41 years of marriage: what is a wedding and how to celebrate it?
A year after the celebration of the ruby wedding, the couple will celebrate another anniversary - the 41st anniversary of their marriage. This is also a rather significant event, which is usually celebrated in the family circle. What is the name of the anniversary, and what is customary to give to the celebration, tell you right now.
What is the name of the anniversary?
Many spouses celebrate not only round dates, but also other significant anniversaries of family life. For example, 41 years of marriage.
Forty-one years from the date of the wedding is called an earthen wedding. This name did not appear by chance. Having lived together for more than forty years, spouses become truly loved ones. The relationship between the spouses has already become strong, solid, like the earth itself. The earth is not always even. There are plains, mountains, descents and ascents. During the years of marriage together, the spouses had many different moments.
There were happy and happy events, there were sorrows and hardships. But despite everything, they walked along this path together, adequately overcoming the ups and downs. As a result, over the years, spouses have reached a new level of relations. Now the well-established life, mutual understanding and mutual respect, strong love and happiness reign in their family.
In addition, earthen wedding is associated with stability, fertility and abundance. Having lived together for decades, the spouses have already been able to achieve all that they dreamed of. A happy couple has children, grandchildren, well-established life, and so on.
In the old days, the 41st anniversary of joint marital life was very rarely celebrated. But in our modern time such strong and long marriages are a great rarity. So why not celebrate each year in a special way.
As a rule, in honor of such an anniversary are not satisfied with magnificent celebrations. Usually, an earthen wedding is celebrated in a narrow family circle at home, in a country house or in a restaurant. But if the spouses have the desire and opportunity, then it is quite possible to call close friends, colleagues and acquaintances.
What is accepted to give?
On the 41st anniversary of living together, you can give anything. There are no specific frameworks or traditions associated with the earthen wedding. Nevertheless, the gift must be useful, touching, practical, memorable and must be liked by the spouses. Considering the fact that the 41-year anniversary of the joint marriage This is a serious date, and gifts should be meaningful. It is not recommended to give useless and cheap presents for such a holiday.
On the day of the anniversary celebration, the spouses must also exchange gifts that will always remind both of them of an earthen wedding. If both spouses are not indifferent to tea, then it is quite possible to order special holders with a memorable engraving on their anniversary. In addition, given the personal tastes and preferences, spouses can give each other something from the jewelry. For example, a graceful spouse pendant and beautiful cufflinks for her husband.
But you can also give each other gifts, given the hobbies and interests. If the spouse is interested in embroidery, quilling or sewing, then you can donate the appropriate set for such a hobby. If the husband is not indifferent to fishing, then you can give a new hook, minnow or modern fishing pole, which he had long dreamed of.
Parents
The main gifts on this day, the spouses will receive, of course, from children. For parents who become sentimental over the years and increasingly value not gifts, but the attention and love of family members, you can give an unforgettable trip.Let it be a short trip to a neighboring town or just a trip to a country boarding house, the spouses will still like it and give them a lot of new impressions. If parents love to go to the theater, then you can purchase two tickets in advance for a new production or their favorite play.
You can also order a photo session for two, or invite a professional photographer who will help to capture the brightest moments of a family celebration.
Afterwards, be sure to purchase a large album in a beautiful leather cover, attach all the photos from the celebration and present it to your parents. Thus, at any moment they will be able to refresh the memory of the vivid events of their earthly wedding.
As a useful and practical gift, children can give their parents something from the furniture. For example, it may be a new cozy sofa, a double bed or two comfortable rocking chairs. In addition, you can donate something from home appliances. Children need to know what home appliance is long overdue to replace their parents' home.
As a memorable gift you can present to parents luxury bedding, a beautiful bedspread or a warm blanket. For these items to remind them of their anniversary, choose gifts in brown tones.
To friends
It will be very pleasant to receive some memorable gift from friends to spouses as a gift for a 41-year wedding anniversary. It is possible to give something practical, which is sure to come in handy in everyday life and will help to bring an additional comfort into the home atmosphere of spouses. For example, you can give a beautiful tea set. If spouses live with their children and grandchildren in the same house, consider this. If the spouses live alone, then it is quite possible to give an original and beautiful set for two.
In addition, as a gift for the anniversary fit a coffee set complete with a special small table-tray. This will allow spouses to enjoy in the morning aromatic coffee right in bed.
Warm blankets are perfect as a gift. Choosing such a gift, stop your choice on brown shades. In addition, choose only natural fabrics that are warm, light and pleasant to the touch. Such gifts as a blanket, bathrobe, towels, must be paired.
And also friends can present a beautiful picture by spouses. But this is only if you know exactly what stories the spouses like, and whether there is free space in their house for such a gift. Otherwise, the gift will be useless.
Celebration celebration
Such an event as the 41st anniversary of living together in many European countries and in the United States is celebrated on a large scale. There are some established traditions regarding the earthly wedding, which may well be useful for spouses who have lived together for more than forty years. Traditionally, such anniversaries are celebrated in the walls of their home. Earth wedding is a great opportunity to gather all relatives in your home. But if you wish, you can rent a banquet room.
Selected to celebrate the room, as a rule, make out in a strict and restrained colors. Do not be bright and pretentious to decorate the interior on this day. It is better to give preference to brown shades. This applies to tablecloths, curtains, decoration of chairs and so on. In order that the general festive interior does not look too gloomy, you can add a few elements and details in white. For example, you can choose a tablecloth of light brown or coffee, and dishes and napkins white.
In addition, shades of brown are perfectly combined with orange and turquoise. In this case, you can decorate the chairs with special covers made of brown fabric and make bows of orange or turquoise ribbons. You can also choose dishes or cloth napkins of these colors. Such bright accents will help to bring some originality into the overall interior and help create a positive festive mood.
Decorating the table, it is possible to do and quite the opposite. That is, you can choose a bright orange or turquoise tablecloth or a classic white one, but choose brown tones. By the way, on this day, ceramic dishes with various patterns and patterns are often used. It looks quite symbolic on the festive table in honor of the celebration of an earthen wedding.
Be sure to present on the table candles as a symbol of the family hearth. Candles will help to create an atmosphere of coziness and comfort. As for dishes, there are no strict rules and no restrictions. Land gifts such as fruits and vegetables must be present at the holiday table.
If you plan to prepare for the spouses an interesting family video, which will include the most vivid photos and video moments of family life, then it is better to show such a film at the end of the evening. If, however, to show it at the beginning, then this will certainly move the spouses, and the festive evening will begin with a sad nostalgic note.
For more on the traditions of celebrating an earthly wedding, see below.