If you are travelling to one of Europe’s popular destinations, ActivityBreaks is where you’ll find fantastic short breaks and exciting experiences to enjoy when you get there.

Whether you want to hit the ski slopes in Italy, take in a concert in Barcelona or enjoy the European Christmas markets, you’ll find the best prices and packages on their comprehensive, easy-to-use site.

They provide exciting short breaks and holidays with lots of activities, events and great things to do included in their prices. Everything from Ski Breaks to Spa Breaks to Activity Holidays in Europe with flexible dates and their unique low cost flight matching software.

Visit Activity Breaks website ‘here’.

This is just some of the breaks they offer:

• Theatre and Ticket Breaks
• Watersport Holidays
• Spa Holidays
• Walking and Climbing breaks
• Cycling Holidays
• Cottage Breaks
• Adventure Breaks
• Etc, etc.

Golden Tours are another company that offer a very wide range of weekend breaks and short holidays. They offer tours of all the main tourist attractions around the UK and short breaks to Paris via the Eurostar.

Some of their tours are:

The Total London Experience:

A wide-ranging and good value-for-money London tour including the very best of London’s attractions in one day: you will see the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace, entry to the famous Tower of London and St Paul’s, experience a London Eye flight and much more in this London day tour.

Fully Escorted Day Trip, Simply Paris

Have the historic beauty of Paris unravel before you on a unforgettable day trip. Explore the world famous Louvre Museum, and visit the fabulous Eiffel Tower, for an exquisite Paris tour to remember. 

Plus manny, many more short breaks of which there will be one that will suit you. visit Golden Tours ‘here’.

A lovely surprise gift for your Wedding Anniversary could be a short weekend break or overnight stay somewhere different for you and your partner and can be an equally enjoyable gift for both of you. At Bargain Breaks who are an affiliate of Superbreaks you will find breaks to suit all tastes from theatre and hotel breaks, golf breaks, spa breaks, theme park and attraction breaks, mini cruises, rail breaks, orient express, the options are endless. You dont have to stay in the UK for your Wedding Anniversary short break, they have breaks all over Europe including France, Spain and the Netherlands.

With over 7000 UK & European hotels to choose from would make a different Wedding Anniversary gift and finding a hotel could not be easier at Bargain Breaks. There is a wide selection of London hotels to choose from of all star ratings. If your looking for a hotel stay in England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland you will find a hotel that meets your budget. If you want an over night stay at an Airport hotel they have over 30 Airport locations to choose from.They offer a wide range of Overseas hotel accommodation from around the world. Select your destination and review their great offers.

Another unusual idea for a Wedding Anniversary gift would be  to book  tickets to that theatre show you have been meaning to go to or a themed event, favorite Sports venue, Music or Culture concerts and there are events all around the country. Bargain Breaks offers events in the big cities packaged with hotel breaks to offer you a fantastic treat for you and your partner.

Travelling to and from events takes time and can be expensive. So an overnight stay at a hotel near the event you are going to not only makes sense but turns your concert or event visit into a short break for your Wedding anniversary . At Bargain Breaks you will find some very good deals for events and hotel bookings for that special Wedding Anniversary gift.

Book a day out with Bargain Breaks to visit the Royal Mews, and State Rooms at Buckingham Palace or the Cabinet War Rooms and Churchill Museum. Other culture events you may want to visit are Clarence House, Covent Garden Flower Market or even book an Orient Express lunch experience. Just a visit to the theatre is a lovely surprise for a Wedding Anniversary gift.

Is Mum & Dads special Wedding Anniversary coming up soon. Or a close family member or friends Anniversary around the corner and would you like to buy them a special gift? But don’t know what special gift to buy them?

 There are many websites that offer to produce books from your digital photos. Even some high street stores now offer the same service like Asdo, Tescos, etc but one I have used a number of times is PhotoBox.

The book shown below was given as a 40th Wedding Anniversary gift from a daughter to her Mum & Dad. The book underneath the Wedding book is a book produced from digital holiday photos.

These books make unique gifts as Wedding Anniversary gifts or Birthday presents.  There are 500 photos in this Wedding Anniversary book, the latest photos are digital, older photos are from slides, some from negatives and some scanned from old prints.

