2 years of marriage: what kind of wedding is it, what to give and how to celebrate

What do you give for a paper wedding?

A gift for a paper wedding should be related to the name of the holiday. The present must contain paper elements.

Based on tradition, the best ideas for gifts would be:

  • Bright, colorful notepads, notebooks, diaries, organizers.
  • Books. Genre is not that important. Literature can be fiction, scientific, dictionary, educational, culinary and others.
  • Album with photographs. An excellent choice for a 2nd wedding anniversary gift. Choose the brightest, funniest, kindest moments from the spouses’ life together. Print out the photos and present them in a colorful album.
  • Calendar with a photo of a married couple.
  • Decorative souvenirs. Products made from paper and cardboard are an ideal gift solution. These can be boxes, mini-crafts.
  • Bouquet of paper and sweets. It's easy to make a gift yourself. We create flowers from multi-colored sheets and collect them into a bouquet.
  • Money - you can put it in a piggy bank or present it in the form of a bouquet.

To my husband

How to please your beloved husband on your second wedding anniversary? The choice is huge, because your wife can get away from traditions. It all depends on the hobbies, interests, preferences of the spouse.

What loving wives give for a paper wedding:

  • It is better to give a businessman husband a book on self-realization, a laptop, a quality watch, and a diary.
  • If your spouse is interested in paintings and loves to draw and create, then choose an easel, brushes, and paints as a gift. A ticket to an exhibition of your favorite artist is also suitable.
  • Is your husband a fan of football, hockey or another sport? It is better to give him a ticket to a match of his favorite team or to please him with a gift with the symbols of the club.
  • For someone who likes to relax in their free time, a holiday-related gift is perfect. Ticket to the cinema, theater, swimming pool, spa.
  • Every man will be pleased to receive gadgets and accessories for them. This could be a computer mouse, flash drive, hard drive, keyboard, headphones.

Wife

For women, a gift that emphasizes her external beauty is important. You should definitely take this fact into account when choosing a gift.

The best gift would be:

  • Certificate for spa, beauty salon, fitness room.
  • Decorative cosmetics based on natural ingredients.
  • Silver, gold jewelry. Necklaces, rings with precious stones.
  • Soft toy.
  • A bouquet of flowers, a postcard with a poem of your own composition.
  • Romantic evening.
  • A set of dishes or individual accessories.
  • Gift certificate for the purchase of clothes, cosmetics in the store.
  • Portrait from her photo.

A gift can come from the heart. Here it is important to take into account the character and preferences of the other half.

Spouses to each other

“Family letters” are considered an excellent symbol of marriage.

The spouses take a piece of paper and write down the negative traits of their partner. On the reverse side they indicate what their significant other will write about them.

Such letters should strengthen the family unit and correct shortcomings.

Children from parents

Relatives always try to help their loved ones, so great ideas for a surprise would be:

  • Washing machine;
  • Kitchenware;
  • Furniture;
  • Assistance in repairs;
  • Flowers in a pot.

As a traditional addition to the gift, you can attach an envelope with money.

To young friends from friends

Friends tend to give funny prank gifts.

Ideal gifts for 2nd wedding anniversary:

  • Caricature of family life;
  • Fun board games;
  • Paper figurines depicting a husband and wife;
  • A book about their two-year life together;
  • T-shirts, mugs, bed linen with a portrait of the spouses;
  • Fan of banknotes;
  • Video.

Signs and traditions for 2 years from the wedding day

In China and Japan, celebrating a wedding date every four years has been customary since ancient times. In Europe and America, celebrating wedding anniversaries first began in the 19th century. According to the research of some ethnographers, the custom was adopted in Russia shortly before the revolution, at the end of the 19th century. In 1978, thanks to Lvov’s note in the newspaper, the tradition found an enthusiastic response among the residents of the Soviet Union. Only married spouses and families with experience began to punctually celebrate paper, tin, and gold weddings, adding a unique Russian flavor to the celebrations. What signs and customs accompany a paper wedding?

