Buying Special 14 Year Anniversary Gifts for Loved Ones
If you are approaching your 14th wedding anniversary, or you are helping your friends or family members to celebrate this occasion, you may be unaware of the traditional themes and ideas that accompany this year of marriage. When it comes to buying 14 year anniversary gifts, you may therefore be lacking in inspiration, wanting to select something heartfelt and memorable, yet not sure where to begin.
Traditional Themes of the 14h Anniversary Year
While in the past the 14th wedding anniversary was spent quietly, with a couple acknowledging their love for each other in private, today friends and family members are more likely to want to help their loved ones to celebrate every milestone event.
14 Year Anniversary Gifts Ideas
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The History of Ivory
Made using animal teeth and tusks, particularly those from elephants, the word “ivory” actually originates from an ancient Egyptian word for elephant. Since ancient times it has been prized as a decorative item, with the ancient Romans even using it to make the whites in the eyes of their statues. The Chinese have always valued ivory highly, using it to produce everyday objects as well as artworks, and were instrumental in its trade along the Northern Silk Road to Europe. Frequently used in many religions to create icons and faith-related objects, ivory was also used to make many items in the past that are now formed from plastic today including piano keys, cutlery handles and billiard balls.
Choosing a Floral 14 Year Anniversary Gift
Those wanting to choose a floral 14 year anniversary gift for their loved ones can select the traditional flower associated with this anniversary year which is the beautiful orchid. These uniquely elegant flowers make wonderful presents for green-fingered couples, and when well-cared for they will flourish and thrive like the couple's love. Symbolizing affection and understanding in the language of flowers, they make a very relevant and significant gift for any couple.
Unfortunately, orchids can be difficult to care for, and if the recipients are lacking in gardening skill they may find that their present doesn't last as long as they would like. If your loved ones have limited skills in the garden, why not give a more enduring floral 14 year anniversary gift?
As gold is an alternative contemporary choice to celebrate the 14th anniversary, why not consider a stylish 24 karat gold-dipped natural rose? Each uniquely crafted item is presented in its own prestigious leather case, perfect for displaying in pride of place as a permanent memento of this happy event, conveying its message of affection and esteem for a lifetime.
Traditional Ivory 14 Year Anniversary Gifts for Couples
If you would like to give a traditional ivory gift to your loved ones, you should never consider trying to source an item made from genuine ivory. Luckily, however, artificial ivory is available which is equally beautiful. An elegant artificial ivory ornament will perfectly reflect the theme of this anniversary year while adorning the marital home for many more happily married years.
Animal Themed 14 Year Wedding Anniversary Gifts
If you would prefer to go with the more modern theme of animals for 14 year wedding anniversary gifts for your loved ones, there are plenty of options for you to choose from. An animal statuette, animal painting, or textiles featuring an animal pattern are all good choices.
Alternatively, if you would like to splash out on an extravagant and truly memorable 14 year anniversary gift, a luxury safari vacation would be an amazing way for a couple to enjoy significant experiences together.
Great 14 Year Anniversary Gifts for Her
Imitation ivory jewelry is very beautiful and is sure to be appreciated as a meaningful token of love on this happy day, while animal themed accessories or clothing is another wonderful way to capture the essence of the event.
If you choose to embrace the contemporary gold jewelry 14th anniversary theme, why not give the stylish and timeless gift of a striking real miniature rose pendant, perfectly glazed and trimmed with a beautiful 24 karat gold detail to create a unique and effortlessly elegant token of esteem?
Finding a 14 Year Anniversary Gift for Him
If you need to find a significant 14 year anniversary gift for him, why not choose an artificial ivory handled razor or imitation ivory shaving set? Alternatively, go with the modern theme of gold jewelry and buy him an opulent gold chain that he can wear every day and think of you.
Gift ideas for other wedding anniversaries
Watches
Silver holloware
Furniture
Porcelain
Bronze
Platinum
Brass, Nickel
Copper
Silver plate
Musical instruments
Traditional Gift: Paper
Paper is a fitting gift for the first year because it's fragile, just like the beginning stages of marriage. But, if you take care of it properly, it'll last a lifetime.
