Bob and Dawn celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary at Bay View Estates with DJ JT Cruise
When did the Anniversary Celebration and Gift Giving Tradition Originate? In early times a man would present his wife with a silver wreath on their 25th anniversary and a golden one on the 50th anniversary. Hence arose silver and golden wedding anniversaries. The practice of giving peculiar gifts on various wedding anniversaries originated in Central Europe. Among the medieval Germans it was customary for friends to present a wife with a wreath of silver when she had lived with her husband twenty-five years. The silver symbolized the harmony that was assumed to be necessary to make so many years of matrimony possible. On the fiftieth anniversary of a wedding the wife was presented with a wreath of gold. This practice, borrowed from the Germans, has been elaborated upon in modern times. I'm sure on mine, my wife will just want to know whether or not I took the trash out.
