Creative Ways to Celebrate Your Wedding Anniversary

A Life-Changing Day

For most, wedding anniversaries represent a day when their life changed for the better, fundamentally. Not everyone is in the same boat, but one thing is sure: your wedding day changes everything. It’s a day to be commemorated one way or another. The thing is, especially as you and your spouse mature, it’s hard to find the right gift.

If you’re wondering what you should get—or what you should do—for the love of your life this year, maybe you’ll find a suggestion that fits the dynamic of your relationship here. 

1. Stretch the Anniversary: Make a Vacation Out Of It

This is something many couples have done, and you might want to think about it. First, when is the last time you and your spouse got away for some together time? Second, when is the last time you went for a weekend trip somewhere special as an anniversary event?

Maybe you book a surprise trip where the two of you got married. Maybe you go somewhere more exotic. Taking a weekend together for your anniversary can be a great gift for both of you.

2. A Scavenger Hunt of Notes and Gifts

Here’s a fun little game that doesn’t have to cost you much, but can cost you as much as you like: do a scavenger hunt. Leave a note that directs the reader somewhere, and when they arrive at that location, they find a little gift (it could be chocolate, it could be diamond earrings; whatever works), and another note.

You can lead your spouse throughout town, throughout your house, to varying places where you had special moments together, or whatever makes the most sense. It’ll be a memorable anniversary, and you may find your spouse is inspired to reciprocate in kind a few anniversaries down the line.

3. A Bouquet Like No Other

Flowers are some of the most perfect anniversary gifts there are—but you may want to get increasingly extravagant bouquets depending on how long you’ve been together. If you’ve been together a year or so, a dozen roses is ideal; especially given the costs you have likely sustained as a new couple.

If you’ve been a couple for forty years, one anniversary you might buy out an entire shop full of flowers and inundate her room with them. 

4. Surprise Her by Getting All the Honey-Do’s Done

Marriage isn’t made of an overarching “consistent” passion. When it starts out you’re all over one another. But after ten years, your not. That doesn’t mean the fire has died; it means it has transformed. Community leaders who have been together for decades are a strong unit as far as relationships are concerned. But they’re not lovey-dovey teenagers.

Accordingly, that which represents “romance” changes. You and your spouse are more secure in one another, and grand gestures don’t mean as much as they did. What matters a lot to some couples are pragmatic things, like fixing the heat vent for the dryer, caulking the tub, sanding the flours, replacing a window, fixing the deck, or something like that.

Here’s an idea if you’re at this stage in your relationship: give her an excuse to be gone a couple of days right before your anniversary, so that when she returns on the day, you’ve got a hundred little honey-do’s totally done.

An Anniversary to Remember

Surprise honey-do’s, flower bouquets like she’s never seen, a scavenger hunt, or a getaway vacation represent four top-tier anniversary ideas that both partners can enjoy. Whatever you do, put some time and effort into your anniversary celebration this year. Being married is a huge blessing, few realize as much, and commemorating your union is worth prioritizing.