To the question, what kind of wedding, marking 40 years of marriage, the only answer is ruby.
Ruby wedding ... Forty long and not always easy years ...
If a husband and wife celebrate together the fortieth anniversary of their life together, then they are about sixty or more years old. But this does not mean at all that between them there is no love, feelings. Rather, the opposite. Indeed, together they are connected by such a huge number of memories, events - good and bad, so much grief and joy have been experienced, in half.
Probably, it is a ruby wedding that makes it clear that the spouse with whom he lived for forty years is the closest, most reliable and dear person, you and the two of you can bear the burden of living together with him.
Children scattered around, they have their own families, their own concerns. And so they were left alone, retired and living in perfect harmony, experiencing a second spring in their relationship.
The ruby wedding got its name from the red color of the yacht, meaning one thing: during these joint years, the husband and wife became almost blood relatives. And one more sign: ruby has always been considered a stone. symbolizing wisdom and nobility.
Being in the second place after diamond, ruby after processing becomes a beautiful gem. The same thing happens in family relationships : over the years, as if being processed by the jeweler’s confident hand, withstanding numerous difficulties and hardships, they become stronger. And after forty years, love not only does not fade, on the contrary, it lights up with the bright light of a ruby, turning into a jewel.
A ruby wedding is a holiday symbolizing a long and beautiful love. Therefore, it is necessary to celebrate it in a special way to make it especially expensive for anniversaries, a triumph that has been remembered for the rest of their lives.
How is a ruby wedding celebrated?
Based on the color of this gemstone, one can easily understand that red will dominate the celebration. For this purpose, you can decorate the room in which the 40th anniversary of the wedding anniversary will be decorated with curtains, a tablecloth, heart-shaped balloons with everything that has a red color. It is advisable to place posters with congratulatory inscriptions everywhere.
There are practically no ceremonies to host a ruby wedding. However, in the Caucasus there is still a very beautiful custom that can be used at celebrations in other countries. Spouses should eat ripe pomegranate together. Moreover, the husband should cut it without a knife, and the wife should clean it. Then the “newlyweds” feed each other with grains, while sentencing affectionate words. And if pomegranate is eaten to the last seed, and the words have never been repeated, it is believed that they lived together for forty years in vain, preserving their love and understanding.
There is another custom: on this day, the wife and husband eat cherries joined by legs, and the bones are buried. It is said that in a few years two cherry trees with intertwined trunks grow on this place.
And what is given for a ruby wedding?
Of course, the main gift is, of course, a ruby, products and jewelry from it. These are usually earrings, rings, bracelets, pendants, etc. If the gift is not allocated a very large amount, then you can go to the trick and give a watch: after all, in any mechanical model of a watch, a ruby, albeit an artificial one, is necessarily used.
In general, you can give absolutely everything that has a red color - fine wine, bouquets, home plants that bloom in such a shade - azaleas, pelargonium, which are the guardians of the family hearth, etc. In the end, you can just wrap the present in ruby colored wrapping paper.
However, there are certain things that can not be given to a ruby wedding. These are clothes, bedding , kitchen utensils and a service. The main thing in a gift is the love and respect invested in its purchase.