Item SKU: 26184
Anniversary
Love ever endures
I sculpted this piece using my parents as models. When I asked them to sit down and get comfortable, they just seemed to fit together so perfectly. It was such a self-directed pose, as though they've been doing it for years – and they have! They celebrated their 58th wedding anniversary this year. The carving on the back is a little added discovery …. ‘I love thee’. I like the sound of the word ‘thee’. It feels poetic and intimate to me.
Your Stories 
I have been receiving "Willow Tree" sculptures for many years now. Every time I receive one I get so excited because I know whoever is giving it to me knows what they mean to me and because I know it has been given with love.
The sculpture I received yesterday, "Anniversary," was from my husband on our anniversary of one year. He knows I treasure these sculptures and he couldn't have gotten a more meaningful gift for me. I was so glad you had made one for an anniversary. I also was so happy to know that we, as consumers, could share our stories of our gifts of treasure, that you have made possible by your creativity and talent.
Until this gift, I did not know we could share our stories. I have so many, each with a story of it's own and I will start my Collection bank and share what each of them have meant to me and by whom.
Thank you for giving us not only the sculptures but a way to give back with our stories that might enlighten or signify a story of our own for someone.
Keep sculpting and know we appreciate you so much.
Submitted by Deborah in Nevada, November 2011
I have two pieces from Willow Tree and both are from daughters-in-law. This by itself is a wonderful feeling, since they are given with love. The latest, With my Grandmother, was for my recent birthday. I would like to share the letter that came with it.
Dear Sue
The moment you told me you liked the Willow Tree, I knew what I was getting you for your birthday. But the reasons were more to do with me than you. Let me explain.
The reasons I loved Willow Tree were not for the pieces themselves but for the memories they inspire. I was given my first Willow Tree piece by Mark--the couple on a Wedding Anniversary--and I loved it, it reminded me of the safety I feel when I’m enveloped in his arms. The girl and the dad I loved when I saw it and I asked Mark for it one birthday because it symbolized for me the relationship I always wanted with my father but never had, but had watched Rebecca have with Mark. Even now whenever I see it I am flooded with many memories of the special relationship they both share. She will always be to an extent Daddy’s Girl.
The Angel dancing with the little girl, I loved and purchased myself, because often whist making tea I will have the radio on and Rebecca will come down and we will twirl around the family room, which is one of my favorite memories of both of us. The boy reading on the Angels lap just reminded me of Lucas and our shared love of Literature, and I remember how even when he was little and I read to him I could see that he too was taken away too for a night and a day to where the Wild Things are.
So the reason I love Willow Tree is because some of the pieces capture for me the moments of pure happiness in my life, so when you said you liked them I wanted to get a piece that resembled the relationship between you and the children.
Both Lucas and Rebecca adore you and Tony, and so I hope the piece for you will trigger many treasured moments of where the children spent time with you. For I do know that they absolutely treasure those times just as much, as do we.
Happy Birthday beautiful person, I hope you know always you are treasured and adored.
Love Joy
Submitted by Sue in Queensland, October 2011
My husband and I came together under very unique circumstances, and got married two years ago today. I first saw your figurines in a local pharmacy, and I loved them. My husband snuck me away for our anniversary this year and surprised me with a secluded cabin in the woods, dinner for two at a locally owned restaurant and this figure with the sweetest card. The figure was perfect! I will always remember our getaway when I look at it. I hope to add to my collection over the years!
Submitted by Andrea in WA, September 2011
This is the second piece of Willow Tree that I have brought for a very special friend who has always been there for me and and my family, in good and bad times. Ann and her husband Allen are celebrating their 25th Wedding Anniversary and this piece says it all. HAPPY ANNIVERSARY ANN AND ALLEN.
Jayne
Submitted by Jayne in England, August 2011
This piece started my willow tree collection, it was given to me by my husband. He gave it to me as a wedding anniversary gift on our sixth anniversary. This piece was especially precious as until my sixth year of marriage we had never celebrated an anniversary or bought each other gifts. My husband didn't believe in it, he said that it was only the big milestones that counted. So this piece has changed how my husband sees celebrating marriage. I own several pieces now, most of which my husband has bought for me over the years. It's my ninth anniversary this year and my husband has very fittingly chosen the anniversary figure as my gift as nine years of marriage is our Willow Tree anniversary.
Submitted by Rachel in Durham, July 2011
In July 2010, Jeffrey and I were married. We were 61 years old. We had met in March 2009 after each being single for 20 years. Friends and family had been praying for each of us to meet the person God had meant for each other. We knew this was the marriage that would last forever. It was, and is, our "Promise" to each other, our true commitment to the love we share. We chose this lovely piece (the larger one) as the top of our wedding cake which shimmered like sparkling sand and had real sea shells. It was as if we were dancing on the beach alone. We're about to celebrate our 1st anniversary, and I'm surprising him with the "Anniversary" piece to add to our collection we've come to treasure. I've been the blessed recipient of many pieces from friends, and have given them to friends and family. What a lovely collection and legacy you've given us. Thank you!
