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Gift Theme Origins for Wedding Anniversaries

Weddings are a key event in any couple's life, as they bring together friends and relatives to celebrate the happiness and joy of the couple. Wedding anniversaries are also perfect opportunities to celebrate the love of two people, commemorating the joy that they take in each other's company, despite the trials and tribulations of the marital journey.

In most cultures, the wedding anniversary is thought to be an important occasion, and it is generally celebrated in meaningful and significant ways. Couples are reminded of their marital commitment, and a lot of effort often goes into sourcing the perfect gift that will be symbolic and meaningful for one's partner, or the happy couple.

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While finding a gift for couples in the first years of their marriage is relatively simple (as they still require many of the essentials of marital life), later in their marriage, thinking of an appropriate gift idea that will be appreciated and treasured is more difficult.

Gift-giving on the occasion of a wedding anniversary has its origins in the medieval period. In the Holy Roman Empire, husbands would give their wife a silver garland to mark their 25th anniversary, and a golden wreath when they reached 50 years of marriage.

In the 1920s, Emily Post, an American writer, attempted to solve the issue of what gift to give on the occasion of an anniversary by drawing up lists of anniversary themes in a book titled “Etiquette”, published in 1922. However, only some anniversary years were included in the book, the first, fifth, then every fifth year up to the 25th wedding anniversary. In 1937, the American National Retail Jeweler Association added additional years to the list, including all years up to 14 years of marriage, and every 5th year up to 50 years of marriage. These are known as traditional themes linked with each marital year. More recently, a contemporary list was created, and today, all the anniversary years from 1 up to 30 have been linked with a theme or material, and then every fifth year up to 75 years of marriage.

Other Themes for Anniversary Gifts – Gemstones, Colours and Flowers

Not only are anniversary years symbolised by traditional and contemporary gifts, but they often also have a flower, colour and gemstone associated with them as well. The gemstones associated with marital years 1 to 25, and then every 5th year up to the 60th anniversary, are published in the Information Manual on Gemstones by the American Gem Trade Association. In some instances, other countries have suggested a different gemstone for certain anniversary years, so those alternate gemstones are outlined in our table.

Different marital years also often have colours and flowers associated with them, however, these vary dependent on the source. Usually, however, the rose is considered to be the perfect substitute for any anniversary if a woman adores roses, and often its shade can be matched with the colour linked to the anniversary year.

We have compiled a table here that details all the traditional and contemporary themes associated with each anniversary year. There is also further information below the table to help guide you when thinking about an appropriate anniversary gift for your loved one, or for a couple.

*** Although ivory is the traditional material for a 14th wedding anniversary, it is a poor choice ethically due to the decline of elephant populations. Instead, gifts that feature an elephant theme are an appropriate alternative.

Choosing a Gift

When you look at our table, you can see a complete guide to each anniversary year, outlining all traditional and modern themes, as well as the gemstones, colours and floral* symbols for each year. Further detail can be discovered by clicking the link located in the last column of each year. You can find information here relating to each anniversary year right up to 30 years of marriage, and then each 5th year up to the 60th year of marriage. You can also read on the background of the symbols linked to every theme, together with any additional aspects relating to the anniversary, and useful gift suggestions for each milestone. You will find lots of exciting ideas to browse through, which makes finding the perfect anniversary present a breeze.

* The floral symbol is explained in more detail when you click on the link in the last column of each anniversary year.

There are no definitive rules to choosing an anniversary present, so be guided by the recipient's tastes and find a gift they are sure to cherish.

You will note that after 20 years, there aren't traditional gifts associated with every marital year, however, there is a modern theme for each year right up to 30 years of marriage. This reflects the need for a couple to continue to sustain romance and commitment as they progress through married life. Some years also have no floral symbol, gemstone or colour associated with them. We do, however, suggest useful gift ideas for every wedding anniversary year.

We also wish to point out that in some instances, different countries have different gift themes, and when you look at the table, you can see the source that has been used for the gift suggestions, whether it is from the UK or the United States.

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This tutorial was written for version V17.0.8.2, future versions may differ slightly. Please feel free to contact me via PM on Reddit if you think I should update the guide.

DISCLAIMER: I take no responsibility for any damages caused if you don't follow the steps correctly, you proceed at your own risk and take full responsibility. It should also be noted any settings or profiles you've created in your GPU control panel will be removed - you may need to re-enable settings like SLI, Crossfire, tweak colour settings, refresh rates etc...

Q: What is DDU?

A: Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU) is a driver removal tool that can help you completely remove AMD (ATI), NVIDIA and Intel graphics drivers, Realtek audio driver from your system, without leaving leftovers behind (such as registry keys, folders, files, driver store). Over time these leftover files can cause compatibility issues, such as drivers failing to install, reducing performance or system crashes/freezes. By using DDU you can remove these leftovers and solve many common issues related with GPU drivers.

