From the newly weds to the long lasting partners, wedding anniversaries are one of the most special dates on the calendar to any husband and wife.
Flowers are one of the most popular anniversary gifts as they're not only a gesture of love, but also also portray romance and beauty. Plus, if you can't get enough of old fashioned romance, there are traditional anniversary flowers you can send to mark each milestone.
1st Anniversary Flower
The newbies! After spending your first year in the world of marriage, you'll have learnt a lot of things and the sound of wedding bells will still be fresh in your mind.
Carnations are the traditional anniversary flower to celebrate the first year of marriage. They symbolise love, devotion, and fascination - perfect for marking all the excitement of a new marriage.
2nd Anniversary Flower
Celebrate your second year together with the elegant lily of the valley. These dainty white bell shaped flowers symbolise sweetness, sincerity, and good fortune in love.
3rd Anniversary Flower
Three years together is certainly a happy occasion, so what better flower than the ever joyful sunflower? Sunflowers are one of the most positive flowers, representing happiness, warmth, and adoration.
4th Anniversary Flower
Beautiful hydrangeas are the traditional flower for fourth anniversaries. With their huge lacy blooms, they look stunning in any bouquet and are sure to impress on your anniversary.
Pink hydrangeas are a wonderful choice, as they signify love, sincerity, and heartfelt emotions. Alternatively, thank your partner for the years together with lovely blue hydrangeas, which send a message of gratitude and understanding.
5th Anniversary Flower
Fifth anniversaries are marked by daisies. These pretty flowers arrive in the spring, making them a symbol of new beginnings, as well as happiness, hope, good fortune, and true love.
6th Anniversary Flower
Treat your partner to elegant calla lilies on your 6th anniversary. Calla lilies have long been seen as a symbol of great beauty, making them the perfect way to compliment them on your anniversary.
7th Anniversary Flower
Freesias are the 7th anniversary flower. Sporting both pretty flowers and an unbeatable fragrance, they're an irresistible anniversary treat, and represent complete trust in someone.
8th Anniversary Flower
The 8th anniversary calls for lilacs. Lilacs bloom in the spring in beautiful spires of fragrant blossoms, and signify the beginnings of love - a perfect excuse to reminisce on all the years together so far!
9th Anniversary Flower
The 9th anniversary flower is the bird of paradise. These stunning tropical flowers have beautifully vibrant and spikey blooms, and unsurprisingly symbolise paradise, as well as joy, excitement, and freedom.
10th Anniversary Flower
Celebrating a decade together! 10 years on and your big day will still seem like yesterday! The flower for the 10th wedding anniversary is the daffodil. Trumpet-shaped daffodils represent joy, cheerfulness, and happiness - portraying a cheerful and happy ten years, and a toast to many more.
11th Anniversary Flower
Your 11th year together is the ever-popular tulip's time to shine. These stunning springtime favourites have one of the most romantic flower meanings, symbolising a deep and undying love.
12th Anniversary Flower
Make the most of peony season on your 12th anniversary. It’s no surprise that peonies are the UK's most popular summer flower; their showy, ruffled blooms are simply irresistible. They represent prosperity, luck, and love, making them a wonderful way to express your hopes for your future together.
13th Anniversary Flower
Chrysanthemums are the 13th anniversary flower. They send a lovely romantic message, with the pink variants symbolising longevity and deep faithfulness, and red chrysanthemums sending a classic message of love and passion.
14th Anniversary Flower
This anniversary's flower is the beautiful orchid. Long seen as a symbol of luxury and sophistication, orchids represent rare beauty, love, refinement, charm, longevity, and strength.
15th Anniversary Flower
This anniversary is celebrated by one of the most popular and romantic flowers - the rose! Widely used to express love and passion on a certain February 14th, the rose is a symbol for romance and so makes the perfect flower for a wedding anniversary.
25th Anniversary Flower
A quarter of a century married is certainly a date to celebrate! There may be a few more grey hairs than when pictured on the special day 25 years ago, but the silver wedding anniversary the first of the main mile stones. The flower that come with the special silver wedding anniversary is the iris. This is because it is said that the iris represents promise, faith, passion, hope and wisdom.
40th Anniversary Flower
The 40th Ruby anniversary is again one of the elite marriage milestones. For 40 years of triumph in marriage, a nasturtium is the chosen flower. This elegant flower represents conquest, patriotism and victory in battle. The nasturtium's orange glow looks great both on it's own and in bunches, so be sure to surprise your spouse of 40 years with a beautiful bouquet!
50th Anniversary Flower
The golden wedding anniversary. Half a century together is quite the achievement and what a reason to celebrate! Some may say it's no more important than any of the ones before it, but there is definitely a special feeling about this wedding anniversary. The 50th anniversary is celebrated with a violet (and probably a family party!), because it represents modesty, faithfulness, virtue, simplicity, innocence and affection.
60th Anniversary Flower
The diamond wedding anniversary. The pictures may seem a long time ago, but the fond memories will still be as fresh as ever. The diamond wedding anniversary is the ultimate milestone and a testament to long lasting love!.
Sadly, the 60th anniversary doesn't have an official flower, but don't let that stop you. An elegant bouquet of white blooms is the perfect choice to mark your diamond anniversary.
If you're celebrating an anniversary (or know someone who is), take a look at our anniversary range here!
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