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1st wedding anniversary: paper
Paper is light and easy to crumple, yet it’s where we keep the things meant to last: letters, tickets, a marriage certificate. The first year is a lot like that. Everything still feels new and delicate, and you’re already writing the first pages of a story you’ll keep coming back to for the rest of your lives.
1st anniversary gift ideas
- The lyrics of your first dance song, copied out by hand and framed
- An old edition of her favorite book from a used bookstore, with your note on the first page
- Tickets to a show she’s been wanting to see, with the whole evening planned by you
- A short comic about your first year, stick figures welcome, with your inside jokes in the speech bubbles
- A wall map with pins in every place you’ve traveled together and spare pins for the next trips
- A calendar for year two with your photos and a few small surprises marked on the dates
- A paper-making or bookbinding workshop where each of you leaves with a notebook you made
- A jigsaw puzzle of your favorite wedding photo to put together on the anniversary night
- A thick notebook for a shared bucket list, starting with five wishes from each of you
1st anniversary wishes
Short and warm, for a card, a text or a toast. Tap to copy.
How to spend the day
Have a letter night. Each of you writes a letter about your first year. Read them to each other over dinner, then seal them in an envelope marked “open on our tenth anniversary.”
Tradition
In the US, many couples freeze the top tier of their wedding cake and eat it together on their first anniversary.
Questions for your anniversary evening
- What are you most thankful for in your life?
- What are you most thankful for in your life?
- What are you most thankful for in your life?
- What are you most thankful for in your life?
- What are you most thankful for in your life?
Which anniversary is yours?
The days together counter shows how many days you’ve been together, when your monthly anniversary falls, your 1000 days and your relationship anniversary.
All wedding anniversaries
What is the 1st wedding anniversary called?
The 1st wedding anniversary is the paper anniversary.
What should I buy for a 1st wedding anniversary?
For your wife, for example: the lyrics of your first dance song, copied out by hand and framed. For your husband: a short comic about your first year, stick figures welcome, with your inside jokes in the speech bubbles. Together: a paper-making or bookbinding workshop where each of you leaves with a notebook you made.
What can I write for a 1st anniversary?
Happy first anniversary. We wish you many more years like a good book: hard to put down and never quite long enough.
Which anniversary comes next?
The next named anniversary is the 2nd: the cotton anniversary.
Anniversaries, monthly milestones and 1000 days in one place
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