A DIAMOND WEDDING.

Press, Volume XLIII, Issue 6544, 13 September 1886, Page 3

A DIAMOND WEDDING.

A diamond wedding is, for very obvious reasons, an event of sufficient rarity to call for notice—indeed, we donbl if any before, except the memorable celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the wedding day of Marshal Yon Wrangel, both hueband and wife, of course, being living, has occurred within reasonable memory. The village of Aseche, however, in Belgium, celebrated the diamond wedding of the father and mother of the President of the Belgian Chamber, with all possible honors, including a religions ceremony—of what nature, and oa what grounds, ecclesiastical experts may find congenial occupation in trying to decide. There are various versions of the order of nomenclature of matrimonial anniversaries. The twentyfifth is of course the silver, the fiftieth the golden, and the rarely-reached seventy* fifth the diamond, when jewels are bestowed, somewhat late in the d«y, except for the heirs of the nono-genariaoe. Ie is also, we believe generally agreed that the fifth anniversary is a wooden wedding, when all presents should be made of wood juet when, as a rule, a more valuable material is the most required. But there are also the tin wedding, the copper wedding, and the paper wedding, when Bank cheques *nd Bank notes should be considered de rigueur. Tne latter three are American developments of the original German notion of silver and gold, followed occasionally by the wedding of diamond, of which that of M. and Madame de Lantsbeere is only the second to which the position of the parties has drawn special attention.