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A wedding anniversary is a great occasion for the spouses to once again recall one of the happiest days of their family life. That helps to maintain warm feelings and gratitude for years spent together for life. By celebrating wedding anniversaries, you can refresh your feelings for each other and experience the feeling of a holiday again and again.

About 200 years ago, the tradition of celebrating wedding anniversaries was firmly entrenched in our lives. However, the tradition of celebrating a wedding anniversary each year has appeared relatively recently. Principally in the twentieth century the commercialism led to the addition of more anniversaries being represented by a named gift. In 1937 the American National Association of Retail Jewelers, known as the Jewelers of America, as a result of an organizational merger, has presented an extended list of gifts for each year until the 25th, and then for every fifth anniversary thereafter.

In many countries couples can receive an official wedding anniversary congratulations. Therefore, in the United States, a couple can receive a greeting card from the president for the 50th and every fifth anniversary after that. In Canada and Australia, a message can be received from the Governor General for the 50th anniversary and all subsequent anniversaries. Catholics can apply for a papal blessing through their local diocese for special wedding anniversaries.

The names of some anniversaries provide guidance for appropriate or traditional gifts for the spouses to give each other. If there is a party then these can be brought by the guests or influence the theme or decoration. These gifts vary in different countries, but some years have well-established connections now common to most nations: 5th Wood, 10th Tin, 15th Crystal, 20th China, 25th Silver, 30th Pearl, 35th Сoral, 40th Ruby, 45th Sapphire, 50th Gold, 60th Diamond, and 70th Platinum.

We often cannot remember the names of the wedding anniversaries. Therefore, for example, only the specialists in this matter can answer you about the name of the 100th wedding anniversary. Therefore, this is a great question for the newlyweds so that they know what they need to strive for.

Hurry likely, the historic origins of wedding anniversaries date back to the Holy Roman Empire, when husbands crowned their wives with a silver wreath on their twenty-fifth anniversary, and a gold wreath on the fiftieth. In English speaking countries the first, wooden, gift was cut on the day of celebration and then presented to the wife as a finished article before the next two quarter days had passed. Also the modern tradition may have originated in medieval Germany where, if a married couple lived to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their wedding, the wife was presented by her friends and neighbours with a silver wreath to congratulate them for the good fortune that had prolonged the lives of the couple for so many years. On celebration of the 50th, the wife received a wreath of gold. Over time the number of symbols expanded and the German tradition came to assign gifts that had direct connections with each stage of married life. The symbols have changed over time. For example, in the United Kingdom, diamond was a well known symbol for the 75th anniversary, but this changed after Queen Victoria’s 60 years on the throne was widely marked as her Diamond Jubilee.

Wedding day is often called the Green Wedding, so its mandatory attribute is a bouquet of the bride. According the sign, that girl who he will get after the wedding ceremony will soon become a bride. Wedding day is one of the happiest day in life, and it forever remains imprinted in our memory.