Thank you all SO much for helping me come up with ideas for my 1-year anniversary with Zak. I tried to compile as many of your recs that I could, below.

Best 1-Year Anniversary Gift Ideas

• Write him/her a letter

• Tickets to an event like a concert, sports game, flight

• Journal

• Stationary

• Printed framed picture or painting of you as a couple, or a place you visited e.g. honeymoon (Etsy!)

• Jar with 365 reasons why you love your partner

• Vows handwritten in calligraphy or printed & framed on nice paper (Etsy)

• Newspaper “year in review” (Etsy)

• Personalized puzzle (Etsy)

• A fun paper weight

• A book to read/ discuss together

• Add an extension to your vows on the 1st year

• Personalized stationary

• Sheet music of your first song framed

• Plant a tree

• Pick out a piece of artwork together

• Handwritten love letter

• A world map that you place pins in where you’ve traveled

• A picture book of everything you did in the past year

• A homemade coupon book

• Watercolor portrait of your first home

• Create a collage with notes, cards, ticket stubs etc. from the past year and frame it

• Heart cut-outs of 3 maps – where you met, where you got married, where you live

• Write out lyrics of your wedding song & frame it

• Books or cookbooks

• Personalized anniversary journal (Uncommon Goods)

• Origami art

• Personalized art commission

• Couples activity book

• Written letters for future occasions (when in a fight, when feeling lonely)

• A star map of the night sky of your anniversary

• Buy a star for someone

• A first or signed edition of a favorite book

• Paper airplane cufflinks

• Animated picture book / comic book of the past year (Etsy)

• Custom recipe book

• Massage gift certificate

• Tie Bar and Cufflinks with your wedding invite (Etsy)

• 52 reasons why I love you on a deck of cards