Anniversary gifts made easy at the Red Elephant Gallery
We can always tell when the big wedding weekends are, or rather were. The indicator is not some scientific or statistical formula, intensive market research, or even a gut feeling. It’s sales receipts, and not sales receipts for wedding gifts, but specifically 7th anniversary gifts that fly out the door. How do we know they’re anniversary gifts you ask? Well the traditional gift for the 7th anniversary is copper and in some random way (as can only happen on the web) the Red Elephant Gallery has hit a niche with copper gifts. There are certain summer weeks when it seems that all we sell is copper--copper martini or wine glasses, copper ikabana, and copper sushi sets are very popular.
We never gave the traditional wedding gift process much thought until last June when it really worked out well for us. Just before our 11th wedding anniversary we had splurged on a new stainless steel grill for our small cruising sailboat. Yeah, not too sexy, but hey, we’re sailors. Michael’s mom, who loves to follow the traditional gift list saw it sitting in the trunk one day and started asking all kinds of strange questions about the material it was made of. Turns out that steel is the traditional gift for the 11th anniversary and all of a sudden that grill became both a gift for us, and a check off the to-do list for mom. Bonus for all!
So personally and professionally, anniversary gifts have worked out well for us. Maybe they’ll work out well for you too so we did the research and here is what we found. Traditionally lists like this go one through ten, but of course we included the 11th in our list! Looking through them it’s pretty crazy that diamond jewelry is 10th on the modern list. We don’t know many wives who want to wait 10 years for more diamonds! Honestly, the “today” list could probably have diamonds, or other valuable gemstones, every year, only growing in size as the years pass!
Have fun,
Karen & Michael
Traditional Modern
1st paper clocks
2nd cotton china
3rd leather crystal glass
4th fruit/flowers appliances
5th wood silverware
6th candy iron wood
7th wool/copper desk sets
8th bronze/pottery linen/lace
9th pottery/willow leather
10th tin/ aluminum diamond jewelry
11th steel fashion jewelry
We never gave the traditional wedding gift process much thought until last June when it really worked out well for us. Just before our 11th wedding anniversary we had splurged on a new stainless steel grill for our small cruising sailboat. Yeah, not too sexy, but hey, we’re sailors. Michael’s mom, who loves to follow the traditional gift list saw it sitting in the trunk one day and started asking all kinds of strange questions about the material it was made of. Turns out that steel is the traditional gift for the 11th anniversary and all of a sudden that grill became both a gift for us, and a check off the to-do list for mom. Bonus for all!
So personally and professionally, anniversary gifts have worked out well for us. Maybe they’ll work out well for you too so we did the research and here is what we found. Traditionally lists like this go one through ten, but of course we included the 11th in our list! Looking through them it’s pretty crazy that diamond jewelry is 10th on the modern list. We don’t know many wives who want to wait 10 years for more diamonds! Honestly, the “today” list could probably have diamonds, or other valuable gemstones, every year, only growing in size as the years pass!
Have fun,
Karen & Michael
Traditional Modern
1st paper clocks
2nd cotton china
3rd leather crystal glass
4th fruit/flowers appliances
5th wood silverware
6th candy iron wood
7th wool/copper desk sets
8th bronze/pottery linen/lace
9th pottery/willow leather
10th tin/ aluminum diamond jewelry
11th steel fashion jewelry
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