The Best 4-Year Anniversary Gifts That Go Way Beyond Fruit and Flowers (2024)

It's said that the strength of your marriage grows with every year that passes. That's why the traditional gifts associated with each anniversary grow bigger each time you celebrate — all the way up to diamonds for 50 years together and platinum for 60.

So what's the traditional gift for your four-year anniversary? That would be fruit and flowers — one of the toughest anniversaries to shop for. That's where we come in. After doing a lot of research, our gift experts have rounded up the best four-year wedding anniversary gifts you can buy, whether you're looking for something traditional or more modern.

4th Anniversary Symbols

• Traditional: Fruit and flowers
• Modern: Appliances
• Gem: Topaz
• Flower: Geranium
• Colors: Blue and green

While you may have nailed the gifts for your first (paper!), second (cotton!) and third (leather!) anniversaries, your fourth requires a bit more thought — especially if don't want to take the obvious route (a bouquet of flowers, a fruit basket). Whether you're shopping for gifts for men or gifts for women, you'll find plenty of traditional yet unique ideas on this list, from a fruit-scented reed diffuser to a pair of earrings made with pressed flowers.

Or, if you want to go in a modern direction, you can also choose from top-performing appliances tested by our Good Housekeeping Institute experts, as well as gifts that represent the fourth anniversary symbols (think beautiful topaz jewelry at bargain prices and thoughtful items in shades of blue and green). While you're at it, it doesn't hurt to start planning for your fifth anniversary early, either!

Make them smile with this thoughtful glass paperweight. Its cute apple tree design is a nod to the traditional 4-year anniversary gift of fruit.

Amazon reviewers rave about this dried fruit tray, which unfolds into a wooden fruit basket they can use again and again. "Such a wonderful gift idea," wrote one reviewer. "The basket is adorable and sturdy."

These ceramic fruit baskets, which are sold individually, are a lovely gift — especially when filled with fresh, plump berries from the farmers' market.

Refresh your bedroom by gifting her this fruit-scented reed diffuser set. The essential oil blend is even infused with real slices of red apple and roasted pear.

Strawberries aren't the only kind of fruit that can be covered in chocolate! This sweet gift box includes cherries, blueberries and apricots, all covered in the good stuff.

There’s a reason the beauty brand Glow Recipe has a cult following. In addition to the promise of glowing skin, fans rave that the fruit-infused products smell and feel amazing. This kit includes five travel size bottles of GR's best-selling products.

Skip the bouquet for something that will last longer! Standing at around eight inches tall, this flowering bonsai tree will bloom vibrant, pink azaleas in the late spring.

Okay, hear us out on this one: Hops, which are flowers, are part of the beer brewing process. So, if you're still searching for the perfect anniversary gift for him, look no further than a monthly delivery of craft brews — choose from three-, six- or 12-month subscription plans.

If they have a green thumb, this unique terrarium will help them propagate plants or display freshly cut blooms in style.

Impress her with this 3D card that pops open into a stunning (and everlasting) bouquet.

Pick her birth month flower or the flower of the month you were married. Either way, you can't go wrong with the 18k gold-plated necklace.

Adorn your coffee table with Taschen's ultimate Book of Plants. Each colorful page illustrates a different flower or plant.

These beautiful teardrop earrings contain real, hand-gathered flowers preserved in resin and set in sterling silver. They're a sweet way to acknowledge the symbolism of your fourth anniversary.

Not only will this set of four shower steamers turn her morning ritual into a spa-like experience, they're also scented with geranium — the symbolic flower of fourth anniversaries!

If she loves a DIY project, she can grow her own flowers with this beginner's kit. It comes with seeds, a glass vase, a soil-less growing mix and everything else she'll need to get growin'.

These floral-scented hand soaps are almost too pretty to use — almost!

We recommend buying two of these beautiful pressed-flower wine glasses — one featuring your birth month flower and one featuring your partner's. A match made in heaven!

Illustrator Tabitha Brown centers women and nature in her colorful works of art — shop her Etsy store to pick out a floral print that you think will speak to your spouse.