The ability to be faithful and maintain good relationships in marriage is a great art. You need to be able to listen and hear, get to know and read your soul mate like an interesting book, and never get fed up with this reading.
If your friends or parents have lived to see their 38th wedding anniversary, know that this couple has a lot to learn. And, of course, there is something to congratulate them on. We invite you to find out what popular name is attributed to the 38th wedding anniversary and what traditions are usually observed in its celebration.
What kind of wedding is this, what is it called?
The couple, who have lived together for 38 years, “grow into” each other, like two closely growing trees that are intertwined with roots, trunks and crowns. They seem to justify the well-known biblical expression - “and the two will become one flesh.” Being at a distance, they feel each other's pain and look forward to meeting again to become a part of each other. Perhaps this was the reason why the properties of mercury were attributed to the anniversary of 38 years of marriage - that’s what kind of wedding is celebrated on this day.
Mercury is a unique and one-of-a-kind liquid metal that can “break up” into many balls and then reunite into a large “puddle” of amazing material. This is the explanation of what kind of wedding is celebrated in 38 years of marriage and why it is called mercury.
The name mercury wedding hints at the flexibility and plasticity of family relationships, the ability of spouses to “dissolve” in each other, to merge into one whole.
Congratulations on the mercury anniversary of marriage
Despite the fact that a mercury wedding is not an anniversary, spouses who have lived together for so many years deserve the best congratulations and wishes.
A quicksilver wedding does not require a noisy feast and a grand celebration
Prose options
Since few people celebrate their 38th wedding anniversary, and if they do, it’s only in the family circle, congratulations to parents are usually prepared by adult children, who themselves are already approaching the border of middle age.
On your family’s birthday, you should not spare kind words addressed to your parents: “Dear dad and mom, thank you for laying the foundation for our family 38 years ago. Now there are three or four times more of us, and all of us - children and grandchildren - happily congratulate you on your mercury wedding. Mercury, of course, is a toxic metal, but we will not focus on this, but wish you to stay together as long as possible, be healthy and active. Prosperity, prosperity and happiness to you.”
Beautiful examples in verse
Wonderful wishes can be expressed in beautiful congratulations on a mercury wedding in verse:
1.
For 38 years you have been together - an ideal family, following your destiny with honor, maintaining loyalty and love. Let health not fail, Let only joy come into the house, To wait for the fiftieth anniversary.
2.
Dear ones, congratulations, we wish you all such love! Even if someone is bored together, you have reached the mercury wedding! We want to wish you to walk until you are a hundred years old!
3.
What kind of holiday, anniversary? The room is full of guests, The house is full of children, grandchildren, Everyone is gathered at the table. The voices are nightingales, What kind of holiday is this? Family day!
The last poem can be read in the form of a riddle, so that everyone gathered in chorus can guess it.
Another option for congratulations in verse
How to mark - script
38 years is not a “round” anniversary date.
This means that those whom they want to see nearby both on holidays and on weekdays are invited to the celebration. Colleagues and friends, relatives and friends who once witnessed the birth of a new happy family and who have been with the spouses for many years will gather around the table on this day. There is no need to organize a noisy feast in a rented restaurant hall. It is enough to invite your closest people to a country house or simply gather them in your apartment. To make a pleasant surprise for parents, their grown-up children think through a holiday scenario in advance, in which they will:
- competitions;
- quizzes;
- games;
- dancing;
- songs.
It is also important what the musical accompaniment will be. Surely parents are pleased to hear the melodies of the songs of their youth. From the very morning, the children and grandchildren of the “young” set the table and decorate the room, in which the music of past years is already playing. You can use balloons and paper garlands as decorations. A collage of photographs depicting the best moments of their life together will help surprise parents.
Here they post photographs of still small and already matured children, grandchildren, and the “newlyweds” themselves in different years of life.
To create a festive atmosphere, vases with a large number of flowers are placed in the room, a table is set and set, and a small coffee table is allocated on which gifts for the spouses from guests and loved ones will be placed.
If the heroes of the occasion do not want to celebrate 38 years of marriage at home or in a cafe (restaurant), but want to spend this day together, then the best solution and gift for them would be a trip organized by friends and relatives. Can't go anywhere?
