Anniversary wishes: 100 happy anniversary messages for your husband, wife, friends and parents

1. Start with them, not the date: a quality you admire or a moment you remember.
2. Add one concrete detail: the song, the street, the joke, the year it got hard.
3. Say thank you for something specific.
4. Look forward: one plan or one hope for the year ahead.
5. Keep it to three or four sentences in a card; save the rest for a letter.

If you want to go further than a card, see how to write a love letter, step by step.

Messages written for this page by the Notre Livre team. Copy them freely, then change one detail so it sounds like you.

1. Happy anniversary to the man who still makes me laugh before coffee.
2. Thank you for every ordinary Tuesday. They turned out to be my favorite days.
3. You are my favorite person to do nothing with. Happy anniversary, my love.
4. Another year of you stealing the covers and my heart. I would not change a thing.
5. You carried more this year than anyone saw. I saw it, and I love you for it.
6. I married my best friend, and somehow you keep getting better at both jobs.
7. Every year with you feels like the first chapter of something good.
8. Thank you for being my calm, my coach and my favorite dance partner.
9. Happy anniversary to the father of my children and the love of my life.
10. If I could choose again, I would choose you, faster.
11. You make home feel like a place and a person at the same time.
12. Here is to the man who remembers how I take my coffee and why I cry at movies.
13. One more year of us. Still my best decision.
14. You are the reason our house is loud, warm and full. Happy anniversary.
15. I love the life we built, and I love you even more than the life.

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1. Happy anniversary to the woman who makes every ordinary day feel like the best part of my life.
2. I still remember what you wore the night we met. I will remember tonight too.
3. Thank you for the laughter, the patience and the last slice you always leave me.
4. You are my home, my adventure and my favorite person in every room.
5. Another year of you, and I am still the luckiest man I know.
6. You hold our family together and still find time to hold my hand. Thank you.
7. If I had to do it all again, I would find you sooner.
8. You are the best story that ever happened to me. Happy anniversary.
9. I love the way you laugh at your own jokes before the punch line.
10. Every year I find a new reason to love you. This year there were too many to count.
11. Thank you for saying yes, and for saying it again every day since.
12. You make hard years lighter and good years unforgettable.
13. Happy anniversary to the mother of my children and my best friend.
14. Wherever you are is my favorite place.
15. I would marry you again tomorrow, in the rain, in sneakers, anywhere.

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1. Happy anniversary to two people who make love look easy, even though we know it takes work.
2. Here is to another year of laughter, good food and holding hands in public.
3. Watching you two together is a reminder of what really matters. Happy anniversary.
4. May your next year be full of small adventures and lazy Sundays.
5. You are the couple everyone quietly hopes to become. Congratulations.
6. Cheers to the two of you and to the story you are still writing.
7. Wishing you a day as warm as the welcome you always give us.
8. Another year, another reason to celebrate you both.
9. Your love makes the people around you braver. Happy anniversary.
10. May the years ahead be as kind to you as you are to each other.
11. To our favorite couple: keep dancing in the kitchen.
12. Happy anniversary to a team that wins on ordinary days.
13. Thank you for showing us that friendship and romance can live in the same house.
14. May your love keep growing, quietly and stubbornly, like a good garden.
15. Congratulations on another year of choosing each other.

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1. Mom and Dad, you showed us what love looks like on ordinary days. Happy anniversary.
2. Thank you for the home you built together. We are still living in its warmth.
3. Happy anniversary to the two people who taught me that love is a thousand small choices.
4. Your marriage is the first love story I ever read, and still my favorite.
5. Thank you for the Sunday dinners, the road trips and the patience. Happy anniversary.
6. Everything good in our family started with the two of you.
7. You argued, you laughed, you stayed. Thank you for staying.
8. Happy anniversary to the best team I know.
9. We do not say it enough: we are proud of you both.
10. May this year bring you rest, joy and more grandchildren hugs than you can handle.
11. Your love made us feel safe. Happy anniversary, Mom and Dad.
12. Thank you for showing us how to forgive, start again and keep going.
13. Here is to many more years of you two finishing each other's sentences.
14. Grandma and Grandpa, your love story is our favorite story.
15. Happy anniversary to the reason we all exist. Literally.

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1. 1st: One year down, a lifetime to go. Happy paper anniversary.
2. 5th: Five years, and our roots go deeper every day. Happy wood anniversary.
3. 10th: Ten years, three addresses, one person I would choose again every time.
4. 15th: Fifteen years of you, and I still learn something new every week.
5. 20th: Twenty years ago we started something. Look at what it became.
6. 25th: A quarter of a century of choosing each other. Happy silver anniversary.
7. 30th: Thirty years, and you still save me the window seat.
8. 40th: Rubies are rare, and so is a love like yours. Happy 40th.
9. 50th: Fifty years ago you made a promise. We are the family that grew from it.
10. 60th: Sixty years of love, and a family that will keep telling your story.

For gift ideas by year, see our anniversary gifts by year, or the guides for the 25th, 40th and 50th.

Messages written for this page by the Notre Livre team. Copy them freely, then change one detail so it sounds like you.

1. Happy anniversary to the only person I would share my fries with.
2. Another year of you pretending to like my cooking. True love.
3. Thank you for putting up with me. I know it is a full-time job.
4. We are still together, and the dog is still on our side. Happy anniversary.
5. You are my favorite person to annoy. Here is to another year of it.
6. Happy anniversary. I would give you my heart, but you already have it, so here is a card.
7. Marriage is finding the one person you want to argue with about the thermostat forever.
8. Congratulations on another year of not getting lost in the same grocery store.
9. I love you more than coffee. Please do not tell the coffee.
10. Happy anniversary to my partner in crime, snacks and remote control disputes.

Messages written for this page by the Notre Livre team. Copy them freely, then change one detail so it sounds like you.

1. May God keep blessing your marriage with patience, kindness and joy.
2. Thank you, Lord, for bringing us together and walking with us every year.
3. Praying that the love you share keeps growing, rooted in faith.
4. May your home always be a place of grace, forgiveness and peace.
5. Happy anniversary. May the Lord bless you and keep you, today and always.
6. God wrote a beautiful story when he brought you two together.
7. May your marriage be a light to everyone around you.
8. Thank you for showing us a love that is patient and kind. Happy anniversary.
9. Praying for many more years of laughter, faith and togetherness.
10. Two hearts, one faith, one home. Happy anniversary.

Messages written for this page by the Notre Livre team. Copy them freely, then change one detail so it sounds like you.

1. Happy anniversary, my favorite person.
2. Still you. Always you.
3. One more year of us. Lucky me.
4. Love you more than yesterday.
5. Here is to us.
6. Best decision I ever made.
7. You and me, forever and then some.
8. Happy anniversary, partner.
9. Thank you for loving me.
10. Can't wait for the next chapter.

If you would rather quote someone, these lines are old enough to be in the public domain, and short enough to fit in any card.

For longer poems to copy into a card, see our selection of love poems, with classics and new ones.

Some anniversaries call for more than four sentences. A love story book is written from the memories you share in a guided conversation: how you met, the first home, the hard year, the jokes. Nothing is invented, and you review every page before approving it. For parents or grandparents, an anniversary book tells the story of their marriage for the whole family. It costs $35 digital, $69 as a hardcover or $95 as a Prestige hardcover, printed and shipped within the United States.

Looking for the gift itself? See our anniversary gifts for him and anniversary gifts for her.