The Traditional Flowers for Every Anniversary
Keep love blooming with a bouquet that symbolizes your time together.
A dozen red roses are always a lovely romantic gesture. But for a more personalized gift, consider handing your partner the symbolic blooms traditionally associated with every anniversary year. Blossoms are associated with specific meaning and can speak silently, sharing your emotions (just check out the birth month flowers). If you're looking for some bloom-buying inspiration rooted in love to celebrate your time together, read on for our guide to flowers correlated with anniversary years—plus with some expert insight from florists.
Brittany Anas is a former newspaper reporter (The Denver Post, Boulder Daily Camera) turned freelance writer. Before she struck out on her own, she covered just about every beat—from higher education to crime. Now she writes about food, cocktails, travel, and lifestyle topics for Men’s Journal, House Beautiful, Forbes, Simplemost, Shondaland, Livability, Hearst newspapers, TripSavvy and more. In her free time, she coaches basketball, crashes pools, and loves hanging out with her rude-but-adorable Boston Terrier that never got the memo the breed is nicknamed "America’s gentleman."
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