First Wedding Anniversary, what present did you give/receive?

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I am looking for inspiration!!!

For OH?? We spent the weekend visiting family night in what we thought was nice hotel, except the fire alarm went off in the night and we didn't wake up. Never knew until the following morning. And then, heading home on the Sunday, broke down in the new car we had had only 2 weeks. Was a nightmare! However, I am sure there are lots of nice things you can buy or do

Ooooh just had a thought, make it memorable and try water zorbing together!

what is water zorbing????

Lady, just googled it!! Are you mad woman! Have you actually done that

We bought each other books we wanted (1st anniversary is paper) cos I was pregnant with DS at the time & we were saving to buy baby stuff. We also went to dinner at the hotel where we were married. It was lovely.

I think the first anniversary is paper (depends on which website you look at...) but that suited our purposes and we bought a watercolour painting.

I have absolutely no idea - probably nothing - it was over 20 years ago!

Nooo! but I heard it is wicked! What better way to spend your first wedding aniversary.

Beats loading a car onto a transporter at 3am

Dh bought me a lovely watch and i bought him a samuri sword.

A card.

and a good shag.

As it was paper he gave me plane tickets to Milan. I gave him the paper expedia print out of the hotel booking. Hardly a suprise as we had to confer but a great weekend.

Don't think we'll be able to get away have 3 children, one who is only a small baby and I can't leave her yet

It is paper so i bought OH a book about his favourite football club - it was made up from old newspaper articles which is easier to read [English being his second language] -with a personalised message. He had the biggest grin.

I bought dh a scrap book (paper) and put lots of things in from our first year of marriage.
The idea was to add to it over the years - have added some things since, but not for ages. (note to self....)

We exchanged cards but the big event planned turned into a disaster. We were on holiday in New Zealand and had planned a night in a private country house which has a French chef and does a personalised menu. I had emailed back and forth and arranged everything, but when we turned up and knocked on the door there was nobody there!

It turned out there had been a mix up and as there were no other bookings that day the owners had gone away and there were just a couple of builders on site doing some work in a back kitchen. We eventually found them and tried to figure out what was going on.

Driving up the drive we had been so excited - looking forward to the four poster bed and the yummy dinner. The contrast with a couple of grubby builders scratching their heads and telling us 'but there's no bookings tonight' was horrendous. Plus I just had to ask to use the loo as I was bursting, and the builder sent me to some awful old staff loo that had a turd floating in it!!!

Eventually the owners made contact and apologised and booked us into a local hotel, but it was such a let down. At least we laugh about it now. Every anniversary since then we have managed to keep the level well above that of the floating turd incident.

My dh bought me theater tickets as i'm a bit of a Luvvie, I bought him a couple of Graphic Novels (or comics as i call them! )

Planning our 6 year one in 2 weeks, Iron anyone??

I bought my DW a subscription to Conde Nast Traveller, since its the paper anniversary and she likes to plan holidays (or did before DD came along!).

I don't think she got me anything but I might just be a bad DH who has forgotten!

We had a small family wedding and went to a local restaurant for a meal after so we are thinking of going there for a meal. Tho we may end up playing board games as thats what we were doing when he proposed! If he takes the car we may have a drive after and go to some of the places we used to like walking around on an evening before dd came along - relive some history, so probs wont buy any gifts. Tho paper...I will have to have a think now, new wallpaper and I might can get him to decorate at last?!

My DH got me a massive bouquet of flowers delivered to my office. The flowers were the same kind as my wedding bouquet. I had to get it home on the tube and as it was rush hour, some of the lilies stamens rubbed off on a couple of city guys darks suits. I just made a quick dash out.

As we got married in St Martins in the Fields church in Trafalgar Square, he got me a picture of the actual church drawn in pencil which I thought was a very touching gift which I later had framed and put up in our bedroom.

Cannot remember what I got him.

DD1 was born a couple of days before our first anniversary

I figured that'd do

We had ours a week or so ago...it was really tough to think of something!

I bought him a painting, pretty close to paper! He bought me a surprise long weekend in Devon with the dogs...printed on paper obviously, with a note telling me that I was the best wife he could wish for, was doing a great job keeping our first child warm/safe and that he loved me more every day. I cried! Soppy old git he is. He picked Devon because we are thinking of moving there in a few years so he thought it would be significant.

We went to Clarks village in Street to go Xmas shopping . Oh the romance of it?! To be fair it sounded much better when we organising it, honest . We did a cracking 2nd anniversary though (yes we did manage to make it through our 2nd year!) - India.

Never given presents or cards though but as it is paper would suggest books, a newspaper of the date you were married/born, a printed map of where you live/got married/had your honeymoon, ornate paper fan (like a Chinese one), a love letter, tickets to an event, share certificates (not exactly romantic but very practical!), a diary or photograph calendar.

Good luck and congrats for making it this far!