Year Traditional Modern Modern Alternate Colour Alternate Colour Flowers Jewellery Alternate Stones Paper 1 (Clean & new, yet to Plastic Clocks Gold or Yellow Gold or Yellow Pansy Gold Jewellery Peridot be written upon) Cotton Cotton and Calico China Red Linen White Cosmos Garnet 2 (Lives woven together) Leather Leather Crystal and Glass White Jade Green Fuchsia Pearls Jade; 3 (tough and strong) Fruit and Flowers (relationship is Linen, Silk, Nylon Appliances Blue Green Geranium Blue Topaz Blue Zircon 4 blossoming like flowers or fruit) Wood (Trees have strength & Wood Silverware Blue Pink or Turquoise Daisy Sapphire Pink Tourmaline 5 deep roots, symbolising wisdom) Sweets/Sugar Iron Wood Purple Turquoise or White Calla Lily Amethyst Turquoise 6 (life is sweet) Copper and Wool Brass Desk Sets Onyx Yellow or Off White Jack-in-the-Pulpit Onyx Yellow Sapphire, Golden Beryl 7 (warm & cosy) Bronze 8 (Combines 2 metals Pottery Linen or Lace Tourmaline Tanzanite or Bronze Clematis Tourmaline Tanzanite making it better) Willow Pottery Purple, Green, or Strong, flexible & Leather Lapis Lazuli Poppy Lapis Lazuli Amethyst, Green Spinel 9 (strong & beautiful) Terracotta entwined Tin 10 (protective & Aluminium Diamond Jewellery Silver Blue Daffodil Diamond Jewellery Blue Sapphire conserving) Steel 11 (2 metals combined Steel Fashion Jewellery Turquoise Yellow Morning Glory Turquoise Citrine, Yellow Zircon into strength) Silk Linen Pearls Jade Opal or Oyster White Peony Jade Opal 12 (woven into beauty) Lace Lace Textiles, Fur or Faux Fur Citrine White Hollyhock Citrine Moonstone, Hawk's Eye 13 (woven into beauty) Ivory or Flowers Ivory 14 (use an elephant- (use an elephant-friendly Gold Jewellery Opal Ivory Dahlia Opal Agate, Bloodstone friendly material) material) Chrystal Glass Watches Ruby Red Rose Ruby Alexandrite, Rhodolite Garnet 15 (clarity) 16 Silver Holloware Wax candle flowers Emerald Green Red or Silver Peridot (evening emerald) Red Spinel 17 Furniture Shell roses Yellow Watches Carnelian 18 Porcelain Feather flowers Blue Cat's Eye or Chrysoberyl Aquamarine 1 A Life Celebrant – Lou Szymkow: Anniversary’s Gift Guide, Colours & Flowers 19 Bronze Chili pepper roses Bronze Aquamarine Almandine Garnet China 20 (fragile, beautiful & China Platinum Emerald Green White Day Lily Emerald Yellow or Golden Diamond lasting) 21 Brass and Nickel Orange Iris Iolite 22 Copper Green Spinel 23 Silver Plate Silver Imperial Topaz Musical Lavender 2 dozen roses Tanzanite 24 Instruments Silver Silver Silver Silver Iris Silver Jubilee Tsavorite, Green Garnet 25 (precious & gleaming when cared for) 26 fine chocolates Pictures 26 Original Pictures 27 Sculpture 28 Orchids Orchid 29 Furniture Pearl 30 (made beautiful by Pearl Diamond Green Sweet Pea Pearl Jubilee cultivation) 31 Timepieces 32 Transportation 33 Amethyst Amethyst 34 Opal Opal Coral Coral and Jade Jade Coral Emerald 35 (precious & magical) 36 Bone China 37 Alabaster 38 Beryl Tourmaline Beryl Tourmaline 39 Lace 2 A Life Celebrant – Lou Szymkow: Anniversary’s Gift Guide, Colours & Flowers Ruby Garnet Ruby Ruby Red Nasturtium Ruby 40 (Rich in love) 41 Land 42 Real Estate Improved Real estate 43 Travel 44 Gourmet Groceries Sapphire 45 (luxurious & Sapphire Sapphire Sapphire Red Sapphire Cat's Eye treasured) 46 Poetry Original Poetry 47 Books 48 Optical items 49 Luxury Goods Luxuries Gold 50 (wealth, prosperity, Gold Gold Gold Violet Golden Jubilee Imperial or Golden Topaz beauty & enduring) 51 Blue Sapphire 52 Ruby 53 54 Emerald Emerald Green (luck, wealth, Turquoise Emerald Alexandrite 55 (calming) calming) 3 A Life Celebrant – Lou Szymkow: Anniversary’s Gift Guide, Colours & Flowers Diamond (yellow) (arising from Gold Diamond Diamond White Diamond Jubilee Star Ruby 60 pressure to strength) 61 62 63 64 Diamond 65 (arising from Gold Star Sapphire, Grey Sky Blue Sky Blue Blue Spinel pressure to strength) 66 67 Star Sapphire, Purple 68 69 Diamond Platinum (arising from years Gold Diamond (can’t be Sapphire Jubilee Smoky Quartz 70 of pressure to tarnished) strength) Diamond or 75 Diamond Like Gold Diamond Diamond White Diamond Jubilee Stones 80 Diamond Pearl Ruby Red Ruby Jubilee 85 Diamond, Sapphire 90 Diamond, Emerald Diamond, Ruby 95 100 10K Diamond 4 A Life Celebrant – Lou Szymkow: Anniversary’s Gift Guide, Colours & Flowers .