Poet: Unknown
You must be very happy
As you start another year,
And may it bring you both the things
You hold especially dear,
Including love and laughter,
Best of health for both of you,
And, always, lots of happiness
In everything you do.
Poet: Grinnell Willis
Full many an anniversary
Has come to thee and me,
Heartbreaking days have come with tears,
And happy days, with joy and glee.
We've had our clouds and sunshine.
Our shadows and our light.
But we've kept our love unsullied,
Our affection warm and bright.
Our fathers and our mothers,
In word and thought and deed,
Worked out their lives before us,
Their simple honest creed;
And we, by force of circumstance,
Less simple in our way.
Have wrought before our children
Our life work, day by day.
Our home like theirs has open been,
Honest in thought and deed,
To many friends a pleasure,
To many a help in need.
To manhood and to womanhood
Our children here have grown,
And with their children go and come
About the dear Old Home.
Oh! may we not rejoice
To have lived so many years.
And reaped this glad fruition
Of all our hopes and fears.
For more than thirty years
We have lived and loved and striven.
And now with grateful hearts
Thank God, for all that he has given.
Wedding Anniversary Quotes
Poet Unknown
It's not enough to wish you
Happy Anniversary, Dear
For there are many other things
That you've a right to hear -
For instance, that you're wonderful,
For instance, that you're sweet,
For instance, that you've done so much
To make my life complete.
And, Dear, you know it's coming
From my heart when I express
My one enduring wish for you -
A wish for happiness.
Poet: Grinnell Willis
May ever the golden blessing
Be yours, and ne'er depart,
And the love of friends who have been so true,
Who are present now to rejoice with you,
Be found in every heart.
Poet: Caleb Davis Bradlee
Two, Lord, at thine altar wait,
A blessing to receive;
Humbly they would unite their fate,
If thou wilt give them leave.
Their hands they join, their hearts they blend,
One journey now they take;
They pray their love may have no end,
They ask it for Christ's sake.
Irish Wedding Blessing
Poet: Catherine Pulsifer
Before you know it an anniversary arrives,
Full of memories, where meaning thrives.
A marker in time, memories of roads we did tread,
We remember the joys and the tears we've shed.
We look back and we look forward to what we face
Celebrating the journey, every joyous trace.
For on this day, we honor with might,
And celebrate this anniversary with sheer delight.
Anniversary Quotes
Poet: Sarah A. Thomas
Twelve years of sunshine and of storms
Since first our lives were joined in one;
But had the sky no threatening clouds,
We would forget to prize the sun.
With life one joyous summer-day,
And, gliding down life's quiet stream,
We would not note our rapid flight
Were there no landmarks by the way.
I would not call to memory now
The sorrows of those vanished years
(Our steps led through affliction's path,
Bordered by bitter falling tears);
But I would have you think today
Of all that made life seem most dear,
Of hopes that tint with pleasing ray
The prospects of the coming year.
It seems that those who love are doomed
Affliction's bitterest cup to drain,
As if they with their mutual strength
Were better formed to bear the pain;
Or it may be, had fortune smiled,
Our love with years had colder grown:
Yours might have followed fancy's paths,
And I have doubted e'en my own.
Perhaps that Fate has been more kind
Than we, dear heart, shall ever know;
The purest gem may worthless seem
If scanned by firelight's fitful glow.
Then at our lot we'll not repine,
Though cold and dreary seem the way,
But journey on, heart joined to heart,
Until we find the perfect day.