Modern Gift: Clocks
Time is precious and clocks represent the passing of time and the change and challenges that come with it.
Color: Gold or Yellow
See the "gemstone" below and the material above (which can be yellow-ish).
Gemstone: Gold
Traditional Gift: Cotton
Cotton's woven threads symbolize how you become more interconnected as time goes on and learn to be more flexible.
Modern Gift: China
Both strong and delicate, china indicates the weaknesses and strengths of any relationship.
Color: Red
Because it's red hot—just like your marriage (sorry, we had to).
Gemstone: Garnet
Even though garnet comes in several colors, red garnet is most commonly used in jewelry for the second year.
Traditional Gift: Leather
Leather represents shelter and security for the third year, much like what a marriage and the home you build with each other symbolizes.
Modern Gift: Crystal or Glass
As a gift, glass and cut crystal both signify and reflect light and beauty.
Color: Jade or White
It's said that jade symbolizes abundance. Meanwhile, white is often associated with purity—like your pure love for one another.
Gemstone: Pearl
A symbol of wisdom and beauty, pearls form many layers over time and the longer they form, the more beautiful they become, much like a marriage.
Traditional Gift: Fruit or Flowers
Your relationship has fully bloomed by your fourth anniversary, making flowers or ripe fruit an appropriate gift.
Modern Gift: Appliances
A more practical gift, sure, but electrical appliances also embody how settled you feel in your relationship by the fourth year.
Color: Blue or Green
This aligns with the milestone's special gemstone.
Gemstone: Blue Topaz
Long associated with love, romance and affection, blue topaz is the perfect stone to set in a piece of a jewelry as an anniversary present.
Traditional Gift: Wood
Your roots have sprouted much like a tree by your fifth anniversary, so together you can endure anything.
Modern Gift: Silverware
All the meals you've enjoyed together and will continue to share are best commemorated with beautiful silverware.
Color: Blue, Pink or Turquoise
You've got options, so choose your loved one's favorite of the bunch. Or, mix and match colors—it's all up to you.
Gemstone: Sapphire
Much like wood, sapphire is a hard and durable material that can withstand the test of time just like your relationship.
Traditional Gift: Iron
Iron marks your strength because even after six years, you can still maintain a bond.
Modern Gift: Wood Objects
Much like the traditional five-year gift, an item made out of wood suggests the resilience of your marriage.
Color: Purple, White or Turquoise
By now, you've probably realized there are a few theme repeats. Already gifted something white or turquoise? Try purple, a regal and magical color, this time around.
Gemstone: Amethyst
Amethyst is made of quartz (which is a strong, heavy stone), making it a gift with lasting power.
Traditional Gift: Copper or Wool
The metal helps create heat, much like the warmth you give each other. And wool is just plain cozy.
Modern Gift: Desk Sets
This may not sound romantic, but work is a huge part of modern life. Gifting a desk set brings a touch of home to their professional space.
Color: Yellow or Off-White
Celebrate the light of your life with a sunshine-y shade or wool in its natural hue.
Gemstone: Onyx
This hard and durable stone is often used for carving. It's thought to protect marriages from strains and trials as well as represent harmony.
Traditional Gift: Bronze or Pottery
Like many of the metals, bronze symbolizes strength and indicates that your relationship is getting stronger by the eighth year, too.
Modern Gift: Linen or Lace
Linens and lace are both delicate and refined, and just like love, they're also objects of beauty.
Color: Bronze
Yep, just like the traditional anniversary theme.
Gemstone: Tourmaline
Similar to many other anniversary gemstones, tourmaline is tough against damage and long-lasting. The stone is said to do many things, including bolster relationships.
Traditional Gift: Willow or Pottery
Willow is indicative of flexibility as is pottery because much like a lump of clay, marriage is formed and shaped over time into something beautiful.
Modern Gift: Leather
Leather was used by our ancestors as a way to protect themselves. The material itself is known for how well it endures, which your marriage has also done by the time you reach the ninth year.
Color: Terracotta
This earthy color is named after clay hardened by baking. Your relationship, meanwhile, has been nurtured by emotional warmth.
