Finding the Best Anniversary Gifts
Don't come unprepared!
Anniversaries are very important occasions to many people and getting the right anniversary gifts can be really stressful. It really doesn’t have to be, and if you read on you will get some helpful tips about how to do something really special for your wife or husband. It helps to have a little bit of imagination and put a personal touch on things but the good thing is that you don’t have to really think outside the box when it comes to the anniversary gifts. Sometimes it’s better to go with the things that have been used before and proven to be successful.
Options for Anniversary Gifts
1. Doing Something Together
This is almost always the perfect choice for anniversary gifts. Whether it’s just doing something in town like going to a concert that your spouse will really enjoy or going on a longer trip most people like the idea and the anticipation of a vacation. If you want to make it special, try to incorporate something that means something to both of you. Wherever it was that you first met, if that’s a nice place to go on vacation you can arrange to go there and go to the very same spot. It doesn’t even have to be something so extravagant, you can arrange to have a car pick you up and take you to a nice romantic restaurant.
2. Planning Anniversary Gifts
Perhaps more so than any other type of gift, anniversary gifts tend to get rated on how much thought was put into the gift. Guys, this especially applies to you. Even if you thought about it for weeks and weeks, if you end up coming home with a gift card, prepare to live in the doghouse for a while. They make great gifts on other occasions, but it this time you really need to do something more personal. Think something more like jewellery. Get some help from a sister or mother if you need it!
3. Research the Type of Anniversary
What we’re talking about here is the old tradition of what to give on particular anniversaries. You may have heard this before; the 25th anniversary is silver for instance. It only takes about 20 seconds of surfing on the Internet to figure out what substance is related to the traditional list of anniversary presents. If it’s your first anniversary, you’re in luck. This one is paper, so you can use it for just about anything. It can either be tickets to something or somewhere but it can also be used for other gifts as well. For instance, you can tell your wife that your first anniversary is your paper anniversary and give her a card. Inside the card, there is a note telling her to look in the hall closet. In the hall closet is hanging a beautiful evening dress (get her friends to get her size and help pick it out!). Then you take her out on whatever romantic evening you had planned. Now, don’t you look smart?
4. Try a Treasure Hunt
This may take some planning, but if you can do it it’s a really nice one. You can get a number of smaller gifts for your husband or wife and hide them around the house. Similar to the last example, you can give them a card (works especially well on the first anniversary) telling them to look in the first location. There they will find a small gift and a note telling them to look in the second location. Have the gifts get progressively nicer until the finale.
Good Anniversary Gifts shouldn’t be that hard
Most people know their spouse pretty well. Whether it’s something large or something small you can probably pick up hints every day if you’re listening carefully. To take a fairly ordinary anniversary gift and make it really special just take some of the tricks that you’ve learned here and apply them to whatever gift is appropriate to the special person in your life. Keep in mind that they will likely be talking to their friends and colleagues who ask what they got for their anniversary. Wouldn’t it be much better if they can tell a nice romantic story at the same time?
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