You can always go on a picnic and have a holiday in nature, remembering those years when future spouses went hiking with their peers. Children decide to give their parents a fabulous evening? You need to book a room in a good hotel and after a festive dinner with your family, send the “young ones” there by calling a taxi or using a personal car.
At the holiday, guests at home will be entertained by the children and grandchildren of the heroes of the occasion.
They can always invite them to take part in various games, quizzes and competitions:
- Guess the melody.
- Who can sing better?
- The most beautiful couple.
- Original dance.
In between competitions, jokes and fun, guests sit down at the table, which always includes cold cuts of meat and vegetables, salads, meat or poultry baked in the oven. Guests will be delighted with a variety of desserts and, of course, a wedding cake.
It shouldn't be too big. The main thing is the original design.
What do you give to your husband or wife?
Considering the property of mercury to turn red in compounds with oxygen (oxides), gifts for a mercury wedding can be selected not only in metallic colors (steel, silver and nickel-plated), but also in red tones. You can give:
- flowers;
- dishes;
- sofa cushions;
- bathrobes and towels.
For a mercury wedding, you can give a silver chain with an amulet (for the husband) or a pendant (for the wife), a silver-plated cigarette case or a bracelet.
Gift ideas for husband and wife
Friends and relatives gather near the “newlyweds” on this day to congratulate them on their next wedding anniversary. All those invited to the celebration bring gifts, which are chosen long before the appointed day. They are also given to each other by those for whom everyone gathered at the festive table.
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A man who, over many years of marriage, has proven his right to be called the head of the family, gives his beloved wife not expensive jewelry (although this is not forbidden), but original costume jewelry. This decision is made based on the fact that mercury is not related to precious metals, but it is the symbol of the 38th wedding anniversary.
When choosing a gift for his wife, a man remembers the properties of mercury. When heated, the metal changes color and turns red. Therefore, silver-colored metal products with red designs, ornaments, and patterns are in great demand among the heroes of the occasion. A gift for your husband would be a ring or a stylish wristwatch with a silver case and a reddish leather strap.
A barbecue or picnic set packed in a stylish leather suitcase will also please you.
Exchange of gifts between spouses.
A bouquet of red flowers for your wife is a good and laconic gift. These can be roses, peonies, daffodils, tulips and other flowers, depending on the taste of the wife. And instead of a traditional bouquet, you can give a chocolate, berry or fruit bouquet; strawberries strung on skewers and wrapped in beautiful themed paper are ideal. You can also opt for high-quality jewelry or silver items. Brooches, earrings, rings, bracelets - the choice is very diverse. We recommend presenting the decoration in a scarlet velvet box of a non-standard shape, in the shape of a chest or heart.
A wife can present her husband with a wristwatch, having previously placed it in a red velvet bag. Cufflinks or a silver tie clip would also be appropriate. If a man smokes, then he should be given a metal cigarette case or a custom-made silver lighter with an engraved inscription. In addition, you can present your spouse with the usual silver jewelry - a bracelet, signet, chain.
What to give parents for their 38th wedding anniversary? Health comes first!
Of course, the elderly couple is looking forward to congratulations on their family holiday and from their beloved children. And for the offspring, this is a great reason to thank their parents for their love and help.
At an advanced age, the most precious gift is health. Issue a gift certificate for wellness treatments in a medical salon: strengthening massage, special baths and other therapeutic procedures will strengthen the body and spirit of the “newlyweds” and extend their life for many more years. You can make a great gift from both your daughter and your son: buy your parents a ticket to a good sanatorium in the mountains, near a river or on the sea.
If the couple leads an active lifestyle and there are no medical contraindications, then a good gift would be a subscription to the pool, an invitation to a gymnastics course for the elderly or lessons at a dance club. Let your grandchildren also take part in preparing the gift. They can help grandparents easily adapt to new active activities.
If children visit their parents less and less over the years, you can give them a pet. But only after prior agreement with the heroes of the occasion!!! Otherwise, the gift risks turning into a heavy burden for the newlyweds. A kitten or puppy of a beautiful dark gray color will be very symbolic. Or even an aquarium with fish of the same mercury shade.
Symbolic gifts
Friends and relatives are sometimes lost and don’t know what to give for a mercury wedding. The first thought that comes to mind is a classic medical thermometer or balls with the number “38”. Meanwhile, mercury is translated from ancient Greek as “liquid silver,” so this meaning can be safely taken as a basis when searching for suitable gifts.
