11th Year Anniversary - Turquoise - 5 Designs

Anniversaries are traditionally celebrated with the giving of gifts relating to the year of the wedding or civil partnership. Around the turn of the 19th century it was popular to give gifts of paper, cotton or leather for the first few years. However, in more recent times and due to the increasingly availability of fine rare gemstones, it is more popular to give jewellery to the one you love.

In the eleventh year of marriage it is customary to give the gift of Turquoise. It has been a well regarded gem stone since Egyptian times and its name means “Turkish Stone” as it was imported to Europe via Turkey. The colour of this historic gemstone ranges from a greenish blue to a beautiful striking sky blue and is one of the few instances where the name of a colour is derived from the name of a gemstone.