Go Traditional With Paper For The 1st Wedding Anniversary

Are you just days away from your 1st wedding anniversary? There is something so magical about the digit one, isn’t it? The first job, the first kiss, the first woman you fell in love with (and who, we assume, is now your wife)… Well, the 1st anniversary also shines bright and strong in a couple’s married life. It’s also a day that gives the husband sleepless nights! Let’s face it. Expectations run high. After all, it’s the first anniversary! Your romantic skills are under the arc lights, so to speak.

You want to lay the world at her feet, and yet, right now you can’t think of a single appropriate gift for her. Take a deep breath and read on. Luckily for all of us, years ago, a list of anniversary year gifts was drawn up. There was a traditional gift list and later, the modern alternatives were added. So, the traditional gift for the first year was paper. Yikes! Paper! Whoever thought of that? Oh-oh, not so fast. Paper is just the base material, so to speak. There’s tons you can do to make paper gifts romantic – mushy handmade cards, love tokens, memory albums…get the gist?

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While you are there, you can also soak up all the other great gift ideas for this anniversary year. Ditch the red roses and opt for pansy, this year’s flower. And if it is jewellery you plan to give her, then make sure it is freshwater pearl.

We are soon going to list a whole host of gifts that you can purchase online immediately – suitable for each anniversary year. They will be picked from a cast of thousands of gifts from dozens of retailers, saving you lots of clicks!

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Do I hear you exclaim in amazement, “Pansy?!” Yes, if it is flowers that do it for her, then pansies are flowers that fit the bill for this landmark 1st wedding anniversary. Not red roses, although you can give them too, if you want! But if you are the sort of bloke who likes to live by the rules, then yes, pansy is your flower. You’ll soon come to know why in a minute.

Pansy, a derivative of the French ‘pensie’ (that means ‘remembrance’) is a lovely flower and was actually a main ingredient of an ancient Celtic love potion! We Brits have called it ‘heartsease’ because – believe it or not – it was believed to cure love problems!

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Since the 1st year anniversary brings back all the wonderful memories of the wedding day and the honeymoon and the subsequent months, the pansy seems an apt bloom. Memories, nostalgia and shared moments are all wrapped up in the petals of this delicate flower.

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While you are there, read up on the other great gift ideas for this first milestone in your married life. Paper is the traditional gift with clocks being the modern alternative. And, since jewellery is everyone’s favourite, don’t forget to get her some freshwater pearl baubles.

We are soon going to list a whole host of gifts that you can purchase online immediately –suitable for each anniversary year. They will be picked from a cast of thousands of gifts from dozens of retailers, saving you lots of clicks!

Check out our updated 1st anniversary gift advice page here.

We’ve beefed our page about 1st wedding anniversary gifts and giving. Loads of new information has been added. And, we’ve reformatted the whole page to make it more readable/ easily digestible.

New feature boxes have been added covering the first anniversary flower (pansies) and the customary gemstones for first anniversary jewellery. In both cases, pictures have been added for easy identification of the flower or gemstone.

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Of course, just listing the flower or gemstone, doesn’t mean much. When you give a special gift it’s nice to give a reason why you chose that particular thing. By covering the symbolism and mythicism surrounding the flowers and gemstones, we give you that little story to tell. That little extra that makes it extra special.

Besides the new content, new formatting makes picking the key points of the previous information and ideas all the more easier. We hope you can get to the facts faster now!

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ps: We’ll be updating the rest of the anniversary years over the coming weeks!