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Marriage brings about many tests for every individual who has taken that dive into a long lasting commitment that must be upheld for life. Anniversaries, no matter what year, are to simply celebrate the couple’s success in overcoming their challenges together. Anniversary gifts have been known to commemorate these years and can range from traditional to modern versions representing each year of shared love and heartaches by every married couple.

The first five years of marriage bring about a first set of gifts that vary from traditional settings to modern alternatives which depend upon the giver’s preference. The traditional gifts, from years one to five can vary from paper, leather, fruit and flowers, wood, and cotton. From years five to ten, gift ideas range from the traditional candy, bronze, pottery, copper and tin, and wool. These have been alternated in these modern times to pottery, willow, aluminum, brass, and iron.

Eleventh to fifteenth year marks a celebration that has varied gifts ranging from traditional silk, lace, ivory, steel, and crystal. Twenty years of marriage marks a major milestone in their lives with fine china being both a traditional as well as modern practice in gift giving. An alternate gift would be the more expensive platinum that commemorates the solid relationship that has been developed.

The silver wedding anniversary, representing twenty years of marriage that has larger chances of making it up to the big fifty year celebration, is marked as an important year for many couples all over the world. Traditional and modern gifts, of course, are products of silver. Another anniversary that is celebrated to mark a halfway point is when the couple reaches thirty years, usually following tradition with gifts of pearls.

Forty years of marriage that is seen as passionate and full of love and understanding that only a couple of this caliber can share, marks a relationship that has reached a tight bond in trust that increases the peak of romance. Known as the ruby anniversary, this love is celebrated with gifts of ruby for both traditional as well as modern settings. Celebrated by a renewal of vows, the fiftieth year is well known the world over, being the big golden wedding anniversary that many couples rarely reach together.

The very rare and solid proof of real true love is seen when a couple reaches their sixtieth wedding anniversary together, and this is emphasized by family and friends and having another celebration. The seventy fifth anniversary, being one of the biggest milestones in the history of marriages, is celebrated with gift combinations of gold and diamonds, sometimes with another wedding to renew the couple’s vows. This is the pinnacle of anniversaries where anniversary gifts for him and her turn into treasured family heirlooms to be passed on to the next generations of couples who also wish to have their relationships last through the challenges of time.