Celebrating your wedding anniversary is a great way to reaffirm your love and commitment toward the one you're married to. Here's how to make it perfect.

Getting married is by far one of the most significant and exciting events in one's life. If you're already married, then you know all about the process of wedding planning and of actually making it through your wedding day.

You know all about the weeks or months of stressful planning and careful decision making that go into the process. Anything that takes up so much time must be important for some reason.

When couples celebrate their wedding anniversary each year, they do so because they remember how big and how special their wedding day actually was.

One of the biggest reasons why every married couple should celebrate their wedding anniversary each year is to simply reflect upon and remember what a great commitment they made to each other on their wedding day.

So few marriages last in our modern culture that people whose marriage continues to be strong should do all they can to celebrate their special day and the accomplishment of making it through another year of marriage to one another.

Many couples used their wedding anniversary as a day to reestablish and reconfirm their vows. You can begin a special tradition of repeating your wedding vows back to each other on your wedding anniversary each year.

Life gets busy, works gets stressful, and as children are added to a family we all know that time for married couples to be alone and keep their marriages strong is at a premium.

Use your wedding anniversary as a perfect excuse each year to get away from work, home and the kids and enjoy a few days or even a few hours of uninterrupted time together.

Take turns each year planning a special event or weekend getaway. Try new things together or return to places that hold special memories.

Whatever you do, just be sure to set aside time to really celebrate and enjoy your wedding anniversary. A happy marriage is far too important not to celebrate.

If it's your turn to plan a wedding anniversary celebration this year, do so by thinking about activities that you and your spouse love to do together. Your wedding anniversary will be fun and memorable as long as you're together doing things you both enjoy.

If you love live music, see if there is a great concert happening in a city near the year, or take your spouse to a great play or musical. If you love to explore new places together, use your wedding anniversary as a time to take a vacation or a weekend getaway together.

And don't forget to choose the best marriage anniversary gift for your husband or wife. Here's a short guide to wedding anniversary gifts:

1. The first wedding anniversary is the paper anniversary. You could buy a framed original edition of a newspaper for example of your partner's date of birth or tickets to a show.

2. The second anniversary is the cotton anniversary. Of course, you could buy underwear or lingerie but maybe matching bathrobes is more your style.

3. The third anniversary is the leather anniversary. This is one that may or may not be acceptable to your partner but it can be fake leather if you prefer. Anything from leather belts to a leather cell phone cover to a leather strapped watch is appropriate.

4. The fourth anniversary is the fruit and flowers anniversary. If you often send flowers then this might be the opportunity to try something a little fruitier.

5. The fifth anniversary is the wood anniversary. Instead of thinking about a wooden carving or piece of wooden furniture you could take a long anniversary weekend in a romantic log cabin and get away from your hectic lives for a few days.

6. The sixth anniversary is the iron anniversary. I am talking about the metal, not the appliance unless you want to risk buying a new iron for your anniversary. A better option may be wrought iron furniture such as a garden loveseat.

7. The seventh anniversary is either the wool or copper anniversary. Obviously, these two are very different but it does mean that you could buy a woollen blanket for those cold nights in or matching copper bangles.

8. The eighth anniversary is the bronze anniversary. A perfect gift for this anniversary might be a bronze sculpture or a vacation to do some bronzing in the sun. You don't have to be literal with the anniversary gift.

9. The ninth anniversary is the pottery anniversary. I used to think that this was one of the most predictable of all the anniversary gifts where most people would buy a cup or plant pot made from pottery but then I was given a great idea by my friend. She actually arranged to do a reconstruction of the pottery scene from the movie 'Ghost'. Enough said I think!

10. The tenth anniversary is the tin or aluminium anniversary. These days aluminium is used for a wealth of items but tin tends to be a little rarer. A good gift for this anniversary would be an aluminium watch or other personalised item.

Thrill your spouse by giving them the perfect marriage anniversary gift for wedding anniversary years 1 to 65.

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