Wedding Anniversary Wishes: 150 Messages for the Card

Wedding anniversary wishes are for the couple, not about you. The 150 below are written for sending to other people — friends, parents, a sibling, colleagues — and are grouped by who the couple is and which year it is.

If you are writing to your own husband or wife instead, our marriage anniversary wishes collection is the one you want. This page is for wishing other couples well.

Short wedding anniversary wishes

Short wedding anniversary wishes suit a card signed by several people, a text or a comment.

• Happy anniversary to you both.
• Wishing you many more years together.
• Happy anniversary. Here is to you two.
• Another year of the two of you. Lovely.
• Happy anniversary to a wonderful couple.
• Congratulations on another year together.
• Happy anniversary. Wishing you both the best.
• To many more. Happy anniversary.
• Happy anniversary. You two make it look easy.
• Wishing you a lovely day and a lovely year.
• Happy anniversary to my favourite couple.
• Cheers to another year.
• Happy anniversary. Still going strong.
• Wishing you both continued happiness.
• Happy anniversary. Enjoy the day.
• Another year, still wonderful together.
• Happy anniversary to two lovely people.
• Here is to you both, today and always.
• Happy anniversary. Celebrate properly.
• Wishing you both many happy returns.

Wedding anniversary wishes for friends

Warmer and more personal, for couples you actually know well.

• Happy anniversary to two people who genuinely suit each other.
• Watching you two together has been a pleasure. Happy anniversary.
• Happy anniversary. You are the couple everyone quietly hopes to be.
• Another year of you making it look effortless.
• Happy anniversary to my favourite pair of troublemakers.
• You two have built something good. Happy anniversary.
• Happy anniversary. Still the best wedding I have been to.
• Congratulations on surviving each other another year.
• Happy anniversary. Lucky to know you both.
• Another year of excellent company. Happy anniversary.
• Happy anniversary to the couple who always feed us well.
• You two are proof it works. Happy anniversary.
• Happy anniversary. Do not change a thing.
• Grateful for both of you. Happy anniversary.
• Happy anniversary. Save us a seat at the next one.
• Still my favourite couple to be around.
• Happy anniversary. Here is to the next decade.
• You two have the good kind of boring. Happy anniversary.
• Happy anniversary. The party was great, the marriage is better.
• Wishing you both another brilliant year.

Wedding anniversary wishes for parents

These are read aloud more often than any other kind, so simple works best.

• Happy anniversary to the two people who taught me what this looks like.
• Thank you for the home you built. Happy anniversary.
• Happy anniversary, Mum and Dad. Love you both.
• Another year of putting up with each other. Happy anniversary.
• Happy anniversary to my first example of love.
• You two set the standard. Happy anniversary.
• Happy anniversary. Thank you for everything, always.
• Grateful for the family you made. Happy anniversary.
• Happy anniversary to the best team I know.
• Still holding it all together. Happy anniversary.
• Happy anniversary. We are all here because of you two.
• Thank you for showing us how it is done.
• Happy anniversary, Mum and Dad. Put your feet up.
• Another year of the two of you. Lucky us.
• Happy anniversary to the heart of this family.
• You made this house a home. Happy anniversary.
• Happy anniversary. Love you both more than we say.
• Thank you for the years and the patience.
• Happy anniversary to my favourite couple, always.
• Here is to you both. Happy anniversary.

Funny wedding anniversary wishes

For couples who would find sincerity suspicious.

• Happy anniversary. Congratulations on the longest negotiation of your lives.
• Another year and neither of you has run. Impressive.
• Happy anniversary. Marriage is just arguing about the thermostat forever.
• Congratulations on tolerating each other another year.
• Happy anniversary to two people who clearly had no better offers.
• Still married. Still surprising. Happy anniversary.
• Happy anniversary. May your wifi be strong and your arguments short.
• Another year of shared debt and mutual confusion. Happy anniversary.
• Happy anniversary. You two deserve each other, warmly meant.
• Congratulations. The warranty has definitely expired.
• Happy anniversary. Who is doing the washing-up tonight?
• Another year of one of you being right. Happy anniversary.
• Happy anniversary. Love is just splitting bills with your best friend.
• You two are the reason people still get married. Happy anniversary.
• Happy anniversary. Same partner, new complaints.
• Congratulations on not murdering each other. Happy anniversary.
• Happy anniversary. Marriage: a very long dinner conversation.
• Another year, same sofa, same arguments. Happy anniversary.
• Happy anniversary to two people who peaked at the wedding photos.
• Still going. Still baffling. Happy anniversary.

Milestone wedding anniversary wishes

Big years deserve their own wedding anniversary wishes, because a tenth and a fiftieth are not the same occasion.

