8th Anniversary Ideas & Gifts

You made it through the seven year itch and are celebrating your 8th anniversary! Now it's time to find a unique and romantic anniversary gift. The traditional 8th anniversary gifts are bronze or pottery and the modern 8th anniversary gifts are linens or lace. While both may require a little extra creativity, we've got some romantic gift idea to help you out.

8th Anniversary Flower: Clematis
8th Anniversary Gemstone: Tourmaline

• Send her a bouquet of beautiful bronze roses.
• Send her a bouquet of beautiful pottery roses.
• Get a set of matching pottery coffee mugs and promise to sit and share a moment each morning together while using your mugs.
• Get a beautiful pottery vase and fill it with roses.
• Surprise her with a bronze sculpture for her garden.
• Take a tropical vacation together where you can relax on the beach and bronze yourselves.
• Take a pottery making class together. You'll have a great time together while learning something new.

• Get a gorgeous tablecloth and pair it with a romantic candle-lit dinner.
• Surprise him with sexy, lacy lingerie.
• Surprise her with new bed linens... silk or satin works well.

• Relive the past. Re-watch your wedding video, look at your wedding album together, and reflect on the last eight years.
• Vacations are normally 7 days long. Break tradition and take an 8 day honeymoon together.
• Give her 8 single roses (or whatever flower you used in your wedding) to celebrate 8 years.
• Match the number of gifts to your anniversary: Give him/her eight small gifts for the eighth anniversary.
• Create a 8th anniversary time capsule!