When celebrating a 1st wedding anniversary, couples all around the globe try to find that one romantic place to eat, gift to give, or word to speak that will be etched into their memories forever. Even though that doesn't always happen, your 1st year wedding anniversary is perhaps one of the most memorable for a lot of couples. You've just gone through your first year of marriage and probably have experienced a lot of firsts together: buying your first new car, settling into your first new home, experiencing a full work-week for the first time with each other, and plenty of others.

So naturally for 1st wedding anniversaries you want the occasion to be just right so that both you and your partner will keep future anniversaries alive for the rest of your marriage. There are plenty of 1st anniversary ideas that you could probably come up with and the best ideas for a 1st anniversary celebration do come from the heart. With that in mind, here are some things that should help you in your pursuit to plan the best 1st wedding anniversary that you should only experience once!

Traditional Celebrations - paper, dinner and movie

In keeping with long-standing traditions, many people like to highlight their 1st year wedding anniversary with traditional celebrations that have withstood the test of time. For example, paper is the traditional 1st anniversary gift that couples usually give to each other. This can take the form of many things, such as a wedding scrapbook to place your memories, a love note, special gift certificates, or some other paper idea that you may have thought of.

However, perhaps the best ideas for 1st wedding anniversaries are the ones you think of all by yourself. For example, a truly unique idea is to buy a jar and fill it with paper heart. On each of those paper hearts, though, should be written one thing or attribute that you love about your partner. This would be the ultimate do-it-yourself 1st anniversary gift as you could be plenty creative as well putting one hundred or more of those paper hearts into the jar for your spouse to read.

Since paper is the traditional gift for a 1st wedding anniversary, many couples do get stumped on some of the other traditional things that couples have done. One idea that many couples traditionally carry out is to eat the top layer of their wedding cake on their first anniversary, assuming that they saved it from their wedding.