EACH YEAR HAS IT'S OWN TRADITION

A wedding anniversary is a special date that falls on the month and day when your wedding took place, and which recurs every year after that. And married people, for each year that you are married thereafter, like to celebrate by giving each other wedding anniversary gifts to mark the number of years they have been married. Usually the 25th or the 30th wedding anniversaries are celebrated with family and friends who usually get together and bring traditional wedding anniversary gifts to mark that specific year.

Traditional wedding anniversary gifts are chosen from a list of materials designated for each year. For instance, the first wedding anniversary is symbolised by paper, and friends and family usually come and bring books, or paper flowers that will last a long time and remind you of your first year together, some bring serviettes and some even bring paper money. Every year thereafter, these wedding anniversary gifts become more precious or scarce as the years roll on and actually reflect how many years a couple has remained together.

Nobody really knows when the traditional wedding anniversary gifts list came into existence, but it has evolved over a long time. For instance your silver wedding anniversary and your golden wedding anniversary probably originated from medieval Europe, where wives were given a silver or gold wreath as their wedding anniversary gifts. For the 60th and the 75th years, usually a diamond is presented as the wedding anniversary gift and Barnes Jewellers will help you make a suitable choice with their superb selection.

Lots of people like their wedding anniversary gifts not to be so predictable, so they like to add a bit of a twist to the gift, like tucking a ring in a leather wallet or tying a beautiful gold bracelet to a beautiful bunch of roses, so that the reciprocant gets a big surprise.

In the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth countries, you can even receive a message from the Queen for the 60th, 65th, and 70th wedding anniversaries, and any wedding anniversary after the 70th, you actually apply to Buckingham Palace, and in the United States, one can receive a greeting from the President for any wedding anniversary after the 50th. So that must surely be the greatest wedding anniversary gift of all.

For more information on choosing a perfect anniversary gift no matter which year it is, contact us at: http://www.barnesjewellers.co.za/contact.html