40 years of marriage: what kind of wedding is it and how is it celebrated?

Each anniversary of the wedding day has a special name, has its own traditions, features of celebration. This article discusses the most interesting traditions of celebrating the 40th anniversary.

When the couple lived together for 40 years, they approached a significant date - a ruby ​​wedding. Beautiful red gemstone is a symbol of this holiday. This is the personification of strong love that lasts for many years. Living together for 40 years is spending side by side every day in love, harmony, support and caring for each other.

Red color always symbolized hot love. In terms of its valuable qualities, the ruby ​​is in second place after the diamond, and if the ruby ​​undergoes proper processing, it will acquire incredibly beautiful and elegant outlines and will look like a drop of red blood.

As a ruby ​​requires proper attitude, so couples should treat each other with care and understanding. During the long years of living together, the spouses become accustomed to their halves and, so that their lives are not clouded by any unpleasant moments, it is necessary for both spouses to be able to make concessions and come to a compromise. Mutual understanding, interaction, trust will allow the family to become a true jewel, and love will constantly be painted with bright colors.

According to custom, a married couple acquires new wedding rings on the fortieth anniversary of their marriage, and these rings should be with rubies. Rings, which the newlyweds exchanged on their wedding day, are placed in a casket, where they are stored until a certain moment. This family heirloom will be presented to one of the grandchildren on their wedding day.

According to another tradition, spouses must pluck two berries from a cherry tree, where tails are held togetherand eat cherries without tearing the tails, and bones to drop. If the life of the spouses was filled with love, then according to legend, after some time two trees with intertwined roots should grow. Another custom originated in the Caucasus. Spouses need to eat pomegranate in half. Each ruby ​​seed eaten must be accompanied by the compliments of the spouse to his wife. The spouse also names worthy qualities of the husband, eating on a grain. If the pomegranate was eaten and there were no repetitions, then 40 years were happy and full of love.

Often the children of the anniversary celebrations on the day of a significant day have become adults and have their own families. Anniversary is a great opportunity to get everyone together with your family.

To celebrate a ruby ​​wedding, you can invite a professional toastmaster with a ready-made script, or you can ask someone of your friends to play the lead role.

Choosing a script, we must not forget about the features of the invited guests. Contests for young people will not be appropriate for guests of the age. The solemn congratulatory part should be replaced by contests and dances. In contests, you can use a quiz concerning the life of spouses. Here you may be asked questions about:

• acquaintance of anniversaries;
• the age of children;
• funny cases of family life;
• the place of their marriage, etc.

Celebration can be accompanied by fireworks. This will bring joy to the people of the anniversary and all the guests If the volleys are red, it will be symbolic for the holiday. Golden color will also be appropriate as a wish for wealth and long life.

The unique atmosphere of the celebration can be achieved through the design of the hall. Simple rules will help to achieve romance and solemnity of a significant event.

A ruby ​​is a stone of red color, which means that the room (hall, room), intended for a celebration, should be decorated in this very shade.

You can look at the restaurant with wallpaper of this shade or decorative elements of red.

Red color will suit a golden hue. You can combine the golden tablecloth and the red napkins served to guests. The combination on the contrary (claret or golden tablecloth with red napkins) will also decorate the room for the celebration.

A beautiful decoration will be a vase with red roses, set on the table. This will certainly please the couple. It will be appropriate to use sprigs with red berries of cherry, wild rose or viburnum. For the decoration of the room will be suitable a train of golden ribbons. Ornaments made of balloons, serpentines, garlands, bows should also be red.

Table setting for a ruby ​​wedding is distinguished by a variety of red shades, ranging from a white tablecloth with red flowers to dishes with a berry or floral pattern.

Cutting can be prepared from red meats and fish, salads and main dishes to decorate with red tomatoes and pomegranate seeds.

At the anniversary it is preferable to use red wine. Its ruby ​​color will decorate the holiday table. Guests are better to treat home-made wine - cherry, raspberry, grape. Thanks to the natural ingredients and the quality of the wine, the guests will feel good, which means that a cheerful mood during the holiday will be guaranteed. The presence of red and pink varieties of champagne will also be useful on the holiday table.

