Names of wedding anniversaries by year and traditions of their celebration

Each 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 also annually has a family birthday.

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

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

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

In the first year after the wedding, it is customary to present something from the fabric: napkins, curtains, various towels, clothes, bedding. Young parents give romper and diapers in the hope of future heirs of the family.

2 years in our table - a paper wedding. It got 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, husband and wife exchange love messages, letters written for each other with an honest story about all the attractive and all the unpleasant qualities of their characters, which can help start a family life as if from a new blank slate.

As a gift, guests can choose books, paper items, furniture, as well as banknotes.

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

For the triennium, it is customary to give leather products - a purse, bag, shoes.

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

Husband and wife choose linen as a gift to each other, and guests usually present linen from linen, as well as items made of cloth, kitchen towels or candles.

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

There are wedding dates that should be celebrated as magnificent and fun as the wedding itself. The first anniversary date is just such a day. In addition to gifts from wood, furniture, wooden decorations, you can give the legal spouses a garden with trees that the guests planted, or decorate the existing trees with ribbons with good wishes.

6 years - a cast-iron wedding. This 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 strong blows of fate.

The main gift for this anniversary is cast-iron utensils. You can present a frying pan, a cauldron or a duckweed.

There is a special date on the list of wedding anniversaries - it's 6 and a half years old, a zinc wedding. It is believed that at this time in the family may begin a crisis in relations.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 putting gloss and gloss on family relationships, as on objects made of zinc.

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

7 years - a 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 prosperity, the value of the family cell as a single organism, held together by shared years lived.

Marriage partners give each other copper coins, wishing for a long and happy life. Guests can choose any gift made of copper as a gift - dishes, for example, a coffee Turk, or graceful figurines, various symbolic objects, such as a copper horseshoe for good luck.

8 years - a tin wedding. By analogy with tin as a special kind of metal, a new tin sheet sparkles in the sun, but over the years it loses its luster and fades. But you just have to update it, wipe it, and it will sparkle again with its special metallic luster. So the relationship in this period has already faded somewhat, became mundane, but as soon as they are colored with joy, gifts and attention, they will again sparkle with all their brilliant facets.

This anniversary is presented with objects, products, packed in tin boxes. Kitchen tools or something shiny will be a good present too.

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

10 years - this anniversary of living together is called a tin or pink wedding. This is the first major anniversary. Tin is a strong metal, but it is malleable and flexible. This means that the family no longer sort things out, but adjust to each other. The relationship became trembling and beautiful, like a rose flower.

Therefore, the husband presents his wife with a bouquet of 10 red roses (for each year lived together) and 1 white rose as a hint of future happiness. Guests can choose either items made from tin, such as spoons, candlesticks, caskets, or something with the image of roses or pink.

11 years after the date of marriage steel wedding. The marriage became like hardened steel, smooth and shiny like a mirror, and the couple became like mutual mirror reflection. Traditionally, they give steel jewelry for the home or objects of steel color.

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

The following anniversaries are called so.

• 13 years old - lace wedding. Another name is lily of the valley.
• 14 years - agate wedding.
• 15 years - crystal wedding. Glass is a fragile but clean and ringing material. Also, marital relations are already strong, clean, but they can shatter. For this anniversary give crystal or glass objects.
• 16 years - topaz, 17 - pink, 18 years old - turquoise, 19 years old - pomegranate wedding.
• 20 years - porcelain wedding. Family relationships have become as priceless as dear Chinese porcelain. And since by this time the old porcelain sets had lost some of their attractiveness and thinned quantitatively, usually new ones are presented to this date. Also at the celebration you can present porcelain figurines, caskets or an elegant tea pair as a symbol of love, loyalty and prosperity.

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

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

On this significant date, the couple presented each other with silver rings. They can be worn as a symbol of love, carried through the years, as a guarantee of the subsequent long family happiness.

Relatives and friends present silver, whether for serving items or souvenirs and various trinkets.

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

30 years - a pearl wedding. Like pearls that grow and develop in their shell, a family union becomes more beautiful, strong and expensive over time. On this anniversary, loving spouses try to please each other with pearl objects - jewelry. The husband can give his wife a pearl necklace and get cufflinks with pearls in return.

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

35 - linen (coral), 36 - wedding of bone china (the Russian people do not cope). 37 years - muslin, 38 - mercury, 39 - crepe anniversaries.

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

The couple is acquiring new wedding rings, already with ruby ​​inserts.

Guests are presented with jewelry and exquisite objects of red-ruby color, as well as expensive appliances, furniture for the home. In the decorations of the place for this celebration, red color in textiles, tablecloths and bouquets of flowers is required.

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

44 - topaz wedding. This jewel is distinguished by its transparency, purity and durability. The same words can be used to describe a marriage union that has reached such an 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 take on topaz color, transparency and use these qualities in the selection of dishes, souvenirs, glasses and flowerpots.

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

A scattering of sapphires can be added to the spouses' wedding rings. The celebration is arranged in the color of sapphire - in blue tones.Gifts can also be selected in blue, with transparent blue shades.

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

50 years - a golden wedding. It is named after the most noble, but difficult to mine 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 before the family couple did not exchange new rings, then it's time to do it, and adult children or grandchildren can give them. A married couple can give each other gold jewelry or rings.

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

Just like at a wedding, a gold "bride and groom" throws a bouquet, only all the women present will catch it. If the girl is not married, then this portends a fast wedding, if this is a married lady, then she will also celebrate 50 years of marriage. Giving gifts made of gold or using gilding - furnishings, dishes, interiors, elegant decorations.

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

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

55 years - an emerald wedding. Emerald is a rare, expensive, refined mineral. The union of two hearts with a length of 55 years is already quite rare. All the more valuable are these strong, sophisticated alliances. The green color of the stone symbolizes the beginning of new long and verified further joint years of life.

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

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 shines with all the facets of joint traditions, the successes of posterity, like a sparkling diamond. The organization of the celebration is also a privilege of children and grandchildren, and guests present with colorful glitter objects and decorations as a gift. You can replace diamonds with cubic zirconias, objects made of sparkling crystal.

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

Presentations for this holiday are rather symbolic, it is more signs of attention. Although household appliances, something for everyday life will be useful for an elderly couple.

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

70 years - a gracious wedding. Passing such a joint family path is God's great grace. Usually even great-grandchildren join in the celebration of this date. The gift itself is not so important for spouses, the main gift is the love and care of posterity.

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

80 years - an oak wedding. Oak - the strongest of all trees and the most long-lived, survives up to 100 years. Therefore, the oak wedding represents a strong, indestructible family, supporting its crown - the descendants, and not forgetting its tribal strength - about its roots, its ancestors.

A gift will be any item 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, one and indestructible. Presentations are prepared using granite or any other stone. For example, it could be a sculpture in the garden.

85 and 95 years are not celebrated.

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

Today, only one example is known of a married couple from Azerbaijan, who managed to carry their love up to 100 years. And let him become an example for all newlyweds and spouses all over the world.

About how wedding anniversaries are called and what to give on them, you will learn from the next video.