by Lorelei Cohen

Created on: September 20, 2008

The tradition of giving a specific type of gift for the successful completion of each year of marriage has its origins dating back to the Middle Ages. It is believed that the gifts are symbolic representations for luck with the specific years that they are given.

The traditional gift for celebrating a fifth year wedding anniversary is one made of wood. A fifth year wedding anniversary is actually one of the easiest occasions to purchase a unique gift for. There are just so many wonderful useful and unique gifts that are made from wood that it is quite simple to find a delightful gift for the person on your list.

A wooden anniversary gift that has a very nice personal touch to it is a beautifully engraved wooden name plate for the front of their home. These can be found in a vast array of colors, patterns, and themes that range from sophisticated to old country.

Handcrafted wooden decorative or keepsake boxes, curios and personal valets come in a wide variety of styles and can come filled with any number of products. Tea boxes filled with an assortment of different teas are a beautiful and very health conscious gift. Handcrafted keepsake boxes can be filled with chocolates, writing paper and accessories, an assortment of nuts, or candy confectionaries. A bottle of fine wine or champagne can come enclosed in a decorative wooden box or a gift certificate for dinner for two at a local restaurant can be laid at the bottom of the keepsake box.

Beautiful handcrafted wood products made of cherry, walnut, oak, maple, pine or cedar offer up a vast selection of useful natural one of a kind gifts. His and her wooden jewelry boxes, wooden pen sets, or decorative wooden art figures. You can design your own gift with the purchase of a burl fruit or nut bowl that you fill with a selection of personalized gifts or certificates of your choosing.

When searching for these one of a kind wooden gifts, you can seek out a local craftsman in your community, or you can go Online to view the wide selection of wares available from a large number of craftsmen throughout the country. A daisy is the rational flower for the fifth year anniversary, so you may want to have daisies engraved on your gift item, and placed to surround the couple's names to give your gift a more personalized touch.

If the couple that you are purchasing the anniversary gift for have a yard, then a living gift of a specific variety of tree that you know they like, can be a very novel gift idea. In today's environmentally

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