By Jessica Good
NO pressure! With our second wedding anniversary fast approaching, I’d been racking my brain for gift ideas for weeks, when I just happened to stumble across an article about Keith Urban’s anniversary gift to his wife Nicole Kidman: It was a clock.
But not just any old clock, this clock was originally designed to celebrate every second of the new millennium, but the singer had it transformed, resetting it to the moment he met his future wife.
Not bad. It sure beats the cotton wool buds I’ve been threatened with, though I’m positive it’s all a ploy to throw me off the scent to cover up the fact my husband has secretly bought me that diamond-studded Georg Jensen necklace I adore (are you following me, Scotty?).
You see cotton is the “traditional” gift for the second wedding anniversary. The first anniversary gift is paper. Unfortunately, the pad of paper, watercolours, oils, paint brushes, canvasses and easel I was given last year are collecting dust somewhere in the spare room cupboard, hence the cotton wool threat, because he knows I’ll actually find a use for these. But what to buy him? Let’s see cotton socks, a cotton handkerchief, I don’t think so.
I turned to the World Wide Web for inspiration and there it was, the “modern” wedding anniversary gift list. Instead of paper, how about paper tickets to the City of Love, Paris? On second thoughts, I could just buy him a cotton Collingwood jersey instead; no, no, that’s way too predictable. The real question is: Should one stick with tradition, or bend the rules just a little?
I’d definitely be happy to move forward the 60th (diamond) anniversary to say at least five years of marriage. Okay, maybe we could push it to 10 before my next sparkler. But I have to admit; the traditional gifts do force you to be creative and think outside the square. Keith Urban certainly did, he bought Nicole time. Please excuse me while I work out how to buy my husband something just as timeless.