Spouses magnificently celebrated already both print, and wooden, and tin weddings... Years passed so quickly, and the turn came to celebrate the 19th anniversary which carries rather curious name - a krypton wedding.
Wedding anniversaries
The most widespread and most popular anniversaries are:
- a print wedding – the first year of joint life; - a paper wedding – the second year;
- a wooden wedding – five years together; - a copper wedding – when spouses lived seven years together; - pink (or tin) a wedding – ten years of joint life;
- crystal (or glass) a wedding – fifteen years together; - a porcelain wedding – twenty years; - a silver wedding – twenty five years together; - a pearl wedding – thirty years of joint life; - a ruby wedding – forty years together; - a golden wedding – fifty years of joint life. Nineteen years of joint life and, respectively, the nineteenth anniversary from the wedding day are designated a krypton wedding.
Krypton wedding: value of the name
Krypton is a chemical, to be exact gas which has neither color, nor taste, nor a smell. This gas is used in production of energy saving lamps. The krypton wedding symbolizes that light of the relations between spouses did not go out yet, and the relations passed into quieter and measured mode.
Unfortunately, many ignore this date though it is very important as this anniversary precedes all the known porcelain wedding.
Krypton wedding: traditions and ceremonies
There is a little-known tradition – to devote day of a krypton wedding to purity as spouses have to finish one cycle of life and pass into another. They have to discuss and forgive all offenses, otherwise often happens so that after the krypton wedding the relations in family worsen. It is the critical period, and it will be most correct to remain together this day.
It is the best of all to celebrate a krypton wedding in a small and quiet circle of family or together.
There are two ceremonies through which there have to pass spouses if they want to celebrate a krypton wedding. The first is an ablution of legs each other. It is very intimate moment when spouses approach and show as far as they trust each other.
There is a version that the ceremony of ablution of legs came from Asia as there purity of legs is considered very important.
The second ceremony is an ignition of a candle. Newlyweds set fire to a candle during the wedding ceremony earlier. Now, when contract marriage in the REGISTRY OFFICE, this tradition can be executed during this holiday. On a krypton wedding of the spouse can light a candle and swear each other oaths or promises, it will help to keep them good relations among themselves. People not just like that give the name to wedding anniversaries, but many forget about it today. Perhaps, if spouses celebrated every anniversary according to traditions, there would be more happy marriages.