Wedding anniversary
Wedding anniversaries are the anniversaries of the wedding. They are together with the duration of the marriage in the German language has various names. Certain anniversaries was attached special importance in the 19th century, in particular, these are the silver wedding anniversary (25 years), the golden wedding anniversary (50 years) and the diamond wedding (60 years). Golden weddings are already detectable in 1600.
Over time, many other anniversaries names have been assigned, some of which a certain spread enjoy, be partially used only regionally. In addition to the annual anniversaries of some names for broken holidays have emerged, which are derived from 25 - yearly basis. For 12 ½ years and 6 ¼ originated in the 19th century by continuous halving years and 37 ½ years, which can be understood as a halving of 75 years. Others broken holidays such as 3/4 year or 72 ½ years was of no particular importance are assigned, they may like some of the wedding day names be purely in jest.
The names, there are many regional variations, so wear some anniversaries different names. Many names are also assigned more than once, so, for example, iron wedding for 6, 41, are 60, 65, 70 or 75 years of marriage. Helmut Walther of the German Language Society noted in a review article that in the naming of many anniversaries that " business interests esp. of flowers and the jewelry trade [ ... ] can not be overlooked [ are ]. "