Church Bells are Ringing, Confetti is being thrown and Champagne is Flowing,
It’s Wedding Season Again!
I have already been to one wedding this year and am looking forward to another, I just hope that there will be a bit of sunshine! Of course at this time of year there will be lots of Wedding Anniversaries celebrated too!
We have loads of wedding and Anniversary gift Ideas:
Champagne Celebration Gifts - Congratulate the New Couple or Celebrate Wedding Anniversaries
Relaxation Hampers a Treat for New Husbands & Wives
New Baby Gifts for When the New Family Grows!
I’ve found a few facts about Marriage and the many traditions that go with it, If you can add to these facts please us a comment.
Second Sunday in February is world Marriage Day
Wedding Rings
A Wedding Ring is traditionally worn on the third finger in the western world. The Greeks believed that a Vein of Blood was connected from the heart to the third finger.
Engagement Rings
The word diamond came from the ancient Greek word ‘adamas', meaning unconquerable.
The first diamond engagement ring made an appearance in 1477, when it was slipped on the finger of Mary of Burgundy by her fiancé, Archduke Maximilian of Austria. The Venetians Popularized the custom during the 15th. century. Since the diamond was the hardest and most enduring substance in nature it followed that the engagement and marriage would endure forever.
In 860 A.D., Pope Nicholas I decreed that an engagement ring become a required statement of nuptial intent. He insisted that engagement rings had to be made of gold which signified a financial sacrifice on the part of the prospective husband.
Weddings:
A wedding is a ceremony that celebrates the beginning of a marriage or civil union. Wedding traditions and customs vary greatly between cultures, cultures and religions, countries, and social classes. In some countries, cultures and religions, the actual act of marriage occurs at the time of signing a marriage license or other legal document, and the wedding is then an opportunity to perform a traditional ceremony and celebrate with family and friends.
Traditional Wedding Anniversary Gifts
1st Wedding Anniversary Gifts are Paper
2nd Wedding Anniversary Gifts are Cotton
Gift Idea Egyptian Cotton Sheets
3rd Wedding Anniversary Gifts are Leather.
4th Wedding Anniversary Gifts are Flowers and Fruit.
5th Wedding Anniversary Gifts have a theme of Wood
6th Wedding Anniversary Gifts are Iron and Sugar
7th Wedding Anniversary Gifts are Copper and Wool
8th Wedding Anniversary Gifts are Bronze and Pottery.
9th Wedding Anniversary Gifts have a theme of Pottery and Willow.
10th wedding anniversary gifts have a theme of Aluminium and Tin
11th wedding anniversary gifts have a theme of Steel.
12th wedding anniversary gifts have a theme of Linen and Silk.
13th wedding anniversary gifts have a theme of Lace.
14th wedding anniversary gifts have a theme of Ivory.
15th wedding anniversary gifts have a theme of Crystal.
20th wedding anniversary gifts have a theme of China.
25th Silver Wedding Anniversary
Gift Ideas Irish Silver Jewellery
35th Wedding anniversary gifts have a theme of Coral.
40th Ruby Wedding Anniversary Ruby
45th wedding anniversary gifts have a theme of Sapphire.
50th Golden Wedding Anniversary
60th Diamond Wedding Anniversary,
70th wedding anniversary gifts have a theme of Diamonds and Platinum.