  • The table must be covered with a paper tablecloth, napkins and decorations must also be made of this material, so that subsequent family life will be full of happy days.
  • A large denomination paper bill placed in the newlywed’s shoe will help to attract wealth and prosperity into the home on this day. Another money sign tells the wife to dance barefoot, holding her shoes in her hand. And those who wish to keep her company must pay for this privilege with paper money placed in these shoes. The more money you have, the richer your life will be.
  • The house on this day should have as many paper items, decorations, and souvenirs as possible. They even choose cotton clothes, decorating them with flowers and garlands made of colored paper - according to Chinese tradition, this brings people together on a spiritual level and attracts happiness to the home.
  • Letters, always written in your own hand on good paper, help to better understand each other and build trust. The messages are sealed and given to the spouse, who can voice it out loud or keep it just for himself to re-read and feel the love and support of his partner every time.
  • On this day, it is customary to make a joint contribution for an expensive purchase in the future, for example, your own home, a piece of land, an expensive car.
  • If one of the spouses dreams of a paper ribbon on the night of their anniversary, then a quick move to another city or country is possible.
  • Guests should give the newlyweds a matryoshka doll full of good wishes.
  • If the first gift is a banknote, then the family will live happily ever after.
  • For a wife to receive an unexpected gift in the form of a bouquet of paper flowers is a sign of the imminent birth of a child, especially a girl.
  • If the wife wears old comfortable shoes at a holiday, then family life will be long.

There is no need to arrange an overly lavish celebration. A paper wedding is a celebration for the closest people and trusted friends, in a warm, friendly atmosphere.

DIY present

A great solution would be a handmade gift:

  • Album designed using scrapbooking technique. Every married couple will love the beautiful, unusual design of family photos.
  • Family quest. Prepare signs or whatman paper in advance for searching for gifts, where you indicate all the stages. At the end, the spouses will be able to receive a gift.
  • Poems of my own composition. They need to be beautifully designed or written in a postcard.
  • Paper figures. Create figures of a husband and wife, or depict swans. Birds are a symbol of eternal love.
  • A box made of cardboard, paper or a basket of newspapers for storing various things.

Original surprise

A gift for a 2nd wedding anniversary can be original:

  • Money Tree. You can give a real money tree (a type of plant). Or create an artificial copy. Take branches and put banknotes on them (fake ones are acceptable).
  • Puzzles. Order a large set with a picture of the family. The couple will have to put together a family picture.

Cool (comic) gifts

One of the coolest gifts for a paper wedding is a set of toilet paper. A pyramid is built from it and tied with a ribbon.

This gift does not carry any negative hints. The gift is purely comic.

Unusual gifts

  • Origami. Make a bird out of paper (preferably more than one). It will be great if spouses hang them from the ceiling above the table or simply decorate the apartment.
  • Plants' seeds. A family can plant and care for a tree or flower. This plant will accompany them throughout their life together.
  • Cardboard, paper cake. Decorate with flowers from colorful paper.

Interesting

Create a bouquet of hundred-ruble bills. Wrap them so that they look like flowers, wrap them in gift paper.

Give tickets to a modern exhibition. These could be inventions, paintings, sculptures.

Practical and useful

This category includes gifts that will be useful in family life:

  • Blanket, rug, sofa pillows.
  • Shelf, breakfast table or coffee table, chair.
  • Kitchen utensils: pots, pans, plates, cutlery.
  • Rug (in the hallway, in the restroom, in the bathroom).

Complete your gift with a beautiful themed card.

Paper Anniversary Gifts from Family Friends

1. Friends invited to celebrate a paper wedding can give the spouses tickets to an interesting event - a concert, performance, exhibition, or a certificate for joint entertainment - karting, bowling, water park. No special preparation is required to present such a gift; it is enough to simply say a few pleasant words and wishes to the young family at this moment.

2. On this day, a beautiful and pleasant surprise from friends will be a paper sky lantern , which everyone can launch together. Spouses should be invited to write on it their wishes that they would like to realize in the near future. And the flashlight, flying up, will take them “where they need to be” so that they come true.

3. An unusual mystery gift will cause different emotions in a married couple: from slight disappointment to surprise and delight in the end. For it you will need to find a time-worn pot box. Instead of the expected set of dishes, put another box in this box and place a small cat litter box next to it. Your friends will now think there's a kitten in there, but when they open the second box, they should find a plastic container filled with sawdust and a packet of rodent food. And again, their expectations are not destined to be justified, since, rummaging through the sawdust, they will find not a cute hamster, but a case for a pen. It will contain a real gift, for example, a horse riding subscription, tickets for an excursion to a dog kennel, a zoo or an ostrich farm. It is better to give such a surprise to couples who love animals and, perhaps, already have their own pet, but are not yet planning to get another one. Otherwise, it is better to come up with other contents for the “magic box”.