To produce these albums all the photos must be digital then either up loaded to a website or taken to a store on a CD, DVD or memory stick. Then the book or books are printed for you in a matter of days. The cost to produce these Album books varies from £25 to £75.

The Wedding Anniversary Album book above took the daughter many hours to get ready. It involved collating all the photos into a storyline, scanning the old slides, negatives and prints into a computer to digitise them ready to up load to a website or download to CD or DVD.

If you would like to have an Album produced but do not have either the time or equipment to do it yourself then we can provide this service.

Just contact us by email info@wedding-anniversay-gifts.co.uk and we will reply by telephone or email to discuss your requirements, how to get your photos to us and how much it will cost you.

Do you struggle with choosing a gift for your Mum & Dad or other close relatives or friends when the anniversaries come around? Or are you looking for a different gift for your relatives or friends that are getting married shortly?

Probably there are a lot of photos around, taken by friends and family and either hidden away as prints or stored on computers as digital photos. A unique gift would be to collect a number of those photos together and arrange them as a video montage and give them as a DVD gift as an anniversary gift or Wedding present.

Maybe you have lots of photos of holidays taken with family and friends that are just stored on your computer. When the next family or friends birthday draws near consider a DVD montage of all those photos as a birthday gift.

How about putting all your own photos onto DVD as a slide show set to your favorite music? We have the time and the software to turn all your photos or family and friend photos into great DVD montages.

Most couples, marries or not, celebrate their ‘Anniversary’ and there are invariably photos and video of their times together. Digital photos and prints along with video can be put together as a great DVD Anniversary gift.

To produce a personalised DVD from photos and video needs editing software and equipment to transfer photos and different video formats to a computer. The equipment and the time it takes to edit photos and video to DVD is not something that most people want to get involved with.

We realise this and offer a service to transfer your digital photos, prints, slides, negative and different video formats to DVD. We have the equipment to transfer different media to digital format and editing software to add a professional finish to your DVD including titles and music tracks.

A personalized DVD makes great wedding anniversary gifts for:

• 1st wedding anniversary gifts, 10 year anniversary gifts, 25th wedding anniversary gifts
• 30th wedding anniversary gifts, 40th wedding anniversary gifts, 50th wedding anniversary gifts
• 60th wedding anniversary, Pearl wedding anniversary gifts, Silver wedding anniversary gifts
• Golden wedding anniversary gifts, Ruby wedding anniversary gifts, Any wedding anniversary.

Personalised DVDs also make great gifts as wedding presents, birthday gifts and christmas gifts. Here is a sample of a Birthday Personalised DVD:

Even when a family member has to go into a nursing home or residential care they still have birthdays and anniversaries. At these times it is even more important to them to be reminded of those happy days and a personalised DVD with their favorite music added will bring back happy memories to them when they are on their own.

For enquires about our Wedding Anniversary DVD service please email us info@wedding-anniversary-gifts.co.uk or telephone Alan on 01438 354586 or mobile 07771 625868.

A unique and different Wedding anniversary gift to give either to a man or woman is an Edible Bouquet of fresh fruit arranged like flowers, with or without chocolate. There are only a few of these companies scattered around the UK. And by the nature of the product it can only be delivered in a relatively local area.

The longest running company offering this service, in the UK, is Edible Bouquets Ltd who are based in Stevenage and cover the Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and North London areas. It was set up by Mum and daughter Dulcie & Tara in mid 2007. They have a large range of fresh fruit bouquets ranging in price from £25 to £72. Also they offer a selection of boxed fresh fruit gifts, with or without chocolate.

These make a refreshing change as gifts for any anniversary, birthday, valentines day, mother or fathers day, get well, thank you or any occasion you can think of. Their fruit is fresh daily and all bouquets are made to order on the day. They have built up a regular client base that often order many times a year with each delivery to a  very surprised and grateful recipent that they too often order a bouquet for a friend or relative soon after receiving one themselves.

Their product range has now expanded to cater for Weddings and Corporate events. Their bouquets have been ordered as centrepieces and table decorations at both Weddings and Corporate events. As this area has grown Edible Bouquets has developed a number of products especially for Weddings.

