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When looking to create a wonderful 25th wedding anniversary for your loved ones, you should also spend some time learning about the traditional 25th wedding anniversary gifts that go along with this particular time period.  Your loved ones will greatly appreciate the sentiment and the symbolism behind the gift you give.  This particular wedding year is the silver year, so be prepared to go all out with all things silver.

Here are a couple of traditional and modern suggestions for the 25th wedding anniversary gifts.

You can use this anniversary as a chance to renew your wedding vows and make the theme for the reception afterwards all Silver!  Be sure to use sparkly silver glitter on flowers, decorations, cards, gift wrap, party goods and balloons. Use a silver tablecloth for the buffet and use silver themed paper plates and cups.  They also make for great easy clean up after the party.

If you are feeling really free with your money buy a 25 year old champagne, wine or even rum and toast one another.  You might as well get enough for the guests, too.

As for the 25th wedding anniversary gifts, try to purchase tickets for your partner’s favorite movie, sports event, or concert and place them in a silver envelope or in a silver box.

Cheaper gifts that still match the 25th year are silver photo frames, silver paper weights and even silverware, if your partner likes to keep good silverware and dishes on hand.

Certainly items like silver jewelry and silver key rings will fit the theme and you can find them in all different price ranges to suit your budget.  A silver photo album with pictures, stories and momentos from the past 25 years is a great idea, but it will take some time to put together so you’d better get started early on this idea.

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The gold wedding anniversary gift to your partner should be something special and lasting to really mark the occasion of your 50th year together.  The best choice is usually a new or additional wedding band, made of gold, of course.  You partner will love it and you can feel like you really racked up some extra points with it.  In addition, classic move is to recreate your wedding ceremony or renew your vows o love for each other.  You’ve made it fifty years, why not cement the relationship for another fifty.  By the time you both reach your 100th wedding anniversary you’ll be expected to give the gift of diamonds, though.  So, perhaps you’d better start saving up now.

A gold wedding anniversary gift does seem like a big investment for one’s parents or relatives.  So if you are getting the gift for your parents or grandparents you may wish to see if anyone wants to go in with you on the cost and share credit for the gift.  This way all of you can get one big gift for that special couple celebrating their 50th, and you all can take it a little easier on your wallets. 

In addition you’ll want to pick out a gift that will really make your loved one’s day.  So, take a little time to think up something unusual. 

The right gold wedding anniversary gift for your family member or partner really depends on the personality of whomever you are purchasing for.  There are a lot of styles out there and you definitely don’t have to limit yourself to the standard, plain wedding band.  Look for something antique or something ultra modern.  There are even different colors of gold that you can purchase like, white gold and copper or rose gold.  That, extra personal touch will make your gift all the better. 

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I made a brief joke last post about the confusion that can result from writing out thank you notes for wedding gifts after the wedding is over.  It’s really a headache sometimes and really a wrist cramp for whomever ends up writing out the notes.  Don’t worry too much about getting all those notes out right after the wedding.  No one expects you to spend your honeymoon writing thank you notes!

Also the proper etiquette for those thank you notes for wedding gifts is that you have one year to get all the notes to your guests.  So sit back and relax for a couple of weeks.  A good way to ensure that you get to those notes and don’t get completely fed up with them is to set up a quota for each evening and just write them out while you sit at the computer.  Only writing up two or three a day and addressing their envelopes will be enough to get your thank you notes done in plenty of time.

It can be difficult to remember who has given you what gift at the wedding and even who attended the wedding when you first sit down to your thank you notes for wedding gifts project.  So be certain to have someone take good notes of the gift received and the name of the person who gave it when you open those wedding gifts up after the reception!

Ideally your note taker will be someone with nice handwriting.  You don’t want to have to call them up a few months down the road and ask them whether they meant ‘Sarah’ or ‘Sandra’ and if that gift was a ‘blowdryer’ or a ‘blender’.  Also make a couple photocopies of that list so you have an extra on hand in case you lose the list.

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The wedding is a very festive occasion and one of the best parts involves exchanging wedding gifts.  Exchanging gifts can become so complicated that one gets very confused.  There are gifts to be given to the bride and groom, gifts for the guests and gifts for the wedding party.  Hopefully someone was taking notes on who gave what to whom at your wedding, or will be.  Otherwise, you can become hopelessly mired in a sea of names and seemingly unrelated gifts when it comes time to send out the thank you notes.  An easy way to reduce some of your stress is to give out standard gifts from the bride and groom to the guests and to those in the wedding party.

A standard party favor type item is perfect for the guests at your wedding reception.  Most people will greatly appreciate goodie bags filled with edible treats like Jordan Almonds.  Or you can create goodie bags with scented votive candles, potpourri, incense and other scented treats for the nose.  Lots of couples opt to create a take home place card holder for the dinner reception.  These can be simply small potted plants with a place card holder inserted in the dirt of each.  I’ve also seen thin vases with the place card rod held upright in each using a layer of colored glass beads in the bottom.  Gifts for the wedding party should be a little more personal.