Gemstone: Lapis Lazuli
Often used in feng shui to balance negative and positive energies, lapis lazuli is said to encourage honesty as it protects your relationship from any dangers.
Aluminum and tin won't rust, meaning they won't wear down. Their pliability and preservation is a symbol for how every successful marriage requires flexibility—especially by your 10th anniversary.
Modern Gift: Diamond Jewelry
When you've passed one decade, your marriage is as beautiful as a piece of diamond jewelry.
Color: Silver or Blue
You can't go wrong with either one of these elegant hues.
Gemstone: Diamond
This major milestone qualifies diamonds as fitting and appropriate gifts for both parties.
Traditional Gift: Steel
Steel is one of the strongest metals on earth, so it's no surprise that it represents the 11th year since by this time, nothing can break your bond.
Modern Gift: Fashion Jewelry
Really, it never gets old and it's wearable every day, so they'll remember the sentiment each time they put it on.
Color: Turquoise
Courtesy of the anniversary's gemstone.
Gemstone: Turquoise
One of the oldest charms against evil, turquoise not only protects but also brings good health, fortune and peace.
Traditional Gift: Silk or Linen
As they say, home is where the heart is, and these are two home decor staples. Anniversary presents made from these materials symbolize the life you've built together.
Modern Gift: Pearl
Finding a good pearl is like finding hidden treasure—kind of like how it felt when you finally found the love of your life.
Color: Oyster White
When you're together, the world is your oyster. And oysters make pearls.
Gemstone: Jade
This stone attracts love, protection and prosperity.
Traditional Gift: Lace
Don't think of this year as unlucky. Lace shows the elegance and beauty of the sanctity of marriage for the 13th anniversary. And like we said earlier, it's also strong.
Modern Gift: Textiles or (Faux) Furs
Different fabrics represent the comfort and warmth being married for 13 years brings you.
Color: White
It's a classic color to go with the classic material, lace.
Gemstone: Citrine
Bright yellow citrine will bring both joy and love to your significant other.
Traditional Gift: Ivory
Ivory as a 14th anniversary gift originates from Hindu mythology and signifies luck and protection. Look for elephant-themed gifts instead of actual ivory if you're going this route. You can also find plenty of other off-white materials that look like ivory.
Modern Gift: Gold Jewelry
Just as significant, gold jewelry represents unification, eternity and perfection.
Color: Ivory
For obvious reasons.
Gemstone: Opal
This stunning multicolor stone symbolizes love, passion and desire—talk about romantic.
Traditional Gift: Crystal
Crystal may be delicate but it's also sturdy, like your marriage, which is strong enough to have lasted 15 years but also another 15 and beyond. It also represents clarity and transparency.
Modern Gift: Watches
A timepiece in any form signifies the passage of time and all the years you've spent together, plus all the ones you'll share in the future.
Color: Red
It's also a well-known symbol of romance and passion.
Gemstone: Ruby
By 15 years, the flame is still going strong, so it only makes sense that a ruby—the fiery red gemstone—commemorates the year.
Traditional Gift: Wax
Like a lit candle, you and your SO have an undeniable spark.
Modern Gift: Silver Holloware
Silver holloware (think: anything related to the dinner table that isn't silverware—aka bowls, trays and so on) symbolizes unity since you'll enjoy it when you sit down to dine together for your 16th anniversary.
Color: Silver or Emerald Green
The first is due to the modern theme. The second represents things like harmony.
Gemstone: Peridot
Peridot is a symbol of undying love and devotion. It's also a beautiful shade of green.
Traditional and Modern Gift: Furniture
Gifting each other furniture represents the security, comfort and familiarity of a marriage that has been established for 17 years.
Color: Yellow
We can't get enough of happy hues.
Gemstone: Carnelian
Known as the stone of endurance that also brings joy and warmth, it helps keep a sense of humor in the relationship.
Traditional and Modern Gift: Porcelain
Elegant and refined but also delicate, porcelain signifies the hard work you've put into your marriage to keep it going strong for 18 years without damage. A porcelain gift serves as a reminder to continue to handle your relationship with care.
Color: Blue
This cool, soothing color makes yet another appearance.
