No Traditional 16th Anniversary Present

The 16th year wedding anniversary is one of those not deemed important enough to warrant a traditional gift theme. But, of course, ever anniversary year is important to you and your wife — especially your wife. So what 16th anniversary present do you buy her?

Well, thankfully, besides the traditional anniversary themes, there’s also a contemporary alternative that has become popular. It has the added benefit of bringing the traditional up-to-date with more modern gift options. In the case of a 16th anniversary present, that means silver hollowware.

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Ok, so we all know what silver is, but what on earth is hollowware / holloware (both spellings are used) I hear you cry? Well, quite simply it’s anything made as a receptacle or container to hold things. This would include bowls, pitchers, teapots, trays, vases, trinket boxes, jewellery boxes, glasses cases, cigarette cases, etc. So silver hollowware is any of these items or other containers/receptacles made from silver.

Now, if you give her a silver milk jug or sugar bowl for a wedding anniversary gift, she’s probably: a) not exactly going to be bowled over with excitement; b) think you’ve lost your mind; and, c) complain that this is a ‘house gift’ and not a gift for her at all! So, if you’re going down this route you have to go for the more personal items like: cigarrette cases, compact/ handbag mirrors, trinket or jewellery boxes, photo frames — that kind of thing.

To make your gift extra personal, why not have it engraved with a dedication or message. Silver hollowware lends itself to that very well.

So there you have it, a angle for her 16th anniversary present. You can find out more about what to give on her 16th anniversary at this page: 16th Wedding Anniversary Gifts

Our 5th wedding anniversary gift advice is now updated and expanded. Only a couple of months after first producing the pages, we’ve been working our way through them again with improvements. The result, is a whole lot more specific information on the 5th anniversary gifts page.

All the anniversary year gift pages cover four main areas:

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1) What the traditional 5th anniversary gift theme is and ideas for what specific gifts to give.

2) What the contemporary modern alternative is, because tradition (by its very nature) can be a bit archaic! Again, we spill the facts and follow up with more specific 5th anniversary gift suggestions.

3) Each of the first 15 anniversary years — and many besides — have specific flowers associated with them. We name the 5th anniversary flower and tell you all about it. (Note that you shouldn’t give a dozen red roses every anniversary!)

4) Like with flowers, jewellery has special customs for the first 15 anniversaries and we give you facts about these. Turquoise is the customary anniversary gemstone for the 5th and we tell you all about it’s mystical properties and the ancient beliefs and myths surrounding it. This makes a great story when you give your anniversary present!

So, the new upgraded page is here: 5th Wedding Anniversary Gifts . Do please check it out. Who knows — it might be just the inspiration you need!

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!

Check out the new page here: First Wedding Anniversary Gifts

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

16 years married — that’s an achievement, some would say. It’s easy to slip into thinking about relationships as an ordeal. But, maybe, just maybe for you and your husband or wife it’s been bliss all the way?! Perhaps, you’re as much in love now as the day you got married 16 years ago. In fact, you might claim your marriage gets stronger year after year and you’ve never been happier. We certainly hope so!

Whether the last 16 years have been plain sailing or whether you have had your ups and downs and have needed to work at it, the fact is you made it. You deserve to celebrate that milestone in your marriage in the best possible way and reward the love of your husband or wife over these past 16 years accordingly. That’s why you must read our advice about the 16 year wedding anniversary.

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In our 16th wedding anniversary year guide, we advise what anniversary gift to buy according to tradition and modern custom. And, did you know that Peridot and Aquamarine are the official gemstones of the 16th anniversary? No? Well, find out what else you need to know about the 16th wedding anniversary by reading the guide!