Anniversary
It sneaks up on you every year. Faster than you think. And every year you’re faced with the same question. What in the world do you give someone to celebrate the day you picked each other, and keep picking each other? To say that this number of years we’ve done this actually means something?
It’s a harder question than it sounds. Obvious answers let you down. Jewelry is cliché. Adventures and experiences almost seem forced. Trying too hard. A card with a sincere message scrawled inside isn’t cheating, but everyone knows it’s not enough.
We’ve put a lot of thought into this. Because we think your anniversary deserves more than a five minute googling session where you click on whatever pops up. We think the best gifts for anniversaries do something unique. They celebrate who you know your partner to be, not some watered-down version of what a spouse or significant other should be like. They have meaning but aren’t stuffy. And they’re made to last. Not in a sappy, shove-it-in-a-jar-on-the-topshelf kind of way. Something you actually use.
Here, you’ll find gifts we sorted into categories we actually trust our own instincts on. Genuine. Well-made. Things that feel like they were made by someone who was paying attention. Some are handmade. Some are designed to endure. What they’re not are arbitrary products that we threw into categories to hit an arbitrary number we decided we needed.
You won’t find anything that came across as swearing an oath to compensate for no actual thought being put into it. Half-hearted gifts with a heavy dose of ‘I love you baby’ jammed in there to make up the difference. Every product we chose just felt like…. stuff you’d buy. Because you wanted to. Because the time spent with someone you love is worth celebrating. But not because you’re trying to meet a deadline.
An anniversary isn’t a milestone you stress over. It’s an opportunity. An opportunity to tell someone something meaningful about your relationship without saying a single word. We think gifts can do that. These can.