Each wedding anniversary has a special name, has its own traditions, features of the celebration. This article discusses the most interesting traditions of the celebration of the 40th anniversary.
What is the name of the anniversary?
When the couple lived together for 40 years, they approached a significant date - a ruby wedding. A beautiful red gem is a symbol of this holiday. This is the personification of strong love that lasts for many years. Living together for 40 years is to spend side by side every day in love, harmony, support and care for each other.
Red color always symbolized ardent love. In terms of its valuable qualities, ruby is in second place after diamond, and if the ruby undergoes proper processing, it will acquire incredibly beautiful and elegant outlines and will look like a drop of red blood.
Just as a ruby requires a proper attitude towards itself, so married couples should treat each other with care and understanding. Over the long years of living together, the spouses get used to their halves, and so that their life is not overshadowed by any unpleasant moments, it is necessary for both spouses to be able to make concessions and come to a compromise. Mutual understanding, interaction, trust will allow the family to become a true jewel, and love will be constantly painted with bright colors.
The 40th anniversary of marriage can be spent organizing a romantic wedding dinner or a magnificent celebration. This event is celebrated in different ways.
Traditions
According to custom, a couple acquires new wedding rings for the fortieth anniversary of the wedding, and these rings should be with rubies. The rings that the newlyweds exchanged on their wedding day are put in a box where they are stored until a certain point. This heirloom will be donated to one of the grandchildren on the day of the wedding.
According to another tradition, spouses must pick two berries from a cherry tree, where the tails are fastened, and eat cherries without breaking their tails, and bury the bones. If the spouses' life was filled with love, then according to legend, after some time, two trees with interwoven roots should grow. Another custom originated in the Caucasus. Spouses need to eat pomegranate in half. Each ruby seed eaten must be accompanied by compliments from the spouse to the wife. The spouse also names the worthy qualities of her husband, eating a grain of seed. If the pomegranate was eaten and there was no repetition, then 40 years were happy and full of love.
This holiday can be celebrated magnificently, but the presence of a large number of guests is not the main sign of the fortieth anniversary. The main thing is that close people should be near the spouses - children, grandchildren, relatives, dear friends.
Often the children of the heroes of the day by a significant day have become adults and have their own families. An anniversary is a great opportunity to get together for everyone in your family circle.
Celebration celebration
To celebrate a ruby wedding, you can invite a professional toastmaster with a ready-made script, or you can ask someone from your friends to play the role of a host.
Choosing a scenario, one must not forget about the features of the invited guests. Competitions for youth will not be appropriate for guests aged. The solemn congratulatory part should be replaced by contests and dances. In contests, you can use the quiz regarding the life of spouses. Here you can be asked questions about:
- meeting anniversaries;
- age of children;
- funny cases from family life;
- place of their marriage, etc.
The holiday can be accompanied by fireworks. It will bring joy to the anniversaries and all guests. If the volleys are red, this will be symbolic for the holiday. A golden color will also be appropriate as a wish for wealth and long life.
Anniversaries themselves can thank the guests by giving them presents, for example, a magnet with a photo.
Room decoration
The unique atmosphere of the celebration can be achieved through the design of the hall. Simple rules will help to achieve romance and solemnity of a significant event.
Ruby is a red stone, which means that the room (hall, room) intended for the celebration should be decorated in this particular shade.
You can look at the restaurant with wallpaper of this shade or decorative elements of red color.
Red is a golden hue. You can combine a golden tablecloth on the table and red napkins served to the guests. The combination of the opposite (burgundy or golden tablecloth with red napkins) will also decorate the room for the celebration.
A beautiful decoration will be a vase with red roses, set on the table. This will certainly delight a married couple. It will be appropriate to use twigs with red berries of cherry, rosehip or viburnum. A series of gold ribbons is suitable for room decoration. Decorations from balloons, serpentine, garlands, bows should also be red.
Table setting and holiday menu
A table setting for a ruby wedding is distinguished by a variety of red shades, starting from a white tablecloth with scarlet flowers and ending with dishes with a berry or floral pattern.
Cutting can be prepared from red varieties of meat and fish, salads and main dishes to decorate with red tomatoes and pomegranate grains.
At the anniversary, it is preferable to use red wine. Its ruby color will decorate the festive table.Guests are best served homemade wine - cherry, raspberry, grape. Thanks to the natural ingredients and quality of the wine, the guests will feel good, which means that a cheerful mood during the holiday will be guaranteed. The presence of red and pink varieties of champagne will also be out of place on the festive table.
