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Today marks six years since Ben and I got married. To celebrate, we’ve teamed up with several Etsy shops to give away six years worth of traditional anniversary gifts. According to this About.com article, the first six years of anniversary gifts we’re celebrating are as follows:
Year one: Paper
Year two: China
Year three: Leather
Year four: Flowers
Year five: Wood
Year six: Iron
Each day, starting today, we’ll have a themed giveaway. Our paper giveaway comes from Aldari Art. Feast your eyes on Dahlia No. 1.
The Goods: An 8 by 10 inch Dahlia No. 1 from Aldari Art in any color.
To Enter: Leave a comment, which can (but doesn’t have to) include our Just for Fun question.
Just for Fun: Do you give traditional anniversary gifts? What was your favorite paper gift? A sentimental card? A plane ticket?
For additional entries:
1. Like Aldari Art on Facebook, come back and leave a comment.
2. Follow Aldari Art on Twitter, and leave another comment.
3. Keep up to date with Aldari Art happenings through the blog.
Contest Closes: Sunday, June 17th at 11:59 pm, central time.
Number of Winners: One!
Ships: Anywhere in the US or Canada!
Other Info: We will select the winner using random.org and announce on Monday, June 18th. Good luck!!
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This would be perfect for our new playroom! I love the idea of coming up with creative, traditional anniversary gifts. We just celebrated our 5th anniversary.
i love the traditional gifts…just because it’s tradition! and it’s fun to try and come up with something creative! =)
i’m loving all the aldari art stuff! i’m following on facebook! =)
and i’m following on twitter! =)
We don’t give gifts. We usually hit a fancy dinner or add something special to out annual Chicago trip. Thanks for the giveaway!
I liked Aldari on Fb as well
Beautiful print. Happy anniversary!
Love that print! We’ve only been married for 25 days, so no anniversary gifts yet! My favorite paper gift was the card my hubby gave me on our wedding day. So sweet.
Such a cute print! My boy and I aren’t married but have been together a long time and we stick to “experience gifts” like taking a vacation or getting out and doing something instead of traditional wrapped presents. It’s so much easier for me to think of something fun to do rather than find that perfect “something” to give.
Haven’t done traditional gifts…actually we’re going on our fourth and I’m still trying to teach my husband the art of gift giving…starting with giving gifts…haha
I don’t think I’ve given a traditional anniversary gift ever, but we do the cards and the dinner for our anniversaries 😀
Very pretty! We’ve never done traditional gifts!
I just celebrated by 3rd anniversary (leather) and got my husband a leather key chain engraved with the latitude and longitude of where we got married!
What a pretty print! We don’t usually do gifts for our anniversary, but we do like to go out to a nice dinner!
I love this print! My husband and I are inconsistent with gifts…some years we do them, others we skip it!
It will be our second anniversary in July. Last year we did paper- he had my ring engraved (not exactly paper, but it made sense to me :-)) and had my sister take some anniversary pictures of us (since we had a long-distance-across-the-world relationship and never got the chance to have engagement pictures taken). I gave him many books. 🙂
I love this print!
My first anniversary will be in October… (my bouquet was dahlias actually!) I hope we do something sort of traditional.
One of our favorite traditions is to write in our memory book. Each page is for one year and includes favorite songs, movies, books, memories, nights out, etc. of the year. Plus, we include a photo taken during the year, too. We bought the book from uncommongoods.com.
I love that print. It would look awesome in my guest room! We don’t do traditional gifts. We prefer to save the money and splurge on a nice meal out.
Beautiful handwritten note from my hubby!
For our first anniversary we went to Puerto Rico! Love the print!
I followed @AldariArt on twitter.
Lots of great ideas! I think one of my favorites would be the airline ticket to Disneyland! (kid at heart). Great giveaway!
I liked Aldari on facebook!
We don’t usually do much for anniversary gifts any more, though we have never done the traditional ones either. Lately we have been getting stuff for our kidlet. His happiness makes up happy.
Yes we always have done the traditional gifts which we think is a fun way to be creative with gifts. For paper I made my husband a book of pictures from our first year of marriage intermingled with his favorite bible passage.
We shy away from traditional anniversary gifts but like to go out to dinner or try something new. Last year we went on a Segway tour of Philadelphia (awesome!).
I give my parents a gift every year for their anniversary, but they’re never traditional. Maybe I’ll try to go that route this year…
I love this print! My husband and I just purchase something that we know the other has really been wanting but would never buy themselves.
