For 11 years of wedding (steel anniversary), you can make gifts with your own hands. Take on the arsenal of ancient traditions, games, to celebrate this date.
11 years of the wedding is a very interesting date. The family is over a decade old. During this time, the spouses have established a life, built a house or acquired another home, raise a child or children, and pursue a career.
Traditions and customs for 11 years of wedding
This non-round date is called steel. The marriage has already become as strong as this metal. But this material is not natural, it is created from a mixture of iron and carbon. So the spouses by this time had already been able to turn their relationship into strong and durable. But you need to continue to work tirelessly on them.
These are the popular beliefs that were observed in the old days and it is advisable to use them now:
- For 11 years of the wedding, it is customary to update your home. You can make major or at least cosmetic repairs, buy pieces of furniture, household items. If you are limited in funds, then you need to make at least a rearrangement in the house.
- Plan your free time so that you can do a spring cleaning a few days before the event.
- By this date, the spouses must do something together. For example, hang a lamp, a horseshoe. In this case, the husband will install these things, and the wife will give the tools.
- Before celebrating 11 years of marriage, the couple should take a steam bath or swim in the river. After all, it is generally accepted that water washes away the negativity and troubles that could have been in the family during 11 years of a joint wedding. After that, you need to put on clean clothes. If there is no way to go to the bathhouse or swim in the river, then you can take a bath.
- A pleasant tradition is that you need to give gifts for 11 years of the wedding. The spouses will exchange them. They should sit opposite and, saying pleasant words, wishes, give presents and thank the soul mate for the given happiness.
- You need to prepare a blade, rope, dough in advance. Someone from friends or relatives should invite the spouses to choose something from these things. If they took the blade, it meant the inviolability of their marriage. If you preferred to take a rope, then feelings still have to pass the test of time. If the spouses chose the dough, this meant the instability of their relationship.
- It is customary to celebrate 11 years of the wedding cheerfully and noisily, with dances, songs, delicious dishes, inviting many guests. The husband will give his wife 11 flowers. There is an interesting custom regarding this.
If the flowers donated by the spouse will stand for 11 days without withering, it means that the next years of life together, the family will be in peace and harmony.
But in general, one should not take such beliefs too seriously. The husband and wife have lived together for 11 years, and this says a lot, and this figure itself is very interesting in this interpretation, since there are numbers 1 and 1, which means that the loved ones have become equal partners and a real couple.
11 years of wedding - what do they give?
Presentations can be practical, or they can make you smile and laugh. But you can hand them over so as to please the heroes of the occasion and the audience, with jokes and jokes.
Practical gifts include:
- coffee maker;
- set of dishes;
- kettle;
- a set of kitchen little things;
- expensive watches;
- telephone;
- household appliances, for example, a multicooker, toaster, blender;
- safe;
- if a couple goes in for sports, then you can hand over a simulator, a bicycle;
- brazier;
- fondue set.
Here's what a husband can give his wife:
- metal box;
- jewelry made of jewelry steel;
- a beautiful mirror in a shiny frame;
- telephone;
- notebook.
A wife can give her spouse for 11 years of marriage:
- hookah;
- expensive cufflinks;
- metal flask with engraving;
- a set of steel glasses;
- set of tools;
- watch.
It is interesting to create gifts with your own hands. They can be given along with purchased presents.
How to make a DIY gift for a steel wedding?
To make such a present for 11 years of wedding, take:
- wire;
- scissors;
- foil.
First you need to weave the base from the wire. If you can't get it so voluminous, just make a blank for the stem and leaves. And if you want to make a voluminous one, then take a scrap of a bottle, its upper part, and tie this part with wire to make a vase.
And to make a rose, you need to take a 50 cm long rectangle of foil, bend it at the top and bottom.
Now twist this workpiece clockwise or counterclockwise so that you get a bud on top, and a leg below. You will highlight it if you press here with your hands.
If you want to put candlesticks on the tables, then foil will also come in handy.
To make such a gift for 11 years of wedding, take:
- a strip of foil measuring 11 by 200 cm;
- ruler;
- white cardboard;
- pencil;
- scissors.
Cut a 3 x 21 cm strip of cardboard. This will be the template you will use to cut the strips.
But first, cut 6 strips measuring 9 by 21 cm. And chop the rest of the foil with scissors according to this template.
