No country in the world can "boast"so many designated wedding anniversaries, as the post-Soviet countries. As a rule, in Europe and other countries it is customary to celebrate the anniversaries of weddings only for 25, 50 and 100 years.
Probably, the Slavic people are the most loving,therefore, he invented his designations and holidays practically for each year of marriage after the wedding. It's a wonderful occasion to remind the other half of your feelings and that fabulous day when you uttered the oath of love and loyalty to each other.
Anniversary weddings over the years have their own traditions andmeaning, signs and even a kind of symbolism, corresponding to the years of marriage. On this day, at a round table, you can again gather your parents, relatives and relatives of your people. The holiday has its own characteristics, even the gifts with which it is customary to come this day to the "newlyweds" are indicated.
Having lived the first year in marriage, you can rightfully celebratehis first anniversary - a cotton wedding. She got her name because her husband and wife had not survived so little together, and so their marriage is not yet very strong, a cotton-like material that easily tears. Some call this date a gauze wedding.
Anniversary wedding by year will tend to"Strengthening" in the name of the material with which the festival is associated. So, the second anniversary is usually called a paper wedding. The mark of three years of marriage was called leather.
After living together for four years, "young" canthe right to celebrate a linen wedding, or rope. During this period, the husband and wife have already learned enough of each other and "got used to", their way of life is compared with the fibers of flax, which are closely intertwined with each other and they are not so easy to break.
Before that, all dates were no longer jubilees of weddings, butprobably the anniversary, the first serious reason can be called a wooden wedding - this is 5 years of living together. A tree is already a fairly solid material, which symbolizes the strength of family relationships. It is believed that this anniversary must be marked necessarily, guests who come to the house to the family on this day should give wooden household items. It can be a cutting board, a stand under a hot dish, even a rolling pin as a gift will be appropriate on this day.
Next comes the cast-iron wedding, whichis celebrated at the 6th year of marriage. The thing is that pig iron is, on the contrary, quite fragile material and symbolizes the crisis that occurs in family relations at the 6th year of life. Relations, like cast iron, can crack and fall apart at any moment.
The next anniversary (7 years), received the namebrass wedding. It should be said that wedding anniversaries will often have names associated with precious materials. It is the bridal wedding that is considered the first date, which is associated not only with a strong but also valuable metal, because relations in marriage have already acquired considerable importance for the spouses.
Then follows tin and faience weddings, which correspond to 8 and 9 years of living together.
10 years in marriage celebrate the anniversary, which receivedname pewter wedding. Guests on this day should give any products made of tin. It is believed that this metal, like the relationship between spouses, is very flexible.
Strong and strong relationship in the 11th year of married life gave the name of this holiday - a steel wedding, followed by a nickel - 12 years.
A lacy wedding corresponds to 13 years lived together, during this period the relations in the family become again very thin and can be broken off at any moment.
But next year there comes a period thatis considered already lasting in the relationship. If the spouses lived together for 14 years, then they are already not afraid of anything, so the anniversary was called the agate wedding.
Reliable relationship of spouses gave the name 15anniversary - a crystal wedding. Clear and sonorous crystal has, nevertheless, high strength. It is with him and compare the relationship between husband and wife. It is customary to give to this anniversary crystal glassware: vases, glasses, etc.
For 18 years of joint life, the spouses' relationship flourishes, when children are already adults, and parents are still young and full of energy, this holiday was called "turquoise wedding".
After 20 years together,the moment when you need to be very careful about your relationship, because they are again very fragile and can "break" at any moment, so this date was called "porcelain wedding".
And again, in the designation of the anniversary of the wedding, we meet precious metal, this time we will talk about silver, noble and durable material - a silver wedding is 25 years, lived together.
A pearl wedding is celebrated after 30 years together. Coral or linen collects at the table a huge family consisting of children and grandchildren, for 35 years of living together.
After 50 years of marriage, they celebrate the anniversary,whose name is associated with one of the most valuable and durable materials. A golden wedding is considered to be the most serious and important holiday. People who lived shoulder to shoulder for so many years, truly have a strong relationship, tested by time and various life challenges.
Despite the fact that the next jubilee of weddings are infrequent, nevertheless, they happen, and therefore have the right to exist.
If you do not know what to give to "newlyweds" intheir jubilee, draw inspiration from the title. As a rule, they give any products made of a material that is the basis of the name of this family holiday.
