Wedding anniversaries
- Bronze wedding traditions
- How to celebrate your 22nd wedding anniversary?
- Let's celebrate together
- Celebration with family and friends
As a rule, spouses remember their family’s birthday with tenderness and warmth. Not all couples celebrate their wedding anniversary, which in our opinion is quite unnecessary. It will never be superfluous to remember the day of the wedding and the feelings for each other that have survived to this day. It doesn't matter which family birthday you celebrate this year. It is important not to forget to congratulate each other on this significant date.
So, after how many years is the bronze wedding celebrated? The bronze marriage anniversary is 22 years of marriage. The golden time, when the children are almost grown up, and you can finally devote your time entirely to each other and live, as they say, “for yourself.”
Ancient and modern traditions and rituals
The time of the Bronze Wedding is compared to the Bronze Age. During this period, many discoveries were made in various fields of activity.
To observe the traditions of a bronze wedding, repeat the ancient rituals:
- to live the next year happily, start your day with kisses and declarations of love;
- remember the happiest moments in your life, look through your family album, take a walk in the park together, take time for each other;
In the United States, a copper wedding is celebrated at 22 years of age. On this day, it is customary to gather a festive table and give gifts made of copper. The husband gives his wife 22 roses, and the wife bakes a cake. People often get married in church on this day.
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Celebrating 22 years of marriage
According to traditions, this period is celebrated in a narrow circle of relatives and only close friends. The main task is to create a warm and homely atmosphere during the holiday. You should not order a toastmaster and have a noisy party. Don’t forget, according to tradition, the date of 22 years of family life is celebrated in the family circle and with like-minded people.
It is believed that if the spouses are in a good mood from the very morning until the end of the day, then the entire subsequent family year will be good. If you have any chores to do around the house, they need to be done before the celebration. The ideal celebration of the date would be a private dinner at home.
It will be a great addition for a wedding anniversary if the owners can cover the table with a bronze-colored tablecloth. You should also try to decorate the entire room in symbolic shades.
How to celebrate your anniversary in an original way
Do not arrange a magnificent celebration on the day of the 22nd anniversary, as this is not a round date. Celebrate your bronze wedding together. This way, you can enjoy each other as much as possible.
Together you can:
- sit at home and remember the bright moments from your life, watch the wedding video and photos;
- book a table in a cozy and calm restaurant;
- go for a walk in the park and ride horses;
- go out for a picnic in nature or just go out of town;
An unusual option: attending a master class on making bronze objects. Make something out of bronze with your own hands, and it will become a symbol of your strong relationship.
If you wish, call close people who witnessed the birth of the family and accompany your family to this day. Gather everyone at a small festive table at home or go out into the countryside to grill kebabs.
22nd wedding anniversary: what theme and design to choose for your wedding
Spend this anniversary brightly and cheerfully, forgetting about difficulties and problems.
Decorate the room where the celebration will take place in bronze style. It is desirable that the predominant color is brown.
Lay a beautiful tablecloth on the table and place beautiful bronze dishes. Place bronze figurines and bronze candlesticks. Don't forget about flowers - they will create a festive atmosphere.
Outfits for spouses
Choose an outfit for a bronze wedding in brown tones with a yellow-red or greenish tint. This color goes well with brown, beige and white.
For the wife, a long floor-length satin dress would be an excellent outfit option. A bronze top with a full skirt also looks great. Don't forget about jewelry and accessories. Metallic belts, bags and shoes remain relevant.
The spouse can wear a brown or dark blue suit. It is better to combine it with a glossy tie and brown boots.
What to cook for a family holiday
To organize a festive table, use a minimum of dishes. Limit yourself to preparing a couple of salads, a few appetizers and hot dishes.
The main course can be French-style meat or roast and potatoes. For alcoholic drinks, give preference to light wine.
Bronze wedding cake
On your 22nd wedding anniversary, prepare yourself or order a beautiful cake from a bakery. The dessert can be made in a unique design.
For example, in the form of a cigarette case or mirror in a bronze frame, a metal box or candlestick, rings.
How to mark - script
The strength, fusibility and at the same time malleability of bronze made it the metal of an entire era in the development of mankind.
In the same way, 22 years lived together already amounts to an eternity for spouses. Opinions differ about the celebration of the 22nd anniversary.
Some experts are sure that this is a modest date that should be celebrated in a close circle of close relatives and friends, little by little preparing for the silver date (it is customary to celebrate it widely). Others are convinced that this is a beautiful number, which has a positive meaning in numerology, and it should still be celebrated on a grand scale, albeit small.
What to give for the 22nd anniversary of marriage
On any anniversary, it is important to pay attention to each other and your loved ones by giving a gift and saying congratulatory words. On the day of a bronze wedding, bronze or copper things are given: trays, coffee pots, wall clocks, a family portrait in a bronze frame, home textiles in brown tones, household appliances.
