Cotton Wedding.
Third Anniversary Leather Wedding.
Fifth Anniversary Wooden Wedding.
Seventh Anniversary Woolen Wedding.
Tenth Anniversary Tin Wedding.
Twelfth Anniversary Silk and Linen Wedding.
Fifteenth Anniversary Crystal Wedding.
Twentieth Anniversary China (sometimes Floral) Wedding.
Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Silver Wedding.
Thirtieth Anniversary Pearl Wedding.
Thirty-Fifth Anniversary Coral Wedding.
Fortieth Anniversary Ruby Wedding.
Forty-Fifth Anniversary Bronze Wedding.
Fiftieth Anniversary Golden Wedding.
Sixty-Fifth Anniversary Crown-Diamond Wedding.
Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Diamond Wedding.
It may be well to mention here that the twentieth anniversary is
considered unlucky to celebrate, or even to mention.
The manner of sending out invitations and accepting and refusing the
same has been fully described in the proper department, and a few
words only will be necessary as to the gifts and entertainment
suitable on such occasions.
Tin and Paper Weddings and some other of the earlier anniversaries are
usually occasions for happy frolics, and merry jests as to the form
the gifts will take, though the paper wedding gives place for the
presentation of elegant books, and a supply of fashionable stationery
that is sufficient to fill the family needs for a long space of time.
Suitable Presents.
The Wooden Wedding is a little more expensive in its demands, and the
gifts range from elegant _suites_ of carved furniture down to dainty
bits of hand-carving in the shape of panels and placques; and from
rolling-pin and potato-masher all the way up to oaken mantles, rich
with all manner of ingenious fret-work of design.
The Crystal Wedding may also show forth a glittering array of gifts
both ornamental and useful.
The Silver Wedding is, perhaps, the most important of all the wedding
anniversaries. This arises partly from the fact that it is most
generally observed, partly because of the value of its gifts, and,
more than aught else, because the date of its observance finds the
happy pair still in the enjoyment of compa
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