Wedding Anniversaries.
The wedding anniversaries are as fob lows : At the end of the first year, the cotton wedding ; at the second, the paper wedding. In three years comes the leather, at live the wooden, at seven the woollen,at ten the tin, atl2(hcs!lk . r fine linen, at Id the crystal, at 20 the the china, at 2d the silver. All gifts leceivcd should bo of the matorialauitab.e to the character of each anniversary, and thus in later years the presents grow more costly. At the end ot 2U years is the pear! wedding, then comes the golden at the half century ; and the (fOilr anniversary,rarely reached, is the diamond.
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1680, 11 May 1885, Page 3
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109Wedding Anniversaries. Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1680, 11 May 1885, Page 3
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