It's an incredible time when you and your partner reach a milestone. Whether it's your first anniversary or your tenth wedding anniversary, you should always be prepared and have a gift, or gifts, on hand. In these cases, it can be difficult to know what to get your loved one because it is a gift that shows your true love for them.

Many people will think too much until the cows come home, but if you take a step back and look at the occasion, ideas will start coming your way. Getting creative when buying anniversary gifts is a great way to up your gift game, so here are some tips and tricks to do just that.

Your first anniversary
This is probably one of the hardest gifts to buy for your partner. The first anniversary is a special one, you've been together for a whole year and you probably want to show them how much you love them. However, you have to be careful because something too small will be a little unwelcome, but something too big that you have started something you will have to maintain for the rest of your life, which is not a bad thing.

Something that shows you care and something a little different is the best way to start your anniversary gift process. And if you are a male buying for a female, flowers are always going to be great. The people behind the Gift Unicorn Couples page suggest looking for something that you can both enjoy while still being creative. Gifts for both of you will bring you closer together and allow you to enjoy more time together.

Pre-Wedding Anniversary
Before you get engaged, you will most likely have many anniversaries that are just as important as when you got married. Try to make sure you have something different each year (besides flowers) as this shows you are thinking about what you bought last year and how you can improve it.

A weekend away is a great idea, but if that's not in the cards, then romance at home is just as good. Why not try to recreate a weekend away, but in your own home? Arrange your weekend schedule to take some outings during the day that you wouldn't normally do and create a beautiful romantic setting in the evening. A home-cooked meal is always a great way to make your life better.

First wedding anniversary
When you get married, it gets a little easier in terms of gifts because there are traditions for wedding anniversary gifts. The first wedding anniversary tradition is paper. Now you may be wondering what exactly you can do with paper. But there are many options here.

Paper cut scenes are a wonderful way to express your feelings, get a local artist to create something personalized that you can mount on your wall to always remember your first year of marriage. Ask them to include little details about your year and let your partner figure out what they mean. Since it's your first anniversary, you should splurge on some special flowers.

Second - Tenth Wedding Anniversary
The first ten years of marriage will undoubtedly be full of firsts, maybe you've had a baby or bought your first house. Either way, it was a great time and by the tenth year you will be fully settled into married life.

Keep the gifts reasonably strange in tradition; cotton for the second anniversary, then leather for the third, fruit or flowers for the fourth, wood for the fifth, candy or iron for the sixth, brass wool for the seventh, pottery or copper for the eighth, willow or pottery for the ninth, and tin or aluminum for the tenth. This should give you a wealth of ideas for your anniversary gift, but try and think a little outside the box. No one wants to give a board for their anniversary.

You can have something custom made by a local artisan, or you can find something from the store that you all love and make it out of the same materials that year.

This list goes on until the 90th wedding anniversary, which is the stone. After that, you're on your own. If either party says they don't want anything for your anniversary then we can consider that a test, so I would ignore any such statement and get something special anyway. Many years later you may find that it's not about those big, fancy gifts, but something small and meaningful. Show your loved ones that you care by being creative.

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