The idea of celebrating wedding anniversaries is and old idea that is still with us. It comes from Western Europe. The earliest record of someone celebrating a wedding anniversary is from around the 1700s. It’s in the daily record of an Englishman and tells about going to a “forty-first wedding party” in 1659.
When a couple has been married for 25 years, we call this the silver wedding anniversary. The idea of celebrating this anniversary started with the Germans around 1800. Not many people celebrating this anniversary in those days because not many people were alive that long.
That next important wedding anniversary, after silver, is gold. On the golden wedding anniversary, the couple celebrates 50 years of marriage. The first record of anyone celebrating this anniversary was in London newspaper of 1860. The chances of celebrating the golden wedding anniversary are good if a couple had a silver wedding anniversary. The two people will probably still be married if both are still alive.
The last big wedding anniversary is the diamond wedding anniversary. This happens at 75 years of marriage. The celebration of this anniversary doesn’t take place very often because the husband or wife is usually dead by this time. The first record of anyone celebrating this anniversary was in a London newspaper of 1872. If two people can stay alive and live together that long, they have two wonderful reasons for celebrating.
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