Wedding anniversary gifts don’t have to be elaborate, expensive, or painstaking to find and buy.  Especially now that we have access to all of the products, services, ideas, and guidelines the internet affords, we can get the most traditional or most unusual of wedding anniversary presents.

For starters, we can consult the traditions list, searching for the wedding anniversary presents that meet the appropriate material criteria:

     1st First year: paper
     2nd Second year: cotton/straw/calico  
     3rd Third year: leather      
     4th Fourth year: fruit/flowers  
     5th Fifth year: wood
     6th Sixth year: candy/iron
     7th Seventh year: wool/copper
     8th Eighth year: bronze/pottery 

9th Ninth year: pottery                                 20th Twentieth year: china
10th Tenth year: tin                                      25th Twenty-fifth year: silver
11th Eleventh year: steel                              30th Thirtieth year: pearl
12th Twelfth year: silk/linen                         35th Thirty-fifth year: coral
13th Thirteenth year: lace                            40th Fortieth year: ruby
14th Fourteenth year: ivory                          50th Fiftieth year: gold
15th Fifteenth year: crystal                          60th Sixtieth year: diamond

Next, we can consider all of the possibilities that fall within that range if we want to buy a gift already produced and packed—one that is generic, but still thoughtful, that is.