Family life is not only a gorgeous wedding with fun until the morning and expensive gifts. Living together for a long time and being able to maintain harmony in a relationship are the main criteria for a strong and happy marriage. It is customary to celebrate a wedding anniversary every year, but only every fifth is considered an anniversary (5, 10, 15 years and more). Each anniversary has its own name and preferences: what to give the spouses on this day.
5 years of marriage - wooden wedding
The strength of the relationship between spouses is like a tree: the family "put down roots" and blossomed with all colors. Or maybe it has already borne fruit in the form of children.
This is no longer easily torn chintz (1 year together) or paper (2 years of marriage). The tree also symbolizes wisdom. The couple threw off their rose-colored glasses, looked at each other and wisely decided to focus only on the merits of their partner.
Gifts: wooden boxes, photo frames, books and various household items.
10 years - pink (or pewter wedding)
This period is called the second honeymoon, because, having overcome all the crises, the family has reached a new level. The tenderness is still going through the roof. The spouses already know all the sore spots of the partner and try not to step on them.
It is customary for the husband to give his wife a luxurious bouquet of 10 red roses (as a sign of enduring passion) and 1 white one, symbolizing a further bright future, for a decade of marriage. Guests give gifts with a hint of the strength of the marriage: wine of good strength and aging, figurines or pewter cutlery, dishes, etc. A composition of red and pink balloons / flowers will also be a great gift.
10 years of the wedding is celebrated with a wide range of guests. It is advisable to invite everyone who participated in the wedding ceremony.
15 years - crystal (glass) wedding
The name implies a hint of transparency in the relationship. Each spouse is like clean glass to the other - visible through and through. The remains of love are somewhat fragile, like crystal, and most often give way to respect.
For the fifteenth birthday, it is customary to give glassware and crystal products: vases, glasses, figurines, etc. The custom requires, as on the day of the wedding, to break a glass or a glass at a festive feast - for the further happiness of the spouses.
20 years - porcelain wedding
It is understood that the dishes, over the years of happiness and grief, were mixed up in quarrels. And at the same time, porcelain is a symbol of grace and lightness with which the couple managed to live up to the twentieth anniversary.
Guests should present the heroes of the day with tableware and porcelain figurines, and the hosts should use an elegant porcelain service as a table setting.
25th Anniversary - Silver Wedding
Silver is a symbol of nobility, brilliance and purification (it's not for nothing that water is purified with its help). Like water purified with silver for the twenty-fifth anniversary of a wedding, spouses must forgive each other for all offenses and be cleansed so that the marriage shines with new splendor. Traditionally, the husband and wife exchange silver rings on this day and wear them later on the middle finger of their left hand (next to the wedding ring).
Gifts: any products with elements of silver: coins, vases, jewelry, etc. You can give a set of 25 silver spoons, for example.
30 years - pearl wedding
Like the formation of a pearl in a shell, the family developed in its cozy microcosm and polished the skills of interacting with each other. And here is the result - thirty years together, no matter what.
A good luck sign is a gift from a husband in the form of a string of pearls or pearl earrings. Guests can give gifts of pearl colors and everything that somehow relates to pearls or symbolizes it.
35 years old - coral wedding
A marriage is like a coral reef - solid, assembled from a string of amazing days together. For 35 years, they give everything that can remind of the sea: paintings, souvenirs, etc. You can give an anchor as a symbol of the fact that the ship-husband has found his harbor-wife and firmly settled in this bay. The color of the gift should match the name - coral.
40th Anniversary - Ruby Wedding
Ruby is considered a "bloody" stone for its deep red color. So the relationship of the spouses became similar to the relationship of blood relatives - close and strong.
Few are ready to spend money on gifts with a natural ruby, therefore, most often, any items of bright red color are presented for the fortieth anniversary of a wedding.
45th Anniversary - Sapphire Wedding
Sapphire is an expensive pleasure, a stone worthy of admiration. Likewise, the spouses' efforts to preserve family happiness are precious and respectful. The color of the anniversary is the color of the sapphire and the deep sea. Gifts should be consistent with this theme.
50 years - golden wedding
Gold symbolizes nobility and strength. For so many years of marriage, the spouses have already become one, like an ingot of gold. Gifts: gold products, gilded household items, etc.
55 years - emerald wedding
Emerald is a symbol of eternity, and its deep green color is life itself. Gifts should be philosophical: live as long as possible. These can be restored photographs or heirlooms. Breathing new life into antiques, you will hint to the heroes of the day that they are still young at heart. Due to the old age of the spouses, it is better to celebrate the anniversary at home with the family.
60 years - diamond wedding
Living together for 60 years is a record. Therefore, the symbol of the anniversary is an amazing and rare stone. The main gift will be love, care and attention of children and grandchildren.
Subsequent anniversaries: 65 years (iron wedding), 70 years (grace wedding), 75 years (crown wedding) and 80 years (oak wedding) are rarely celebrated, since the age of the spouses is no longer the one to actively celebrate any holidays. A single case of a century of living together was shown by the Agayevs from Kazakhstan.
In any case, children and grandchildren should remember and honor family traditions, presenting wedding anniversary celebrants with their reverent and respectful attitude to the value that they have managed to preserve - the family.
