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Help me out please...
I'll be taking her away for the night, meal hotel etc but want to get a gift as well. Nothing too ostentatious/expensive.
Cheers
First anniversary is paper, so tickets to something?
If you can't come up with an idea for the 1st one I don't like your chances.
Power kite obviously.
New bike. For yourself, I mean.
Paper I believe, I bought tickets for a show and a hotel for the night which was on Fleet Street, easy.
Turns out the PMBA Enduro I'd booked on isn't what she thinks we should do on our 1st anniversary
I bought my husband a set of (paper) OS Maps to the UK national parks near us for our first wedding anniversary. We've just got divorced, and they were one of the items he claimed ownership of in the split. So, I think that's a success of sorts?
Tickets is a good shout
stwhannah -one of my friends bought me a personalized OS map for my birthday a few years back which I loved, hmmmm but your experience has just put me off!
£365
£1 for every day you’ve been married ...
We were on holiday on a Greek island for our first wedding anniversary in 2007 and my wife is a huge Harry Potter fan so I organised for The Deathly Hallows to be couriered out for her on the day it was released.
I got LOTS of Brownie points however we barely spoke again until she finished it 🙂
I’ve had a lot of prints commissioned for peoples first wedding anniversaries, so artwork is s good one for paper
I bought my husband a set of (paper) OS Maps to the UK national parks near us for our first wedding anniversary. We’ve just got divorced, and they were one of the items he claimed ownership of in the split. So, I think that’s a success of sorts
😄
I got my wife an origami book & took her up the Oxo tower
A husband with an imagination.
A poem by you written on nice paper.
Whilst it would be nice if every person was romantic and imaginative enough to come up with good gift ideas it's not everyone's forte and at least you have bothered to ask on here. I live in hope....
A poem by you written on nice paper.
Roses are red
Lemons are bitter
Because I love You
Will you take it...
Roses are red,
So are my hands,
Stop me!
before I kill again
🤣
Things is, we’re not really into the big extravagant present thing and neither of us really need or want anything that we wouldn’t just buy ourselves so Christmas/birthday presents are usually a night away somewhere/day out doing something with a small token present. Eg my birthday present was uplift day at Antur stinig and a top tube bag.
I knew that the 1st anniversary is something paper related but don’t want to buy a twee gimmicky thing. I really do like the poem idea and suppose I do have a couple of weeks - I’ll be honest tho, I’m not sure I have the talent for it.
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Poems are hard
Bacon.
Written on greaseproof paper, natch....
For our first anniversary wrote a poem and I bought lyanda a nice ring. I'd saved up over the year to get her something nice as we went for cheap and cheerful for our wedding. Wrapped the ring inside the poem so technically paper. Massive brownie points to me for that, and the fact that I'd remembered and she had forgotten and didn't get me anything lol.
All of lyandas jewellery is away ready to be sorted and divided between all the kids. They will be given on their 18th birthday as a gift from Mum.
If you want cheap but a lot of effort, Google Senbazuru. It's a Japanese tradition of making 1000 paper cranes for someone special. Folklore goes that the person who makes them is granted one wish.
By about a third of the way through you'll gain the ability to fold one without looking 😀 I'd allow yourself a good few months though, so if it's like, next week, I'd maybe think of a different plan.
A Papier mache baby
I bought Mrs SR a nice pen and a notebook/diary thing.
I got my wife an origami book & took her up the Oxo tower
You know she's on mum's net right?
Crotchless decorating coveralls? No?
Bangor for the whole weekend?
Things is, we’re not really into the big extravagant present thing and neither of us really need or want anything that we wouldn’t just buy ourselves
Make something out of paper? Origami? If its simple token pressies then something you made is far nicer than something you bought
Or the poem idea
Paper!
A single share in a company whose products she's passionate about.
I got my wife a share in Cadburys.
I made paper replicas of the flowers we had at our wedding.
They were bad. Very, very bad. However, I found someone online who makes excellent paper flowers and got some made. They were very, very good. My wife still keeps them displayed in a vase on her dressing table.
I got to keep the OS map centred on the house which I also got to keep...
My default gift was a night away somewhere with a hand drawn map showing a planned bike route. I guess the map would count as paper?
Don’t be put off by my experience!
On he origami theme, some of the red letter days / virgin sites do an origami evening with wine for two. Just do that.
Make something - I made a trip map in a frame top/bottom where we are from originally and middle where we live as a married couple 😀
This year is leather 😳
Always Make your card
Just had our first anniversary, I bought a gift wrapped, printed with a personal message... bog roll.
Panigale , obviously ...
