Names of wedding anniversaries by year and traditions of their celebration

Every wedding is the birthday of a new family. They always want a newborn married couple to live in love and harmony for many, many years. Since each person has a birthday once a year, the family couple also has a family birthday every year.

Each wedding anniversary has its own name. Usually we remember only the anniversary dates and their names - silver, gold, but each term together - a year, has its own special meaning, which is why they are called so.

The wedding itself is a green wedding, its name symbolizes the day when everything is young and green - both the new family and the newly-born spouses when everything is just beginning. It is like the flourishing of a new life, the first green leaf in spring. Therefore, everyone congratulates the young on the birth of a new family and gives the newlyweds gifts and money for the development and growth of their new-born cell of society. Sometimes they even celebrate the birth of a family every month, just like every month a baby is born.

1 year - print wedding. In ancient times, chintz was very much appreciated, as it was thin and light material, but at the same time inexpensive and everyday, so the first year was called calico - the relationship had already begun to acquire its everyday coloring, but still remain quivering and airy, but still the same fragile, like weightless stuff. There is another name - gauze wedding, but it also indicates the fragility of family ties, their untested time. On this holiday, a bottle of sparkling wine is stored from the day of the wedding, and the young couple give each other calico scarves.

In the first year after the wedding, it is customary to present something of cloth: napkins, curtains, various towels, clothes, bed linen. Parents of young give romper and diaper in the hope of future heirs of the family.

2 years in our table - paper wedding. It received its name because usually by this time a child appeared in the family, and therefore the first serious difficulties. And the relations of the spouses who were experiencing the first crisis moments were like paper — they could break, were not yet strong and vulnerable.

On this day, a husband and wife exchange love messages, writing letters for each other with an honest story about all the attractive and all the unpleasant qualities of their characters, which can help to start a family life as if from a new clean slate.

As a gift, guests can choose books, paper things, pieces of furniture, and banknotes.

3 years in the wedding list - the wedding is leather. It can be noted that the family as a single organism by this time overgrown with skin, the relations of the spouses are strong enough, unbreakable, difficult to break, they are like durable material, which is the skin. Yes, and mutual understanding causes the feeling as if the couple feels partner skin.

For three years, it is customary to donate leather goods - a purse, bag, shoes.

4th anniversary is a linen wedding. Also its name is rope or wax.By this time, the couple managed to splash like ropes or flax fibers, so this relationship is difficult to break. Also, a certain wealth appears in the family - a linen tablecloth creeps on the table, and bed linen for the bed, which by this time needs to be updated, is also changed from calico to linen. The wax wedding is called because the spouses become more susceptible to each other, like wax.

A husband and wife choose linen clothes as a gift to each other, while guests usually present linen linen, as well as cloth items, kitchen towels or candles.

5 years - anniversary of living together, celebrated for the first time - a wooden wedding. They call this date because of the fact that the family has already become like a tree, firmly holding its strong roots to the ground and has already acquired foliage - kids. Also, wood is a durable material, from which, in the old days, houses and various buildings were most often built, so by this time the family is considered as strong and strong and is afraid only of very difficult trials, as the tree is afraid of only strong fire.

There are wedding dates that should be celebrated as magnificently and cheerfully as the wedding itself. The first anniversary date of just such days. In addition to gifts from wood, furniture, wooden decorations, you can give a lawful spouse a garden with trees that the guests planted, or to decorate existing trees with ribbons with good wishes.

6 years - cast iron wedding. This is the first metal wedding symbolizes a strong and friendly family. But just as cast iron is considered the most fragile of all metals, the sixth year of family relations is still subject to destruction from the blows of fate.

The main gift for this anniversary is cast iron utensils. You can present the pan, cauldron or utyatnitsa.

There is a special date in the list of wedding anniversaries - this is 6 and a half years, a zinc wedding. It is believed that at this time in the family can start a crisis in the relationship. And although in ancient times they did not know such a psychological concept, they tried to remind the husband and wife of the value of family ties by celebrating such an interesting date, as if they would gloss and gloss on family relationships as if they were made of zinc.

On this holiday, of course, they presented either kitchen items made from zinc, or zinc figures, knickknacks.

7 years - copper wedding. Copper is not only solid, but also valuable metal. Therefore, it symbolizes not only the strength of family ties, but also indicates a certain wealth, the value of the family cell as a single organism held together by common years lived.