Of course, on the occasion of the anniversary it is necessary to have an impeccable look, their clothes should be elegant and comfortable.

It would be appropriate to have ruby ​​accessories in clothes. It may be jewelry. Lady fit earrings, bracelet or shoes in red. A man can wear a tie, cufflinks, a ruby-colored shirt.

Guests can dress to your liking. You can plan in advance for guests suitable accessories in the form of badges, scarlet ribbons. In this case, photos from the celebration will be interesting and memorable.

The best gifts will be made by spouses for each other. About practical and necessary gifts you can think about another time. The second half will rejoice at any truly memorable gift.

For this occasion fit jewelry. A spouse can enjoy a donated ring, earrings, bracelet, pendant, brooches, necklace. The spouse will be surprised at the clip for a tie, cuff links, a ring or a bracelet. Sensual speech, emotionally written postcard will be the perfect end to the present from the spouse.

According to the name of the holiday, gifts are made with the presence of a precious stone - a ruby. It can be beads, necklace and similar jewelry. A beautiful jewelry box with a ruby ​​or artificial stone will be a good souvenir on this day. On this anniversary all the gifts are presented with a ruby ​​color, even bed linen, a vase.

Some, in their souls remaining young, prefer active rest. For such couples, it is appropriate to give something symbolizing activity and the desire to live, for example, a trip to the seashore.

Presented things must answer the name of the holiday - a ruby ​​wedding. A bouquet of scarlet roses will do. This is not an ordinary gift, but an exquisite and magnificent gift for spouses with an odd number of flowers. It is a symbol of respect and love, corresponding to the relationship between spouses. You can give a composition to the spouses, but not to make it from flowers, but to use different sweets, plush toys.

Dishes from plates, spoons, to pots and pans with decorative ruby ​​elements will suit the occasion for this celebration.

You can present a hero of the day to any household appliance. If the shade of the souvenir does not correspond to the color scheme of the holiday, you can pack it in a beautiful ruby-colored box or attach some red trifle to the gift.

Having thought over the details, you can make an unusual gift with your own hands. Unusual album can cause surprise in anniversaries. To create it, you will need a folder that you can make yourself using ordinary cardboard. The folder can be decorated with red or burgundy paper pasted over it or a cloth with greeting words and a bow. Photos should be placed in chronological order.

It is necessary to take into account the fact that spouses are no longer young people, and they have spent many years together in the background. Now for them the main thing - comfort and tranquility. The gift must meet this desire. It is necessary to take into account the tastes and preferences of the spouses, so that the donated thing is not useless. Anniversary gift should be necessary and beneficial. Things that can be used in everyday life are appropriate. If familiarity with the couple lasted for many years, then choosing a gift will not have any difficulties. Children can purchase any equipment for their parents. Friends can present a thing that will create comfort in the house of spouses. You can give:

• dishes;
• e-book;
• coasters for hot drinks;
• massage apparatus;
• clothes dryer;
• iron.

A gift on this solemn day should be memorable. You can book a table in a restaurant, present a certificate for visiting a beauty salon or a massage.

In addition to ordinary gifts, you can present a thing to create a cozy atmosphere in the house:

• sconce in the apartment will facilitate reading the literature;
• A small table can perfectly approach the interior;
• a carpet with a beautiful pattern will delight the anniversaries;
• fan, vacuum cleaner will be useful in the household.

When choosing a gift, you can focus on health, because after living forty years together, the anniversaries have a respectable age.

A gift in the form of a massage chair, an orthopedic mattress, a water filter, of course, will bring joy to the couple and last a long time, bringing great health benefits.

If the spouses have a sense of humor, you can give them forty small, if not very expensive, gifts. For example, forty packs of beautiful red napkins will be a wish in the guest house, and forty pairs of socks - a wish for longevity.

Mental congratulations - a mandatory component of the anniversary. That is why you need to prepare for speech or toast in advance.

If it is impossible to attend a holiday, you can pay attention to those who celebrate the anniversary by sending a message or an online postcard with music, a picture.

A ruby ​​wedding is the birthday of a family, 40 years old, lived by the spouses in love and understanding.A wish to live to a golden wedding will be appropriate on this day.

In the next video you will find a nice greeting with a ruby ​​wedding.