A DIAMOND WEDDING.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1556, 14 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 doubt if any before, except the memorable celebration ■: of the sevenlyfifth anniversary of Marshal Yon WVangel, both husband and' wife, of course, being living,- has occurred wiihin reasonable memory. The village of Assche, however, in Belgium, celebrated the diamond wedding of the father and, mother of the President of the Belgian Chamber, with ail possible honors, in eluding a religious ceremony—of what nature, and on what grounds, ecclesiastical experts may find congenial occupation in trying to decide. There are j various versions of the order of nomenf clature of matrimonii! anniversaries, j The twenty-fifth is of eburse the silver, \ the fiftieth the golden, and the rarelyreached seventy-fifth the diamond, when jewels are bestowed, somewhat late in the day, except for the heirs of the nono-genarians. It is also, we believe, generally agreed that the fifth anniversary is a wooden wedding, when all pre senls should be made of wood, just when, as a rule, a more valuable materia) is the most required. ; But there are also the tin wedding, the copper wedding, and the paper wedding, when Bank cheques and Bank notes should be considered de rigueur. The \latter three are American developments of the orgiual German notion of silver and gold, followel 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.