For all you married folks out there, we will be having a special segment on our Friday blogs by presenting you with ideas for every year of your anniversary. Kicking off this segment today will be the first Wedding Anniversary. I’m actually going to be celebrating my 1st Wedding Anniversary with my beautiful wife Michele this year in August so this one is a big one for me.

The traditional 1st Year Wedding Anniversary is paper (there is a modern US anniversary version which we will talk about at a later time). When you think of paper, it doesn’t conjure up too many images of romance and gifts as would something like candles, roses, or diamonds, but paper does give you a lot of flexibility to do some great things. Here are some great wedding anniversary gift ideas for your first year that will incorporate paper.

Tickets to a Show or Destination

Now-a-days when you buy a ticket to something it will most likely be an electronic ticket but there’s no reason that you can’t print it out and present it to your partner in a nice way. Print out the tickets to see the artist that played your first song or the tickets to a surprise 2nd honeymoon trip and present them to your loved one in a vase.

Love Poem

You can’t get much better than this if you personalize it to your partner and your relationship. This isn’t expensive and it could hold so much value if you put a lot of thought into it. Hand-write it on a nice piece of paper and present it in a nice format for extra appeal.

Picture Book

If you’re like us, then you probably have a ton of pictures from your wedding. If you haven’t done so yet, create a picture book of the best images from your wedding. For you Mac users, this is really easily done through iPhoto and it lets you order them right there. You can also place the order through many other online retailers. If you already have lots of pictures printed, then you can create a picture book of you two throughout the years.

Painting or Artwork

If your partner loves any particular kind of art style then get that for her/him on your anniversary. It will be good as well if the piece of artwork somehow symbolizes your relationship and you can place it somewhere nice in your home.

Framed Wedding Vows

Another sentimental thing you can do is print out your wedding vows. This is a nice way to relive the memory of one of the best days of your life and have a reminder of it displayed in your household. It’s a sentimental way of expressing the love for your partner.

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