Spouses can be pleased with the following symbolic gifts:
- Small silver items. These can be paired rings
,
bracelets
,
pendants
or
pendants with the names of
the newlyweds.
Paired rings in mercury color with the engraving “Love Forever”
- Objects that quickly change shape.
intricately shaped
hourglass sand paintings
are perfect for this . - Things are red. Since mercury oxide has a dark red tint, the imagination of donors is practically unlimited. You can present your wife with a bouquet
of the desired shade, and your husband with a small
box
or
mahogany
pipe Miniature
mahogany
figurines frames for family photographs
of the same color would be a good gift. If your imagination has run out, then just pack the gift in dark red wrapping paper and attach a beautiful themed card to it. - Photo collages
. You can make them yourself on a large piece of whatman paper, pasting photographs of spouses from different years and providing them with humorous captions. It’s worth showing your imagination and ordering a family tree or an ornate family book bound in dark red.
A symbolic gift should not only be interesting, but also well made. You shouldn’t present it just to fulfill your duty as a polite guest. If you can’t find an interesting thematic gift, then it’s better to pay attention to practical items that are always needed in any home.
Family photo collage: from wedding, birth of children to long life together.
Practical gifts
Often relatives and friends wonder what to give for their 38th wedding anniversary. An excellent solution would be practical things that will be useful in any family:
- Bath accessories. These can be terry robes
and
towels
in red or pale gray with embroidered monograms or wishes on your wedding day. - Kitchen textiles. No housewife will refuse a beautiful tablecloth
and matching
napkins
, interesting
kitchen towels
and original
oven mitts
.
Even an apron
can look like a work of art if you don’t buy it in a store, but order it specifically for the celebration. - Small household appliances. A red kettle
,
a toaster
,
a pancake maker
,
an egg boiler
,
a blender
- these things will not break a hole in the donor’s budget, but the spouses will probably like them, they will constantly use them and remember the joyful date.
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Even when choosing practical gifts, do not forget about the theme of the celebration. If red items do not suit the decor of the spouses’ house or apartment, then you can present things in neutral tones, be sure to accompany them with a memorable inscription or embroidery.
A pancake maker is a convenient device for preparing perfect pancakes.
Original do-it-yourself gifts for the 38th mercury wedding anniversary: non-mercury gifts
Based on the name, it is not possible to give a couple a gift for their mercury anniversary with their own hands. Therefore, improvisation and imagination will come in handy. You can make it yourself and give it to your family for your 38th wedding day:
- A film for “newlyweds” about them. If you're good with video editing and Photoshop, just collect old photos, digitize the films and make a short film with the couple's favorite music.
- Photo collage . Frame photos of the couple in their youth (or with children and grandchildren) in beautiful frames and hang them on the wall as a reminder of a long, happy married life. Frames can also be decorated with your own hands using any available materials - shells, beads, buttons, stones, etc.
- Come up with a poem or song about the life of the heroes of the occasion, if you have musical and rhyming talents.
- Embroidered paintings with threads, beads or ribbons are always welcome. The couple will appreciate the extensive and painstaking work and will be happy to hang the decor in a prominent place.
A picture embroidered with ribbons - home decoration for the 38th wedding anniversary
The same applies to the works of other needlewomen. If you sew or knit, then you will never run out of gift ideas for relatives or friends - blankets, bedspreads, clothes and so on. Even the results of a hobby for decoupage and wood carving can please the “newlyweds” on their holiday. If only with thoughts of loved ones and from the heart.
Every anniversary of family life is a great reason for joy for the whole family.
Not many spouses manage to celebrate such a holiday for the thirty-eighth time. And although the mercury wedding is not a round date, and is celebrated modestly, let the gifts and attention of loved ones please the husband and wife, as on the very first day of their marriage. May you live happily ever after!
Gifts from relatives and friends
What to give to relatives and friends for a mercury wedding? Here are ideas for interesting gifts for the 38th anniversary:
- Tree of Happiness. The 38th wedding anniversary is a great occasion to give such a beautiful and modern souvenir! Its leaves are made of hematite, its structure and color are similar in appearance to mercury, and its leaves are like droplets of mercury. This gift is given as a wish for the best.
