| Nobody can say with any amount of certainty when | | | | are many ways you can turn each year's theme into |
| the tradition of giving anniversary gifts started. Most | | | | a special gift. The traditional paper and cotton gifts |
| probably it evolved over time. Traditionally, each | | | | for the first years can include a lovely origami |
| wedding anniversary is celebrated by giving a gift | | | | booklet, paper tickets to a movie or a scrapbook |
| made from a different material. The first anniversary | | | | with a plush cotton cover, filled with memories. |
| is symbolized with paper, and subsequently | | | | A bit of creativity can twist tradition to give an |
| anniversary gifts become more precious or scarce to | | | | enchanting new flavor. For instance, you can |
| reflect the growing number of years a couple has | | | | celebrate the yearly tradition even if you want to |
| remained together. | | | | break away from it to give another type of gift. Or |
| Some say calling the twenty-fifth anniversary Silver | | | | use the yearly theme to wrap your gift or trim it |
| Anniversary and the fiftieth anniversary Gold | | | | with any item made from that year's material. |
| anniversary may have originated in medieval Europe, | | | | You can go a step further and make the theme |
| where wives were given a silver wreath to celebrate | | | | material of your traditional anniversary gift a carrier |
| their twenty-fifth year of marriage and a gold wreath | | | | for your gift, like tucking a ring in a leather wallet, or |
| for their fiftieth anniversary. Diamonds are traditional | | | | tying a cluster of roses together with a bracelet. You |
| in both the sixtieth and seventy-fifth years. | | | | can even try hiding a necklace inside the pocket of a |
| The traditional anniversary gifts list may seem | | | | silk robe or fold a cozy woolen shawl around another |
| somewhat boring, but it doesn't have to be. There | | | | gift. |