• Happy first anniversary. One down, the interesting ones ahead.
• Five years. Happy anniversary to a couple who have found their rhythm.
• Ten years together and it still looks easy. Happy anniversary.
• Happy fifteenth. Long enough to know, short enough to still enjoy it.
• Twenty years. Happy anniversary to two people who kept choosing each other.
• Happy twenty-fifth. Silver suits you both.
• Thirty years of getting it right. Happy anniversary.
• Happy fortieth anniversary to a genuinely remarkable pair.
• Fifty years. Happy anniversary, and thank you for the example.
• Happy golden anniversary. What a thing to have built.
• Sixty years together. There is not a card big enough.
• Happy anniversary. A milestone that says everything about you both.
• Whatever the number, the answer is still each other. Happy anniversary.
• Happy anniversary. Decades in and still a team.
• Here is to a milestone earned rather than reached.
• Happy anniversary. The years have been kind because you were.
• A big year for a big love. Happy anniversary.
• Happy anniversary. Congratulations on a life well shared.
• Milestones like this are rare. Happy anniversary.
• Happy anniversary. Here is to every year that got you here.

Wedding anniversary wishes for colleagues and acquaintances

Warm, correct and not overfamiliar — the register most people get slightly wrong.

• Happy anniversary to you both. Wishing you a lovely day.
• Congratulations on your anniversary.
• Happy anniversary. Hope you get to celebrate properly.
• Wishing you and your wife a very happy anniversary.
• Wishing you and your husband a wonderful anniversary.
• Happy anniversary. Many congratulations to you both.
• Hope you both have a lovely celebration.
• Happy anniversary and best wishes for the year ahead.
• Congratulations to you both on another year.
• Happy anniversary. Enjoy the day.

Religious and traditional anniversary blessings

For families who prefer a blessing to a greeting.

• May your marriage continue to be blessed with love and patience.
• Wishing you both many more years under one roof and one blessing.
• May God keep you both in health and in each other company.
• Blessings on your anniversary and on the years ahead.
• May your home stay full and your hearts stay light.
• Praying for many more years together. Happy anniversary.
• May your love continue to grow quietly and steadily.
• Blessed be the years you have shared and the ones to come.
• Wishing you peace, health and each other. Happy anniversary.
• May your marriage remain a blessing to everyone around it.
• Grateful to witness a marriage like yours. Happy anniversary.
• May the years ahead be gentle with you both.
• Blessings on this day and on your life together.
• Wishing you a marriage that keeps deepening. Happy anniversary.
• May you always be each other comfort. Happy anniversary.
• Wishing you both continued grace and joy.
• May your home always be a peaceful one.
• Blessings and love on your anniversary.
• May God bless the two of you and the years ahead.
• Happy anniversary. May it be a year of good things.

How to write your own anniversary message

Borrowed wedding anniversary wishes are perfectly fine for a group card. For a couple you know well, one specific sentence does far more.

One: name something you have actually seen. The way you two handled last year beats you are a lovely couple, because only someone paying attention could write it.

Two: address them as a pair. The mistake most people make is writing to the friend they know and treating the spouse as an afterthought. The card is to both of them.

Three: keep it to two lines. Anniversary cards get read aloud. Long ones do not survive that.

Assembled: You two have had a year of it and never stopped being a team. Happy anniversary, both of you.

Which anniversary is which

If you want to reference the traditional gift or material in your message, the common ones are worth knowing.

• 1st — paper. 5th — wood. 10th — tin or aluminium.
• 15th — crystal. 20th — china. 25th — silver.
• 30th — pearl. 40th — ruby. 50th — gold. 60th — diamond.

The lists vary by country and several modern versions circulate, so do not treat them as fixed. The silver, gold and diamond markers are the only ones most people actually recognise, and building wedding anniversary wishes around an obscure one usually needs explaining, which rather defeats the purpose.

The custom of naming years after materials is more recent than it sounds — silver and golden jubilees are the long-established ones, and most of the rest were filled in later, with a fair amount of encouragement from people who sell gifts. The word anniversary itself comes from the Latin for returning yearly, and the jubilee tradition of marking significant year-counts is considerably older than any of the gift lists.

Common mistakes with wedding anniversary wishes

A few things go wrong often enough to be worth naming.

• Writing to one half of the couple. The most frequent error. Wedding anniversary wishes are addressed to both people, even when you only really know one of them.
• Guessing the year. If you are not certain, leave the number out entirely.
• Making it about the wedding. The day was years ago; the marriage is the achievement.
• Over-familiarity with colleagues. Warm and brief is correct.
• Sending nothing because you missed the day. Late wedding anniversary wishes are always better than none.

Frequently asked questions

What are the best wedding anniversary wishes for a card?

Short ones addressed to both people. Two lines naming something you have genuinely noticed about them beats any verse.

What do you write for a couple you do not know well?

Keep it simple and warm — Happy anniversary to you both, wishing you a lovely day. Overfamiliarity reads worse than brevity.

Should I mention the number of years?

Only if you are sure of it. Getting the year wrong is the most common anniversary-card mistake and it is easily avoided by leaving it out.

What is the difference between wedding and marriage anniversary wishes?

None technically, though in practice people use wedding anniversary wishes when writing to other couples and marriage anniversary wishes when writing to their own spouse.

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