- Furniture. An excellent gift for a mercury wedding anniversary would be a desk chair. It will be made in a gray-red style and, possibly, with special embroidery of the spouses' initials or their pet nicknames.
- Lamp. A gift for a mercury wedding in the form of a fancifully shaped metal lamp will delight the spouses. To resemble metal, it will have streamlined details.
- Electronic frame. The spouses will really like this gift, because you can look at the photos without flipping through the albums. You can sit and enjoy the presentation.
- Embroidery. You can make a present with your own hands - embroider a portrait of the spouses. All you need is a photograph of the husband and wife together. When embroidering, you need to use silver threads, which symbolizes the color of mercury.
What to give to parents
Some argue that, given the fact that the wedding is celebrated 38 years after the wedding, guests give the spouses a mercury thermometer so that the degree of the relationship is always normal. We would not recommend giving a thermometer for a mercury wedding to either parents or friends. There are 2 reasons for this:
- giving medicines and medical supplies is not comme il faut;
- Giving potentially dangerous items is also not comme il faut.
The thermometer contains mercury, a toxic metal that is expected to be removed from household appliances in the near future as an extremely dangerous chemical element.
An original decorated cake will be an excellent gift.
You can please your parents with a much more useful and pleasant present:
- dishwasher;
- multicooker;
- bread machine and other household appliances with a steel or chrome-plated body.
A budget option could be a “tropical shower” massage head for the bathroom, a metal rolling table for bringing breakfast to bed, a beautiful poster or a family portrait in a metal frame for the wall.
Pictures and cards suitable for the event
When you are far from home, you can always find a way to congratulate your family on their 38th wedding anniversary, for example, using pictures. To congratulate you on your 38th wedding day, cards depicting:
- vignettes of ribbons and flowers;
greeting card
- bouquets, rings, beads;
Bouquet and rings
- glasses of champagne, boxes of chocolate, cakes.
Photo with glasses
Metal hearts
Image of swans
You can also use humorous pictures
Composition in appropriate tones
How to celebrate your marriage anniversary
The 38th wedding anniversary is not an anniversary date, so few people celebrate it on a grand scale. But in many families, family day is celebrated every year, although only relatives gather - parents, children with wives and husbands, grandchildren. If such a company does not adhere too closely to folk traditions, the celebration of a mercury wedding will be almost no different from celebrating the New Year and the birthday of a household member.
If you are interested in observing holiday etiquette, try to use gray-red colors, mirrors and candlesticks in the decor of the room, use silverware for table settings, and serve a cake decorated with confectionery topping in the form of mercury balls for tea.
A good option to celebrate your family’s 38th birthday is to spend the evening together, you can go to the places where you dated in your youth, sit in a cafe, or ride a river bus. The main thing is not to forget about this date and please each other.
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Copper is so similar to gold, but it fades with time. When youth leaves us, It happens that feelings fade. And on the day of your copper wedding, When love warms you so much, I would like to wish you - May she never grow old!
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Although the past does not drown in the stream of new news, No one remembers how you were not together! Married, just to find out, Probably right from birth? Congratulations on your copper wedding!
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A tender palm lies in the palm of your hand, Words of love are quietly whispered by your lips... Together you have passed through water, and fire, And copper ceremonial trumpets! May fate send you many victories, May your path be filled with joy. And may Copper turn into silver and gold over the course of happy years!
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Happy wedding Copper! To you - reciprocal affection, endless love and carefree life! Live beautifully, Kiss playfully and remember forever the warmth of the first meeting!
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Do you remember the time when they mutually said that yes, you are ready to be a husband, a wife - a happy and friendly family?! Living by the laws of love, you kept your words! Now it’s time to congratulate you on your copper wedding, hurray!
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Happy copper wedding, dear ones! Greetings from your grandchildren! We congratulate you today, we wish you to live many years! Let happiness and comfort be in your home! Let prosperity spoil you! Let spring suddenly wake up in your soul and let your heart begin to flutter!
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Just 4 lines, how can you fit your wishes into them? May all your wishes come true in your 32nd wedding year! May your health be strong, and your happiness simple and heartfelt! Your love will last not years, but longer... Forever!!!
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