A Toast to Traditional Wedding Anniversary Gifts!

Is there an alternative to brand spanking new jewelry for your wedding anniversary gift? Traditional wedding anniversary gifts, dear reader, make a perfect anniversary gift for the celebration of marriage. Antique Jewelry doesn't cost the earth and is opposed to
dirty gold mining.
Antique Diamond Jewelry and vintage watches are very highly ranked as popular traditional wedding anniversary gifts, and
Antique Cameo Jewelry
is also high up on the list. In the study, two-thirds of the 3,287 respondents said they would consider purchasing premier jewelry, a vintage watch or antique cameo jewelry for an anniversary wedding gift. Old cut diamonds, semiprecious and precious gemstone jewelry including emerald gemstones and
unforgettable pink gemstones
are the top choices. Gemstone jewelry, chosen with care, can be very meaning. Traditionally,
gemstone meanings
have been ascribed to certain gemstones and are commemoratively used to celebrate, not only the month of birth, but also each year of marriage. Year 10 wedding anniversary gemstone, is the Diamond and a happy coincidence that a girl's best friend is also ranked 10, the highest and hardest gemstone on the
Mohs' Scale!
Wedding Anniversary Gemstones
| 1st Gold Jewelry. | 2nd Garnet. | 3rd Pearl. | | 4th Blue Topaz | 5th Sapphire | 6th Amethyst | 7th Onyx | 8th Tourmaline | 9th Lapis Lazuli | 10th Diamond Jewelry | 11th Turquoise | 12th Jade | | 13th Citrine | 14th Opal | 15th Ruby | 20th Emerald | | 25th Silver Jubilee | 30th Pearl Jubilee | 35th Emerald | 40th Ruby. | 45th Sapphire. | | 50th Golden Jubilee. | 55th Alexandrite. | 60th Diamond Jubilee. |
Dear reader, how special can that gemstone be, if it's an old cut stone, fashioned by hand and imbued with a personality that only time honored jewelry has plus set in trusted old gold jewelry? No wonder there's been a 25 percent increase from those who said they had purchased fine jewelry or a watch as an anniversary gift in the past. And for lucky 30th wedding anniversaries,
Pearls,
are the wedding anniversary talisman gemstone par excellence. Besides the list of
birthstones and their corresponding gemstone meanings
there are also lists of zodiacal healing stones for each season, birthdays and wedding anniversaries and I was taken back by the uncanny accuracy of
India astronomy.
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