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Anniversary Gifts

Example Questions That Can Be Answered Using This FARQ

  • What is an appropriate gift for a couple’s silver wedding anniversary?
  • My friends have been together seven years. What’s the correct gift?

IPL patrons are a thoughtful bunch and are concerned about what anniversary gifts are appropriate for particular anniversaries. Thare are two lists of appropriate gifts that have developed, a traditional list and a modern-day list.

Note: There is only a traditional gift for every fifth year after the 15th anniversary.

  • About.com's Marriage section lists "Traditional" and "Modern" gifts.
    (http://marriage.about.com/library/weekly/aa033097.htm)
  • Traditional VS. Modern Anniversary Gifts, by Slade Hartwell, lists and discusses "Traditional" and "Modern" gifts.
    (http://ezinearticles.com/?Traditional-VS.-Modern-Anniversary-Gifts&id=7999)
  • Weddings Online's Anniversary Gift Guide lists "Traditional" and "Modern-Day" gifts, but only for the years that that they overlap.
    (http://weddings-online.com/wed/AnniversaryGiftGuide.html)
Updated on 15 Apr 2008
 
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