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40th Wedding Anniversary Gift - Ruby

Choosing a 40th wedding anniversary gift (the ruby wedding), need not be challenging. It is traditional to give a ruby gift on this anniversary.

The ruby is also given as a gift for the birthstone month of July. Take a look at this page for more ideas.

We hope these suggestions will help you...

Ruby Flowers

Purchase a bouquet with ruby colored flowers. There are usually plenty of red colored flowers to choose from. These may include roses, gerberas and carnations.

Ruby Jewelry

Buy jewelry set with rubies. Purchase matching items to make it the special present you are looking for. For a really special gift you could try a pair of matching ruby rings.

Ruby Cuff Links

How about buying a nice set of ruby cuff links with a tie pin to match? Set this of with the purchase of a white shirt to present the 40th wedding anniversary gift.

Red Wine

Ruby in color so you might like to purchase the couple a bottle of wine to enjoy on their special day.

Click on the link above to purchase ruby colored wine.

Ruby Glass

Buy a ruby colored vase for all those flowers being given as gifts. You may wish to place a few flowers in them yourself.

Engraved Glass

Why not buy the happy couple a glass bowl? Have it engraved with their names and date of their ruby wedding anniversary

Books with Ruby in the Title

Look out for books with ruby in their title. You should be able to find able to find something to suit the taste of the person you are buying for.

Ruby Picture Frame

There are picture frames surrounded by rubies (or ruby colored stones), sometimes in a heart shape. This can be a relatively inexpensive gift that can be made special with a suitable photograph.

Anniversary Cruise

As the 40th wedding anniversary is one of the most important anniversaries many people choose to take a special trip to commemorate their wedding day. Cruises are very popular for this sort of vacation. Perhaps members of the family could contribute to pay for the holiday. If the couple want to finance the trip themselves then you could offer to upgrade the cabin or purchase one of the special packages that most cruise companies offer for anniversaries and similar occasions.

We hope this has given you some ideas for unique 40th wedding anniversary gifts. We will be up dating this page with more suggestions on a regular basis. Please visit and take a look.

Facts about Ruby

Rubies are red gemstones. A variety of the mineral corundum (aluminium oxide) in which the color is caused mainly by chromium. Its name derives from ruber, Latin for red.

Natural rubies are exceptionally rare, but synthetic rubies can be manufactured fairly cheaply. These are known as created rubies. Rubies are considered one of the four precious gems together with sapphires, emeralds and diamonds.

Rubies are mined in Africa, Asia, Australia, and Greenland. They are mostly found in Myanmar (Burma), Sri Lanka, Kenya, Madagascar, and Thailand. They may also be found in the U.S. states of Montana, North Carolina and South Carolina. The Mogok Valley in Myanmar has produced some of the finest rubies. In 2002 rubies were found in the Waseges River area of Kenya. Rubies are being mined at Audilamena in north eastern Madagascar.

Rubies have a hardness of 9.0 on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness, and among the natural gems, only diamonds are harder.

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