A short list of possible gifts from friends

    Lottery . From 30.00 to 130.00 rubles. Calendar with family photos . From 900.00 to 1,550 rubles. Board games . From 1,490 to 5,190 rubles. Skydiving . From 6,080 to 11,960 rubles. Hot air balloon flight . From 5,500 to 36,000 rubles. Dinner on the roof . From 7,020 rubles for one hour. Photo session in the studio . 5,000 to 6,000 per hour. Pool subscription . From 600 to 12,000 rubles. Depending on the number of visits - per week, month, year. Pillows with inscriptions . From 790 to 2,000 rubles per one. T-shirts with slogans . From 350.00 to 1,000. Toilet paper with pictures . From 99.00 to 490.00 rubles. Mugs with portraits of both spouses . From 100.00 to 550 rubles per one. Lampshade in the kitchen . From 1,000 to 2,000 rubles. Candlestick with two candles . From 1,000 to 4,000 rubles. Set of wine glasses . From 1,280 to 13,750 rubles. Cardboard clock “Butterfly” . 188 rubles. Family diary . From 290 to 4,800 rubles. Photo session in nature . From 4,000 to 5,000 rubles per hour.

A young family most likely is not expecting expensive gifts for their paper wedding, so you should not focus solely on the cost of the item being presented. On this day, the main thing is to surprise and delight by the very method of presenting the gift . Any gift will be pleasant if presented beautifully, with a kind or humorous wish. Therefore, show your imagination, and your gift for the 2nd wedding anniversary will be the best!

Bad gift ideas

  • Don't give different gifts to husband and wife. The spouses as one whole and the gift should receive a common one.
  • The worst gift would be alcohol. He brings negativity. It is not customary to give a bottle to married couples.
  • Gifts with sexual overtones. The items are not prohibited, but it would not be entirely appropriate to give such a gift to spouses who have lived together for 2 years and have not lost their former passion.

It is not the gift itself that is important - what is important is attention, love, care. Be responsible when choosing a gift and bring joy to family relationships.

How is it customary to celebrate a paper wedding?

Traditionally, a paper wedding is celebrated in a warm, cozy home environment. But lately, more and more often, married couples prefer to book tables in cafes or rent a banquet hall. A cheerful, cheerful atmosphere is welcomed at this holiday, so it is worth creating an interesting scenario with comic jokes, toasts, and competitions. Or invite professional presenters with their own program.

Original ideas

How to celebrate a two-year wedding anniversary? The most important thing is a positive attitude and close people nearby! The most popular ideas for holding a paper wedding:

  • go out into nature: have a family picnic, a hiking trip for several days, rent a house at a base in a picturesque area, go to the sea, river or lake to combine a holiday with swimming, boat trips, water attractions;
  • in winter you can go ice skating or skiing, rent rooms in a forest boarding house, organize competitions in making snowmen, creating married couples with children, organize sledding, horseback riding, dog or reindeer sledding;
  • you can combine a feast in a homely atmosphere and a friendly walk around the city with visits to parks, attractions and other interesting places, depending on the mood and preferences of the spouses.

To capture all the details of the holiday, you can hire a professional cameraman or ask one of the guests for the service. You can not only film what is happening, but also interview husband and wife, their relatives and friends, so that later you can edit a real film.

A wonderful end to the evening will be the launching of paper lanterns or sending paper boats down the river, as well as colorful fireworks.

Gifts from parents to children for 2nd wedding anniversary

Spouses who have been married for 2 years, although they already form a separate unit of society, still need help from their parents. A paper wedding is a great occasion for moms and dads to give their children a good, useful gift.

A great option is to give vacation tickets to young people. This does not have to be an expensive trip to an exotic country; a trip to a Russian resort will also be quite pleasant. But, if you really want to surprise, and the funds allow, then you can give tickets to the country in which the paper was invented - to China. In this way, you will immediately have a double connection with the second anniversary of your life together: both the gift itself is paper (printed tickets) and the vacation spot is symbolic.

You can play with congratulations like this: parents give their children a large paper map of the world, which they usually hang on the wall, and say: “Today marks only 2 years since your wedding. You are young and active, your whole life is ahead of you, all roads are open to you. Since you have decided to go through life together, then you need to conquer new horizons, holding hands. Take a look at this map and select those countries and continents that you definitely want to visit. Set yourself a goal to do this and strive to achieve it. In the meantime, you are dreaming and making plans on how to make your plans come true, we are giving you 2 magic pieces of paper! With their help, you can visit one of the places on your future travel map.”

Paper surprises for your beloved. What to give your wife for her second wedding anniversary

Surprise and delight the hostess of your family hearth, not forgetting to give her gifts on this memorable day for her. Women are ready to forgive a lot for men who do not forget about their wedding anniversaries!

What would be nice for a wife to receive and easy for a husband to choose?