A great solution to keeping your gift giving easy and still having it somewhat personalized is to purchase personalized gifts for the wedding party.  Pick out a somewhat masculine gift for the groom’s men and a more feminine gift for the bride’s maids.  The more masculine gifts can be sets of cologne, shaving kits, and ornamental pocket knives.  Feminine gifts can include perfume sets, manicure kits, or a nice overnight bag. Then arrange to have these gifts personalized with the names of the people in your wedding party.  Voila!  You have a set of special separate gifts that can be given to the members of the wedding party, while still being fairly standard and time savers for you.

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It is traditional in many cultures to give the gift of money in order to get man and wife off to a good start in wedded bliss. As such its also traditional to include a fun little wedding gift money poem in the card, which will both make the bride and groom laugh and earn you brownie points. I thought I’d try my hand at a couple of short verses to help you in your poem quest. Feel free to use these poems at your leisure.

Why Buy the Cow When the Milk is Free

Today’s the day, you pay the price
to get that milking cow.

But, Farmer John said it best
‘why buy the cow,
when the milk is less!’

The above wedding gift money poem may only be suitable as part of the groom’s gift, unless his new wife is a very humorous and understanding lady. Poems aren’t that hard to write, especially quick little verses. As long as they have a funny theme you’ll find that the audience can be very forgiving on little things like exact rhymes or an odd number of syllables.

Fish in the Sea

Fishing is a delightful
trade, best done with proper bait.
worms do not make a fool,
instead for sex, you must make him wait!

It has been said
that plenty of fish
live in the sea, yet,
this one best fulfilled your wish!

Reel ‘em in, reel ‘em in
Lest they forget
That they are men!

I like the fun nature of the above little ditty. Of course you can mix and match its verses to make something original and fun for your wedding gift money poem. It’s more suitable for the bride, and you may find it just the right poem for her bridal shower gift. Have a great time at the wedding!

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You’ve been invited at the last minute to a great friend’s wedding and of course will be one of many that are obligated to bring wedding party gifts with you.  Great!  Except for the fact that you’ve also been a bit short on the cash lately.  What do you do?  Number one, don’t panic and don’t do something tacky like write them a check for one million dollars post-dated in the year 2057.  Unless, you really plan on having one million dollars by then…

There are a few ways you can come up with a really memorable wedding gift without paying a lot.  First, siphon through your own personal skill set and see what you have available.  Lots of people have skills that they can use to create something nice for their friends and family members.  Are you a writer?  Do you know how to create nifty little web pages?  Can you sew or knit?  These are all great skill sets and they can all be used to create great wedding party gifts on the cheap.

You could for instance create a website portraying all of the events leading up to the wedding and of some that take place after the wedding, which can be done entirely free if you know what places to go to online.  If you know how to write you can plan a wedding book for the couple.  Interview them and relatives to include great stories and snippets about what each partner thought of the other’s quirks.  Detail how things went leading up to the wedding.  Create some good wishes pages with special thoughts from friends and family members that you gather before the wedding.  Put together a little plan and you’ll be surprised by how much content you can think up for the wedding book.  Then have it bound or, pay for an online publisher to print it on the cheap and present it at the wedding.

A great place you can use for publishing a real bound copy of your wedding party gift is Lulu.com (www.lulu.com).  This site will let you upload a word document and your own artisitic book cover and print out just one copy of the wedding book if that’s all you can afford.  Another benefit to having a pay-per-book publisher is that you can give out a URL address of the page where wedding guests can go to download a copy or pay for their own bound versions of the wedding book.

Just sit down and see what you have in your own skill set and you’ll be surprised at what you come up with for a wedding gift to give on the cheap!

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As far as tradition is concerned the 1st wedding anniversary is less important, therefore the wedding anniversary gifts for such an event should also be less involved. Maybe it has something to do with the idea that the couple is just starting out and should be able to keep their extra money for much needed bills. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that their wedding was just a year ago and the wallets of friends and family members are still feeling the pain, not to mention the wallets of the bride and groom.

Wedding anniversary gifts that are traditional for the 1st year anniversary are made of paper. This tradition could have something to do with the symbolism of a lasting marriage, since the 75th year I believe is the diamond year. We all know that the diamond is the hardest substance known to man and each diamond is millions of years old. Thus a marriage that has lasted as long should be, ahem, rock solid.

You don’t have to worry about getting a diamond for your first wedding anniversary and can probably get away with cute traditional paper wedding anniversary gifts. Love coupons are really great. Give her a booklet made by you with coupons for ‘a free back rub, 15 minute duration, no sex required’ or one for ‘a dinner with your parents, no griping’. In fact you’ll have lots of fun coming up with coupon ideas and they will represent your willingness to give her or him, the gift of your time and love.

Another great paper gift that’s a little more unusual is the gift of origami. You’ll also get a chance to improve on yourself and gain a new skillset while undergoing this gift project. Start by learning how to create a simple origami work of art and give it to your partner on your wedding anniversary. Then tell him or her that you will create a new origami figure for each day of the coming year until your next wedding anniversary. Origami.com (http://dev.origami.com/diagram.cfm) is a great site with lots of origami ideas and instructions for them.

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