paper anniversary

Year one milestone

A paper anniversary is the first wedding anniversary, traditionally marked by exchanging paper gifts.

The custom assigns increasingly durable materials to successive years—paper, cotton, leather, and so on—symbolizing a marriage's strengthening over time.

They celebrated their paper anniversary with handwritten love letters.

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