Here are some tenth anniversary ideas and symbols to help you plan a wonderful and meaningful celebration.

Traditional 10th Anniversary Gift

Tin or aluminum. The pliability of tin and aluminum is a symbol of how a successful marriage needs to be flexible and durable and how it can be bent without being broken.

Contemporary 10th Anniversary Gift

10th Anniversary Gemstone

Diamond jewelry or blue sapphire.

10th Anniversary Color

Silver or blue.

10th Anniversary Flower

The 10th-anniversary flower is the daffodil. Trumpet-shaped daffodils represent joy, cheerfulness, and happiness.

Some Memorable Ways to Celebrate Your 10th Anniversary

Purchase tickets for a movie, sports event, concert, or play to attend together.Buy some wine, bread, and cheese and find a nice spot to have a romantic afternoon.Pick a bouquet of daffodils from your garden if your anniversary is in the spring.

Gift Suggestions for Your 10th Anniversary

Handmade Gift Suggestions for Your 10th Anniversary

Stuff a pretty tin box with new paper money, confetti, love notes, books on romance, magazines, love coupons, a current picture of the two of you, etc.Put together a CD with songs from the year you were married.Assemble a memory photo album with pictures highlighting your 10 years together.Write a love note with daffodils printed on it.Make “love coupons” for your sweetheart.

Time Capsule Ideas for Your 10th Anniversary

Try making a “time capsule” with facts, clippings, pictures, songs and memories from the day or year you were married and the day or year of your anniversary.