The 13 year wedding anniversary is one of those anniversaries with customary gifts, flowers and jewellery associated with it. Basically, there’s a long established tradition of giving a certain type of gift. Often this means it must be made of or feature a specific material. In the case of the 13th anniversary, the gift should contain lace — if you want to keep with tradition.

Of course, tradition means old and the world has moved on a lot since these customs became established. So, not to be beholden to the past forever, a modern interpretation has developed. It offers an more contemporary anniversary gift theme for each anniversary year covered by the tradition. For the 13 year anniversary, that alternative is textile or (heaven-forbid!) fur.

Quite a few of the anniversary years have a customary and/or contemporary gift associated with them, so it’s worth checking to avoid a social faux pas or disappointing the recipient. Plus, sticking to the theme does make the anniversary gift seem more special — like more thought went into it — and less random!

Besides the gift, if you’re planning on giving flowers too (and why wouldn’t you?!) you should also be aware of well established (though less well known) floral customs for wedding anniversaries. You shouldn’t be ’surprising’ your wife with red roses every year! Tradition has it that Hollyhock should be included in your bouquet for the 13th anniversary year.

If you’re planning on giving jewellery, you need to know of the custom regarding what jewellery should be given for each anniversary. Yes, another set of rules! Any jewellery given for the 13th wedding anniversary should ideally contain either Moonstone, Malachite or Citrine. These are all semi-precious stones (thankfully), which should help keep the cost down!

Of course, if you read our page about the 13 year wedding anniversary, you could pick up all this information AND a whole bundle of ideas of what to actually give. Ideas that meet the requirements of all the traditions. Yes, indeed — there is an easier way! So, what are you waiting for — get to it!

It is 12 long but…erm… blissful years since that fateful wonderful wedding day way back then. And, you — the happy couple — are about to celebrate your 12 year wedding anniversary.

Now, after 11 previous attempts, you should have this anniversary gift buying mallarky down to a fine art. The 12th anniversary gift should be a doddle. Well, that’s the theory. But, we’re guessing you used your best ideas already and the whole anniversary thing is getting a little stale?!

Fear not, we’ve written a page about it! They say the pen is mightier than the sword. Well, the keyboard is even better because you can delete. So, we have crafted a wonderful page all about the 12th wedding anniversary and choosing 12th anniversary gifts.

Don’t waste time wandering around the web clicking from one retailer to another hoping for a ‘Eureka’ moment. Instead, arm yourself with the facts and some ideas so you can refine your search to something less than looking for a needle in a haystack!

On our 12th anniversary gifts page we reveal the traditional and contemporary customary gift. We tell what flowers should be given (nope, it’s not roses every year). And, we even notify you of any special requirements for jewellery, should you decide to opt for impressing her with your credit card — though she’ll be less impressed when the bill arrives!

So, the choice is yours: aimlessly surf the web and wind-up getting convinced to buy something expensive and (potentially) inappropriate, OR, visit this page: 12th year anniversary gifts!

The answer to your year 11 anniversary gift is here. Well not right here. But actually, all the information, tips and ideas are here: 11th year anniversary gift advice

We don’t sell gifts, so our anniversary gift suggestions and recommendations and advice is unbiased. OK, so we have to confess to sharing a parent with women’s gift retailer www.pressies4princesses.co.uk. But we don’t let that cloud our judgement or get in the way of a good product recommendation!

Anyway, for anyone unawares, you should be aware that the 11th wedding anniversary is one of those anniversaries for which there are:

• Rules about what flower to give (no – not red roses again!)
• A customary type of gift that is traditional
• A modern alternative to the traditional custom
• A specific gemstone that any jewellery given should contain

Of course, all this can be ignored — at your peril! Whilst you may be ignorant to much of this custom and tradition, your wife probably isn’t and may well wonder why you haven’t bothered to find out about it.

It’s one thing to regurgitate the facts, quite another to dispense some useful advice, but that’s what we’ve aimed for with this page. You’ll find some tips for turning those customs and traditions into reality and real anniversary gifts.

But, enough of this, why don’t you just go have a look: year 11 anniversary gifts!

If it’s your 9th wedding anniversary soon, you may be relieved to know that we’ve written a page just for you: our year 9 wedding anniversary page that is!

What’s it all about? Well, we’ve gathered together all the information about the 9th wedding anniversary and sprinkled on a little advice and some gift suggestions. What information, you say? Well, like what are the traditional and modern customary gifts. Like what flowers should be given. That’s right, roses may be for Valentine’s Day but not for every anniversary. There’s a specific flower for each year!

Besides flowers and gifts, there are also specific recommendations for jewellery given on an anniversary. Yes, jewellers got in on the act too, so there are specific gemstones and metals for certain years. It’s tradition!

Once we’ve armed you with the facts, we fire your imagination with some broad ideas for gifts. On this page there are anniversary present ideas that fit in with either the modern or traditional custom. Just for your reference, the tradition is to give willow or pottery gifts and the modern custom is for leather – ooh err! Carry On humour aside, we steer you clear of any gift faux pas.

So, if you want to make her 9th wedding anniversary her best anniversary yet — and save yourself a whole load of searching and wasted time — check out our 9th wedding anniversary gifts page now!

Coming to the end of year 8 of your marriage? Got loads of ideas about how to make her 8th wedding anniversary special? Got the flowers and anniversary gift sorted? Oh well, not to worry, because we’ve got all the answers for you on one page here at our year 8 wedding anniversary page!

We are slowly but surely covering all the anniversary years (1 to 100!) and the advice about the 8th anniversary is already online.

On this page you can find lots of ideas about what types of gifts to buy. What sort of flowers you should be giving — that’s right, you shouldn’t be giving roses every year, that would be too simple! If you’re buying or thinking of buying jewellery you should read this page to find out what kind of gemstone should be given, as tradition dictates.

In short, this page has all the answers to your questions about the etiquette of giving an 8th anniversary gift, plus lots of good suggestions about specific kinds of suitable anniversary presents. So, if you’re short on knowledge or ideas, please do take a look!

These pages are just the first step in our plan to help make easier the task of making your anniversaries spectacular. We are in the process of putting together the IT so that we can match each anniversary year with specific (and relevant) gift recommendations. These recommendations will be the “best of the best”, hand-edited ideas from tens of thousands of gifts offered by hundreds of retailers online. So, watch this space – or better still – bookmark it!