Traditional Anniversary Gifts

Yesterday, we celebrated two years of marriage. It was also Thanksgiving Day here in Canada so it was pretty low key. I spent the day running errands and getting stuff done around the house with Dominic while Kyle worked. We enjoyed a nice evening with leftover Thanksgiving dinner, sparkling apple cider and pumpkin spice macaroons (amazing!). If you live in the Edmonton area check out this amazing home bakery company: Cookies and Cake

I also realized that our wedding cake was a pumpkin spice cake so we carried on the tradition of a pumpkin spice dessert! But, do you really need an excuse to have pumpkin spice anything??!!

Kyle got me a beautiful bouquet of roses. I got him his favourite hand lotion from The Body Shop and matching socks for all of us from Woven Pear.

When I was planning our wedding, I came across a list of traditional anniversary gifts and thought that would be a fun tradition to have. The second anniversary traditional gift is cotton, 58% cotton socks count, right?

 

Instagram is definitely my go to place for inspiration for products to try. I came across Woven Pear socks on Instagram and loved the fun designs they have. When I saw that the hedgehog patterned socks came in womens, mens and kids, I thought this would make a perfect gift for the whole family. Now, I am thinking that I will need to buy the kids socks in the next size up so that our new baby can join in on the matching in about a year. 

I started this tradition last year on our first anniversary. The first anniversary gift is Paper. I got these printouts of "The Family: A Proclamation to the World" and "The Living Christ". Both documents from our church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The printout was ordered from Periwinkle Inc, on Etsy, as a digital download so it was super quick and easy to order and get printed and then framed. I love how they look next to our photo of the Vancouver Temple, which is where we were married.

Have you ever followed the traditional anniversary gift list to buy a gift?

Do you have any anniversary traditions?