Marriage partners give each other copper coins, wishing for a long and happy life together. Guests can choose as a gift any copper items - dishes, such as a Turk for brewing coffee, or elegant figurines, various objects, symbols, such as a copper horseshoe for good luck.

8 years - tin wedding. By analogy with tin as a special type of metal, the new tin sheet sparkles in the sun, but over the years it loses its luster and tarnishes. But as soon as it is renewed, wiped, it will again shine with its special metallic luster. Similarly, relations in this period have already become somewhat dull, have become mundane, but once you paint them with joy, gifts and attention, they will play again with all their brilliant faces.

On this anniversary, items, products packed in tin boxes are presented.Kitchen tools or something shiny will also be a good gift.

9 years old - faience anniversary. There are two interpretations of this name. This is either a hint of another crisis period in the relationship in the form of a fragile earthenware, or a hint of wealth in a strong family - strong tea spilled into a beautiful faience.

10 years - this anniversary of living together, is called a tin or pink wedding. This is the first serious anniversary. Tin is a strong metal, but it is malleable and flexible. So, in the family they no longer find out the relationship, but adapt to each other. Relationships have become quivering and beautiful, like a rose flower.

Therefore, the husband presents his wife a bouquet of 10 red roses (for each year they live together) and 1 white rose as a hint of future happiness. Guests can choose either objects made of tin, such as spoons, candlesticks, jewelry boxes, or something with a picture of roses or pink.

After 11 years from the date of marriage, celebrate steel wedding. Marriage became like hardened steel, smooth and shiny like a mirror, and the couple became like a mutual mirror reflection. Traditionally give steel decorations for the house or objects of steel color.

12 years - nickel wedding. Usually it is celebrated after 12.5 years of marriage together - as a half of a quarter of a century, but two solemn events can be held throughout the year. It is called so because family life has become hardened and resistant to any external influences, like reliable and shiny nickel metal.

The following anniversaries are called so.

• 13 years old - lace wedding. Another name is lily of the valley.
• 14 years old - agate wedding.
• 15 years - crystal wedding. Glass is a fragile, but clean and ringing material. Also, marital relations are already strong, clean, but can be smashed to smithereens. Crystal or glass objects are presented for this anniversary.
• 16 years - topaz, 17 - pink, 18 years old - turquoise, 19 years old - garnet wedding.
• 20 years - porcelain wedding. Relationships in the family have become as invaluable as expensive Chinese porcelain. And since by this time, the old porcelain services had lost some of their attractiveness and had thinned down quantitatively, they are usually presented with new ones by this date. Also at the celebration can be presented porcelain figurines, boxes or an elegant tea pair as a symbol of love, loyalty and prosperity.

21 years - opal wedding, 22 - bronze, 23 - beryl, 24 - satin. These dates are not so solemn, so they are celebrated at will.

25 years - silver wedding, she begins a series of significant anniversaries. Silver is not just a natural fossil, but an expensive, noble, strong metal, which is why it is a symbol of the union that lasted a quarter of a century.

On this significant date, the spouses present each other silver rings. They can be worn as a symbol of love, carried through the years, as a pledge of subsequent long family happiness.

Relatives and friends are presented with silver, whether it be items for serving or souvenirs and various trinkets.

26 years old - jade, 27 - mahogany wedding, 28 - nickel, 29 - velvet cook.

30 years - pearl wedding. Like a pearl that grows and develops in its shell, the family union over time becomes more beautiful, strong and expensive. On this anniversary, loving spouses try to please each other with objects from pearls - decorations. A husband can give his wife a pearl necklace and in return receive cufflinks with pearls.

31 - dark (sunny), 32 - copper, 33 - stone or strawberry, 34 - amber wedding.

35 - linen (coral), 36 - bone china wedding (they are not celebrated with the Russian people). 37 years old - muslin, 38 - mercury, 39 - crepe anniversary.

40 years is a ruby ​​anniversary. An important and touching day. For jewels, a ruby ​​is found after a diamond. The relationship the spouses have kept in marriage is similar to this jewel.

A married couple acquires new wedding rings, already with ruby ​​inserts.

Guests are presented with ornaments and exquisite items of red-ruby color, as well as expensive equipment, furniture for the house. In the decoration of the place for this celebration is obligatory red color in textiles, tablecloths and bouquets of flowers.

Wedding anniversaries 41, 42 and 43 do not celebrate, but each has a special name. 41 years old - earth or iron wedding, 42 years old - mother-of-pearl, 43 - flannel.