Red tea, juices, fruit drinks are suitable as soft drinks.
What to wear for spouses?
Of course, on the occasion of the celebration, anniversaries need to have an impeccable appearance, their clothes should be smart and comfortable.
The presence of ruby accessories in clothes will be appropriate. It can be jewelry. Earrings, a bracelet or red shoes are suitable for a lady. A man can wear a tie, cufflinks, a ruby-colored shirt.
Guests can dress to their liking. You can think over suitable accessories for guests in the form of badges, scarlet ribbons in advance. In this case, the photos from the celebration will be interesting and memorable.
What to gift?
The best gifts will be made by spouses for each other. Practical and necessary gifts can be thought about another time. The second half will be delighted with some really memorable gift.
For this case, jewelry is suitable. A spouse can enjoy a gift ring, earrings, bracelet, pendant, brooch, necklace. The husband will be surprised at the tie clip, cufflinks, ring or bracelet. Sensual speech, emotionally written postcard will be a wonderful end to a presentation from your wife.
According to the name of the holiday, gifts are made with the presence of a gem - ruby. It can be beads, necklaces and similar jewelry. A beautiful box with ruby or artificial stone will be a good souvenir on this day. For this anniversary, all the gifts presented with a ruby color, even bedding, a vase.
In order for the spouses to be satisfied with the present, it is necessary to proceed from their wishes and needs, taking into account their age. Someone will like a practical gift for creating home comfort, and someone will like a gift for collecting.
Some, while staying young at heart, prefer active recreation. For such couples it is appropriate to give something symbolizing activity and a desire to live, for example, a trip to the seashore.
Donated items must meet the name of the holiday - a ruby wedding. A bouquet of red roses will do. This is not an ordinary present, but an exquisite and magnificent gift for spouses with an odd number of flowers. This is a symbol of respect and love, corresponding to the relationship between spouses. You can give the spouses a composition, but do it not out of flowers, but use different sweets, plush toys.
Dishes from plates, spoons to pots and pans with decorative ruby elements will be very useful for this celebration.
You can present the hero of the day with any household appliance. If the shade of the souvenir does not meet the color scheme of the holiday, you can pack it in a beautiful box of ruby shade or attach some red detail to the present.
Having previously thought over the details, you can make an unusual gift with your own hands. An unusual album may surprise the anniversaries. To create it, you will need a folder that you can make yourself using ordinary cardboard. The folder can be decorated with red or burgundy paper pasted over it or a fabric with congratulatory words and a bow. Photos should be placed in chronological order.
We must take into account the fact that the spouses are no longer young people, and they have many years lived together. Now for them the main thing is comfort and tranquility. A gift should meet this desire. It is necessary to take into account the tastes and preferences of the spouses so that the donated thing does not turn out to be useless. Present for the anniversary should be necessary and bring benefits. Things that can be used in everyday life will be appropriate.If acquaintance with a couple lasted for many years, then when choosing a gift there will be no difficulties. Children can purchase any equipment for their parents. Friends can present a thing that will create comfort in the house of spouses. You can give:
- dishes;
- e-book
- stands for hot drinks;
- massage apparatus;
- clothes dryer;
- iron.
The presented thing on this solemn day should be memorable. You can book a table in a restaurant, give a certificate for a visit to a beauty salon or massage.
If there are no financial difficulties, you can surprise the couple with a ticket to a warm country.
In addition to everyday gifts, you can present a thing to create a cozy atmosphere in the house:
- sconces in the apartment will facilitate reading of literature;
- a small table can perfectly fit the interior;
- a carpet with a beautiful pattern will delight anniversaries;
- a fan, a vacuum cleaner will be useful in the household.
When choosing a gift, you can focus on health, because after living forty years together, the heroes of the day are of respectable age.
A gift in the form of a massage chair, orthopedic mattress, water filter, of course, will bring joy to a married couple and will last a long time, bringing great health benefits.
If spouses have a sense of humor, you can give them forty small, albeit not very expensive gifts. For example, forty packages of beautiful red napkins will be a wish in the guest house, and forty pairs of socks - a wish for longevity.
Sincere congratulations are a must for the anniversary. That's why you need to prepare for a speech or toast in advance.
If you can’t visit the holiday, you can pay attention to the anniversaries by sending a message or an Internet postcard with music, a picture.
A ruby wedding is the birthday of a family, 40 years old, lived by spouses in love and understanding. The wish to live to see the golden wedding will be appropriate on this day.
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