13 years of the wedding are called lace and lily of the valley anniversary. Learn how to make lilies of the valley from different materials, how to make themed Lily of the Valley salad, how to create a family amulet.
It just so happened that each wedding anniversary has its own name. 13 years of marriage is no exception. Since this figure is considered mystical, there are ancient rituals that can be performed the day before and on this day.
13 years of wedding - traditions and rituals
This date is usually called a lace and lily of the valley wedding. These names are given to this event for this reason. Although the relationship between husband and wife has been going on for quite a long time, they remain graceful like lace, as well as delicate and fragile, like flowers.
The couple have been living together for 13 years. During this time, their relationship, as it were, took the form of patterns. And the better the husband and wife treat each other, the more beautiful lace pattern of feelings they manage to create. But if this material is handled carelessly, it can be ruined. So in the relationship between husband and wife, even one mistake can lead to serious trouble.
It is no coincidence that 13 years of the wedding are also called a lily of the valley wedding. It is a perennial plant that blooms again and again every spring. So even slightly faded feelings of the spouses can be revived to a new life and a former passion can be awakened.
Due to the fact that the number 13 is considered mystical, there are several traditions. It is believed that if the following ceremonies are carried out, then evil will not be able to interfere with the husband and wife in their further family life.
- They say that aspen and nettle are able to ward off evil spirits. Therefore, the whole family performed the following ceremony. First, it was necessary to prepare these plants, then the wife and her daughters wove wreaths from this raw material (either from aspen or from nettle). They had to be hung on a gate or front door. And what remained of the prepared raw materials, the head of the family, together with his sons, had to turn into brooms. With these tools, rubbish was swept out of the house.
- Another tradition is also designed to bring the family together. All members of this unit of society had to dig a hole in the yard in which a birch should be planted. Then it is necessary to water it and tie a lace ribbon around the place on the trunk. At the same time, family members asked this tree to protect their home from evil spirits and evil spirits.
- For another 13 years, it is customary to celebrate the wedding with a small company of only close people, so that none of the strangers can jinx family happiness.
- But even this small company should celebrate 13 years of marriage with fun and noisy, including perky dances and songs in the program of the event. After all, it is believed that loud sounds, noise can scare away evil spirits from the family hearth.
If you want to learn how to make a nettle and aspen wreath, then watch the master class. You will also be interested in learning how to get fiber from nettle. After all, like the number 13, this plant has a touch of mysticism. Therefore, it is often used to make various amulets. You can make one of them and give the young people a wedding for 13 years, so that their union only grows stronger day by day, and no external factors interfere with this.
How to make an aspen wreath for your 13th wedding anniversary?
If you are celebrating 13 years of marriage together during the cold season, then the aspen branches will be without leaves. But then you can decorate the wreath as you like and transform it. You can also drape such items with natural or artificial flowers. Take:
- aspen branches;
- secateurs;
- wire;
- twine type rope;
- tapes;
- flowers;
- scissors.
Roll up the aspen branches so that you get a ring, the diameter of which is about 30 cm.
As you can see, you need to add more branches to get a voluminous wreath. Tie it up with twine. If you have a bright decorative cord, then rewind the wreath with it. If you will then decorate the products with fresh flowers, then at this stage attach cones that will need to be filled with water. It is in them that you insert fresh flowers. You can add feathers to the composition, such a wreath will look even more festive.
If you decide to celebrate 13 years of the wedding in the warm season, when there are still leaves on the aspen, then weave a wreath, leaving them behind. It can be decorated with flowers, beads, other decorative elements, or left so cheerful green.
How to make a nettle bracelet for a lace wedding (13 years old)?
A wreath from this plant must be weaved, wearing thick gloves so as not to burn yourself. If you want your family to have a durable amulet, then you can first make yarn from this plant, then weave a bracelet. His wife will wear during the celebration of 13 years of the wedding and can be worn as a talisman.
Check out first how to make nettle yarn, then you will learn how to make a bracelet from it. First, arm yourself with thick gloves and a knife. Now cut the branches and lay them on the ground. Tap them with the butt of a knife for about 10 minutes.
But do not do this too hard so as not to cut the stems where you are working on them.
Flip them over occasionally to knock on all stems evenly with a knife.
Here's what you should get for now.
Making yarn from nettle is quite a hassle, so you can use last year's stems. If you break them, you will see that they have soft and delicate fibers. There is almost no trash impurity here.
It will be extremely interesting to celebrate 13 years of the wedding if you engage in such a magical ritual in advance, as in the old days, get nettle fibers. At this time, you can feel like the heroine of a fairy tale - Elsa, who tore the nettle, made yarn from it to knit shirts for her brothers and save them. But you will not do it with your bare hands.
After you separate the impurities from the nettle fibers, the fabric should be brushed out with a hairbrush.
Previously, fibers that were of medium length were called bundles. Long fibers were called tows. The tow was used to make fabric, from which clothes, tablecloths, bed linen were sewn. And yarn was made from the pache, which was then used to make a coarse cloth for the manufacture of blankets, sacks, capes and bedding.
If you do not have last year's nettles, but this crop, then before you brush it, you need to beat it properly using the following tools.
Now that you have the fibers, you can weave them into a wreath or fabric for the bracelet. But first you need to comb the bundles of nettle yarn with a small metal brush.
You will need to take exactly what remains on the brush, the so-called comb.
And what remains is the tow. It can then be spun from it. You need to scratch on both sides. But while you put this tow aside, take only the comb. It needs to be placed on the dublerin. Apply in multiple layers. There should be no gaps between the fibers.
