Anniversary gifts?

[Scout1071]

Is this necessary? I have some friends celebrating their one year anniversary today. I stopped in to drop something off for them (unrelated to the anniversary) and noticed a collection of cards and gifts from friends celebrating their one year anniversary.

Is this expected? If so, when does this gift shit end? I'm a single woman who went (and brought gifts to) engagement party, bachelorette party, wedding gift....and flew to Mexico for a week at an all inclusive resort for the actual wedding. Plus, there are two of them, so that is twice as many birthday and holiday gifts. I'm going broke!

Do I really need to get them something celebrating their 365 days of marriage?

[KitchenWitch]

1. Only if you want to

When my husband and I got married, after a year, we did not get gifts from anyone else.

[miss_american_pie]

2. I just send cards to our friends

and no one has ever sent us a gift.

I can't imagine anyone rude enough to expect a gift.

[Scout1071]

3. Whew. I thought I'd missed something in the gift giving manual.

Thanks!

[MissB]

4. A card is nice the first year.

And if they are still together at year 10, I'd buy 'em a bottle of really nice wine. We've taken very close friends out to dinner as a gift for their 10th, but generally a good bottle of wine works just fine. :)

I know some people that wait until the 1 year anniversary to buy a wedding gift, just to see if the couple actually makes it that far. I'm not that pessimistic.