8 years of the wedding are called tin and poppy. Learn about celebration traditions and how to make themed gifts.
8 years of a wedding is a long time. It is not for nothing that such a date is called tin, comparing it with this metal.
Tin wedding - traditions and greetings
This material is made from specially treated sheet steel. It is flexible and durable at the same time. So the husband and wife, they were able to create a fairly strong family over the years, but when you need to be flexible, give in, they compromise. Tin is a shiny mirror material. Therefore, the spouses have already become, as it were, a reflection of each other.
8 years of weddings have another name. It's also a poppy wedding. The custom goes back to antiquity, then a large poppy cake was baked for this event. It was a table decoration, placed in the center of it and was a symbol of love and prosperity for the family.
In esotericism, the number 8 is associated with red. It denotes cheerfulness, love, energy. Therefore, when celebrating 8 years of wedding, red is a priority.
Here are the traditions you can adopt. In advance, the husband had to cut a thin plate out of the tin. On the night before the holiday, he and his wife came to the stable and laid this material on the floor. In the morning, the couple came here and looked if there was an imprint on the plate. If there was a horse's footprint, then the marriage promises to be happy and long. It remained to wash this blank in water, wipe it, wrap it in a cloth and hide it. The spouses had to carefully keep such an amulet.
When the anniversary came, the husband and wife filled a tin bucket with alcoholic beverage, put the tin bucket in there, and left this utensil in the yard. Whoever wanted to drank from here, but had to put in some money in return.
On August 1, a poppy was lit in the church and in the morning before the celebration of the anniversary, they showered them on the corners of the dwelling.
It is desirable that the wife's attire has metal jewelry. And on the lapel of her husband's shirt or jacket - a red poppy was pinned.
Traditionally, 8 years of weddings are celebrated with a small number of guests, in a narrow circle of relatives and friends. But if someone uninvited wanted to go to the holiday, he could do it. Then those wishing to celebrate the event had to dress like the bride and groom, decorate their outfits with tin and make wedding rings out of it. Such people entertained those present and congratulated the real spouses.
8 years of wedding - how to arrange
First you need to choose where the event will be celebrated. Since this is not a round date, it is customary to invite only the closest people. Then they all fit in a small room. It needs to be decorated with tin accessories in advance.
Various metal items are welcome. They need to be polished in advance so that they shine beautifully. Tin cans are also fine, hang them on the wall or ceiling.
To make such accessories, take:
- cans;
- satin ribbons;
- awl;
- threads.
In order not to injure yourself on the sharp edges of the cans, use ones in which the lid opens completely with the help of a ring.
Take out the contents of the container, use it as directed. The jar itself needs to be washed inside and out. To remove the labels, soak the jars in warm water for a while. Then dry and wipe them off. Using an awl, at the top of each can, you need to make 2 holes on opposite sides. Tie a ribbon to each. You can fix these containers with threads, and glue the cans with sheets of paper on which there will be the names of the heroes of the occasion and wishes to them.
Since 8 years of marriage is also considered a poppy anniversary, decorate the venue with these flowers. But now it is not so easy to find poppies and it may not be the season. Then decorate the room with paper or felt poppies. Place napkins embroidered with these flowers on the table. Such a tablecloth will also look beautiful. Place pillows with poppy applique on chairs or armchairs.
Since the figure eight is associated with red, this shade can prevail in the accessories of the spouses, as well as invited guests. Men can be given bow ties, but women? hair hoops of this color.
Headbands, scarves, bracelets for girls will also be very appropriate. A tin name plate can be made for each guest and placed next to the cutlery.
You will learn how to make some of these accessories at the end of the article.
What are the gifts for 8 years of the wedding?
This day should be fun. Therefore, comic gifts are welcome. There used to be such a tradition, the spouses were given a tin container filled with kvass. They had to drink a drink. Now this custom has changed. Husband and wife are given 8 cans of stew and beer each, it is believed that then they will have a well-fed and non-bitter life.