  • Gift Certificate. Where? Here, focus on your wallet and the tastes of your wife. SPA salon, jewelry store, fashion boutique - in any case, you will give your wife a pleasant surprise and save yourself from the painful choice and fear of not pleasing.
  • A book for recording culinary recipes, if it is beautifully designed and presented with a kiss and admiration for her cooking ability, will undoubtedly delight any housewife.
  • Paper craft kits. Many women, in their moments of leisure, happily indulge in the magic of quilling, decoupage, making papier-mâché and other types of paper-related crafts. There is also craquelure, origami, applique, scrapbooking...
  • Sketch book for lovers of drawing. An album is possible, but a sketch book is more refined and original.
  • Anti-stress coloring book. Beautiful whimsical images that need to be shaded or colored help to calm down, put you in a meditative mood, and create an uplifting mood.
  • Notebooks for self-development. This is the latest trend in the world of creativity psychology. The pages of the notebooks in the “Destroy Me” and “Rediscover the World” series contain interesting and extraordinary tasks that will help you evaluate the surrounding reality with new eyes, throw off the power of stereotypes and simply get a dose of pleasure and good mood.
  • Puzzles are a favorite activity for many ladies, distracting them from negative thoughts and the desire to eat an unaccounted for sandwich. Choose puzzles with at least 1000 elements, with a beautiful picture, or even more interesting, order an individual puzzle based on a photo.
  • Self-adhesive picture on the wall or on the refrigerator. It will decorate and refresh the interior, the main thing is to choose a suitable image.
  • Photo wallpaper, if there is a corner in your home that is scheduled for transformation, and you are ready to help in gluing them.
  • Paper packaging for any gift you choose will automatically turn it into one that matches the holiday theme.

Impressions as a gift - 10 unforgettable surprises

Many people have a philosophical attitude towards material objects, believing that the main thing in life is positive emotions and impressions. Everyone’s right to have their own point of view must be respected and treated with understanding. If there is such an opportunity, you should choose a congratulation that will remain in people’s memory forever.

For your paper wedding anniversary, you can give the following event that will create a bright and unforgettable impression:

  1. Skydiving.
  2. Hot air balloon flight over the city.
  3. Diving into the sea on a mini-submarine.
  4. Scuba diving.
  5. Rope descent.
  6. Passing the track on a roller coaster.
  7. Travel in the cabin of a high-speed train.
  8. Visit to the underwater aquarium.
  9. Tour to exotic countries.
  10. Invitation to the celebration of your favorite singer.

When choosing an original gift-impression, you need to inquire in advance whether the person has phobias. Some are afraid of heights, others of depth, and still others of closed spaces. If this is not taken into account, the holiday may be ruined.

What kind of paper can you surprise your husband with on his second anniversary?

If your attentive husband does not leave you without gifts on family dates, then you should not lag behind! Well, male forgetfulness is a reason to become a legislator of family traditions. Give your loved one a pleasant surprise on your paper wedding day, and he will not be in debt.

And there is plenty to choose from.

  • Business diary, planner, diary. Always necessary for a man of any profession. You can engrave his name or memorable words on the cover.
  • Stationery set. Not exactly paper, but it is designed for writing on paper! Quite a good companion option.
  • Purse. For the same reason as above: it is convenient to store papers and personal documents in it.
  • A passport cover will adequately highlight the owner’s important paper document.
  • A friendly cartoon based on a photograph. You can order such a gift on the Internet. There are also programs that allow you to create it yourself and then print it. Men love warm, friendly banter.
  • Gifts with jokes: if your loved one has a great sense of humor, you can look in the appropriate stores for souvenir toilet paper with interesting designs, for example, in the form of banknotes or fruits.
  • Geographic map of the world: for some reason, many men admit that since childhood they have dreamed of such a decoration for the wall of their room.
  • A set of playing cards, if such a pastime is welcome in the family.
  • Atlas or road maps, if you spend a lot of time driving.
  • A pack of photo paper or printer paper: not quite romantic, but practical and useful.
  • Paper “cake”: slices of a beautifully decorated cardboard cake are mini-boxes, in each of which you can put a small pleasant surprise: candy, a lighter, mini-deodorant, a souvenir bottle of alcohol, etc.
  • “100 reasons why I love you” is an invariably popular gift for women, when the appropriate number of note-paper rolls with mini-confession are placed in a box or jar.
  • The checkbook of desires pleases men with the possibilities that a loving spouse is ready to provide as a gift: “Car Wash”, “Romantic Dinner”, “Private Dance” and even the indulgence “Forgiveness”!
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