Wedding anniversary gifts: a date engraved, and a name for every year
A wedding anniversary has what other dates do not: a name for every year. Paper the first, wood the fifth, tin the tenth, silver at twenty-five — and wood is ours, since every bracelet carries a bead of solid cherry. What gets engraved is the date: two initials on one line, the wedding day on the second. It is what you give each other, or what children give their parents for a silver wedding. The family that marriage made fits on a tree with one to five branches, one initial per child. And two posters keep the day itself: the sky above the church or the register office the evening you said ‘I do’, or the map of the town where you married. Allow €23.90 per bracelet, from €19.90 to €69.90 for a printed poster, all made to order in Aveyron, France.
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Initials and Date Bracelet – Wedding Anniversary Gift
Two initials, the wedding date beneath them in figures separated by dots, exactly as you type it. The only bracelet on this page that engraves the date, and the wooden anniversary gift by its very nature, since the bead is solid cherry.
€23.90
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Family Tree Bracelet – Engraved Initials
A trunk, two roots, and one branch per child, up to five, each carrying an initial. The gift children give together for a silver or golden wedding: what that marriage made.
€23.90
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Puzzle Couple Bracelet – Two Engraved Initials
Two interlocking pieces, your two initials, no heart and no date: for a couple who are not ones for grand gestures, or to give as a pair — one each, letters in the same order.
€23.90
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Couple Bracelet – Two Initials and Two Symbols Engraved in a Cross
The boldest: a cross in the centre, an initial on either side, two symbols above and below. After twenty years there is nothing left to hide — this is the one for the round anniversaries celebrated in front of everyone.
€23.90
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Personalised wedding anniversary print — golden, silver and ruby wedding
The name of the anniversary being celebrated, set large — silver, golden — and beneath it every year already behind them, one word each. This is what children give their parents: it states the length of it, which no piece of jewellery can do.
From €8.90
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Wedding anniversary print in numbers — months, days, hours and milestones
Twenty years, and what that comes to: 240 months, 7,305 days, 175,320 hours, counted from the wedding day. Beneath it, four milestones of your life together — the children, the dog, the home, the coffees — each with its little drawing. The print you read with a smile before it gets to you.
From €8.90
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Personalised star map poster
The sky above the place you married, the evening you said ‘I do’: the stars calculated for that date and that spot, with a title and a dedication. The gift you frame for a tenth or a fiftieth anniversary.
From €8.90
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Personalised city map poster
The map of the town where you married, or of the one you have lived in since, centred where you choose and titled with your date. For a shared home: it hangs, it is not worn.
From €8.90
Which to choose
| If… | Then |
|---|---|
| You are giving to each other | The initials and date bracelet |
| The children are giving | The family tree, one initial per child |
| It is the wooden anniversary | Any of our bracelets: the bead is cherry |
| You want it to show | The initials and symbols bracelet |
| You want a gift that gets framed | The anniversary print, which names it: silver, golden |
| You prefer the place, or the sky on the night | The city map print, or the star map |
The anniversaries, and what to give for each
| The anniversary | Its name | What to give |
|---|---|---|
| One year | paper | The date engraved: the initials and date bracelet |
| Five years | wood | Any of our bracelets: the bead is solid cherry |
| Ten years | tin | The sky or the map of the town that day, framed |
| Twenty-five years | silver | The family tree, given by the children |
| Fifty years | gold | The star map poster of the wedding evening |
| Twenty years | china | The initials and symbols bracelet: the one that shows |
The names shift from one country to another: in Britain the first year is paper, in France it is cotton. Wood at five, silver at twenty-five and gold at fifty are the same everywhere. Allow ten days ahead from Britain.
Frequently asked questions
What is the wooden wedding anniversary, and what do you give?
Five years of marriage. Tradition calls for an object in wood, like a marriage that has taken root: every bracelet on this page carries a bead of solid cherry, and the one that engraves the wedding date under your initials is the most fitting. The name varies by country — Hölzerne Hochzeit in Germany, bodas de madera in Spain — but the idea of wood is the same.
What wedding anniversary gift do children give their parents?
The family tree: a trunk, roots and one branch per child, each with an initial, up to five. It is the silver or golden wedding gift, ordered by the children together. Or the star map poster of the wedding evening, given framed for a round anniversary. In both cases it is the children who bring what is needed: the date, the time, the town.
Wedding anniversary gift for your husband: what do you engrave?
The date, and nothing more: the initials and date bracelet engraves your two letters and the wedding day on a 17 mm bead, on a 4 mm cord with no clasp. It is not men’s jewellery in the usual sense — it is a cord he wears to the office and to the sea, and the date can only be read up close. To mark the day you met rather than the wedding, the dating anniversary page offers the heartbeat and the coordinates of a place.
What do you give for a 10th, 20th or 25th wedding anniversary?
A round anniversary is celebrated in front of others: that is where a poster beats a bracelet. The star map of the wedding evening, framed, holds a living-room wall; so does the map of the town where you married. For a silver wedding, the family tree is ordered by several children together, one letter each. And the initials and date bracelet works for every year: it carries the date, not the number.
Paper or cotton for the first anniversary?
Both are used, depending on the country: in Britain, Germany and Spain the first year is paper, in France it is cotton. The lists diverge from the second year and only meet again at a few anniversaries — wood at five, crystal at fifteen, china at twenty, silver at twenty-five, gold at fifty. If you are giving to a couple from another country, it is their list that counts.
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Made in Aveyron, FranceAssembled and engraved in our family workshop.
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Shipped within 48 hTo your door or to a pickup point, by La Poste or Colissimo.