You can present the heroes of the occasion with coffee, tea, spices, cookies in painted tin boxes. Also great gifts will be sets of dishes, iron, cutlery, baking dish.
It is unlikely that the young will refuse a set of bedding, which will be decorated with poppies. The same images can be transferred to paintings and presented with these presentations.
If the gift does not include the attributes of this day, then wrap it in red paper or foil. The presentation will correspond to the theme of the holiday.
Since this is a tin wedding, canned food would be appropriate as gifts. But you need to give dear ones. For example, cans with red or sturgeon caviar, crabs, truffles, foie gras.
For 8 years of the wedding, the husband can be presented with a beautiful tin bucket if the spouse is a fisherman. This is where he will put the catch. If your husband loves to cook, then he will surely like baking sets, professional pans and other utensils. For connoisseurs of strong, expensive drinks, it would be good to present a tin flask filled with expensive cognac or whiskey. And if the hero of the occasion loves beer, he will certainly be delighted with a keg of such a drink.
For 8 years of the wedding, the husband can be presented with a panel made using the technology of chasing. A wife will surely delight her husband if she brings him breakfast in bed in the morning, along with a crown made of foil, and says that he is her king. If the spouse smokes, then he can be handed an engraved cigarette case.
But for 8 years of the wedding, what to give to his wife. If the anniversary is in the summer, then a bunch of wildflowers along with a few poppies will surely please her. The husband will put these flowers in a tin can, which he will decorate with his own hands, using stones, colored threads and ribbons. You can make a box with your own hands or buy it for your beloved.
For 8 years of marriage, a man probably already knows what perfumery his chosen one likes and will present a set in a metal case. But you can give her a certificate so that she herself can buy cosmetics, shoes or visit the spa. Place this certificate in a beautiful tin box.
These are the gifts for 8 years of the wedding will be appropriate for a husband and wife. See how to make some of them yourself.
We make gifts for 8 years of wedding
How to make a vase from a tin can?
To make such a jar, take:
- a can of beer;
- white acrylic paint;
- dark lace;
- glue;
- scissors.
Wash the jar on all sides and dry well. Paint with white acrylic paint. When this layer is dry, glue the laces here, having previously cut them out.
If your spouse loves the Provence style, then the next master class will help you make just such a charming vase from a tin can.
Take:
- a tin can;
- PVA glue;
- a three-layer napkin with a lavender image;
- white paint for metal;
- lace;
- fine sanding paper;
- brush;
- foam kitchen sponge;
- narrow satin ribbon;
- colorless varnish, such as acrylic;
- solvent;
- pliers;
- yellowish acrylic paint.
Remove the label from the can, rinse and dry the container.
If you are unable to remove the label with water and detergent, then do it using white alcohol.
Use pliers to fold over the sharp edges, and use sandpaper to make the sides less smooth. Then decorative materials will fit better here.
Now you need to degrease the surface with white alcohol, then prime the can with white paint on metal.
Remove the top layer of the napkin to make a DIY gift for your 8th wedding anniversary. You only need this upper part. Cut a napkin to the correct size and attach it to the jar. Now moisten it with a spray bottle. Let it dry out quite a bit. And you will pull on the edges to shape and there are no bubbles. Now you need to wet the brush in the glue and apply it over the napkin.
Remove bubbles with a brush or gently smoothing the tissue with your fingers. In this case, do not regret the glue. Let it dry, then remove the rest of the napkin with fine sandpaper.
Fold the top of the napkin inward and glue these places. Just cut off the remnants or cut off with scissors. Look carefully to see if there are any bubbles left. After all, when the glue dries, they will tear the paper and a hole will form here. Therefore, at this stage, remove the bubbles with fine sandpaper.
Glue the second part of the napkin as well. To make the joints less noticeable, gently rub the clear edge with your fingernail. After that attach the second piece. Then glue the napkin to the bottom, and tear off the excess.
