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11 Fantastic 5th Wedding Anniversary Gifts

By Sophie Carter - 19th February 2025

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Half a decade of marriage is a huge milestone worthy of celebration. The years may have passed quickly but your love for your partner will likely have intensified as time's gone on, meaning a commemoration of one of the happiest days of your life is just what you both need. If you're coming up to a five year wedding anniversary and you're unsure how to begin the jubilations, our helpful guide to wonderful gift ideas for celebrating five years of marriage should contain everything you need to ensure that all-important anniversary is one to remember.

What is the traditional gift theme for 5 years of marriage?

While a more modern gift theme for a fifth wedding anniversary focuses on silverware, the traditional theme is wood. Much like five years of happy marriage, wood is said to represent strength, wisdom, and deep, ever-growing roots. Many couples years ago would celebrate this milestone anniversary by buying a piece of furniture for their home, symbolising setting down stronger roots in a place they call home together. If you're looking for something a little smaller, however, but want something with great sentimental impact, explore our guide below to discover some wonderful wooden gift ideas to wish your wife or husband a happy 5 years of married life.

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What could I get my husband for our 5 year wedding anniversary?

While anniversary gifts aren't customary, and quite often all that's desired is a meaningful message in a cute card, a great gift is always nice to give or receive. For those who love traditional favours, sticking to the ‘wood’ theme for celebrating a 5 year anniversary can be relatively easy, affordable, and impactful. 

If you're searching for something standout for him, why not consider his hobbies or interests while selecting your wood-themed gift? If he's a sucker for a smooth evening tipple, he'll adore a gift set like our Personalised Small Whisky Stones Hamper - complete with everything he needs to kick back and enjoy a glass or two with you.

Wooden kitchen items are always useful, and a personalised piece such as our Bold Name Pizza Serving Board & Cutter Set is a great way to incorporate your family name, reminding him how thankful you are to have shared his name for 5 years, with many more to come.

A unique personalised piece doesn't have to be practical, either. If he adores sentimental home accessories, a Personalised Handmade Photo Wooden Frame is a great way to create a standout homeware piece that carries a truly special memory, too. Why not choose a gorgeous photograph from your wedding, honeymoon, or just your favourite memory together to commemorate your relationship?

If he's adamant he only likes to receive things he needs, so as not to end up with an endless collection of ‘stuff’, gifting him something small, sweet, and super useful is a great way to ensure you're not missing out on anniversary gifting. These Sass & Belle 4 Wooden Crescent Moon Coasters fit the theme perfectly while also giving him something he'll use every day.

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What can I get my wife on our 5th wedding anniversary?

If you're feeling completely stuck on what to gift your wonderful wife on your 5-year anniversary, you're not alone. Anniversaries are yet another gifting occasion that can come round quickly, and when you feel like you've just nailed your previous anniversary present, you're suddenly having to decide on something that will beat the last. Sticking to the tradition of anniversary themes can be a great way to add sentimentality and thought into your gift, without feeling like you're treading on last year's ideas.

The wood theme is a great opportunity to gift a box full of goodies, allowing you to treat her to a range of pieces you know she'll love. Our Personalised Name Wooden Hamper Box is simple, sleek, and a decent size for filling with chocolate, wine, candles, cute keepsakes, or even love letters. It comes with her name printed across the lid, allowing her to reuse the box later as a sweet decorative piece unique to her.

Get even more personal by adding a photograph of you both on your wedding day to a box like our Personalised ‘Your Photo’ White Jewellery Box. She can fill this box with her favourite accessories, keep her wedding jewellery safe and secure, or even tuck wedding or marriage mementos inside for safe-keeping.

If she adores heartfelt homeware, a pretty decorative piece like our Personalised Autumnal Printed Wooden Wreath is ideal for reminding her that you're proud of your little family. Our talented in-house personalisation team will print your surnames onto the banner in the centre to create a stunning piece of wall art that commemorates sharing a name for the past 5 years.

For something small but still bursting with sentiment, a cute keyring is a wonderful way for her to carry a reminder of your love for her. This Set of 2 Personalised Wooden Half Heart Keyrings comes with your initials engraved alongside a sweet message of adoration. You keep one half while she keeps the other, and every time she pulls her keys out of her bag she's reminded of the wonderful marriage you've spent 5 years enjoying.

Other wood-themed gift ideas that are bound to make an impact could include: 

  • A wooden frame containing a favourite photograph, art print, or memento of your wedding day
  • A handmade wooden ornament with sentimental significance to your marriage
  • A wooden board game or puzzle to play together on your next date night

Alternatively, you could follow the more modern theme path, which is ‘silverware’. This could apply to homeware such as a new kitchen knife or cutlery set, or you could bend the rules slightly and gift them a beautiful piece of sterling silver jewellery. Explore our range of sterling silver jewellery for her or for him to find a sentimental piece you know they'll treasure wearing everyday. 

What other ways can we celebrate a 5 year wedding anniversary?

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Finding the wood theme tricky to stick to? Experience gifts will likely always go down a storm, particularly if you spend a lot of your time rushed off your feet with little time to spend solely with each other. Organising a date (day or night) that suits both your hobbies and interests can be the best way to make lasting memories, and to share your gratitude for your wonderful 5 years of marriage. 

Some anniversary date ideas could include:

  • Dinner in your favourite restaurant or a special meal cooked at home
  • A picnic in the park or at the beach, complete with champagne
  • Visit your wedding venue to relive the happy memories
  • A craft experience like pottery painting
  • See a band or artist live in concert
  • A wine or beer-tasting experience
  • A relaxing spa day or retreat

 

However you choose to spend your anniversary, it's important you end the day with a firm reminder of why you married each other. Every year that passes since you tied the knot deserves to be celebrated even more than the last, as your anniversaries are a wonderful reminder of a connection so strong that you couldn't imagine life without them. For more great gifts for celebrating a 5th anniversary, explore our anniversary gift edit to find something special.

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