25 years of marriage
Silver Anniversary: 25th Wedding Anniversary Gift Ideas
The silver anniversary celebrates twenty-five years of marriage, a quarter of a century. It is one of the most widely celebrated wedding anniversaries, often with family and friends, and a natural moment to look back on everything you have lived through together.
Many couples mark it with a party, a trip or a vow renewal, and look for a gift that measures up to the occasion. Here is what silver stands for, 25th anniversary gift ideas that follow the tradition, and others that tell your twenty-five years of marriage.
Why silver for the twenty-fifth anniversary?
Silver is the first precious metal on the list. Bright, durable and valuable, it stands for a couple that has crossed a quarter century and whose bond has grown more precious with time.
The silver anniversary is also one of the oldest. Tradition often traces it to central Europe, where a wife was said to receive a silver wreath after twenty-five years of marriage and a gold one after fifty. The full year-by-year list most Americans know today took shape much later, in the twentieth century.
Silver is one of the few anniversaries where the traditional and modern lists agree: both name silver for the twenty-fifth. It follows china for the twentieth anniversary and comes before pearl for the thirtieth.
25th anniversary gift ideas
A comic book of your twenty-five years
A quarter century told in 24 comic pages, with both of your faces as the characters: the wedding, the family, the homes along the way and all of your anecdotes.
Discover the couple comic bookEngraved silver jewelry
A ring, a bracelet, a pendant or a pair of cufflinks in silver, engraved with the wedding date and the number 25. A classic 25th anniversary gift for him or for her.
A silver frame or serving piece
A silver photo frame for your wedding picture, or a serving tray to bring out for the big occasions, engraved with your names.
A party with your wedding guests
Gather the maid of honor, the best man and the guests from twenty-five years ago, and recreate the group photo in the same place if you can.
The honeymoon, twenty-five years later
Go back to where you spent your honeymoon, or finally take the big trip you have been talking about for years.
A vow renewal
Twenty-five years is a milestone many couples choose to renew their vows, surrounded by the people closest to them.
A comic book to tell the story of your twenty-five years of marriage
Twenty-five years of marriage hardly fit into 24 pages, so our AI scriptwriter helps you choose the stories that sound most like you: how you met, the big day, the major milestones and the small habits. It takes about ten minutes of chatting and one photo of each of you, and both of your faces become comic characters. You choose the tone, sweet, teasing or cheeky, and write the dedication yourself. It is the kind of book you read together first, and then pass around the whole family.
How is your personalised comic book made?
No form to fill in: you tell our AI scriptwriter about your couple and it turns it into a personalised comic book.
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Step 1
Tell us about your couple
Your photos, nicknames, habits, jokes and memories: our AI scriptwriter asks the right questions, in about ten minutes.
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Step 2
Approve the script
Our AI scriptwriter writes a 24-page comic book: one short funny story per habit. Something to change? Just ask.
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Step 3
See the free preview
The cover and the first page are generated with your faces, before you pay anything.
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Step 4
Order, the AI creates the rest
The other pages are generated as soon as you order, and you can retouch them for free before printing.
Free retouches before printing
Once your comic book is ordered, you can have any page you don't like changed, for free, up to 10 retouches.
- You see every page before it is printed.
- Something to change? Describe it in a few words.
- The AI redoes the page with your change.
- Nothing is printed until you approve your comic book.
How to celebrate your silver anniversary
Silver anniversaries are often celebrated in a big way: a dinner or a party with family and friends, a vow renewal, or a trip. Playing the wedding video or setting out the photo album during the evening always gets people talking. Some couples also wear something silver for the day, or exchange new rings to wear alongside the old ones.
Traditional anniversary gifts by year
| Years of marriage | Traditional gift |
|---|---|
| 1 year | Paper |
| 2 years | Cotton |
| 3 years | Leather |
| 4 years | Fruit & flowers |
| 5 years | Wood |
| 6 years | Iron |
| 7 years | Wool or copper |
| 8 years | Bronze |
| 9 years | Pottery |
| 10 years | Tin or aluminum |
| 11 years | Steel |
| 12 years | Silk or linen |
| 13 years | Lace |
| 14 years | Ivory |
| 15 years | Crystal |
| 20 years | China |
| 25 years | Silver |
| 30 years | Pearl |
| 35 years | Coral |
| 40 years | Ruby |
| 45 years | Sapphire |
| 50 years | Gold |
| 55 years | Emerald |
| 60 years | Diamond |
What people ask us about this anniversary.