When cutting the foil, proceed carefully so as not to tear it and preserve the integrity of the material. Now these strips need to be twisted to get such flagella. Roll them up from thin strips and wider strips of foil.
First take a thick flagellum, step back 6 cm from its edge, make a fold at a right angle. In the same way, arrange another flagellum and connect both together. After that, make another rectangle of the same size.
Cut each remaining thick flagellum in half and fasten the rectangles made with these details. The frame is ready. Now you need to decorate it. Take thin flagella and roll each into a spiral, the diameter of which is 3 cm. To then fasten these spirals to the base, you need to cut two flagella into six parts.
Attach the first curl to the bottom of the future candlestick and secure it with an additional piece. Attach three more spirals in the same way. Then decorate the rest of the sides of the flashlight with such curls, leaving only one free. Attach the flagellum as a handle to the lantern and you can install a candle inside.
You can make a gift for 11 years of wedding, which will be an old photo frame. Not everyone will immediately guess that the foil also helped to make this effect of antiquity.
Take:
- foil;
- art brushes;
- glue stick;
- acrylic paints: bronze, brown, black, green;
- hairdryer;
- a jar for water;
- 2 sheets of A4 paper;
- scissors.
Attach the paper to the foil, cut the foil so that the resulting rectangle is slightly larger than the sheet.
Roll a lump out of the foil, and then straighten it, but do not smooth it so that it remains so wrinkled. Spread glue on a sheet of paper and attach the foil to it, straightening it slightly. In this case, folds should remain. Apply a thin layer of bronze paint to the foil, dry with a hair dryer or simply in the air.
You can use this entire sheet or cut out the desired size. Now take the second piece of paper, apply a little of all four colors on it. Blend them with a brush, but only slightly combining the shades so that you can see a clear color transition. Color the foil with this solution.
Dry the workpiece. To achieve the relief, squeeze a very small amount of bronze paint onto your fingertips. Run them over the already designed foil. Then the depressions will remain black, and the bulges will acquire a beautiful bronze color.
Tint the entire surface of this material in this way, and then use it by wrapping the frame.
If you make a background of foil, then you can glue a photo of the heroes of the occasion in the center and give them such a present. To make a similar blank, take:
- foil;
- acrylic primer;
- thick cardboard;
- glue;
- foam sponge for dishes.
Spread the glue on cardboard, glue the pre-crumpled foil rectangle onto it. Attach it to the cardboard using a dish sponge. Wrap the edges of the foil over the cardboard, grease the wrong side of the cardboard rectangle with glue, smooth out the foil and glue it here.
Apply acrylic primer to the sponge and tint the surface of the foil on the face with it. Let the soil dry out a little, then apply a second layer with dabbing movements, without rubbing this mass.
Delight the young by decorating the 11th wedding anniversary venues with silver butterflies that look like steel. Take:
- foil;
- cardboard;
- butterfly wings pattern;
- acrylic paints.
Cut out two butterfly wings from cardboard, prime one half. Glue the crumpled and straightened foil here. Then cut it along the contours of the workpiece.
Decorate the other half of the wings in the same way. You can leave the wings as they are by tying them together with a thread, passing it through the holes made by a hole punch.
Or you can paint a butterfly, then stick family photos here and decorate with such cute little things the place where you will celebrate 11 years of your wedding.
You can make many more beautiful things out of foil that will shine like steel.
For example, a beautiful panel designed to give the family prosperity. It is necessary to make a base from plywood or thick cardboard, then make a bronze background with acrylic paints. Paint the wire with the same composition, twist it in the form of a trunk and tree branches. Glue to base. Glue the coins on top in the form of leaves using a hot gun.
You can also glue coins around the perimeter of the frame, such products look very stylish. Instead or alongside them, steel bolts are used, which will also help make a great gift for an 11 year wedding.
Ceremonies and congratulations for 11 years of wedding - steel anniversary
Some of them can be included in the scenario of the celebration of this event, the rest can be held the day before.
Earlier, after 11 years of marriage, an interesting ceremony was held. He will help the spouses say that together they were able to go through copper pipes, water, fire. At dawn, the husband and wife should come to the lake and plunge into the water. You need to stay here for at least 10 minutes, after which you need to go out and put on white clothes. But this is possible only in the warm season.
When it is cold outside, it was necessary to bring firewood for the fire in the evening, light it, and install boilers on top in advance, into which water was poured. Such bonfires should burn all night, and in the morning the water will be at the right temperature. Then the couple held hands and climbed into the boiler with warm water. You also need to stay here for at least 10 minutes, then put on light clothes.
