Celebrate year 1 with great gift ideas at Annettesfavoritegifts.com.

It's been almost one year since one of the biggest life altering days of your existence unfolded, your wedding day. And now your 1st wedding anniversary is approaching quickly. The first wedding anniversary gift is important, as it is a symbol of the couples love and devotion.

Considering the importance of this 1st anniversary, shopping for an appropriate gift is going to require a lot more thought than just calling the local florist for the old standby of a dozen red roses. Don’t get me wrong, one dozen red roses are a great romantic gift for many occasions like birthdays and Valentines Day, but fall short of the thoughtfulness needed for a 1st anniversary gift.

Since this is your first wedding anniversary, it would be a good time to decide whether you want to follow the "traditional" or "modern" anniversary gift list for each year, or create your own tradition.

Finding romantic gifts while following the "traditional" anniversary gift list can be quite challenging. This makes those gifts all that much more special because of the thought and creativity that went into choosing them.

The traditional anniversary gift list begins with paper, on the 1st wedding anniversary, and goes up to the 75th wedding anniversary which is diamond. The modern anniversary gift list starts with clocks for the first year and ends with diamonds for the 75th year. The modern list is much more specific in its suggestions, making it very difficult if not impossible to find a romantic gift for some years like the 2nd and 4th years which are "china" and "appliances".

Though not well known or popular there exist three other list for anniversaries and their gifts, the anniversary flower list, the anniversary gemstone list & the anniversary color list. The anniversary flower and gemstone list are believed to have been created by florist and jeweler associations after the tradition of giving gifts on wedding anniversaries became very popular.

According to the traditional anniversary gift list, the 1st wedding anniversary gift is paper and clocks.



Choose from these fine gifts and make it memorable! at Annettesfavoritegifts.com!






"Wisteria Sideboard" Wood Sideboard

Collaboration with master Chinese watercolorist Charles Chu who painted the wisteria door panels on rice paper. The paintings are mounted and framed behind glass, and backed by wood panels for protection. The marquetry continues the wisteria motif across the drawer fronts and onto etched glass floating in the top, executed by Lynn Latimer glass studio. The cabinet is veneered with an amboyna wood exterior, douglas fir interior, and dyed black pearwood for the background to the marquetry. The cabinet interior houses glass shelves with a slight inward curve. Hand cut dovetailed drawers with handles of wenge and doussie. Hand applied hard oil finish.



"Hanging the Moon" Watercolor Painting



"Stele XVII" Paper Wall Piece



"Supervisor" Pastel Painting



"Passage in Time" Wood Floor Clock

Stunning wood floor clock features a torsion box wrapped in zebrawood with a solid maple burl face with tapered legs. Ebony accents are inlayed into the clock face. The pendulum is ebony with a maple burl bob. Clock movement is high torque atomic quartz. Limited edition of 5, signed on back.



"#2224-East L.A." Acrylic Painting



"Forward in Time" Wood Floor Clock



"The Safe" Wood & Metal Storage Clock



"Dressed for a Night Out Clock". Wood floor clock made from finished avodire, padauk Macassar ebony, satinwood and mahogany. Clock mechansim is electric.



"Riga Stairway"



"Father and Sons" Watercolor Painting



"Ossabow Turquoise Door"



"Clock No. 1" Grandfather ClocK. Spirited, abstract grandfather clock - a variation on the traditional "grandfather" shape, in a crimson finish. Constructed from Baltic birch plywood Edges are rubbed to add subtle definition. Brushed stainless knobs, functional drawers and door, adjustable leveling feet. Limited edition of 10.

"Raven". Fabricated sterling silver and 22K gold brooch set with tourmalinated quartz, black paper and micarta.



"Ranchero Sideboard" Wood Side Board



"Inner Beauty"



"Alder Floor Lamp"



"Memorias" Paper Wall Piece



"Catharine's Kitchen" Pigment Print



"Mask"



"Source"



"Crucial Putt"



"Morphe"



"Gladiolas"



"Print V"

"Print V"



"Sanctuary". Art quilt made from a machine quilted collage of silk and paper. Signed at lower right. Photographed on a black background.



"Seven Bowls" Mixed Media Collage. Collage made from machine stitched paper, incorporating glue transfer and photocopy elements. Mounted on silk and framed in a black wood frame.



"Prairie Sofa Table". Contrast and proportion define this graceful sofa/hall table with a curly maple top, maple frame with mahogany spindles, and five drawer fronts cut from a single board of mahogany and assembled for a continuous grain pattern. The drawers are made with hand-cut doweled lap joints and have marbled or kojo paper linings and black lacquered cherry pulls. Signed on the back of one drawer.