A traditional gift for a first wedding anniversary is a clock. Take time for a trip to look at world-famous clocks. Start with a trip to London to see Big Ben and the rest of one of Europe's most enchanting capital cities. Continue on to Switzerland, home of many famous clock makers. Tour romantic Lucerne, perched on a lake, idyllic Lausanne and worldly Geneva. Take the train across the border to beautiful Venice, long noted as a city of alleyways perfect for a stolen kiss and canals trailed by gondoliers. St. Mark's Square is home to St. Mark's Clock, housed in the clock tower of the square. Commissioned and built in the late 15th century the clock has a bronze patina and still works today.
Celebrate your fifth wedding anniversary with wood, a traditional fifth wedding anniversary gift. Take a trip to see the Black Forest of Germany. Medieval Bavaria is perfect for secluded hikes that wend in and out of villages filled with half-timbered houses. Drink a glass of local Franconian wine and eat a hearty sausage-filled meal on a town right above the Rhine. Tromp through Neuschwanstein Castle, inspiration for Walt Disney and site of many an assignation in the drafty corridors.
A traditional gift for your 11th wedding anniversary is steel and fashionable jewelry. Travel to one of the most steel-filled places in the world: New York City. New York City is a city of skyscapers. Take the elevator up to the top floor of the Empire State Building. Walk through Battery Park City at the foot of Manhattan to admire downtown Manhattan. Continue your celebratory journey with a visit across the Atlantic to one of the world's fashion homes: Paris. Paris is ideal for lovers. Walk down the fashionable street of Rue de Fauberg St. Honore, home to many fashionable stores filled with enticing merchandise. Have a glass of champagne in Café Deux Margots where poets, painters and writers wrote of romantic love.