Some nice toilet paper, but get her the fancy coloured stuff perhaps.
I made this for my Wife, she was made up.
https://snapguide.com/guides/make-an-origami-butterfly-ring/
For our first wedding anniversary, I got my Wife one of these folded book art things with our initials. I think she quite likes it.
People who have come round & seen it have always commented on what a good idea it is.
I bought my husband a set of (paper) OS Maps to the UK national parks near us for our first wedding anniversary. We’ve just got divorced, and they were one of the items he claimed ownership of in the split. So, I think that’s a success of sorts?
this post was a bit of an emotional rollercoaster! 😆
can't remember what we did for our 1st anniversary. And it was only 4 years ago!
I even just checked my calendar for that day. We took our new cat to the vets.
1st year sets the benchmark for the future so don't go too wild... 🙂
(db married 25 years in Jan)
Lots of thoughtful ideas above but please tell me I/we are not the only ones who
do not celebrate every wedding anniversary? Yes, we say 'happy anniversary' to each other and have a chat about it but that really is it. Maybe as the year count gets larger we may celebrate more.....25, 50 years (only at 19 this year)......time will hopefully tell.
we normally go out for dinner, but that's it really. This year, it just so happens that we'll be in Paris. It's gonna be tough to find a nice romantic place for dinner, I'll bet
Things is, we’re not really into the big extravagant present thing
You might not be, but why take the risk 😉
Ticket to a nice show.
Forgotten what we did, but I was a poor post-Doc and it was 26 years ago. I did buy her a Brooks leather saddle for the leather anniversary, and a silver bangle ast year, which I don't think has been taken off.
please tell me I/we are not the only ones who do not celebrate every wedding anniversary?
We get cards and perhaps a small token gift. The only time I did significantly more was in the year of our tenth anniversary which was also my wife's 40th birthday when I bought her a diamond and booked her in to see a jeweller to design a ring to complement her existing wedding and engagement rings (which don't match so I wanted to do something to help tie the three together). That was two years ago and the diamond is still sat in a box in a cupboard as the designer was useless and couldn't come up with anything remotely decent 🙁 One day we'll get back on to it but life (and rapidly growing children) just keep getting in our way.
We used to just go out for a meal,get each other a card & maybe a small gift. . It stayed like that for years, until the kids got older & we had a bit more money available. Now, we still get each other a card,go out for a meal on the day, have a weekend away & decide on something we want for a gift, hers is usually handbag related, mine bike related. If it's a special one like this year (30 years), we'll celebrate pretty much all year long...
So far this year we've had about 5 or 6 weekends away, been to half a dozen concerts, had a week in Amsterdam, 4 days in NYC & a cruise in the Caribbean. We've still got a week in Spain next month a few more weekends away & a couple more concerts to go yet. Yes it's cost a fair bit & we were going to do the kitchen this year, but thought we'll only ever be married for 30 years once so why not celebrate it !
The kitchen can wait until next year..
I had a 12" vinyl picture disc made up using a lovely shot from the wedding and cut with the four main songs from our day. The paper part was using sections of map in the frame with special locations - proposal, wedding, holidays etc.
Lemme see... First marriage I kind of forgot and only remembered in the car down to the gig we were going to, so I guess the tickets to that were the present? Stil we divorced a year later, so meh.
Second marriage I actually remembered (go me!) and did something with paper. Not sure what it was. I think it was well received. I mean, the marriage lasted for seven years, so it can't have been terrible.
Hannah, it's never good to hear of something like that. Take care.
SiB
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Lots of thoughtful ideas above but please tell me I/we are not the only ones who
do not celebrate every wedding anniversary? Yes, we say ‘happy anniversary’ to each other and have a chat about it but that really is it. Maybe as the year count gets larger we may celebrate more…..25, 50 years (only at 19 this year)……time will hopefully tell.
Not so much, these days (14 years in a couple of weeks). I remember every year and always have flowers delivered to her office if it's a week day, or bring some home otherwise. More often then not it's a surprise because she's forgotten it's our anniversary! We don't tend to celebrate as such, though.
Not so long ago I had a dozen roses delivered with one third red and the rest white, to celebrate/commiserate the day when she'd spent exactly one third of her life married to me...
On our wedding day I gave her a pair of diamond earrings I'd had designed. For our tenth anniversary we had a rare weekend away without the kids, saw a show, fancy hotel etc. I gave her a diamond necklace that I'd had made to match the earrings, to wear on our might out. Except she hadn't thought to bring the earrings away with her... The romance isn't dead, but it can feel a bit one-sided sometimes 😄😭
