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Make This Anniversary Beautiful: Shopping for the 5 Year Anniversary Gift Surprise

By Penny Parnell


Anniversary bands symbolise the continuing love of a married couple. A new tradition that is growing in popularity, these rings are a way for a couple to show that their love endures. The perfect circle of the anniversary ring represents eternity, thus anniversary bands are often also known as eternity rings.

The occasion for buying an anniversary ring depends on the couple's personal choice many husbands buy an anniversary band to celebrate the birth of their first child, others a significant milestone such as five or ten years. Anniversary rings are usually a gift from husband to wife but a growing number of women now buy their husbands rings to mark anniversaries. The rings are usually made from gold or platinum - most couples choose the same material as the wedding and engagement rings are made from so that they match. There are usually small diamonds or coloured stones going all the way around the ring.

Styles of anniversary bands vary from the traditional diamond anniversary ring with stones set across the top half to the full' anniversary ring with stones all the way around the band and the three stone anniversary ring. Traditionally, if the anniversary ring is for the 25th year, couples choose silver, white gold or platinum. Anniversary bands marking the 50th year of a marriage are usually gold, although this may change as younger couples getting married now eventually reach these milestones, since white gold and platinum have recently grown in popularity for engagement and wedding rings. The style of the anniversary ring can complement the wedding and engagement rings or have an entirely different style, depending on personal preference.

Although the diamond anniversary ring is very popular, multi-stone rings, with a precious or semi- precious stone to represent each anniversary of the couple's marriage are becoming increasingly popular. Many husbands see the buying of an anniversary ring as an opportunity to buy something very valuable to represent their commitment. So, for the fifth wedding anniversary an anniversary ring might have sapphire or alternatively pink tourmaline, for the tenth diamonds and blue sapphires, and for the twentieth Emeralds or Golden diamonds. Couples with the staying power to get to their 60th anniversary can celebrate with diamond anniversary rings or precious star rubies.

Yesteryear, the engagement rings were made of grass, plants, or twine during ancient times. Today they are made with precious metals and gems such as platinum, titanium, white gold, gold, sapphires, diamonds, rubies and emeralds. The engagement has and will always be a significant symbol in our society for eternal commitment and love.




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