6th wedding anniversary gift

May 28, 2008 2:25 PM

My 6th wedding anniversary approaches. Looking for interesting ideas for traditional 6th year gift which i understand is iron. We have a full set of iron cookware already which we love.
posted by dougiedd to Home & Garden (15 answers total)

some Iron Man gadget? some Barking Irons clothes?
posted by matteo at 2:30 PM on May 28, 2008

all kinds of very cool iron and wrought-iron items here if you're into traditional/retro but functional stuff. I love the woodstoves and odd kitchen implements. Or how about a steak brand? Anything made of wrought iron (bookends, wine racks, chandeliers, whatever)? A wrought-iron bedstead?

6th anniversaries are also sometimes associated with candy and wood.
posted by peachfuzz at 2:41 PM on May 28, 2008

Iron pot rack for the ceiling?
posted by fish tick at 2:56 PM on May 28, 2008

Iron, and romantic.

(romance experience may vary depending on romantics involved.)
posted by rokusan at 2:57 PM on May 28, 2008

I wonder if this shop would do a custom piece of jewelry of an iron molecule for you?
posted by Ugh at 3:15 PM on May 28, 2008

Depending on where you live/if you've got a yard, an iron arch with rose bushes planted to climb up it would be very anniversary-ish and romantic-ish.
posted by paperzach at 3:19 PM on May 28, 2008

My wife gave me a cast-iron dutch oven for our sixth a few months ago. I gave her a wrought-iron wall hanging thing that holds photos. The dutch oven was a much better gift.
posted by Shohn at 4:00 PM on May 28, 2008

I did iron candlesticks for our sixth. They are still in use 10 years later, so I must have done ok!
posted by COD at 4:06 PM on May 28, 2008

Do you have your own house with a yard? Wrought iron fences are awesome (even if they're tiny and frame a garden area or something).
posted by phunniemee at 4:24 PM on May 28, 2008

The Traditional Gifts for the Sixth are either Iron or Sugar. The 'modern' gift is wood. You don't have to be literal with the gift.

- buy an iron wood carving
- get a membership for both you at the gym so you can 'pump iron' together.
- Interested in taking up golf? They do call clubs 'irons'.
- Here's a Japanese vase made of Cast Iron
- an entire Cast Iron Tea Set
- Iron Wind Chimes
- And if you still have trouble deciding... an entire store of things made of iron.
posted by aristan at 4:45 PM on May 28, 2008

if you're tea-drinkers, it would be nice to have one of those cast-iron teapots from the morioka-ish region of japan. They're fancy, and they're the kind of thing you would probably talk yourself out of buying unless you had an excuse [but then you'd actually enjoy having them, of course]
posted by Acari at 5:27 PM on May 28, 2008

My good friend Payne Junker operates in Vermont under the name of "The Ironmonger". He could make you anything you want or could imagine outta wrought iron.

Happy ann.
posted by DickStock at 7:41 PM on May 28, 2008

I bought my girlfriend steel roses for our first Valentine's Day. Big mistake as I've yet to top that gift for Valentine's Day. (Made the same mistake for the first birthday gift I bought her as well, but that one has nothing to do with iron.) I got them custom made by a friend who happened to be a blacksmith, but I don't think it's so uncommon that you couldn't find someone else to do it.

Ultimately, I'd recommend that you get her something as personal as possible, something that would make a terrible gift for most people, but a great gift for her. Since you haven't said anything about her here, all of the suggestions here will likely be very generic.
posted by ErWenn at 8:01 PM on May 28, 2008

A trip -- Eastern Europe? The Iron Curtain?
posted by peace_love_hope at 8:38 PM on May 28, 2008

Response by poster: great suggestions and thank you all
posted by dougiedd at 2:23 PM on May 31, 2008