Wedding anniversaries by year: which flowers suit which date
WTF! What The Flowers florists · Dnipro
Cotton, wooden, rose, silver: what anniversary names mean and how to read a bouquet choice out of them. A practical list from WTF! Dnipro florists.
Wedding anniversaries have names, and they are more than tradition: the name often points directly at a material, a colour or a flower you can build the bouquet around.
The early years: one is cotton, two paper, three leather, four linen, five wooden. Simple, warm bouquets without grandeur suit these, in natural tones, with textured greenery, kraft paper or wooden details in the wrapping.
Ten years is the rose anniversary, the most literal hint of all: this is the date for roses, and pink ones at that. Fifteen years is glass, where transparency and lightness work well, eustoma, gypsophila, whites and soft tones.
Twenty years is porcelain, twenty five silver, thirty pearl. From here a different register fits: larger scale and noble shades, white, cream, silver, pearl. Peonies, hydrangeas, large headed roses.
Forty is ruby, fifty is gold. Saturated colours work here: deep red for ruby, warm yellow and amber for gold.
If you would rather not follow the naming at all, there is a universal rule: for an anniversary you give what your wife loves most, and the name is only an excuse to make the bouquet slightly different from last year. Options are on the anniversary bouquets page.
