anniversary gift suggestions below that would be ideal for your wife…

• Phone case (use a favourite photo for the cameo)
• Sponsor gift
• Selection of scented candles
• Animal speakers (or other themed gadget)
• Quirky gifts (funny apron, mug, wine glass, etc.)

36th Wedding Anniversary Gifts for Him, Her… and Parents

Experience Days For Him, Her & Couples

Travel & Experience Gifts

• Location visit
• Travel and activity gift vouchers
• Adventure days
• Food and drink (afternoon tea for two)
• Escape to the country (many locations to choose from)
• Luxury spa day for two
• Country pursuits (day at the races, clay pigeon shooting, etc.)

Jewellery

The traditional 36th wedding anniversary gemstone is cameo.

• Earrings
• Pendants
• Rings
• Necklace
• Tie Pin
• Cufflinks

Something Different & Unique

• For those with a healthy budget, or ready to break their travel “piggy bank”, plan that once-in-a-lifetime trip to China.
• If you are looking for something a little closer to home, reserve a table at an up-market tea-room and savour en elegant afternoon tea together (with bone china service, of course).
• Visit the Wedgwood Museum (now known as the V&A Collection at World of Wedgwood) in Barlaston, Stoke-on-Trent.
• Sign up for pottery classes and create your own dining set.

If you are a numbers person, these are the key details… On the 36th anniversary of your marriage you would have been married for 13,140 days or 315,360 hours or 18,921,600 minutes.

However, no matter how many years you have been together (now decades, in your case), each anniversary a couple celebrate being together is a poignant milestone. And it always warrants being recognised in grand style – and enjoyed thoroughly.

10 Fun Facts About Wedgwood

A fine china, porcelain and luxury accessories manufacturer, Wedgewood was founded in 1759 by English potter and entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood.

1. Josiah Wedgwood overcame smallpox in his youth, which left him without the full use of his right leg (he later had it amputated) and made it impossible for him to work with a traditional pedal-driven pottery wheel. This prompted him to focus on the science of ceramics and alternative methods of production.
2. Determined to produce a perfect glazed white body, he fulfilled that ambition in 1761 – after 411 experiments.
3. In  addition to being credited with the industrialisation of pottery, Wedgwood was a pioneer in the use of modern marketing techniques, including self-service, free delivery, illustrated catalogues, direct mail, money-back guarantees and buy one get one free offers.
4. His father died in 1737 and Josiah left school two years later at the age of nine to help earn income for the family. In spite of having no formal education, he invented the pyrometer – a type of thermometer designed to withstand the searing heat within kilns – and he was granted membership of the Royal Society.
5. An active anti-slave trade pioneer, he developed ceramic medallions to promote the humanitarian cause, featuring a relief of an African slave and the question, “Am I not a man and a brother?”
6. Josiah Wedgwood was grandfather to naturalist and evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin, and also to Charles’ wife (and cousin) Emma Wedgwood, whose brother married Darwin’s sister. (Josiah himself was married to his third cousin Sarah Wedgwood.)
7. Wedgwood is especially associated with “dry-bodied” (unglazed) Jasperware stoneware in contrasting colours, in particular “Wedgwood blue” and white.
8. In 1987 Wedgwood merged with Waterford Crystal to create Ireland-based luxury brands group Waterford Wedgwood. 
9. The V&A Wedgwood Collection in Stoke-on-Trent contains more than 165,000 pieces of historic ceramics, manuscripts and correspondence, as well as a fine art collection with works by Stubbs, Romney and Reynolds.
10. The Wedgwood Tea Room at World of Wedgwood offers visitors a mix of traditional English afternoon tea and bistro-style dining – all served on Wedgwood’s iconic china.

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