Our first anniversary (one year married, 7 years together) is less than two weeks away.  I can’t believe the wedding was almost as year ago.  Jared and I really like the idea of using the traditional anniversary themes for gifts and I think we are going to try to stick with them.  That would make year 1 our paper anniversary.

Yesterday Jared asked “for anniversary gifts, do we get the other person something or get “us” something?…  I think it is a more romantic gesture to celebrate our being together than your being with me… what do you think?” First of all, I love my husband to pieces.  He’s so sweet.  Secondly, now we’re trying to think of a paper gift for the two of us.  We were hoping to have a house deed in hand, but it’s unlikely we’ll find something and purchase it in time.

Other ideas he proposed were an art piece of some kind (maybe a portrait… anyone have a wonderful artist who does custom work?), a spur of the moment trip (any ideas where?), receipt for something fun (cop-out if we can’t think of anything) or a rainy day savings account (practical and boring).

So what did you do for your paper anniversary?  Anyone else sticking to traditional anniversary gifts?