15 years of marriage: an anniversary sparkling like crystal

15 years of marriage is a great milestone for a couple and above all it is really a lot of time together. For every couple there are beautiful moments and less beautiful moments: it is not always easy to face the periods and adversities that life can reserve sometimes. And if you are experiencing a crisis with your other half, do not believe that everything is lost: watch the video and find out how to overcome it ... it can really be worth it!

15 years of marriage: the crystal wedding

The 15 years of marriage are an opportunity to worthily celebrate this union with family and closest friends. And maybe even with a small crystal wedding favor! Clothes, accessories, flowers, table decorations and sugared almonds all matched. to the American Emily Post that we owe the list of all anniversaries combined with metals and other materials. Her book Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home became a best seller in 1922. She was the one who defined the 15th wedding year "crystal wedding" and not "porcelain", as others have handed down. Completing three five-year marriage is an important milestone. How do you want to celebrate this anniversary? A little refreshment at home for a few close friends, an escape with your partner in a secret place to all, a family lunch or a day by the pool or by the sea? But maybe you prefer an intimate candlelit dinner for two, because the party is really all to yourself, at least once in a while? n a green location with lots of open spaces now that the summer is not so far away? Whatever your choice, the important thing is to be together and be happy. Sometimes it takes very little to find joy and serenity, forgetting for a day the worries and daily anxieties: two glasses of champagne, a scented candle, many delicacies and the joy of being close.

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How do you celebrate the 15 years of marriage of two friends?

With crystal, the choice is wide: vases, figurines, bon bon holders, and all the objects for the dining table, glasses, carafes, bottles, wine decanters. But also bijoux such as rings, earrings or pendants in Rock crystal (hyaline quartz) will certainly be appreciated. The term rock crystal derives from the Greek Krystallos yalos and means clear ice; in English it is known as clear quartz, that is clear quartz, or as crystal rock. If the gift is for a man can buy cufflinks with crystals set, for a woman with crystal jewels there is only the embarrassment of choice. The crystal has a magical effect, due to its brightness, its elasticity, its transparency, its particular metallic sonority. An excellent choice would be the objects of Bohemian Crystal, very precious, lighter, but harder than the other crystals, very suitable to represent by similitude a bright ratio. Sparkling, sparkling and more and more precious over time. Other gifts that are used to give for friends' Crystal weddings are watches and alexandrite gemstones. This gem is the rarest in the world, also because its beauty is accentuated by the property of changing color depending on the light, sometimes from green with sunlight to dark red with electric light. His rare creations of jewels, rings or pendants are very appreciated for their characteristic "changing color". You could also give them a weekend in their favorite place, if there are many of you, or a surprise party for a very few close friends on the evening before the anniversary, to give each other two laughs and two tears of emotion. A nice gift can also be two glasses of crystal shining like stars, to toast to love, a jade statuette protecting married couples, artistically forged aromatic candles or an album with their photos, collected with the help of other friends.

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The years of marriage: names and metal or material

The wedding anniversary celebrates an important moment in a couple's life, the one in which a new life path is formalized. All the years of marriage spent together have a distinctive name, often different in other cultures: 1st paper wedding anniversary, 2nd cotton wedding, 3rd leather wedding, 4th linen wedding, 5th wooden wedding, 6 ° sugar or iron wedding, 7th wool or copper wedding, 8th bronze wedding, 9th ceramic wedding, 10th aluminum or tin wedding, 11th steel wedding, 12th rope or silk wedding , 13th lace wedding, 14th ivory wedding, 15th crystal wedding, 16th ivy wedding, 17th purple wedding, 18th quartz wedding, 19th honeysuckle wedding, 20th porcelain wedding , 21st oak wedding, 22 bronze wedding, 23rd water wedding, 24th granite wedding, 25th silver wedding, 26: rose wedding, 27th jet wedding, 28th wedding amber, 29th velvet wedding 30th pearl wedding, 31st ebony wedding, 32nd copper wedding, 33rd tin wedding, 34th ampoule wedding 35th coral wedding, 36th silica wedding, 37 38th stone wedding, 38th jade wedding, 39th agate wedding, 40th ruby ​​wedding, 41st topaz wedding, 42nd jasper wedding. 43rd opal wedding, 44th turquoise wedding, 45th sapphire wedding, 46th mother-of-pearl wedding, 47th amethyst wedding, 48th feldspar wedding 49th zircon wedding, 50th gold wedding 55th wedding emerald wedding, 60th diamond wedding, 65th platinum wedding 70th titanium or iron wedding, 75th: diamond wedding, 80th oak wedding.

