Showing posts with label wedding anniversaries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wedding anniversaries. Show all posts

1/13/2013

Wedding Anniversary Songs

Wedding anniversaries are most of the times celebrated with the same commitment as the wedding events are. To spend 40 years next to the person you love can be considered nowadays a record if we take a look at the rate of divorces happening every day all around the world. This is how married couples realize that in the end their love is actually what that matters the most and as such they plan to have their wedding anniversary feasted with the people they love the most: the family members.

These sorts of anniversaries gather as well the closed friends who have been loyal for so many years, who have witnessed the best events that took place in the life of the anniversary-ed couple. These criteria should be the ones that determine a married couple to make their list of guests when planning for their wedding anniversary. And since no anniversary should miss the element of entertainment the couple should pay a great deal of interest to the wedding anniversary songs they need to choose for their party.

Sending out the wedding anniversary invitations was a tiring task as these ones were meant to send out the message to the world as they did decades ago when letting their world of friends and family members that a wedding is going to take place. The most tiring and strange aspect of having these cards sent was looking for the addresses of all the guests who have been invited to the wedding festivity.

Maybe a good idea would be to have them all invited, as such the couple could be carried back in time to the moment they have sworn love and dedication to each other. This could be a perfect occasion to have the vows renewed as well, together with the exchange of rings – the ones chosen for the golden anniversary – all these being performed on the sound of wedding anniversary song. If the couple still has the wedding scratch book of the days of their wedding planning as well as its displaying it could be now an ideal tool in planning the wedding anniversary with elements of the original wedding.

As such the married couple could discover the wedding songs titles they had for the specific moments of their wedding celebration and have them introduced in the key moments of their wedding anniversary unfolding. It is recommended to have also the music of our times especially for the younger members of the family who will be willing to have fun while dancing to the wedding anniversary songs of their grandpa and grandma’s 50th wedding anniversary party.

8/20/2012

Wedding Anniversary

A wedding anniversary is the anniversary of the date on which a wedding took place.

Wedding anniversaries are a very special time of year.This is a time in your life where you get to sit back and reflect, not only on the journey that you and your special someone has traveled, but you get to celebrate it. That is why it’s very important to celebrate the wedding anniversary every year.


The names of some anniversaries provide guidance for appropriate or traditional gifts for the spouses to give each other or if there is a party these can be brought by the guests or influence the theme or decoration. The names of the wedding anniversaries which are now common to most nations are : 5th Wooden, 10th Tin, 15th Crystal, 20th China, 25th Silver, 30th Pearl, 40th Ruby, 50th Golden, 60th Diamond, and if you’re lucky enough 80th Oak

The tradition originated in medieval Germany where if a married couple lived to celebrate the twenty fifth anniversary of their wedding, the wife was presented by her friends and neighbours with a silver wreath, partly to congratulate them for the good fortune that had prolonged the lives of the couple for so many years and partly in recognition of the fact they must have enjoyed a fairly harmonious relationship, on celebration of the fiftieth the wife received a wreath of gold.

These anniversaries were known as the silver wedding-day and the golden wedding-day. Over time the number of symbols has expanded and the German tradition was to assign gifts which had direct connections with each stage of married life.

The symbols may change over time, for example in the United Kingdom Diamond was a well known symbol for the 75th anniversary but this changed to the now more common 60th anniversary after Queen Victoria’s 60 years on the throne was widely marked as her ‘Diamond Jubilee.

A marriage is full of the good times and not so good times, but wedding anniversaries allow you to refocus on the marriage and put all of that behind you. To help celebrate this time in your life, it is very important to get the right gift that says I love you. If you are buying someone a wedding anniversary gift, it’s important to keep in mind that great wedding anniversary presents are even more important than the wedding gift that you got them. This is because every anniversary – whether it be the 1st or 50th wedding anniversary – is a milestone that you have crossed as a couple.

Each wedding anniversary is different. However, they each hold the same kind of value to them. The kinds of gifts you buy do can never replace the love and commitment you have for one another. An anniversary is a thing to be celebrated and enjoyed. Embrace your wedding anniversaries with the same love that you embrace your marriage with. Make sure you start with a wedding anniversary poem or verse, written on a card. This is a moment in your life that you will never forget.