30 Marriage Anniversary Wishes (For Your Partner, and for Couples)

An anniversary is the one day a year you're expected to be romantic on cue, which is exactly what makes it hard. The pressure produces the same five sentences every card in the shop already has printed inside it.

The way out is to say something that could only be about your marriage: a year you got through, a thing they do, the flat you started in. Thirty starting points, grouped by who you're writing to.

For your wife

• Happy anniversary to the woman who has made every year better than the one before it.

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• Another year of us, and I'd sign up for all of it again tomorrow. Happy anniversary.

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• Happy anniversary. I didn't know what I was promising back then, and I'm so glad I promised it.

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• Thank you for building this with me — the unglamorous parts most of all. Happy anniversary.

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• Happy anniversary to my wife, my favourite person, and the best decision I ever made.

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• The years keep going and you keep being the point of them. Happy anniversary.

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For your husband

• Happy anniversary to the man who still makes me laugh mid-argument.

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• Another year, and you're still the first person I want to tell everything to. Happy anniversary.

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• Happy anniversary. We've been through the hard bits and I'd do them again with you.

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• Thank you for a thousand things you've never mentioned doing. Happy anniversary.

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• Happy anniversary to my husband — steady, stubborn, and the reason this works.

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• I'd marry you again, but with a shorter guest list. Happy anniversary.

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Short and romantic

• Happy anniversary. Still us, still good.

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• One more year in the best story I know. Happy anniversary.

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• Happy anniversary to my favourite person and my whole plan.

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• Every year with you is the answer. Happy anniversary.

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• Happy anniversary. Same vows, more meant.

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• Here's to us, and to the next lot. Happy anniversary.

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For your parents

• Happy anniversary to the two people who showed me what a partnership actually looks like.

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• Congratulations on another year of putting up with each other so gracefully. Happy anniversary.

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• Happy anniversary, Mum and Dad. You made a home out of very little and made it look easy.

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• Thank you for being the example. Happy anniversary to you both.

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• Happy anniversary to my parents — proof that the good ones last.

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• Here's to the two of you, still arguing about the thermostat after all these years. Happy anniversary.

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For a couple you know

• Happy anniversary to two people who are genuinely better together. Rare thing.

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• Congratulations on another year. Whatever you two are doing, keep doing it.

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• Happy anniversary! Wishing you both another year of the good kind of ordinary.

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• You make it look easy, which I assume means it isn't. Happy anniversary.

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• Happy anniversary to my favourite couple — and yes, everyone has a favourite.

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• Here's to many more. Happy anniversary, both of you.

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Send the years back to them

The anniversary gift that lands hardest isn't bought — it's a small 3D album with one photo per year of the marriage and a caption under each. The first flat, the hospital corridor, the car that died, the holiday where everything went wrong.

Free, about ten minutes, sent as a link they open in the browser. Build the album, or see unique online anniversary gifts for more.

Browse every collection on one page. And if you want the number for the card, the anniversary calculator gives you the years, the days, and the next round total nobody remembers.