To further make a gift for 8 years of wedding for the wife, you need to paint the outside of the jar with acrylic varnish. And so that the junction of the various fragments of the napkin is not noticeable, take a slightly yellowish acrylic paint or ivory and go over these places with a sponge. You can apply this layer to other parts of the vase to get the same color.
Dip a toothbrush in gray paint and, fingering the bristles with your fingers, as if sprinkling the jar with this solution. Take a piece of satin ribbon and glue it onto the inner ledge.
Take a needle with a large eye and thread it through a thin satin ribbon. Pass it through the lace.
Now place this decorative element on top of the jar and tie it. You can give a gift for a cast-iron wedding to your wife. She will certainly be delighted with such a designer vase, especially since there will be beautiful flowers in it.
You can decorate a tin can in another way by gluing mosaic elements here, pasting with cloths or tying them with threads.
To decorate the venue of the celebration, tables, we suggest making the following attributes.
How to make poppies for your 8th wedding anniversary?
Take:
- red, green, black corrugated paper;
- scissors;
- ruler;
- round candies;
- wire;
- threads.
These flowers will be a surprise. After all, there is sweet candy inside everyone. At the end of the holiday, you can enjoy this dessert. First you have to work nicely. To do this, cut out rectangles measuring 7 by 5 cm from red corrugated paper. For each you will need 6 pieces.
It is also necessary to cut a 7 by 7 cm square from black paper.
Measure from the edge of the black square 1 cm and on the other side to this marking, cut it into thin strips.
Shape the red rectangles into petals, then drag them at the top edge.
To make further poppies from corrugated paper, you need to crumple the resulting blanks, and then straighten the petals. Take a nail scissors and make 2-3 cuts on the top of each petal.
Cut a 11 x 3 cm rectangle out of green corrugated paper. Twist it in the middle. Put the candy inside, connect the edges of this paper, twist them.
Cut the wire to the desired size and attach the stamens previously cut from the black square to this stem. Tie with threads. Now attach first one petal outward, then the next and also fix them with threads.
You will have a beautiful poppy flower. Fix all six petals on it, also tying them with thread. Now cut in the center of the bud with nail scissors, and then tint these tails of threads with black acrylic paint. You can make unblown buds from the rest of the candies.
The next master class with step-by-step photos will tell you how to make them.
Take a wire and twist the end of it.
This is necessary in order not to accidentally pierce the candy with the tip of the wire during operation. Cut two ribbons 3 by 8 cm from green paper, and 11 by 3 cm from red paper.
Find the middle of the red rectangle and twist here a couple of times to make a bow.
Remove the candy inside, attach the wire here and fix all these elements with a thread.
Using scissors, make the upper edges of the green corrugated paper ribbons round, then mentally divide into 3 and twist the upper part once and fold it down.
Take two such blanks and put an unblown bud of red corrugated paper and candy between them. Fix with a thread, tie it up. Then cut a thin ribbon out of green paper and wrap the stem with it.
Now you can use not only paper poppy seeds, but also unopened buds to make a picturesque composition.
The bud may be slightly different. Cut out two blanks of green and red paper as shown in the following photo.
Then use scissors to give the petals a semicircular shape. Then pull them by the edges and straighten them, as in the first master class. Also crumple and then spread these elements. Round and shape the top of the green blanks in the same way as in the second master class.
Take two petals and place a candy between them. And put a semicircular blank made of green corrugated paper between this bud, taking also 2 pieces. Secure with thread.
Now you can screw a wire to the bud and hide it by wrapping it in green corrugated paper.
If you wish, place this splendor in a wicker basket, alternating between small and large buds and poppies.
On this day, a woman can remember how she looked at the wedding and held the bride's bouquet in her hands. Since this anniversary is also called poppy, a composition of these flowers would be appropriate. They will not fade throughout the day and the following days if you make them from linen. Picturesque flowers will look like real ones.
How to make fabric poppies?
