Whether you've been married for a year or years, planning your wedding anniversary can be challenging and difficult! However, if you plan this special day well in advance or the night before the D-Day, you can have a great wedding celebration with a focus on the couple and the things that make your love special. Give traditional gifts, take your kids along, or go on vacation to celebrate your love and marriage.
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Method 1 of 4: Giving Gifts
Step 1. Follow the list of traditional wedding anniversary gifts
Following a list of traditions can give you a bright idea, and it can also stimulate your creativity in celebrating an anniversary. For example, a traditional gift for 1 year of marriage is paper, but you could give a scrapbook office set or hanging map that contains all of your beautiful moments over the past year. Important wedding anniversary gifts include:
- 1 year: Paper
- 5 years: Wood
- 10 years: Tin or Aluminum
- 15 years: Crystal
- 20 years: Jade
- 25 years: Silver
- 30 years old: Pearl
- 35 years: Coral
- 40 years old: Ruby
- 45 years old: Sapphire
- 50 years: Gold
- If buying two gifts seems overwhelming, talk to your partner about buying gifts together for your home or family.
Step 2. Exchange love letters
Write down some of the best things your partner did this year, how they impressed you, and why you love them. Tell them in detail and show your appreciation and awareness of them.
As a bonus, you can save your given love letter to read on your next wedding anniversary. On your wedding anniversary next year, you also need to write a love letter to read the following year. This can be an interesting wedding anniversary tradition
Step 3. Turn your favorite images into works of art
Is there a photo of the two of you that you really like, or of you with your family? Turn the photo into an image on canvas, or use the services of an artist to turn it into a painting if you want a personal touch!
Step 4. Make a compilation of songs
Include songs that your partner might like, or remind you of how much you love them. Try making your playlist a history story between the two of you.
Couples can also listen to this compilation again when you are far apart
Method 2 of 4: Vacation
Step 1. Ask your partner to pack without telling them the purpose of the vacation
Surprise vacations can be even more exciting, and you don't even have to go anywhere! For shorter excursions, make hotel reservations in your city, and ask your partner to pack up the night before and get ready to be picked up after work. Then, take him to a hotel room where the two of you can spend a romantic evening alone.
Step 2. Revisit your honeymoon place
If your honeymoon was very pleasant, there's nothing wrong with planning to return there. Repeat the activities that you used to do during your honeymoon, but don't hesitate to get out of your comfort zone and try new things!
Step 3. Go on an adventure
If you like the outdoors, try an adventure in hiking, zip lining, white water rafting, and scuba diving. Visit volcanoes, canyons, forests or mountains for some outdoor fun!
Step 4. Take a vacation with the whole family
If you have children or close family members, take them on a vacation together somewhere. You can go to Taman Ria or relax on the beach. Choose a place that is easy to visit so it's not hard to plan!
Step 5. Rent your dream car and go on a trip
If you've always dreamed of driving in a luxury Porsche, or if your partner has long dreamed of driving down the street in a red Mercedes, rent it and take it on a trip! If you can, drive all night until you find a hotel, or else travel all day!
Step 6. Enjoy the comforts of home if you don't want to travel
Choose to be home for the weekend, just the two of you. If you have children, try to persuade family or close friends so that your child can stay at their house. Do the same for pets or other responsibilities you have. Relax alone at home, have a romantic dinner together, and watch your favorite movie. You can also order food and relax together in the bath. Relax, unwind, and celebrate your wedding anniversary just the two of you.
Method 3 of 4: Celebrating With The Whole Family
Step 1. Have a party
If your wedding anniversary is big or important, or you want to celebrate your wedding anniversary with your loved ones, throw a party and invite everyone! Send out invitations and turn your house into a party room, or rent a specific location. It's a plus if you play songs that were popular in the year of the wedding, or have guests dress like the people of that year.
Step 2. Watch the wedding video together
This show is suitable, especially if you have young children and see their mother as a princess or feel disgusted when their parents kiss. Serve juice or syrup while watching a video, then turn your living room into a dance floor!
Step 3. Go on a fruit picking trip to celebrate your wedding anniversary in a relaxed manner
Pick fruit while you chat about your memories, or make it a competition to entertain the kids. Then, use the picked fruit to make pies or cakes. Enjoy your hard-earned food while sitting together watching a movie or relaxing by the fire.
Step 4. Install the self-driving screen in the backyard
Hang a white screen on a wall or fence. Rent or buy a projector, and play your favorite movie, the first movie you watched together, or the most popular movie of your wedding year. Make popcorn and prepare a snack, or serve up your favorite drink.
Even if you don't usually show affection openly, it's time to hug and hold your partner's hand. After all, it's your wedding anniversary
Method 4 of 4: Channeling Creativity
Step 1. Make changes at home
One way to celebrate your affection is to work together to create something new and exciting. Whether you're usually reluctant to paint your living room walls, but need a rejuvenation, or you want to add a light on the back porch to make it look more attractive in the summer, invite your partner to design and redecorate your home.
Step 2. Learn new things together
Home life can sometimes become routine and, despite liking it, you don't learn things and try new experiences. Take classes with your partner to break the monotony and bring something new into your life. Some interesting classes to follow:
- Language classes for beginners who have been wanting to learn for a long time
- Sailing or surfing classes together.
- Pottery making class.
- Dance classes such as swing or salsa.
- Cooking or baking classes.
Step 3. Dinner using your wedding cutlery set
If your wedding dish is luxurious enough, it's likely that the cutlery set (wedding china) is on display or maybe even hidden "for keepsake" in a cabinet or kitchen cupboard. Although it's best if this special cutlery set isn't used every day, take it out and use it for this special anniversary!
Step 4. Go to where you are engaged
Repeat your vows there, or if you don't want to do something formal, tell why you want to remarry spontaneously.
Step 5. State your hopes for the future in the well of supplication
Collect coins from the year you were married, and toss them into the well while making wishes. Say it out loud, rather than silently, and express how you will continue to support your partner in the years to come.
If you like to travel, use the coins collected to travel to other countries
Step 6. Write down the note in the bottle
Take your afternoon to write a love story together, and then put it in a small bottle and send it to the sea or the beach. You not only share your love story with the world, but also tell it to someone you've never met before!