Submitted by Alta in CA, July 2011
It was my husband and my 10 year anniversary. I was at work when I saw the Anniversary Willow Tree and said to a co-worker, "I wish my husband would buy this for me." He had come into the store when I wasn't working, and my co-worker told him I wanted this for our anniversary. He bought it for me. This is my first Willow Tee but I do want to start a collection after falling in love with this one.
Submitted by Amanda in North Carolina, May 2011
My husband suffered a stroke and was unable to walk; we were not sure he would live. I noticed this Willow Tree in the gift shop at the hospital. I gave it to him to let him know I would always be there for him. This symbolized I would always be by his side. Two years later this past February he passed away at 38 years old. I have that Willow Tree on my shelf in my living room reminding me I will be with him in Heaven, and we will sit together again.
Submitted by Tonica in missouri, April 2011
I have been collecting the Willow Tree figurines and memory boxes. I now have Anniversy, Together, Father and Daughter, Father and Son, Sister and Brother, and Brother and Sister. I have been collecting them since I lost my husband very suddenly last year. It is a way to keep him in my thoughts. My daughter has Father and Daughter also. She says it reminds her of her father.
Submitted by Mrs Lorna in england united kingdom, March 2011
Some years ago my husband and I were on holiday. I saw the figurine with two people and I bought it for our wedding day.
After a while I found a store in my own town which have these nice things, and I bought myself the Angel of Freedom.
Perhaps a year later I was visiting my half sister, who I met when we both had grown up. I got a present from her. The present was the Angel of Love. We had not met for several years, and the gift filled my heart. Later I bought a present for a friend who had a baby. I had to buy two babies in one box, and I only gave one baby to my friend and keep the other for myself.
My husband and I have been married for a long time and I wish us to be old together, so I bought the old man and wife.
Today I got a gift from my daughter, a birthday present, the Angel of Caring. She said that I should read the text in the paper because that was me. I was so happy. Then she asked if she could ask me a question about the baby piece, and I said of course. Is the baby my little sister who was dead when she was born, she asked. I had never thought in this way, but it got me to thinking.
When I look at all my pieces I feel very calm, and they give me so much good energy.
With love
Mona-Lisa
Submitted by Mona-Lisa in Sweden, January 2011
I was sent the figure (Anniversary) by my grandson and my darling wife to celebrate our 60th wedding Anniverary here in England, and we just love it .
Ron
Submitted by Ronald in united kingdom, January 2011
I bought the following pieces: Anniversary, Brother and Sister, Heart of Gold, Je t'aime, and Together this year for Christmas for my family. I did not do it to celebrate a significant event of any sort.
I was in the Hallmark store and loved the brown tone of the figures -my mother is Dutch - blond hair and blue eyes, my father is African-American and Native American, and my biological sister and I are mixed. We have adopted two other kids who have become our family, and my biological sister now has a child. These pieces showed our family, various ages and colors, even ethnicities, and those pieces captured us where we are now. Who knows if my sister will have more kids or I'll have a family of my own, but these figures capture us where we are now and hold us in this moment in time, celebrating our growth thus far and looking forward to the future growth and love to be brought into our lives. Thank you for brown tones and various figures to choose from that reflect our lives.
Submitted by Liz in MD, December 2010
I was looking for anniversary gift ideas for my parents, who will be celebrating their 54th anniversary this December. When I found this sculpture, I knew it was perfect. Seeing it reminds me so much of my parents and their continued devotion to each other. It is a very touching figurine and brought tears to my eyes when I saw it!
Submitted by donna in ca, November 2010
My mother-in-law bought this piece for my husband and me for our 1st wedding anniversary. We were together for seven years when we conceived our daughter. We married when I was 30 weeks pregnant. This is the perfect gift for our 1st anniversary, as we are now a very very happy little family.
I had never seen Willow Tree products before, but I love this piece and am sure now tht I have been introduced I will be starting a collection.
Submitted by stephanie in england, November 2010
I bought this figure on what would have been my 36th wedding anniversary. I saw it online on that day and it touched my heart. My husband passed away suddenly in May 2010; on that day we had been married for 35 years 6 months and 22 days.
Thank you Susan for this beautiful sculpture. I will treasure it as I treasure his memory, every moment of every day!
Submitted by Sandra in TN, November 2010
This figurine reminds me so much of my husband and I. My husband died July of '09, at the age of 59 from lung cancer and I am going to purchase this as a reminder of our 32 years together. Your figurines are so lovely and inspiring and comforting.
Submitted by Sharon in Kansas, July 2010
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