60 Anniversary Wishes for Your Husband, Wife, Boyfriend or Girlfriend

The hardest part of an anniversary is often the card. You know what you feel. Getting it into two sentences is another matter.

Here are 60 messages to borrow, sorted by who they are for. Add one real detail, such as a place, a date or a private joke, and it becomes yours.

Romantic anniversary wishes

1. Happy anniversary. I would choose you again, every time.
2. Another year, and you are still my favourite person.
3. Thank you for a year of ordinary days that I wouldn't swap for anything.
4. You are the best decision I ever made.
5. I love the life we are building. Happy anniversary.
6. Every year I think I couldn't love you more. Every year I'm wrong.
7. Home is wherever you are. Happy anniversary, my love.
8. Here's to us, and to all the years still to come.
9. You make hard days easier and good days better.
10. I still get butterflies. Happy anniversary.
11. Thank you for loving me on the days I made it difficult.
12. I'd marry you all over again tomorrow.
13. You are my calm, my chaos and my favourite everything.
14. Of all the things we've done, choosing each other was the best.
15. Happy anniversary to the one who knows me best and loves me anyway.

For your husband

16. Happy anniversary to my husband, my best friend and my safest place.
17. Thank you for being the kind of man I can lean on.
18. You still make me laugh more than anyone. Happy anniversary.
19. I'm proud to be your wife today and every day.
20. You do so many quiet things for us. I notice them all.
21. Here's to the man who makes our house a home.
22. Still my favourite person to come home to.
23. Thank you for every cup of tea, every lift, every time you stayed up with me.
24. You're a wonderful husband. I don't say it enough.
25. Growing old with you is my favourite plan.

For your wife

26. Happy anniversary to my wife, the best thing that ever happened to me.
27. You make everything better just by being in the room.
28. I'm the luckiest man I know.
29. Thank you for believing in me when I didn't.
30. You are even more beautiful than the day we met.
31. Everything good in my life has you in it.
32. Thank you for building this life with me.
33. I love you more than I know how to say, so I'll keep trying to show you.
34. You are my best friend and the love of my life. Happy anniversary.
35. Marrying you is still the smartest thing I've done.

For your boyfriend or girlfriend

36. One year down. I'd like a lot more.
37. Happy anniversary to my favourite human.
38. I didn't know it could be this easy to love someone.
39. Thank you for the best year of my life so far.
40. You walked in and everything got better.
41. I can't believe it's been a year, and I can't wait for the next.
42. Happy anniversary. I like you a ridiculous amount.
43. You are my favourite hello and my hardest goodbye.
44. A year of us, and I'm still smiling at my phone.
45. Thank you for being exactly who you are.

Funny anniversary wishes

46. Happy anniversary. Thank you for putting up with me. It can't be easy.
47. Another year of you stealing the covers. I love you anyway.
48. I love you more than pizza, and I really love pizza.
49. We've been together so long I can't remember who is supposed to be annoying whom.
50. Happy anniversary to the only person I'd share my fries with.
51. You're stuck with me. No refunds.
52. Still not sick of you. Remarkable.
53. Thanks for laughing at my jokes. Especially the bad ones.
54. Happy anniversary to my favourite pain in the neck.
55. Another year of pretending we know what we're doing.

For a milestone year

56. Ten years, and I'm still learning new things about you.
57. Twenty-five years. You are still the one I look for in every room.
58. Fifty years of us. Not long enough.
59. We have been through so much, and I'd do every bit again with you.
60. Look at the life we made. Happy anniversary, my love.

How to write your own in five minutes

Use three sentences:

1. A memory. “A year ago we were eating chips in the rain outside that cinema.”
2. What you love now. “I love that you still make me laugh that hard.”
3. What you hope for. “Here's to many more rainy chips.”

Specific beats poetic. If you want more material, borrow from 100 reasons why I love you.

Something to do with the card

Write each other a letter to open on your next anniversary. It costs nothing and gets more valuable every year. Guide: a time capsule letter for couples.

And for the 364 days in between: BloomingPairs asks you both one question a day, free on iPhone and Android →

Frequently asked questions

What do you write in an anniversary card?

One memory, one thing you love about them now, and one hope for the future. Three sentences is enough.

What is a short anniversary wish?

“Happy anniversary. I would choose you again, every time.”

Should an anniversary message be funny or romantic?

Whichever sounds like the two of you. A funny line followed by one sincere sentence usually works best.