Wedding Anniversary: These Fun Facts Are Not To Be Missed
May those wedding bells never stop! Let love never fade May the closeness never wane. It doesn’t matter if your wedding bells rang years ago or just a year ago, make sure you don’t miss out on being together on your wedding anniversary.
Are they sitting far from each other?
Even if you are sitting in different corners of the world, be sure to make your presence felt in the lives of others through meaningful gifts such as anniversary cake, or flowers or personalized coffee mugs. However, another very interesting step in this regard would be to discover some fun facts about wedding anniversaries. A summary is documented below.
Ready for some fun facts?
Let’s start where we left off. Gifts! Yes. While gifts have become an integral part of modern celebrations, anniversary gifts have a substantial history to draw on. Do you know that the men above used to give silver crowns to their respective wives on their 25th anniversary? It was replaced by a gold crown on its 50th anniversary. One can imagine how the 25th and 50th anniversaries got their alternate names!
In Denmark, the concept of celebrating the 12 1/2 year anniversary is very important. It is alternatively known as a copper wedding. The couple receives half a bow made of fir. They receive the other half once they turn 25. The importance of the bow is not only limited to being a gift. The family usually decorates the arch with light and flowers and keeps them right at the entrance of their home.
The practice of giving strange gifts on wedding anniversaries actually originated in Central Europe. The practice of giving flower wreaths that we’ve already talked about here actually originated in Germany. Those of you who are not really aware of the same, let us tell you that silver symbolizes harmony and was considered an integral part in making other years of married happiness possible.
Silver wedding: something more than “silver”
In particular, although it is silver, which is largely associated with the 25th wedding anniversary, there are two other gemstones that also have such connections. What we must not forget is that the green garnet and the favorite are the lesser known connections that we are talking about here. Also, the rose and the iris are two flowers that are widely associated with the silver wedding anniversary.
Before 1937, only the 1st, 5th, 10th, 15th, 20th, 25th, 50th, and 75th anniversary had a metal associated with it. It was the American National Retail Jewelry Association that produced the most informative list in 1937. According to the list, every year up to the year 20 was associated with a metal. Then the metals were associated every five years until the year 75. However, the year 65 was excluded.
Inspiration?
A Taiwanese couple who celebrated their 86th wedding anniversary together in 2003 are reported to hold the record for being the longest married couple.