Tenth Wedding Anniversary Gifts

Your 10th Wedding Anniversary Gifts

There are several milestones in a marriage. There is the first wedding anniversary, the first house together and the first child. Of course, there is another milestone for a marriage that should be celebrated in a style fitting. For the tenth wedding anniversary, there should be gifts that reflect the important fact you have made a decade together, which will allow you to look back on the memories of the first ten years, and plan for the next ten years.

The traditional gift for this wedding anniversary is tin and aluminum. As a result, you could purchase a gift that reflects this traditional theme. Jewelry may seem like a stretch considering very little of it is made with tin, but there are options like tin cup jewelry, which can actually look quite nice, as well as coming at a relatively cheap cost. If your spouse loves coffee or tea, purchase them some and put it in tea and coffee tins. It will delight their palate and also give them something to store the precious commodity in.

Candles and candlesticks area standard gifts for wives, so tin or aluminum candle stands will work well as a gift on the tenth wedding anniversary.
Going with the container feel of aluminum and tin for a gift on the tenth wedding anniversary, you can also purchase a vase, which will compliment your gift of a dozen red roses perfectly.
The modern equivalent for wedding gift themes is leather. This can mean anything from leather jackets, to leather gloves for your loved one.

Over the course of your decade long marriage together, you have probably played out all the standard gifts, including chocolates and flowers. So, as you hit your decade together, you should go with gifts that will provide a touch of romanticism and thoughtfulness to the anniversary.
One way this can be done is to spend the ten days before the big day, giving your spouse gifts that correspond with the traditional or modern version of anniversary presents. For example, on the first day, give your spouse a watch or a poem. On the second day, give a gift that goes with the theme for the second wedding anniversary and so on. Once you hit the tenth day, give your spouse a traditional or a modern gift that fits the theme for the year.

If that is not your style, buy, or put something together, that reflects the past ten years together. This could be as simple as a photo album, or as complex as images from the past ten years, carved into a piece of driftwood. In reality, the only limit to the gift in terms of creativity is your talent and your pocketbook.

History is big for an anniversary present. You could find a copy of the newspaper, or LIFE magazine, from the day you were married and have it turned into a plaque or large photo. Of course, if you do this make sure that the headline is an uplifting one, not of murder and mayhem, which may detract from your present.

Another great gift for your tenth anniversary is a trip to anywhere in the world. You have been together for a decade; now take the trip of a decade to anywhere your spouse wants to go. It is expensive, it is time consuming, but this life experience gift will be something both of you will remember for the rest of your lives.

If you are the romantic type, you can take your wife to the spot where you proposed and the two of you can renew your vows in a solemn ceremony that features just the two of you and a priest.
This theme of going to where it all began also works for the tenth wedding anniversary if you go to the first place you had dinner, where you went for your first date, or simply cuddled on the couch and watched the movie you first saw together in the theatres, in front of a roaring fire.
The tenth wedding anniversary is a big deal; make sure that the gift you give reflects how magical the past ten years have been for you. Have fun with it, go all out with it or be conservative, the choice is yours. Just remember, the tenth wedding anniversary only comes once, so your tenth anniversary gift should reflect that.