Names have been given to different year of wedding aniversary, and gems are assigned to each one of them. I really wonder if it is the jewelers who have come up with all these thing, so that more people will consider buying from them. The following chart contains the year of the anniversary, the name of the anniversary, the image of the gem, and the name of the gem. 

Years of Marriage	Anniversary  Stone	Traditional	Modern	Alternative  Modern
1	Blue Topaz	Paper	Plastics	Clocks
2	Coral	Cotton	Cotton/Calico	China
3	Peridot	Leather	Leather	Crystal/Glass
4	Amethyst	Flowers	Linen/Silk/Nylon	Appliances
5	Rhodolite	Wood	Wood	Silverware
6	Lapis Lazuli	Candy/Iron	Iron	Wood
7	Zircon	Copper/Wood	Copper/Wool/Brass	Desk Sets
8	Pearl	Bronze/Pottery	Bronze/Appliances	Linens
9	Andalusite	Pottery/Willow	Pottery	Leather
10	Green Tourmaline	Tin	Aluminium	Diamond
11	Spinel	Steel	Steel	Jewellery
12	Tsavorite Garnet	Silk/Linen	Silk/Linen	Pearl
13	Opal	Lace	Lace	Textile/Fur
14	Kunzite	Ivory	Ivory	Gold
15	Blue Sapphire	Crystal	Glass	Watches
16	Topaz
17	Rubellite Tourmaline
18	Aquamarine
19	Beryl
20	Emerald	China	China	Platinum
21
22
23
24
25 Silver Jubilee	Jade	Silver	Silver	Silver
30 Pearl Jubilee	Fancy Sapphire	Pearl	Pearl	Pearl
35	Cat´s Eye	Coral	Coral/Jade	Jade
40	Ruby	Ruby	Ruby/Garnet	Ruby
45	Tanzanite	Sapphire	Sapphire	Sapphire
50  Golden Jubilee	Golden Sapphire	Gold	Gold	Gold
55	Alexandrite	Emerald	Emerald/Turquoise	Emerald
60  Diamond Jubilee	Diamond	Diamond	Gold	Diamond
70 Sapphire Jubilee
75 Diamond Jubilee		Diamond	Diamond/Gold	Diamond
80 Ruby Jubilee

 

 

Tourmaline

A semi-precious gemstone that is available in a wide range of colours, and that can appear to have more than one colour in itself. Tourmaline has a hardness of 7-7.5 on the Mohs Scale.

 

Tourmaline is a dichroic gemstone that comes in many, many different colours; it also appears to have different colours depending on the angle at which it is seen.

 

Tourmaline has the greatest colour range of any gemstone – the lighter colours are more valuable than the darker colours. It ranges in colour from pink to green to red (rubellite) to purple to blue-green (indicolite) to colorless (achroite) to black.

 

Watermelon tourmaline is both pink and green.

 

Tourmaline Tourmaline occurs as an elongate three-sided prism and is mined in Brazil, the Ural mountains in Russia, Namibia, Sri Lanka, and California.

 

Tourmaline was only discovered in the 1700's.

 

Tourmaline has a hardness of 7-7.5