44 - topaz wedding. This jewel is distinguished by its transparency, purity and durability. The same words can be used to describe a marriage that has reached that age. In honor of this holiday, you can exchange decorations with topaz inserts, or you can give memorable figurines of blue or pink color from transparent glass.

Invited guests can also adopt the color of topaz and its transparency for choosing a gift and use these qualities in choosing dishes, souvenirs, glasses and flowerpots for flowers.

45 years - another anniversary, sapphire wedding. According to beliefs, sapphire is a stone that protects from evil, clean and gives health. These charms are very necessary for spouses who have already reached old age. And again, this is a valuable gem that symbolizes the value of such a long relationship.

In the wedding rings of the spouses you can add a scattering of sapphires. The celebration is arranged in sapphire color - in blue tones. Gifts can also be picked up in blue with transparent blue hues.

46 years old - lavender wedding, 47 - cashmere, 48 - amethyst, 49 - cedar wedding.

50 years is a golden wedding. Named in honor of the most noble, but difficult to extract metal. And in order to achieve a half-century anniversary, we have to work hard to build harmonious relations, to preserve and strengthen the family boat.

If earlier the family couple did not exchange new rings, then it's time to do it, and adult children or grandchildren can give them. The couple can give each other gold jewelry or rings.

By tradition, “newlyweds” are showered with rain of gold - a mixture of rice, grains and coins. This is a wish for health, longevity and happiness for the next 50 years. The honorable spouses dance the “wedding” dance in the circle of relatives and friends who hold burning candles with golden lights.

Just like at the wedding, the golden "newlywed" throws a bouquet, only all the present women catch it. If a girl is not married, then it foreshadows a quick wedding, if this is a married woman, then she will also celebrate 50 years of marriage. They give gifts of gold or gold with the use of gilding - furnishings, dishes, interior design, elegant jewelry.

After half a century ago, wedding days are celebrated only in certain years.

The 51, 52, 53, 54 anniversaries do not walk, they are not even named.

55 years - emerald wedding. Emerald is a rare, expensive, refined mineral. The union of two hearts 55 years in length is already quite rare. The more valuable these strong, refined unions. The green color of the stone symbolizes the beginning of a new long and proven future joint years of life.

56, 57, 58, 59 years of marriage are also not marked.

60 years - a diamond wedding or diamond. This union, tested by hard and happy times and a common life, is almost impossible to split like a real diamond. It glitters with all facets of common traditions, success of descendants, like a sparkling diamond. The organization of the celebration is also a privilege of children, grandchildren, and guests are presented with a gift with multi-colored glitter and decorations as a gift. You can replace diamonds with cubic zirconias, objects from sparkling crystal.

65 years - iron wedding. Diamond is the strongest of all stones, and iron is the strongest of all metals. Therefore, this anniversary, following the diamond wedding, was called the Iron Wedding. She does more chamberly with family members, but is also a significant and rare date.

Presents for this holiday are more symbolic, they are more signs of attention. Although household appliances, something for everyday life will be useful for an elderly couple.

67, 5 years old - stone wedding. The stone personifies a stronghold, not subject to any natural disasters, resistant to all weather conditions. Gifts will be items made of natural stone - from souvenirs to products for the home, as well as a variety of stone decorations for the garden.

70 years - a blessed wedding. To go through such a joint family journey is a great grace of God. Usually, great-grandchildren are involved in the celebration of this date. The gift for spouses is not so important, the main gift is the love and care of descendants.

75 years - the crown wedding. Spouses crowned angels. Retaining love and harmony, people deserve a royal crown, they have reached a royal peak in their relationship

80 years - oak wedding. Oak - the strongest of all trees and the longest survivor, lives to 100 years. Therefore, the oak wedding personifies a strong, indestructible family, supporting its crown - descendants, and not forgetting its tribal power - its roots, its ancestors.

The gift will be any object made of wood, the use of wood in the interior, wooden decoration.

90 years is a granite anniversary. The family is associated with granite rock, united and unbreakable. Presents are prepared using granite or any other stone. For example, it may be a sculpture in the garden.

85 and 95 years are not celebrated.

100 years old - red or platinum wedding. In the old days, what is beautiful was called red. And this date is an amazing, significant and solemn day. You can give gifts of red color, beautiful jewelry, words of recognition and love.

To date, there is only one example of a family couple from Azerbaijan, who managed to carry their love for up to 100 years. And may he be an example for all newlyweds and spouses around the world.

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