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How to celebrate the most important wedding anniversaries?

On the first anniversary to be celebrated between enthusiasm and passion, a pink card with an accomplice love phrase will suffice as a gift: one of those only yours or someone stolen from an old love poem. 5th year, the silk wedding, a dinner with two close friends, silk dresses and lots of caresses, 7th year, celebrate in a rustic location, this copper wedding, conductor of electricity and heat, ductile, malleable, difficult to corrode, like your relationship: a little spark and you will not give more credit to popular beliefs about the crisis of this anniversary. Celebrations are a must for the 25th anniversary of the marriage. new promise of love and fidelity in front of the priest, if you got married in church, silverware on the table and, a silver rose as a wedding favor for the guests. The 50th anniversary is a great moment, the golden wedding, a "other an important occasion to renew the wedding vows, perhaps with children and grandchildren to organize everything, and even more so the 60th anniversary, which really deserves a beautiful diamond, a large bundle of white roses and a sober, but sweet and romantic party with closest family members.

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The years of marriage: gifts and flowers, confetti and colors

Here are some gifts and matching flowers for each wedding year:
1st anniversary: ​​the gift is a diary, the flower is the carnation
2nd: a piece of clothing, the lily of the valley
3rd belt or wallet, the sunflower
4th: linen, hydrangea
5 ° a jewelry box, the composite
6º: a horseshoe, the calla
7th: a pullover, the freesia
8º a bronze candle holder statuette, lilac
9º: a ceramic vase, the bird of paradise
10º: rotate for cakes, courgette flowers
11th: an electric mocha, the tulip
12º: a silk garment, the peony
13th: a nightgown
14º: white bijoux, the dahlia
15º: rock crystal pendants, the rose
16º: a climbing plant
17th: a small table, the viola
18th: a rose quartz statuette
19th: flowering seedlings, scented grass pea
20º a Capodimonte porcelain
21º: wooden pen holder
22º: bronze talismans
23º: water jugs
24º: a granite amulet
25th: a silver ring, the iris
26º: a bouquet of roses
27º: jet earrings
28: an amber pendant in silver, the orchid
29º: a velvet jacket
30 ° a necklace or a tie pin, the lily
31º: white ebony bracelet
32º: Thai copper talismans
33º: star pendant or tin cufflinks
34º: a set of perfume bottles
35º: a coral necklace
36 °: a silica keychain
37º; lucky zodiac stones
38º: a vintage jade choker
39º: a jewel symbol of fidelity, agate
40º a ring with ruby, the gladiolus
41º: a brooch with topaz
42º: a jasper heart pendant
43ºa beneficial opal stone
44º: turquoise earrings
45º: a sapphire tie pin
46º: a mother-of-pearl rosary
47º: an amethyst ring
48º: an amulet
49º: a zircon with a white gold chain
50º: a gold ring, the yellow rose
55º: a brooch with an emerald
60º: a diamond ring
65º: a lucky hyaline quartz
70º: a brilliant cut diamond
75º: a platinum bracelet
80º: a brooch in the shape of an oak.

The colors for clothing, decorations and confetti will be these: 1st year Light pink, 5th year Fuchsia, 10th year Yellow, 15th year Sunlight, 20th year Beige, 25th year Silver, 30th Celeste Mare 35th year, Blue 40th year, Red 45th year, Gold 50th year, Ivory 55th year, White 60th year.

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15 years of marriage: how many joys

After 15 years of marriage, the spouses are now one thing, they sense the moods, anxieties and desires of the partner at a glance. And the crystal is a symbol of the transparency that has been created between them, fundamental in a long-term relationship; it is a symbol of a bright, authentic and valuable love. Remember the difficulties faced together in this path, represented by the cuts and engravings of the crystal, which increase its brightness and metaphorically can make us think of the many trials faced together, but also the best days, the sweetest joys shared and the little things daily that every day confirm that your partner is the right person for you.

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