Let us help you find the best wedding anniversary gifts by year

The happy couple can celebrate each year by choosing wedding anniversary gifts by year of marriage. This gift represents the number of years since their wedding day. Of course family and friends can join in too and celebrate with the couple their silver, ruby and golden wedding anniversaries.

Here on the site we have put together a chart detailing the traditional wedding anniversary gift lists. Click through to our other pages where we have given you a few, hopefully different and unique ideas for the people you wish to buy for.

Wedding Anniversary Gifts by Year
Anniversary	British	American	Modern
1	cotton	paper	clocks
2	paper	cotton	china
3	leather	leather	crystal
4	fruit, flowers	linen silk	appliances
5	wood	wood	silverware
6	sugar	iron	wooden
7	wool , copper	wool, copper	desk item
8	bronze,pottery	bronze	linen lace
9	pottery,willow	pottery	leather
10	tin	tin, aluminum	diamond
11	steel	steel	jewelry
12	linen, silk	silk	pearl
13	lace	lace	textiles, furs
14	ivory	ivory	gold
15	crystal	crystal	watches
20	china	china	platinum
25	silver	silver	sterling silver
30	pearl	pearl	diamond
35	coral	coral, jade	jade
40	ruby	ruby	ruby
45	sapphire	sapphire	sapphire
50	gold	gold	gold
55	emerald	emerald	emerald
60	diamond	diamond	diamond
65	blue sapphire	blue sapphire	blue sapphire
70	platinum	platinum	platinum

The above table shows the differences between British, American and Modern Anniversaries.

If you are lucky enough to be married for 75 years you will celebrate your diamond or double diamond anniversary. These anniversaries are very rare occasions. Queen Victoria's 1897 celebration of a Diamond Jubilee for the length of her reign popularized the use of the diamond to commemorate 60 years.

Wedding anniversary gifts by year for 80 years of marriage should be of oak. This is VERY rare, but you'll still find a couple of ideas here to help.

The current list of wedding anniversary gifts by year was first created in 1937 by the American National Retail Jeweler Association. They devised a list which gave a material or gift for each anniversary up to 15 years and then a different gift material every 5 years up to the 80th Anniversary. Since then British and Modern lists have also been created. You will need to decide which list to use as there are some differences. We are aware that there are variations of the above chart available on the Internet and also in reference books. The reference books we used all have cotton as the 1st anniversary and paper for the 2nd anniversary.

Click in the table or on the links below to get some great gift suggestions for wedding anniversary gifts by year