Gemstone: Cat's Eye
Named for its resemblance to a cat's eye, this stone keeps a watchful eye over both of you and removes any melancholy from your lives. Beyond that, it also represents love, commitment and happiness.
Traditional and Modern Gift: Bronze
Surprise, surprise—just like the traditional eighth-year gift, bronze indicates that your relationship has grown stronger. Additionally, it also signifies health within your union even through tough times, since some believe it has healing properties.
Color: Bronze
This year's color is based off the traditional (and modern) theme.
Gemstone: Aquamarine
This protection stone will keep everything that's bad out but still keep all the love in for your 19th anniversary.
Traditional Gift: China
China shows the delicate and fragile nature of being in love. It needs to be looked after and handled carefully—much like a marriage—in order not to break.
Modern Gift: Platinum
Platinum can stick it out through thick and thin much like you both have after 20 years wed.
Color: Emerald Green
In honor of the anniversary gemstone.
Gemstone: Emerald
The sacred stone of the goddess Venus, emerald is known to preserve love so you can celebrate another 20 years together.
Traditional and Modern Gift: Sterling Silver
Spending a quarter of a century in love is worth celebrating with such a precious and valuable metal. After all, 25 years is known as the "silver anniversary."
Color: Silver
No wonder a 25th anniversary celebration is called a "silver jubilee."
Gemstone: Silver
Silver jewelry radiates brilliantly—as bright as your love—and symbolically represents a clear vision and lucidity for the future. (Like gold for the first anniversary, this isn't technically a gemstone.)
Traditional Gift: Pearl
Deep down in the ocean, you'll find precious pearls. They represent the hidden beauty of a long-lasting union with maturity that reveals itself from within.
Modern Gift: Diamond
A diamond's long-lasting endurance, beauty and strength appropriately reflects the nature of a 30-year marriage.
Color: Green
Even now, you continue to grow as a couple. And that's what green symbolizes.
Gemstone: Pearl
Both pure and elegant, pearls are timeless just like your relationship.
Traditional Gift: Coral
Yes, just like the coral at the bottom of the sea. It's believed to have magical healing powers that shield you from harm similar to how the love you have for one another protects your union.
Modern Gift: Jade
Jade represents luck, wealth, wisdom and passionate love in relation to so many years of marriage.
Color: Coral
This vibrant mix of pink, red and orange is just as vibrant as your ever-evolving love.
Gemstone: Emerald
The emerald symbolizes long-lasting love and preservation. No wonder it appears so often on this wedding anniversary gift list.
Traditional and Modern Gift: Ruby
Rubies are thought to possess a flame that never burns out, much like your love and commitment after 40 years of marriage.
Color: Red
As in ruby red.
Gemstone: Ruby
Keeping with the theme, the precious ruby gemstone honors the occasion.
Color: Blue or Red
Yes, sapphire blue. Some also say sapphire red counts.
Gemstone: Sapphire
The gemstone is a shining example to those who also aspire to remain in love for so many years.
Traditional and Modern Gift: Gold
Only something as desirable, classic and luxe as gold can represent such an important milestone (dubbed the "golden anniversary"). It shows the prosperity, wisdom, strength and significance of such a long-standing union.
Color: Gold
Because truly, there's nothing quite like gold.
Gemstone: Gold
Not only is gold beautiful, but it's also strong and resistant to corrosion and is often associated with wealth, wisdom and optimism.
Traditional and Modern Gift: Emerald
Why are emeralds such a popular anniversary theme? It's simple: They signify true love as well as devotion and adoration.
Color: Emerald Green
The green craze continues.
Gemstone: Alexandrite
Known for dispelling negative vibes and bringing positive ones in, Alexandrite brings good fortune and prosperity. It's also undeniably cool: It's rare and changes colors in different light.
Traditional and Modern Gift: Diamond
By the time you've gotten to 60 years, it's time to pull out all the stops. Yep, we're talking diamonds. Celebrating such a special anniversary like this one calls for a stone that represents unconquerable and enduring love.
Color: Diamond White
Because your love shines bright like a diamond.
Gemstone: Diamond
The fire in a diamond indicates an undying love that cannot be dulled.