Contents:
- How to celebrate this holiday
- Golden wedding: customs and traditions
- What kind of gifts to give
- How to celebrate their golden wedding in other countries
Golden wedding - a timid and a rare holiday, because it is dedicated to the 50th anniversary of living together in marriage! How many experienced, children have grown up, so that there children and grandchildren are already big. The couple holds together is not love, respect and understanding, and something more, we do not know.
If your parents have reached this exciting numbers together, give them a holiday, they just deserve it!
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How to celebrate this holiday
The celebration of the anniversary of marriage can take place in different ways, depending on the physical condition of the heroes of the occasion. After all, if they have lived together for 50 years, it means that they themselves no less than 70. We proceed from the fact that your parents are in good health.
The celebration of the golden wedding is better to organize a home than in a restaurant. You will be easier to remove the restaurant, but our parents are a different generation, they are not accustomed to this. So will feel awkward. Invite all the family members, relatives and old friends of your parents. They will be pleased to share this holiday with loving people. Ask family and friends who were at the wedding of your parents, prepare in advance and remember some interesting moments that have occurred on this day.
Cover the table, decorate it in gold tones. Do not forget to decorate the apartment. The house should be festive atmosphere!
Prepare in advance music, toasts, congratulations. Children can learn a touching birthday poems. Let every member of the family will remember some funny family history, an interesting event. Fill the day with bright memories. Let your parents know that they lived together 50 years, not in vain, that their children had a happy childhood, that the grandchildren are proud of them.
If it so happened that the health of your parents and their sums not allow a feast for the whole world, then just give parents their full attention.
Show them that you love them and they are very expensive. Presented them with some nice memorable gift.
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Golden wedding: customs and traditions
The most common practice - the exchange of golden rings. It is believed that after 50 years of marriage, heroes of the occasion must pass their wedding rings children or grandchildren as a family heirloom, and to put themselves on each other's finger new gold rings.
Another nice tradition: daughter should wear a shawl on the shoulders of the mother associated with threads of gold color with their hands. However, it should be transmitted to thank her for wisdom, for what was always there.
Well, and the most timid tradition - the dance of the "young". Prepare in advance a slow lyrical music, the one who evokes pleasant memories with your parents. Guests join hands and stand in a circle, and the husband and wife dancing a slow dance. At the end of the dance couple showered with "gold" - serpentine foil, tinsel, special plastic golden coins.
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What kind of gifts to give
It is obvious that in this day it is logical to give a product of gold. Parents gave gold rings, which they will exchange. It can be on the rings engraved with their wedding date, names, or some symbolic phrase for them. You can give a variety of ornaments from the precious metal. If parents do not wear jewelry, a good gift would be plated service.
Good and appropriate gifts: watches, paintings.
But the most pleasant gift for the elderly - is emotion . Make a large wall newspaper with photos. It is unlikely that your parents have wedding pictures, but you can on the newspaper to portray their life together, all the important events that have occurred in your family. And for many years they had accumulated a lot!
If your parents are cheerful and in good physical shape, you can give them a trip to some holiday home. Changing the situation is favorable for everyone, but for the elderly even more so.
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How to celebrate their golden wedding in other countries
If you want to diversify the celebration, you can learn how to golden wedding celebrated in other nations.
In the Catholic tradition, "the couple" may repeat your wedding day to marry again in the church and take an oath of allegiance. If your parents are not married, you can invite them to get married on the day of his golden wedding. And even when, if not now?
In some countries, the golden wedding is celebrated in the same way as a normal wedding. Organized magnificent triumph, "bride" wears a white dress. If your intention is to organize a celebration, be sure to ask your parents' permission and advice. Still, it's their holiday.
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