25th wedding anniversary gifts: 30 silver wedding ideas for your partner or your parents

• Sterling silver cufflinks engraved with both your initials.
• A silver tankard or hip flask with the wedding date.
• A silver pen for the person who still writes everything down.
• A silver keyring holding a key to a weekend cottage, booked.
• A silver photo frame with your wedding photo and one from this year.
• A silver watch, or his old watch serviced and engraved.

• A silver bracelet with 25 small links, one for each year.
• A silver locket holding two photos: the wedding and today.
• Silver earrings from the jeweller who made the wedding rings.
• A silver-plated jewellery box with a letter inside.
• A silver charm for each child or each home you have shared.
• Silver birch trees planted in the garden.

• A family meal in the room where they had their reception.
• A silver frame with a family portrait taken on the day.
• Silver-rimmed champagne flutes for the toast.
• A silver tray or cake slice engraved with their names and date.
• A photo book of 25 years, gathered from every relative.
• A video of messages from people at their wedding.
• A weekend away for the two of them, organised by the children.
• Their 25 years written as a book, told by them in a guided conversation.

• A silversmithing class where you make each other's rings.
• A silver-service dinner somewhere grand.
• A return to the honeymoon destination, 25 years on.
• A vow renewal with the original best man and bridesmaids.
• A night under the stars (silver light) in a glamping pod.

• A silver-plated copy of the wedding invitation.
• A silver bookmark inside a book of their story.
• A silver tree with a leaf for each child or grandchild.
• A silver coin from the year they married.
• A box holding 25 letters, one per year, from the people who know them best.

A silver wedding is the moment the story is still fresh and the children are old enough to want it. With a Notre Livre anniversary book, one of you (or a son or daughter) tells the story in a guided conversation: how you met, the wedding, the homes, the children, the hard years and the good ones. It becomes a novel of 80 to 200 pages, written in the first person with AI assistance. Nothing is invented, the first page is free to read before paying, and every chapter is reviewed before printing.

£29 digital, £55 or £75 as a hardback printed in the UK, VAT and UK delivery included. See the prices page.

• Book the venue two to three months ahead; Saturday lunches go first.
• Ask guests for a photo from the wedding or from the early years, to build a slideshow.
• Keep speeches short: one from a child, one from a friend who was there 25 years ago.
• Recreate one detail of the wedding: the cake, the first dance song, the same toast.
• Present the main gift at the table, not in a pile at the door.

• "Twenty-five years, and you still make it look easy. Happy silver wedding."
• "To the two people who taught us what a marriage looks like. Happy 25th."
• "Silver suits you. Here's to the gold."
• "A quarter of a century of putting up with each other, and the rest of us. Congratulations."

A rough guide. Prices for third-party gifts vary by retailer; Notre Livre prices are the ones charged on this site.