Traditional Anniversary Gifts

The Traditional for 4 yrs is linen, silk, flowers, fruit
Modern is Appliances.

Not sure what you can do with that to be creative.

Leis for silk flowers if you were going to plan a trip to Hawaii.

I don't think he'd like a fruit basket.

Appliances are expensive unless you'd think he'd like one of those new Keurig (spelling?) coffee makers

How about just doing something you both enjoy doing. Spend a little time together & tell him all the reasons you married him 4 yrs ago.

Happy Anniversary.

Here's a link to the google search page for "traditional anniversary gifts".

http://www.google.com/search?aq=1&oq=traditional+anni...

And wanting to give a traditional anniversary gift is not following what someone says. It is following a tradition. Choice to do or not to do.

I think there are some things that are fixed, not carved in stone but fixed, across the board.

Like birthstone rings. If you get a birthstone ring for your children you don't just pick out some random stones, you to pick the birthstone for their month. There are just some things that are set, fixed, not really open for discussion. You don't have to follow them, they are there if you decide you want to.

I had not thought of these in a long long time. A friend of mine celebrated her first anniversary last fall. The traditional gift is paper. She knew she wanted her gift to be something special and paper....well, what can you do with paper? She thought long and hard about it and it finally dawned on her. They both loved football. Their college homecoming football game was the same weekend as their anniversary. So plane tickets, game tickets, all paper were in his envelope. They went and had a blast! And now they are expecting an addition to their family....

In my opinion, its not what some guru said you should give for an anniversary that is important. Its what would make your spouse happy and cause them to remember the anniversary and think fondly of you and their life with you.

Good luck to you and yours.

Silk scarves (wink wink).