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Wedding Anniversaries
Wedding Anniversaries
The celebration of wedding anniversaries dates back to Roman times when husbands gave their wives a silver wreath for 25 years of marriage, and a gold wreath for 50. Twentieth century commercialism then led to the addition of more gifts to represent colour and names for other years. By the 1930's there was a material or symbol representing the year as a gift suggestion for the first year and milestone years such as 10th, 20th, 25th and 50th.
Over the years more were added and the gift list updated and modernised by various American and British greeting card companies.
Wedding Anniversary Meanings
1st - Paper
2nd - Cotton
3rd - Leather
4th - Flowers
5th - Wood
6th - Iron
7th - Wool
8th - Bronze
9th - Copper
10th - Tin
11th - Steel
12th - Silk
13th - Lace
14th - Ivory
15th - Crystal
20th - China
25th - Silver
30th - Pearl
35th - Coral
40th - Ruby
45th - Saphire
50th - Gold
55th - Emerald
60th - Diamond
70th - Platinum