Best 1-Year Anniversary Gift Ideas
Thank you all SO much for helping me come up with ideas for my 1-year anniversary with Zak. I tried to compile as many of your recs that I could, below.
Best 1-Year Anniversary Gift Ideas
Write him/her a letter
Tickets to an event like a concert, sports game, flight
Journal
Stationary
Printed framed picture or painting of you as a couple, or a place you visited e.g. honeymoon (Etsy!)
Jar with 365 reasons why you love your partner
Vows handwritten in calligraphy or printed & framed on nice paper (Etsy)
Newspaper “year in review” (Etsy)
Personalized puzzle (Etsy)
A fun paper weight
A book to read/ discuss together
Add an extension to your vows on the 1st year
Personalized stationary
Sheet music of your first song framed
Plant a tree
Pick out a piece of artwork together
Handwritten love letter
A world map that you place pins in where you’ve traveled
A picture book of everything you did in the past year
A homemade coupon book
Watercolor portrait of your first home
Create a collage with notes, cards, ticket stubs etc. from the past year and frame it
Heart cut-outs of 3 maps - where you met, where you got married, where you live
Write out lyrics of your wedding song & frame it
Books or cookbooks
Personalized anniversary journal (Uncommon Goods)
Origami art
Personalized art commission
Couples activity book
Written letters for future occasions (when in a fight, when feeling lonely)
A star map of the night sky of your anniversary
Buy a star for someone
A first or signed edition of a favorite book
Paper airplane cufflinks
Animated picture book / comic book of the past year (Etsy)
Custom recipe book
Massage gift certificate
Tie Bar and Cufflinks with your wedding invite (Etsy)
52 reasons why I love you on a deck of cards