Their Strawberry Tower is unique to Edible Bouquets and can be as tall as seven tiers. The strawberries are coated with Belgium chocolate and can be customised to the customers requirements. The chocolate can be milk, white, plain or a mixture of all three, and coated in coconut, chocolate chips  and nuts.

There is a second tower called the Strawberry Mini Temptations Tower  which is alternate tiers of strawberries covered in chocolate with their mini temptations which are skewered strawberries and marshmellows drizzed with chocolate. There is now a third Strawberry Tower which is filled with ‘Bride & Groom’ strawberries.

There are also a number of boxed presentation gifts which include strawberries or apple as well as mini tempations covered in Belgium chocolate in gift boxes of 12 or 24 pieces. There are also mini boxed Bride & Groom chocolate covered strawberries and Mini Temptations that are ideal as favours at Weddings.

With the growing demand for healthy eating Edible Bouquets has also added a number of fresh fruit platters to their product range which are often ordered for parties, Weddings, Corporate events and a few specials for Christmas.

You can call Edible Bouquets directly on 07786 005 481 or visit www.ediblebouquets.co.uk

How about customised figurines? There are a number of Asian based companies offering to produce miniture figurines of individuals or couples for around $90 (£60 - single) or $160 (£100 – couple).

You just have to send photos of the individual or couple and chose a theme or style of dress. You can even request accessories like  Bike, Pets, Guitar , Motorcycle, etc. The average height of these figurines is 16 -18cm on a square base of 10 -12cm.

These figurines take about 8 -10 days to complete and they are shipped free of charge. Not only do they make great wedding anniversary gifts but would also make great wedding cake toppers. Check out WowMinime website.

If you are looking for a wedding anniversary gift that is something different but personalised to the recipent then how about a miniture drink with their names and wedding details imprinted on the gift?

There is a company called Just Miniature  that supply a large range of acoholic drinks in a variety of different presentation packs. They can supply almost any spirit you like including: whiskies, brandies, liqueurs, rum, vodka, gin, red, white and rose wines, etc.

You supply the details like the names of the anniversary couple, the date they married, the drink you want and although there is a minimum order of 12 bottles they can be delivered directly to the wedding anniversary couple.

If you are really struggling to come up with an unusual gift for someones Wedding Anniversary then how about buying them an eBook online.

There are not many people that have not read a book or two in their spare time or leisure time. We have all probably bought a book for a friend or relative as a gift at sometime or another.

Amazon has recently stated that eBooks have over taken the sales of tradional book for the first time. You can read an eBook on a number of devices like a PC, Mac, laptop, Smart phone, iPhone, iPad, Sony, Samsung, Elonex ereaders and Kindle. Kindle is Amazons product and has been around for a number of years now.

 In August 2010 Amazon launched their newest and third version of the Kindle  which comes with Wi-Fi or a 3G with Wi-fi version. It is so smart and modern looking it will be the ereader of choice for the majority of buyers. It is as thin as a pencil, light and will fit in the palm of your hand, although not quite pocket size. The memory of 4gb will hold 3,500 books and the battery will last a whole month if the Wi-fi is turned off. Great for when you go on holiday.

If you are looking for a Wedding Anniversary gift for someone who likes reading then consider buying them a Kindle. There are two prices for the Wi-Fi Kindle – £111.00 and £152.00 for the 3G Wi-Fi Kindle.

The difference is that the Wi-Fi Kindle can be loaded with eBooks by your home wireless router or via a USB connection to your PC or laptop. You can also connect via a Wi-Fi hotspot.

 The 3G Wi-fi Kindle does the same but will also connect to Amazon over a 3G network the same as your mobile phone. Which means that when you are away from home, possibly on holiday or business, you can still download eBooks to your Kindle in a matter of seconds.

 The army of Kindle owners is growing as owners  spread the word about how good the latest Kindle is. Your friend or relative may already own a Kindle so why not buy an Amazon gift voucher as a Wedding Anniversary gift for them and let them choose an eBook from Amazons vast selection of eBooks. You can buy Amazon gift vouchers online and either email your gift, post the gift or deliver it personally after downloading it and printing it at home.

