Add Joyful Meanings
To Wedding Anniversaries

Use inside information to add special meanings to wedding anniversaries. Turn simple gifts into memorable celebrations by adding a thoughtful twist.

Consider leaving traditional wedding anniversary gifts to your friends and family (see the complete anniversary year list below). Instead, create enduring memories with these anniversary gift ideas.

New! What was your favorite, non-traditional anniversary gift? Share it!

• Rent a hilarious, laugh-til-you-cry video and watch it together. It doesn't matter if you have seen it before. The belly laughs are infectious, just the thing to provide a happy glow to the rest of your day.


• Make a special "Happy Album" using only photos of the funniest, most humorous events....up to now....of your life together. And start taking pictures now, to collect future happy moments for the album. Relive these happy days each year on your anniversary, and laugh together all over again.


• Spend ten minutes making a list of things that are funny. Find a way to incorporate just one idea into your anniversary celebration this year. Take a photo of the occasion and add it to your Happy Album to enjoy every single year.

One of these days, your grandchildren are going to think the two of you are so cool :)

Tip #3 - Learn Your Partner's Number One Wish

We’re so busy with work, home, and children that we can race along for years without defining what we really want.

It’s no wonder we haven't a clue what our
partner wishes for....

This year on your anniversary, ask your partner to write down on a piece of paper his/her single, most important wish.

You may not be able to “grant” the wish, but you will have gained great understanding.

And if you are lucky, you may be asked for your most important wish.

Win – win.

Who knows?

In addition to the traditional and modern gifts below, anniversary flowers....especially red roses ....say “Happy Anniversary” loud and clear!

Send free Anniversary eCards or (oops!) Belated Anniversary eCards from our site anytime!

If you have a photo to accompany your story, you can upload and share it with friends, family, and visitors to your page!

Have you given or received a refreshingly original, decidedly different anniversary gift that delighted you? Our readers would love to hear ... and respond to ...your personal story!

Your story becomes a web page about you and your "most special anniversary gift," a page which everyone can enjoy ... and comment on. It's easy (and might be fun)!

Your Favorite Non-Traditional
Anniversary Gift

Tell us about your most delightful anniversary, when you gave (or received) a creative, out-of-the-ordinary (the less expensive, the better) gift that made you feel wonderful!

Which anniversary was it? What was extraordinary about the gift, the celebration, the people, or the day in general which made it memorable?

Your Anniversary Stories

Click links below to read anniversary stories from other visitors to this page.

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After having to shave my head from chemotherapy, my boyfriend of only two months said he wanted to take me for a very special 2-month anniversary date....

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Two years ago, my husband made a really surprising gift for our 7th anniversary. He asked me to take the Friday (the day of our anniversary) as a day off,...

Anniversary Nova of Love  Not rated yet
Nearing our sixth anniversary, I was pregnant with our first child. A little girl; I was ecstatic! My only car was a stick shift, and I was unable to drive ...

Second Anniversary Pizza Pie!  Not rated yet
Our second wedding anniversary seemed doomed from the start. My husband and I had gone all out to celebrate our first wedding anniversary, going the ...

My Kitchen-Table Anniversary Gift  Not rated yet
The year my husband and I celebrated our fourth anniversary was a very difficult year for me. My Meemaw (grandma) was very sick and needed to move out ...

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