Step 1 - Have your GPU/Audio drivers ready (but do not run them yet) Before we go ahead and use DDU to remove our GPU drivers I highly recommend beforehand you head to your GPU manufacturers website and download the appropriate drivers for your GPU and OS configuration (I recommend you use the latest drivers available, however you can use older drivers if you want)

Here are the official download links for NVIDIA, AMD (ATI) and Intel drivers. Make sure you select the right options such as language, OS version and architecture etc.

NVIDIA: www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx

AMD (ATI): support.amd.com/en-us/download

Intel: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/

- Note: With some computers you may have to download your GPU/Audio drivers from the OEMs website (HP, Dell, Lenovo etc.) - some GPUs may have custom hardware IDs that only officially work with the OEM specific drivers; however this isn't common.

Step 2 - Download DDU

After you've downloaded your GPU drivers we can now go ahead and download DDU, I recommend you download DDU from Wagnard's official site.

DDU Download: https://www.wagnardsoft.com/display-driver-uninstaller-ddu-

I always recommend you download the latest version of DDU, it gets updated quite regularly to keep up with the changes made to GPU drivers and Windows.

Step 2.5 - Disconnect from the Internet (Windows 10 only)

If you're using Windows 10, I recommend (if not mandatory) you disconnect your PC from the Internet, this will prevent Windows 10 from automatically downloading GPU drivers.

There is an alternative option in the option menu of DDU that you can select that should prevent the download of drivers from window update.

Step 3 - Extract and run DDU

Once you've download DDU, simply double click the exe and extract it wherever you want (except on a network drive, it must be on a local disk), I recommend you extract DDU to a 'DDU' folder on the desktop, for ease of access.

Once you've extracted DDU, open the DDU folder (or wherever you extracted it) and you should see several files, read the 'Readme' file, then launch 'Display Driver Uninstaller'.

After you run 'Display Driver Uninstaller' you'll be presented with a warning box, advising you to launch DDU in Safe Mode, I highly recommend you use DDU in Safe Mode to minimize any potential issues, however it's optional. If you do not want to launch DDU in Safe Mode, just click 'OK' and proceed as normal.

If you do want to launch DDU in Safe Mode click the OK button, in the top left-hand corner select 'Options' and at the bottom click 'Enable Safe Mode dialog', exit out of DDU and relaunch it, upon relaunching select "Safe Mode (Recommended)" and click "Reboot to Safe Mode". Your PC should reboot into Safe Mode and DDU will start.

*Note1: It is preferable to use the "Enable Safe Mode dialog" option only after you have at least tried once to go into safe mode the usual way or YOU MAY GET STUCK in safe mode.

*Note2: If you use DDU in normal mode I recommend you close down any background programs, such as games, browsers, media players etc…

After launching DDU you will be presented with this screen, instead of simply clicking one of the removal buttons I recommend you head to the options and tweak how DDU removes the drivers.

I recommend you select the C:\NVIDIA and C:\AMD folders

These folders are the default locations where the NVIDIA or AMD driver installation files are unpacked, once the driver is installed these folders can safely be deleted.

Once this has been done exit the options menu and now we can begin using DDU to remove our GPU drivers.

On the right side you'll see a drop down box that allows you to select what GPU drivers you want to remove.

If you previously had an AMD (ATI) GPU in your system and then made the switch to NVIDIA (or vice versa) in the same Windows installation, you will want to remove the AMD drivers and then the NVIDIA drivers (or vice versa) to avoid any conflicts

Intel iGPU (HD, Iris graphics) drivers shouldn't cause any conflicts between AMD or NVIDIA drivers. However, having assets of AMD drivers installed on an NVIDIA system, or vice versa can cause issues.

On the left side of the interface you'll see three buttons, all are relatively quite simple but I'll run through them quickly.

Now all we have left to do is remove our drivers, your screen may go black for a few seconds while DDU is removing the GPU drivers - this is perfectly normal and should only last a few seconds.

Select your GPU vendor

Select one of the removal options, I recommend you click ‘Clean and do NOT restart' if you wish to look at the logs or by default, click 'Clean and restart'.

DDU will now remove the selected GPU drivers from your system, this will vary depending on the speed of your system.

I just want to reiterate one more time, if you've had an AMD (ATI) or NVIDIA GPU in the same install of Windows I highly recommend you select and remove both GPU drivers to make sure there aren't any conflicts. Once DDU has completed the removal of the selected GPU drivers you will be prompted with this message -- Select ‘Yes' to exit the program.

Now DDU will reboot your PC, from here you can install the GPU drivers you downloaded earlier, restart if applicable and then connect your PC back to the internet.

(NVIDIA only, OLD DDU VERSION) After you've installed your GPU drivers, you can go ahead and open up DDU (you don't need to do this in Safe Mode) and remove temporary/cache NVIDIA driver/GFE installation files, for me it was around 1GB

As a side note I always recommend you update your GPU drivers using the official installer, programs like GeForce Experience can cause issues when updating drivers.

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Hopefully this guide has helped you resolve any GPU driver related issues you may have encountered, although I realise this guide won't help everyone. GPU drivers are incredibly complex pieces of software and this is merely one fix. Below I have other tutorials that may help you resolve any issues that are related to GPU drivers.

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