Congratulations, gifts from friends, acquaintances
Friends play an important role in the lives of spouses, so their congratulations on the bronze wedding day will give joy and a smile to the newlyweds. Take care of a good gift on this day. Make a present with your own hands, because your soul and love will be put into it. What can you give to friends on your bronze wedding day:
- an embroidered picture in a wedding theme;
- a photo collage made up of photographs of spouses and decorated with pictures of their 22nd wedding anniversary;
- family chronicle. To create it, photographs are selected and placed in an album in chronological order.
If you don’t have time to make a present, then give a regular themed gift.
Congratulations, gifts from children
Children are a symbol of love, joy, happiness. When spouses celebrate their 22nd anniversary, usually their children are already adults and independent people. It is especially pleasant to receive congratulations on your 22nd wedding anniversary from children. What can you give your parents for a bronze wedding:
- bronze interior items;
- set of bronze dishes;
- cutlery;
- household appliances;
- home textiles.
You can also give theater tickets, cinema tickets, horseback riding tickets, and shopping certificates.
How to congratulate, what to give to your husband
We should not forget about congratulations on the wedding day of the 22nd year and the spouses.
You don't have to buy an expensive present. The main thing is to show that you still love each other and are ready to live together until the end.
When choosing a gift, consider each other's interests.
It is better to choose a gift that is practical or romantic. For your spouse you can present: a watch, cufflinks, a tie, a purse, a belt, a bronze ashtray and a lighter, a diary and a pen, accessories for a car, a phone, a tablet. A bronze product is the best gift for a man: details in the video:
Congratulations and gifts to the wife from her husband
Despite the fact that more than 20 years have passed since the wedding, the wife always expects attention from her husband in the form of warm words of love. Don't forget to please your loved one with a beautiful bouquet of her favorite flowers on this day. As a gift you can give:
- jewelry with bronze (bracelet, earrings, pendant);
- bronze box;
- luxury perfumes;
- certificate for purchases at your favorite store;
- certificate for visiting a spa treatment or beauty salon.
Bronze wedding traditions
Each wedding anniversary is named in a certain way. All of them are symbolic and carry with them a certain subtext.
A bronze wedding is a special date. A married couple has lived together for a long time
Why is the 22nd wedding anniversary called bronze? This means that the relationship between husband and wife can already be called strong . By analogy, working with metallic materials requires an understanding of the process. It's the same with marriage.
Twenty-two years of family life have clearly not been in vain - a man and a woman, having lived so much time together, already know at what moments they need to give in to each other and at what points to show firmness. Bronze behaves in exactly the same way - malleable in the hands of a master, it becomes hard and resistant to external adversity when it is transformed into a finished object.
We can say that the 22nd wedding anniversary is a bright and pure holiday. The actions of the husband and wife are aimed at preserving the family. For so many years lived together, they became very dear to each other .
Bronze anniversary – hands with rings
There are no traditions of celebrating a bronze wedding passed down from generation to generation. However, this day should definitely be remembered by the spouses .
It is recommended to come up with something symbolic and make each other memorable gifts made of bronze. We have already written about what is customary to give for a bronze wedding here.
Congratulations on your 22nd wedding day in pictures and postcards
Make your congratulations original and unusual by presenting the spouses with a bronze wedding card.
Gift ideas for husband and wife
On this day, according to tradition, spouses give each other objects of art, memorable souvenirs or specially packaged sweets.
Bronze figurines, clocks - table, floor or wall, mirrors in chased frames, photo frames or paintings in beautiful frames.
As a memorable souvenir, you can give an album with joint photographs at different stages of life, a mounted video on a disk, poems written from the bottom of your heart, or a beautiful postcard.
Sweets are presented wrapped in bronze paper and tied with ribbons that will have an appropriate inscription or number, for example, a basket containing 22 chocolates, beautifully packed by hand.
Impressions as a gift
On their anniversary, the celebrants will certainly be pleased to refresh the memories of their honeymoon and other happy moments. You can help them with this!
- A trip to the sea or a ski resort will allow you to escape from boring everyday life for a while and get a charge of positivity for several years to come. Such gifts are often given by children of anniversaries in gratitude to their loving parents.
- Movie or theater tickets are also a good choice - the main thing is to guess the genre!
- Both spouses will surely love a gift certificate to an quest room. You can choose options for a large company or for two, depending on the preferences of the couple.
- Interesting master classes for two are a good choice for active people who like to discover something new. These could be lessons in ballroom dancing, yoga, handicrafts, etc. Such a gift will allow the spouses to spend more time together and take a break from the boring routine.
We hope that our tips will be useful to you!
