One Year Anniversary Gifts

Congratulations if you have made it to your one year anniversary. 
Gifts to celebrate this wonderful first year are wonderfully easy to create without spending a fortune, which is good news, because let's face it, money is tight in those early years.  You still have 24yrs to go before you officially have to buy diamonds, so breathe a sigh of relief as this year you only have to buy/create something with PAPER!! (see what I gave my hubby on our first anniversary below...)


Paper Anniversary Gifts


Here are some suggestions to get your creative juices flowing:


1. Write a Love Poem - I did this for our first wedding anniversary and my husband still can't finish reading it without crying -and we have been married 20yrs this year!  (scroll down to see the poem...cheesy!!)
2. Put a Love Note in a bottle - This is SO romantic - you could be extra creative here and leave it floating in a bath full of paper rose petals..
3. Create your Surname search our Backyard Letter Photos (made of paper!) and spell out something meaningful and then frame them or find a creative way to display them. I think this is a lovely first year gift as it will have special meaning to you both - and it is a personalized gift
4. Funky Stationary
5. Tickets to a concert - well they are made of paper!!
6. A book
7. A journal made from hand crafted paper with a nice pen
8. A baby TREE - the origin of paper!!
9. Put an Ad in the paper - wow! Declare your love with a love note and photo in the local mag - tell the world!!
10. Create a collage from all your wedding cards or photos and have it framed - I did this too - worth doing otherwise they just get stuck in a shoe box somewhere and you never see them


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Ok - so here is THE POEM I wrote for my wonderful hubby all those years ago - it always chokes him up when he reads it (every anniversary!!) and I know it is CHEESY but it just goes to show that if it is written from the heart.....oh and if you want to know what anniversary gift is used to celebrate this 20th Anniversary - check out the Yearly Anniversary Gifts Page - bookmark for future use!!


The Poem:
  
I know that our marriage
will be like a country walk
never knowing 
what is around the next corner
refreshing
when we walk in the shade
out of the glare of the blazing sun 


always finding something
interesting on the way and
perhaps discovering
things we hadn't noticed
the first time we walked there


Satisfying to look back and 
remember
the walks we have achieved
always challenging
the ones we haven't yet climbed


How exhilarating
it will be
my love
when we reach
the top of the hill
together


awwwwww....20 years on...and still going strong...we have taken a few 'wrong turns' now and then - but we always get back on the track and continue the walk together xxx