Anniversaries of weddings

No country in the world can boast of such a number of 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, that's why they invented their 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.

Jubilees of weddings over the years have their traditions and significance, signs and even a kind of symbolism, corresponding to the years of marriage. On this day, round the 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 a marriage, you can rightfully celebrate your 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 very strong, like a cotton cloth that easily tears. Some call this date a gauze wedding.

Anniversary wedding by year will tend to "strengthen" 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 living together was called leather.

Having lived together for four years, "young" can rightly celebrate a flax 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 the dates were no longer jubilees of weddings, but rather anniversaries, the first serious occasion could be called a wooden wedding - this is 5 years of marriage. A tree is already quite solid material, which symbolizes the strength of family relations. 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, which is celebrated in 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 pig iron, can crack and fall apart at any moment.

The next anniversary (7 years), was called a copper wedding. It should be said that wedding anniversaries will often have names associated with precious materials. It is the copper 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 was called the tin 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 relations in the 11th year of married life gave the name to this holiday - a steel wedding, followed by a nickel one - 12 years.

Lacy wedding corresponds to 13 lived together for years, during this period the relations in the family become again very thin and can be broken off at any moment.

But the next year comes a period, which is considered to be 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 relations of the spouses were given the name of the 15th anniversary - the 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 marriage, the spouses' relationship is flourishing, when the children are already adults, and the parents are still young and full of energy, this holiday was called a "turquoise wedding".

After 20 years together, the time comes again when it is necessary to take care of your relations very carefully, because they are again very fragile and can "break" at any time, so this date was called a "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, an anniversary is celebrated, the name of which is associated with one of the most valuable and durable materials. 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 following jubilees of weddings are infrequent, nevertheless, they happen, and therefore have the right to exist.

If you do not know what to give to the "newlyweds" on their anniversary, take inspiration from the name. As a rule, they give any products made of material, which is the basis of the name of this family holiday.