Guides — read in five minutes

Anniversary Guides

What to buy for each milestone, what other husbands chose, and what to avoid. Short, honest, no jargon.

40th Anniversary Ruby Jewelry: What to Get Your Wife

Forty years is ruby — and ruby is the boldest assignment on the entire anniversary list. Paper is sweet. Silver is elegant. Ruby is a statement: t...

Gold at fifty years is older than every anniversary list ever printed. The same medieval German tradition that crowned a wife with silver at twent...

Paper has been the first-anniversary gift since 1922, when Emily Post put it at the top of the very first list — the idea being that a one-year-ol...

Crystal has held the fifteenth year since the very first anniversary list in 1922 — one of the few assignments that never needed updating. The log...

On the original 1922 list, twenty years got china — dinnerware, the good plates. The modern list swapped it for platinum, and it's not hard to see...

The traditional fifth-anniversary gift is wood — it's been on the list since Emily Post wrote the original one in 1922, when the idea was that fiv...

The silver anniversary is the oldest anniversary tradition we have. In medieval Germany, a husband crowned his wife with a silver wreath at twenty...

Here's a piece of history that works in your favor. When Emily Post published the first anniversary gift list back in 1922, the 10th anniversary g...

Seven milestones, eight to ten pieces each — and the most-chosen one is marked.