Take:
- an organza flap measuring 37 by 23 cm;
- chiffon or thin natural silk measuring 37 by 23 cm;
- velvet rectangle 30 by 14 cm;
- four green floristic wires;
- four floristic white wires;
- three pieces of floral wire to make the base;
- PVA glue;
- water-based paints for painting on fabric;
- bulks of different diameters;
- soldering iron;
- narrow or medium Japanese foot;
- tweezers;
- pliers;
- pliers.
You will also need: brushes, paper, palette, container, threads, cotton wool, Japanese stamens. If a woman wants to make such jewelry for herself to decorate a dress or hair, then she will need a base for a hairpin or brooch. Cut the petals out of the fabric, place them on the paper and moisten them with water. Paint the base bright red. Leave the tips white.
When the paint is dry, take two petals and fold them in half. Lay the fabric at a 45-degree angle and blast it over.
Brushes and other poppy elements, such as sepals, are painted first in light colors, gradually add dark green paint.
Heat the tweezers over the fire and use this tool to curl the edges of the petals.
Take pieces of wire and glue petals to each if you are making multiple flowers at once. Then glue the leaves to the other pieces of wire.
Apply a little PVA glue to the plastic and spread it. Now put the sheet here with the wrong side, then glue it to the fabric.
Bubble the sepals on a soft pad to shape them. Take a piece of wire, fold it in half and wrap the cotton with a little glue.
Now you need to glue green leaves to the watt base to form a core.
Take 10 stamens, cut each in half and glue each such bunch at the base. A total of 26 pieces will be needed.
Now glue these elements over the core, placing them around it.
Apply a dash of white paint to add color. Tie and string small petals around this core. Glue each pair of petals at the base.
Then collect the large petals on a string and attach them to the base.
Make a couple of twigs with leaves, wrap the stems with a ribbon of thin green cloth. Cut off excess wire. Glue to the back of the sepals.
Wrap a piece of cloth around the stems. Attach the leaves to the stems. If you are making a hairpin or brooch, then at this stage glue the prepared blanks for these accessories on the back side.
See what kind of flower from the fabric will turn out.
The wife can decorate their hair, and the husband can use such an accessory as a boutonniere.
You can make a panel from salted dough, it will be a great gift, and with such a picture you will decorate the walls of the place of celebration.
Color the frame for your photo. A yellow tone was used here. Now you need to designate in the picture where which elements will be located. It is better not to do this with a simple pencil, as it does not erase very well. Use a crayon or then cover the pencil lines well with dough.
Make a salty dough, add green dye to one part and red to the other. Take a piece of green dough and shape it into a drop.
Flatten it and mark the shape of the future petal with a toothpick. Then cut it out with scissors.
Place the petal on the back of your hand and roll it out with a stick. He has to become subtle.
Draw streaks on this leaf with a toothpick, and then attach it to the picture. Make another one like this and the stems.
Roll a ball out of green dough, flatten it, put a lump of foil in the middle.
Pinch the edges of this blank and turn it into a circle. Give it a conical shape, then use a knife to apply a pattern to the top, making many stripes.
To further make a gift for 8 years of wedding, break off a piece of dough, roll a sausage out of it and flatten it. Now you need to cut the edges of this blank with scissors.
Wrap the middle of the poppy with this piece. Here's what happens.
Take a piece of red salt dough, place it on the back of your hand and roll it out with a stick. Now apply the pattern here with a wooden stick.
Attach the core to the panel, then attach the petals to it. Roll the stems, thin leaves from the green puff pastry. Also commit them here. Make buds from red salted dough.
Make a few more flowers to make 3 pieces. Add a bud. Then paint the picture with gouache or watercolors. Add black paint to the middle of the flower. Leave the picture to dry, after which you can give the picture for 8 years of the wedding or decorate the place of celebration with it.
Here are some wonderful DIY gifts and accessories you can make for an 8 year wedding. The video below will tell you what to give for a tin wedding. You will also learn what kind of attention signs in the form of postcards and inscriptions can be given to a loved one.
