4th Wedding Anniversary Gifts

4th Anniversary Present Facts:-

• Traditional 4th anniversary gift: Books, Fruit and Flowers shop for these
• Modern/ contemporary gift: Electrical Appliance shop for these
• Flower: Geranium
• Customary Gemstone: Topaz and Amethyst shop for these

If your imagination is as robust as a block of stone, take heart: the 4th wedding anniversary gift does not require you to put too much strain on the “little grey cells”! Failing all else flowers will do (“it is tradition, darling”) !

So, take your pick from conventional or contemporary gift ideas.

Be daring and impress her with your modern take on romance. Mercifully, help is at hand. While electrical appliances on any other year would earn you a long-suffering look, giving them this year would win you brownie points for being bang on target.

Yes, the fourth year is also the year for gadgets and appliances of all sorts.

Of course, be sure to have done your homework earlier by casually finding out what is it that she wistfully wishes she could have. Presenting her with another juicer-blender might not get you the effusive thanks you were fondly imagining.

Can flowers be far behind if romance is what is needed? Give her a huge bouquet of lovely geraniums and see her eyes mist over.

Or, play safe and woo her with books, flowers and fruits in the traditional manner (by now you might have caught on to the fact that her favourite author is Agatha Christie and NOT Tom Clancey, and, no, she is not into strawberries but apples (Strawberries caused her to break out in hives the last time, remember?!)

But what is sure to catapult you to the top of the romantic sweepstakes is if you lavish her with some exquisite topaz and amethyst jewellery – if its hand-crafted then all the better. She loves you, sure, but she loves her rocks and stones even more!

Some more creative romantic ideas for a rocking 4th year anniversary:

1. If red roses are mandatory on anniversaries, then keep it up by all means. But get a little creative and arrange for either four long-stemmed roses or four separate bouquets of roses.

2. Better still, floor her with an amethyst or topaz rose that will never wither and always stay ‘fresh’.

3. Book a romantic retreat for four days. What with work deadlines, bills, social commitments and household chores, romance has all but vanished. Exhaustion and romance make poor partners. So, whisk her away to some lovely spot and recreate the magic of your early years.

4. Do four things for her that make her feel really pampered. Do a chore she normally does (and dislikes); cook her breakfast and serve it to her in bed; giver her a long and relaxing massage without making it the prelude to other activities; tell her you love her and state four reasons why you do so.

What NOT to give her on the 4th anniversary:

1. Just because this year gives you the license to indulge the male penchant for electrical gadgets, it does not mean that you give her an electric shaver/ hair remover

2. Ditto for books. Fiction and non-fiction are all great. What is a no-no is a dictionary or one of those ‘better yourself’ books (How To Lose Weight in 10 Days)

3. A crystal ash tray (what were you thinking?)

4. Any fruit to which she is allergic

5. 5. It cannot be repeated often enough. Ditch the predictable cards-flowers-chocolates routine – at least for this year.