WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES
DIFFERENT NAMES FOR MARRIAGE DAYS.
Various quaint customs have grown up about wedding day anniversaries during the course of time, and no one seems to know exactly their origin. For example, why the first celebration is called the I.etton- wedding, the second the paper, or the third the leather.
The fourth year is unmarked by any special celebration, while lalftor the fifth , th a wooden wedding, five years are allowed to elapse, though this by no means precludes any man from, taking his wife out to dinner and to the theatre on this day of days or marking the anniversary with some special celebration. The tenth anniversary is the tin wedding, the twelfth the china, the fifteenth the crystal, the twentieth tho linen, and, as everybody knows, the"twenty-fifth is the silver wedding. Between these there are the pearl wedding, which is the thirtieth anniversary, and tho ruby wedding, which takes place on the fortieth.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3666, 30 October 1912, Page 9
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156WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3666, 30 October 1912, Page 9
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