10th Anniversary Ideas

Below are some 10th anniversary ideas to help you celebrate your first full decade together. As you begin the next ten years together, take time to honor the past ten.

Traditionally, the tenth wedding anniversary is associated with tin or aluminum. These symbols suggest an informal get-together with close friends and family.

Party Ideas

A picnic or a barbecue would be a great idea for a 10th wedding anniversary party.

Set up a long table and serve the food buffet style. Place a blue or red checkered tablecloth on the table to go with the casual theme.

Daffodils, which are the symbolic 10th anniversary flower, can be arranged in a tin coffee can for your centerpiece.

Hang tin wind-chimes in surrounding trees.

Place beverages in a aluminum tub filled with ice. You can also use a second metal tub for guests to put gifts in as they arrive.

Wrap brownies in aluminum foil to give to your guests as they leave.

Music Ideas

Play songs that were popular the year you were married or stay with the country theme and play country music love songs.

Some popular wedding anniversary songs to include in your tenth anniversary celebration are:

• "Come Grow Old With Me," by John Lennon
• "I'd Love You All Over Again," by Alan Jackson
• "Remembering When," by Alan Jackson
• "Look At Us," by Vince Gill
• "Through The Years," by Kenny Rogers
• "You're Still The One," by Shania Twain
• "The Best Is Yet To Come," by Michael Buble'

Another 10th anniversary idea is to make a CD of the songs that you are going to play at your party and give them to your guests as favors.

Other Ways to Celebrate Your 10th Wedding Anniversary

Wedding anniversaries are very special and many people prefer to spend their anniversaries with just each other.

If you choose to stay home together, rent movies that were popular the year you were married or during the time you were dating.

After a special meal, cuddle up and watch these movies together. It will bring back memories of special times.

Or go to the hotel where you had your wedding reception for a special meal or visit the place of your first date.

A 10 year anniversary is a good time to go down "memory lane" together. Try to remember all the good and happy times that you have had together during the past decade.

A Cruise

If you have always talked about taking a cruise together, then a tenth wedding anniversary is a great time to do that. There are many 10 day cruises that would be fun and romantic for a 10th anniversary celebration.

10 Year Anniversary Gift Ideas

Some 10th wedding anniversary gift ideas are:

• Tin Paper Weight
• Antique Tin Toys or Tin Bank

• Mexican Tin Wall Scones
• Tin Snips
• His and Her Bicycles
• A Love Poem in a Pewter Frame
• Have a professional picture made of you as a couple. Frame it in a Pewter or Tin Frame.
• Fishing Gear
• Metal Wind chimes
• Tin Decorative Mirror
• Aluminum Sculpture
• Metal Garden Decoration
• Painted Tin Boxes
• Tin Tree Ornaments
• Tin Serving Tray

More Unique Anniversary Ideas

1. Since the daffodil is the 10th anniversary flower, purchase a gift that has daffodils on it.
2. Place 10 red roses in a pewter vase. One for each year of marriage.
3. Give each other 10 small gifts.
4. Wrap your gift in aluminum foil.
5. This is a good time to make a memory photo album of the first 10 years of your marriage.

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