I personally have bought a number of ebooks over the last few years. It is perfectly safe if you buy through one of the main suppliers of eBooks.  How many people do you know have received an ebook as a Wedding Anniversary gift. With products like the iPad and Kindle tablet flooding the markets more and more people will want their reading material in electronic form.

You can even add that this is the environmently friendly way to give a book as a gift.  It may seem an unusual way to browse and buy books but once you buy you will be hooked. You will find you will want a Kindle for yourself, so put it on your Wedding Anniversary gift list or Birthday or Christmas gift lists. Checkout Amazon Kindle store

How many times a year do you have to buy a Birthday present or Wedding Anniversary gift? Or do you leave it to your partner to do all the gift buying? Even if you leave it all to your partner there must be a few occasions when you have to buy a gift or present for them, either on their birthday or at Christmas.

Do you tramp round the high street stores looking for an idea of what to buy or do you know what to buy and look for the stores that sell the gift you want to buy? There are two groups of gift buyers, those who love looking for gifts and presents to buy and those who find it a chore and struggle to find a suitable gift.

There are many occasions throughout the year when gifts or presents are given. The annual gift giving events are birthdays, anniversaries, Valentines day, Mothers day, Fathers day, and Christmas. On top of these there are the special events like births, special birthdays like 18th, 21st, 30th, 40th, 50th, 60th, 70th, 80th,90th,100th.

Next are Wedding gifts, which start with engagement presents then the actual Wedding gifts followed by each anniversary celebration. With Wedding anniversaries we have the milestones starting with the 1st which is Paper, 2nd is Cotton, 3rd is Leather, 4th is Books, 5th is Wood, 6th is Iron, 7th is Wool, 8th is Bronze, 9th is Pottery, 10th is Tin, 11th is Steel, 12th is Silk, 13th is Lace, 14th is Ivory, 15th is Crystal, 20th is China, 25th is Silver, 30th is Pearl, 35th is Coral, 40th is Ruby, 45th is Sapphire, 50th is Golden, 55th is Emerald, 60th is Diamond.

Other events that require a gift or present are the birth of a baby and next is the Christening, followed by graduation gifts, housewarming presents, get well gifts and not forgetting the sorry gift. Some in between gifts are new school, passing exams, passing driving test, leaving work, thank you, in hospital, moving away in fact the card and gift companies will invent occasions to give cards and gifts.

For those of us that struggle to either think of a different gift or don’t like trailing around the high street stores we now have the Internet to give us the ideas and they can even get the gift or present delivered to the door for us. If you love gift giving please read the next part but if you loath gift giving you may want to stop reading now.

Scenario: If you and your partner both live to 80 and got married when you were 25 and had two children by your 30th and had 10 close relatives that you always buy gifts for them you might be pleasantly surprised to know that over your lifetime you will probably give or be given:

80 birthdays each = 160 gifts, 55 Wedding Anniversaries each = 110 gifts, 55 Mothers days = 55 gifts, 55 Fathers days = 55 gifts, 60 Valentines days each = 120 presents, 80 Christmas days each = 160 gifts, Add a selection of Weddings, get wells, sorry gifts and modestly add 10 presents each year for 55 years = 550 presents. This list of presents adds up to 1,210 based on only one present per occasion per couple.

Now add into this the present you will give and receive from friends and relatives over your lifetime which could easily be the same as the total amount of gifts you have given or received 1,210 gifts x 10 relatives = 12,100 friends and relative gifts + 1,210 your gifts = 13310 gifts or presents you buy and receive. That is also probably 13,310 greeting cards you will buy and 13310 gift raps too. That means every couple will buy 166 presents on average every year.

If you take the UK has a population of 60 million and assume only 20 million are gift giving couples. Then the amount of present giving and receiving each year by couples is 166 gifts x 10 million couples = 1,660,000,000 gifts. Which are 4,547,945 gifts bought per day.

If the other 40 million UK residents only give gifts on birthdays then that equates to 123,288 presents bought everyday. In the US you can times these figures by 5 times.

On the other hand you may be horrified, unless you are a gift, card or rapping supplier.