So cute. My favorite paper gift was the card that my husband used to propose to me on Christmas!
We do the traditional gifts. We were living in Germany during our first anniversary so my husband bought me train tickets down to Garmisch (the alps) and to go see Neuschwanstein (the castle that Disney replicated for their own).
I’ve never been one to follow the rules when it comes to gift giving 🙂 I love to pick out a gift based on the person
so cute!
We don’t typically do the traditional gifts, although my husband did a cute acrostic for our second. We’ll see what he comes up with next Wednesday on our third!
How fun! We usually try to do our own spin on the traditional gifts- like, for our paper anniversary, my husband surprised me with tickets to a broadway show!
We used to give traditional gifts, but now after 6 years we just plan a day together that just ours. That’s our gift to each other.
Happy Anniversary!!
We try to celebrate with traditional gifts as well, though my husband has a much harder time being creative with it. For our “paper” anniversary I gave him Brewer tickets… he gave me an origami kit. Oh, well. It was a sweet thought anyway.
I’m lucky if my husband remembers our anniversary at all, so I have been lazy about gift giving, too – so usually we give no gifts but go out for a fun dinner.
We’ve never followed the tradional gifts but maybe I’ll change that. 😉
We don’t really do much in the way of gift giving, but we do try to take a proper vacation each year in lieu of a physical gift. We don’t have children yet, but hopefully we’ll be blessed enough to continue the anniversary trip tradition, even if its somewhere close by.
I did movie tickets for him and he gave me a gift certificate to get a pedicure.
I think we stopped doing the traditional anniversary gifts after the first year…I gave my husband concert tickets for year 1- and then sort of ran out of a good ideas for the following years 😦
We tend to keep it simple with a celebratory dinner and cards.
My husband gave me paperwhites and a paperwhite candle for our first anniversary, and I loved thesweet and thoughtful play on the theme of paper.
For our anniversary, My husband bought me a set of books that i had been wanting. In the pages he hid pictures from our honeymoon and a cruise we had gone on. To top it off he wrote love poems and quotes along the bottom of the pages.
I love traditional gifts! I think it’s super fun to find traditional gifts that are modern
I love these! We don’t do gifts for our anniversary, we make a memory. We take turns planning every other year and do a new activity together or visit a place we’ve never been.
What a great print!
We usually just celebrate our anniversary with a nice dinner. One where we don’t have to cook!
We typically keep our anniversary gifts low key but I just gave a 1st anniversary gift and from CAPow to my niece – a photograph of the map of the city they live in with a sweetheart with XOXO on it – framed it and it was a super cute “paper” gift. Check out at CAPow onetsy
http://www.etsy.com/shop/CAPow?ref=shop_sugg
I have nothing to do with CAPow by the way – just thought they were adorable.
Love the print! We don’t exchange traditional anniversary gifts, but I think it’s a great idea!
My husband and I are pretty non-traditional…our anniversary gifts are usually a weekend away together somewhere – last year, we went to Mammoth in CA for some fly-fishing and hiking!
I don’t usually give traditional anniversary gifts, however I may start…So many creative ideas.
I liked Aldari Art on facebook!
We give traditional gifts but we kind of cheat – for paper, I got him a subscription to his favorite magazine (playing by the rules!) but he got me lingerie and said “I wrapped it in paper!” 🙂
Paper is one of the best themes and a plane ticket would be great.
What a beautiful print! We have never done traditional anniversary gifts, but it seems like it could be fun!
We are big into cards!
I’m not married so no anniversary gifts for me.
We don’t have traditional gifts either, but I treasure all of the letters my now husband wrote to me during our courtship, and we still have the poem he wrote for the proposal and carried in his pocket! I really want to frame it.
Liked them on facebook
Love that print. We have never done traditional gifts, maybe this year we will though.
my hubby and I don’t give traditional gifts, but my best friend did give us personalized note cards w/ our last name for our first anniversary traditional paper gift which was beyond sweet and thoughtful of her
No gifts, just a getaway or fancy night on the town!
Great Prints!
Love this print. Have never done traditional gifts.
Pretty! I am not married so no anniversary gifts for me
We don’t give traditional gifts but we have a tradition of our own of writing each other a letter with our favorite memories from the year. It is fun to look back at those sometimes and laugh about some of the memories.
We do not give traditional gifts. My husband usually gets electronics and I get a household item.