Anniversary Colors, Flowers & Jewelry For Every Year

Find wedding anniversary colors, flowers, and jewelry for each anniversary year to get inspiration and ideas for your next anniversary gift or anniversary bash.

If you’ve celebrated a wedding anniversary, you’re probably aware of the traditional and modern anniversary gifts by year lists. These handy lists help you find a symbolic and meaningful anniversary gift for your spouse or another couple.

Each anniversary year is associated with a specific material that symbolizes that anniversary, from fragile paper (the symbol for the one-year anniversary) to the strong and enduring diamond (the symbolic gift for the 60th anniversary). As years go by, the anniversary gifts increase in strength and substance, representing the growing bond of the married couple’s relationship.

Shop Anniversary Gifts By Year

In addition to the symbolic wedding anniversary gifts by year, there are also colors, flowers, jewelry, and gemstones associated with many of the years. These can further help guide your gift selections and help you plan decorations for your wedding anniversary parties.

Many of the traditional and modern anniversary gifts also coordinate with the designated colors, flowers, and jewelry. For example, the 50th wedding anniversary material is gold — and so is the color and jewelry for that year, while the flowers of choice are yellow roses.

Take a look at the list of wedding anniversary colors, flowers, and jewelry for each anniversary year — 1 through 60.

Anniversary Colors, Flowers & Jewelry by Year

Year	Traditional Gifts	Modern Gifts	Color	Flower	Jewelry
1^st	Paper	Clocks	Gold or Yellow	Carnations or Pansies	Gold
2^nd	Cotton	China	Red or Linen White	Lily of the Valley or Cosmos	Garnet
3^rd	Leather	Crystal or Glass	White or Jade Green	Sunflowers or Fuchsia	Pearls
4^th	Fruit or Flowers	Appliances	Blue or Green	Hydrangeas or Geraniums	Blue Topaz
5^th	Wood	Silverware	Blue, Pink or Turquoise	Daisies	Sapphire
6^th	Iron or Candy	Wood	Purple, Turquoise or White	Calla Lilies	Amethyst
7^th	Copper or Wool	Desk Sets	Onyx, Yellow or Off White	Freesia or Jack-in-the-Pulpit	Onyx
8^th	Bronze or Pottery	Linens or Lace	Tourmaline, Tanzanite or Bronze	Lilac or Clematis	Tourmaline
9^th	Pottery or Willow	Leather	Blue Lapis, Purple, Green, or Terracotta	Bird of Paradise or Poppy	Lapis Lazuli
10^th	Aluminum or Tin	Diamond Jewelry	Silver or Blue	Daffodils	Diamond
11^th	Steel	Fashion Jewelry	Turquoise or Yellow	Tulips or Morning Glory	Turquoise
12^th	Linen or Silk	Pearls	Jade, Opal or Oyster White	Peony	Jade
13^th	Lace	Textiles	Citrine or White	Chrysanthemums or Hollyhock	Citrine
14^th	Ivory (faux ivory only)	Gold Jewelry	Opal or Ivory	Dahlias or Orchids	Opal
15th	Crystal	Watches	Ruby Red	Roses	Ruby
16^th	Coffee or Tea		Emerald Green, Red or Silver		Peridot
17^th	Wine & Spirits		Yellow		Watches
18^th	Appliances		Blue		Cat’s Eye
19^th	Jade		Bronze		Aquamarine
20^th	China	Platinum	Emerald Green or White	Aster or Day Lily	Emerald
21^st	Fire		Orange		Iolite
22^nd	Water		Green		Spinel
23^rd	Air		Silver		Imperial Topaz
24^th	Stone		Lavender		Tanzanite
25^th	Silver	Silver	Silver	Iris	Silver
26^th	Art
27^th	Music
28^th	Linens
29^th	Tools
30^th	Pearl	Diamond	Green	Lily or Sweet Pea
31^st	Travel
32^nd	Bronze
33^rd	Iron
34^th	Food
35^th	Coral	Jade	Coral	African Violets	Emerald
36^th	Antiques
37^th	Books
38^th	Luck
39^th	Laughter
40^th	Ruby	Ruby	Ruby Red	Gladiolas or Nasturtium	Ruby
41^st	Office
42^nd	Clocks & Watches
43^rd	Entertainment
44^th	Electronics
45^th	Sapphire	Sapphire	Sapphire Blue	Blue Iris	Sapphire
46^th	Games
47^th	Garden & Plants
48^th	Home Improvement
49^th	Copper
50^th	Gold	Gold	Gold	Yellow Roses & Violets	Gold
51^st	Photos & Cameras
52^nd	Bath & Spa
53^rd	Plastic
54^th	Glass
55^th	Emerald	Emerald	Emerald Green	Calla Lily
56^th	Day
57^th	Night
58^th	Faith & Hope
59^th	Charity
60^th	Diamond	Diamond	Diamond White	Orchids