But this is only a preliminary mission before going through the rite of passage. And it began with a song called "Ode to Marriage", which should be sung by children. Since the ceremony is old, the original text has not survived, so you can use another song, the meaning of which is that spouses who have lived together for more than 10 years are worthy of respect and become an example for others who are not yet married or have less family experience life.
While a similar song sounds, a husband and wife are standing near their house, on the doorstep. This threshold symbolizes the transition to a more fulfilling, strong marriage.
Now the ceremony itself began. It was led by a priest or an old and respected resident of the settlement.
The man asked the husband and wife if their feelings were strong? They answered positively. At the same time, the more amicably the spouses answer the question posed, the more it is confirmed that they answer truthfully.
Now the elder asks the heroes of the occasion, are they ready to start the ceremony and accept it? They answered with consent, and then they were given three things:
- rope;
- steel blade;
- dough.
Husband and wife briefly consulted and chose a specific subject.
If it was a rope, then it symbolizes the road. This means that the couple knows each other well, but in order for their union to become even stronger, they still have to go some way together.
If dough was chosen, the sign was interpreted in such a way that the marriage of the spouses, like dough, is vague, not very stable, and they still do not feel that they are a strong support for each other. Therefore, such a couple did not undergo the initiation ceremony.
If a steel blade was chosen, it meant that the feelings of the young are very strong, like a steel weapon. And the husband and wife are not afraid that such a blade may be aimed at one of them, since they completely trust each other.
Depending on what subject the husband and wife chose, this was the further part of the ceremony. If you chose dough, you need to bake a cake from it. Then the mass will become denser, and next year the couple will be able to go through the ceremony again on the doorstep. And this treat was treated to the audience, who came to celebrate 11 years of the wedding.
If a rope was chosen, then it had to be folded in half and twisted. Then this thing was put under the threshold, and the next year the couple will be able to perform the ceremony again. In this case, the rope represents the path that the couple must travel.
If the young people chose a knife, then the priest or elder invited them to kneel next to each other so that there was practically no free space between them, and only the blade of the knife could pass.
The elder took a knife and conducted it from the shoulder to the elbow. If the couple is not afraid of this test, the husband and wife will not distance themselves from each other, which means that they are worthy of each other.
After the end of the ceremony, the young were covered with a white veil as a sign that their hearts and thoughts are now one whole.
Then the old man or the priest left, and the married couple had to stand like this for some time. The ceremony is over. At the end of it, the young people got up and wrapped the knife in a blanket.
Another tradition for 11 years of marriage was that the husband and wife had to exchange expensive items. At the same time, they had to say: "I use this thing (name it) every day, I cannot do without it, but I trust and give it to you." Thus, the couple exchanged things.
Another tradition for the steel anniversary is that the husband should give his wife 11 flowers that will not fade for 11 days.
It is believed that if the flowers stand for 11 days and do not wither, then the couple will not break up. Therefore, use flowers that do not fade for a long time.
You can take another tradition into service. It was customary for the spouses to leave on this day in a carriage. It is decorated with colorful ribbons, of which 11 were taken. Horses were also decorated with ribbons.
But wealthy people could afford it. And the villagers, celebrating 11 years of the wedding, sat on a bench, and the spouses said kind words to each other.
When you celebrate 11 years of your wedding, include not only ceremonies, but also fun games. The next one will require some liquids and 11 identical glass containers.
When pouring into each specific liquid, you will need to know the symbolic meanings. See what each drink stands for:
- vodka - bitterness;
- wine - tenderness, aroma;
- lemonade - sweet dreams;
- juice - freshness, naturalness;
- syrup - sweetness;
- rum - adventures;
- champagne - joy, playfulness, celebration;
- whiskey is a fortress;
- coffee is unknown;
- tea - comfort, constancy;
- compote - variety;
- broth - warm;
- jelly - household chores, business;
- beer - intoxicated state;
- milk - health;
- kvass - persistence;
- cognac - friends.
Put the selected drinks next to the couple, you will say what you want them, and they will have to drink a drink symbolizing this. If the spouses can master all 11 drinks, then they will be able to withstand the test.
Include other games for 11 years of marriage. And what, the next story will tell you.
See how you can congratulate the heroes of the occasion on this day.
