10 Tips for Writing an Original Wedding Anniversary Message for Your Wife or Husband

1. Make your greeting sincere and from the bottom of your heart.
2. Let them know how happy you are to be celebrating this Wedding Anniversary with them.
3. Tell her/him that they are the best thing that ever happened to you and how you couldn’t imagine life without them.
4. Write how much you love and appreciate her/him.
5. Let them know happy you are to be married to them.

6. Tell her/him how much they mean to you, how they make you feel and that they make your life complete.
7. List the reasons you love them.
8. Don’t write anything out of character or it will not sound original.
9. Remember that it is all about love so it is ok to get mushy.
10.Write how much you look forward to many more years together.

Words don’t always come easy to some of us when we need to write something for a special occasion to the people we care about most in this world. Writing a wedding anniversary greeting is one such moment.

In this article I have put together some examples of what you can write. These can be used for wives or husbands.

You can use just one line of verse or put a few of them together to make up your wedding anniversary greeting.

Remember to personalise your message by adding your partner’s name and the number of years you have been married. You can also include special names you have for them such as sweetheart, darling, honey etc.

Happy Anniversary, my love, and thank you for the wonderful years we shared.
I love you and I am looking forward to sharing many more wonderful years together.
You still take my breath away when I see your beautiful smile.
You make my life so worthwhile.
I was blessed the day you became my wife/husband.
These past (year number) years of marriage have been the best days of my life.
You are the love of my life.
I love you just the way you are.
You are the best wife/husband, best lover and the best friend a man/woman could ever have.
I love you.
Thank you for (year number) years of marriage.
It has been a pleasure spending these years with you.
I love you because you are you.
You make me a whole person.
I love you and will forever.
Thank God you came into my life.
You make me complete.
This Wedding Anniversary marks the best (year number) years of my life.
Thank you for being my wife/husband.
Thank you for marrying me.
Thanks for sharing my life.
I am so glad I married you.
You are my best friend.
You are the best thing that ever happened to me.
You are everything to me.
I love you more than you will ever know.
(year number) years has gone by, and I still love you just as much, in fact more, than I did then.
You have made my life so wonderful, so joyous, and so worth living.
I can’t wait to spend another (year number) years together.
I treasure the years we have spent together.

I could not have asked for a better wife/husband, a better lover, or a better friend than you have been to me these past (year number) years of our marriage.

Happy Anniversary (name). These past (year number) years have been the most joyous of my life. I love being married to you. I hope that our future years together will be just as wonderful as this one.

Want to know how to write your own original message for your wife or husband?

With this idea there is no need to use a Wedding Anniversary poem written by someone else when you can easily write something meaningful and from your own heart.

This Wedding Anniversary card greeting message is a really easy one to write. You can change the number of reasons to anything you like and even correspond it to the number of years that you have been married.

The technique is good because it gets you thinking about the person you are writing it to and basically all you are doing is answering a question and writing the answers on separate lines to create your own special message. You can even try to get some of the lines to rhyme so that you end up with your own wedding anniversary poem.

I have listed examples to show you what I mean.

Have fun.

Dear (name),

Happy Anniversary.

I thought that this would be a great time to tell you the:

10 Things I love about You:

(the following are examples – this is where you list your own)

1. You are my best friend in the whole wide world.
2. You are beautiful through and through.
3. I love the way you love me.
4. I love the way you make me smile.
5. You are a fantastic mother/father to our children.
6. You make me happy.
7. I love the way we laugh together.
8. You help me with the housework.
9. You are kind, caring and sweet.
10.Being with you is such a treat.

Other ideas you can write about to create your own wedding anniversary poem:

Here are my 10 favourite moments from the past 10 years of our marriage:

(the following are examples – this is where you list your own)

1. Our wedding day.
2. Our walks on the harbourside.
3. The first time you gave me pink roses for my birthday.
4. Our beach trip to Forster.
5. The birth of our baby boy.
6. Sharing pizza on the verandah of our first home together.
7. The Christmas you suprised me with the emerald pendant.
8. When we explored the Glass Mountains.
9. Visiting your hometown.
10. Buying our holiday home.

10 reasons I am glad I married you:

(the following are examples – this is where you list your own)

1. You are kind.
2. You are loving.
3. You like to cook and are good at it.
4. You treat me with respect.
5. I love our conversations.
6. You get more handsome as you get older.
7. We love to do the same things.
8. You encourage me to be myself.
9. You are a good man.
10. You are the love of my life.

Some tips for writing your Wedding Anniversary message:

Once you get started then the ideas start to flow.
Read it aloud and change the lines around if needed.
My examples don’t really rhyme (I need to work on them a little) but if you want yours to rhyme you can replace some of the words with synonyms and change some of the words around until it sounds more like a poem.

Remember that whether it rhymes or sounds like a poem or not will not really matter to your wife or husband because they will just be thrilled to be reading something that you wrote about them all by yourself.

Not everyone can find it easy to think of something to write for a couple in their wedding annivesary greeting card. If you are stuck for ideas then don’t worry – you will find many ideas in the list below.

Just pick out the ones you like. You can use one or many of them. Personalise them by adding the couples names and years of marriage into the messages or verses.

Best wishes for many more wonderful years together.
Congratulations on (year number) years of marriage.
Congratulations on your (year number) Wedding Anniversary.
Enjoy your celebration of your life together.
Happy (year number) Wedding Anniversary.
Here’s to another (year number) years. May they be even more special the first.
Hope you share many more happy years together.
I/We admire your love for one another and hope we can find true love like you did too.
I/We love you both and wish you many more happy years together is appropriate.
I/We wish you all the happiness any couple could have.
Just want you to know that I hope you both have a great Anniversary.
May god bless you on this momentous occasion.
May there be many more happy years.
May you go on to find even greater joy and happiness with every year of marriage.
This card comes to you with love and best wishes for your Wedding Anniversary.
Wishing you all the best on your (year number) Wedding Anniversary.
Wishing you both a Happy Wedding Anniversary.

If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
- Anne Bradstreet

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
- Mignon McLaughlin

Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.
- Michael Leunig

One man by himself is nothing. Two people who belong together make a world.
- Hans Margolius

An anniversary is a time to celebrate the joys of today, the memories of yesterday, and the hopes of tomorrow.
- Anonymous

Married couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking.
- Chinese Proverb

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company that a good marriage.
- Martin Luther