| We all want to feel unique. We all want to be | | | | treasured memories are made of paper - |
| valued. We all need to have our special days | | | | photographs, letters, cards, ticket stubs, |
| remembered and celebrated. | | | | invitations, old report cards, newspaper clippings, |
| We all have those landmark days, the eighteenth | | | | the deed to a house,' |
| birthday, the twenty-first, the first, wedding | | | | Mary went on to suggest constructing a 'Golden' |
| anniversary, the tenth, the silver, and the gold. | | | | album full of clippings relating to the couple. |
| Our friends, our colleagues, our family gather and | | | | Something like a full original newspaper from a |
| give presents and good wishes. We make | | | | reputable dealer would give that gift that special |
| speeches that bring back memories. When we | | | | touch of nostalgia. You could go further and look |
| have time we sit back and appreciate our day | | | | for an anniversary set like a newspaper from |
| and those gifts. Which are the ones that count? | | | | their wedding day and a born day newspaper for |
| It's the gifts that evoke the strongest memory. | | | | each of the couple. Imagine a beautifully packaged |
| Unique gifts for special events like the 50th | | | | set of newspapers evoking the landmarks in their |
| Wedding Anniversary are difficult to discover. | | | | lives. |
| Birthday gifts are easier to find and so are those | | | | Birthday gifts can also be made special by a |
| non-landmark Wedding Anniversary Gifts. What | | | | newspaper. Imagine them opening a treasure of |
| can you give that brings back the memory of a | | | | nostalgia evoking their life and how they fit into |
| landmark anniversary? | | | | the world. They will take themselves back to |
| The celebrating of anniversaries has been a | | | | other anniversaries, to past birthday gifts, and to |
| popular custom since man organized time and | | | | the special landmarks in their lives. |
| began to note eventful dates in their lives. In an | | | | Open a newspaper and what do you see? The |
| earlier age, when life was more arduous, the | | | | world that can never be repeated. Newspaper |
| hours longer, and the routine more tedious, people | | | | publishers hardly keep any back-issue newspapers, |
| looked for occasions that could be celebrated. | | | | so they become rarer and more likely to be |
| Celebrations were linked to cycles of life: | | | | treasured. The famous 'Gotcha!' edition of the Sun |
| harvest-time, the changing of seasons, and | | | | can now command a price of £500. |
| events in our own lives - the wedding, for | | | | If you do buy a newspaper for a special event |
| example. The anniversary of the day became a | | | | then make sure that the seller will provide a |
| legitimate reason to celebrate. | | | | certificate of authenticity. All credible newspaper |
| Mary Beth Faller a writer from the Stamford, | | | | gift resellers will be happy to offer this piece of |
| Connecticut made a suggestion that 50th Wedding | | | | mind and the best ones will even allow you to |
| Anniversary Gifts should not be gold but instead | | | | personalise born date newspaper gift with a |
| revert to paper. | | | | greeting and the receiver's name. |
| Mary wrote: 'So many of a couple's most | | | | |