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40th wedding anniversary: ruby
A ruby forms deep underground, in intense heat and under enormous pressure. It’s one of the hardest gemstones, and its red doesn’t fade with time. After forty years, your marriage is a lot like that: it has come through more than one hard year and still has the same fire it started with.
40th anniversary gift ideas
- Small ruby earrings, with a list of forty reasons you love her tucked into the box
- An album of forty photos, one from each year of your marriage, bound in ruby-red linen
- A soft wool cardigan in ruby red for fall walks and evenings with a book
- A day behind the wheel of a rented classic car from his younger days, ideally ruby red
- Homemade cherry syrup and two vintage ruby-red glasses found at a flea market
- A short film where your kids, grandkids and old friends tell their favorite stories about him
- A family photo shoot where everyone shows up wearing something ruby red
- A book of your family recipes, written down together and printed for your kids and grandkids
- Tickets to see a band you used to dance to at house parties when you were young
40th anniversary wishes
Short and warm, for a card, a text or a toast. Tap to copy.
How to spend the day
Go back to the place where you got married and bring a photo from that day. Take a new one in the same spot and the same pose, then have a meal somewhere nearby.
Tradition
The world’s first laser, built in California in 1960, used a ruby crystal. The stone gets its red color from a trace of chromium.
Questions for your anniversary evening
- Imagine you'll live to 90, and for the last 60 of those years you can keep either the mind or the body you had at 30. Which do you pick?
- Imagine you'll live to 90, and for the last 60 of those years you can keep either the mind or the body you had at 30. Which do you pick?
- Imagine you'll live to 90, and for the last 60 of those years you can keep either the mind or the body you had at 30. Which do you pick?
- Imagine you'll live to 90, and for the last 60 of those years you can keep either the mind or the body you had at 30. Which do you pick?
- Imagine you'll live to 90, and for the last 60 of those years you can keep either the mind or the body you had at 30. Which do you pick?
Which anniversary is yours?
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What is the 40th wedding anniversary called?
The 40th wedding anniversary is the ruby anniversary.
What should I buy for a 40th wedding anniversary?
For your wife, for example: small ruby earrings, with a list of forty reasons you love her tucked into the box. For your husband: a day behind the wheel of a rented classic car from his younger days, ideally ruby red. Together: a family photo shoot where everyone shows up wearing something ruby red.
What can I write for a 40th anniversary?
Forty years ago you said “I do,” and we’re still learning from you how to argue and make up before dinner. May the years ahead be gentle with you.
Which anniversary comes next?
The next named anniversary is the 45th: the sapphire anniversary.
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