Draw 2 cm wide strips on the dublerin in advance. Then iron this flooring with nettle yarn on the 1st and 2nd sides. Now manually sweep this fleece to the doublerin. Just sew in coarse stitches. Now sew on the sewing machine. It is necessary to stitch exactly on the double, and the nettles will be located at the bottom.
Now cut the fabric into strips. Also cut strips from flax. But they should be wider than nettles and longer.
To further make a gift for a 13 year wedding, fold the sidewalls of the flax strips. Iron it. Now place the nettle strip on top.
It remains to sew these two blanks together and attach Velcro to fasten such a natural bracelet.
How to decorate your 13th wedding anniversary venue?
This issue also needs to be given due attention. Since lily of the valley is the main flower at this holiday, if you are celebrating an event in May, then decorate the room with these flowers. If you are gathering guests at other times of the year, then decorate the place of celebration with white flowers. You can also use cream shades.
Hang white lace tulle on the windows, or just wash the new lace curtains well and bleach them. You can place this beautiful fabric on the walls by decorating those. Also cover the tables with lace tablecloths, serve them with crystal and silver dishes. After all, she makes a ringing, which, according to legends, will scare away evil spirits, and in this way you can protect your family happiness.
Place the cutlery on lace napkins or make appliqués or embroidery in the form of lilies of the valley and decorate the napkins in this way.
Place your favorite food on the tables. Decorate the salads with a mayonnaise net, and turn the egg appetizer into lilies of the valley. You can make decorations in the form of these flowers and also decorate dishes. You will get acquainted with some ideas right now.
Lily of the valley salad recipe for 13 years of wedding
It will take center stage on the snack table. It is done simply, but it looks impressive.
To prepare this delicious dish, take:
- chicken eggs - 4 pcs.;
- crab sticks - 1 pack;
- hard cheese - 200 g;
- frozen butter - 100 g;
- apple - 1 pc.;
- mayonnaise - 200 g;
- onions - 1 head;
- feathers of green - onions.
Multilayer salad.
- To make the first layer, you need to grate the protein separated from the egg on a coarse grater.
- The second layer consists of grated cheese and frozen butter.
- The third row is chopped onions.
- 4 consists of crab sticks cut into a circle.
- The next layer is a grated apple.
Each of these rows must be greased with mayonnaise. Sprinkle the prepared salad with grated yolk on top. Cut out small blossoming lily of the valley buds from chicken protein, and make the stems of these plants from onion feathers. For the leaves, you need to cut four onion feathers in half lengthwise, slightly stepping back from the edge. On the reverse side, unfold these leaves so that on the front they turn out to be wide.
By the way, such a decoration in the form of lilies of the valley can be useful for other salads. You can make a herring under a fur coat, and decorate it with such an edible flower on top. It is also easy to make a vegetable salad decorated with carrots, and also decorate it with edible lilies of the valley.
You can decorate your dish by making onion lilies of the valley. To do this, you need to take an onion. It can be either white or sweet blue. Cut 4 barrels off with a sharp knife.
Now take 4 given blanks and divide them into petals. Each such petal must be cut on one side so that there are three triangles here. It is more convenient to do this when these blanks are on the back side.
Take three washed onion feathers, slightly stepping back from the top, make a slot along each.
Now unfold the feathers of the onion and you will have lily of the valley leaves. Take three branches of dill, remove their lush leaves and arrange these blanks as lily of the valley stems. Attach lily of the valley flowers to them. They can be either lilac or white.
Now that you are celebrating 13 years of your wedding, you can make such beautiful decor items.
On this day, let the children present their parents with beautiful paper lilies of the valley. You can also decorate a place of celebration with such creations.
Volumetric applique "Lilies of the valley" for congratulations on the wedding anniversary of 13 years
To make such crafts, take:
- colored cardboard;
- white napkins;
- colored paper;
- scissors;
- glue.
Cut one leaf from white paper, and two leaves from green paper for one plant.
Fold them in half. Then roll each leaf separately to make veins.
Cut a rectangular sheet of green paper and roll it into a tube.
Now take the first napkin and cut it into four pieces. Then each such blank must be crumpled to make a kind of lumps.
Have the children cut the opposite corners of the cardboard and start glueing the leaves here. Arranging them diagonally. In this case, there will be a white sheet in the center, and the left green one needs to be expanded a little. Glue the stem on the central leaf.
Now you need to attach blanks from napkins to it, which will turn into lily of the valley flowers.
Here's how to make a gift for 13 years of wedding with the hands of children. If the children are small, they will be able to make an application from plasticine.
Here's how beautiful it will turn out. But first you need to roll up two green sausages and attach them to a piece of cardboard. Now let them make a cut on each with a plastic knife. They will turn 2 smaller sausages into lily of the valley leaves. Also, with a plastic knife, you need to make several strips on them in order to give them texture.
Now you need to mold the buds. To do this, you need to take pieces of white plasticine, roll them into balls, then flatten and connect the edges at the bottom to get flowers that look like bells.
The quilling technique will also help to make a gift for a 13th wedding anniversary.
To make such a panel, you need to glue a white sheet on a yellow sheet of cardboard, and then attach a green sheet of paper cut out in the shape of a butterfly on top.
From paper of the same green color, cut out two leaves that need to be folded in half lengthwise and straightened, as well as fragments for the stems.
To make flowers using the quilling technique, cut strips from white paper, then roll each tightly into a coil. After that, you need to press down the opposite edges of this circle and give the petals the shape of the moon.
It remains to glue all this into place, having previously given the stems a thinner shape, rolling them between the table and the palm. And you can give a gift to your beloved parents for 13 years of the wedding.
You can put lilies of the valley in a vase on the tables. But since these flowers are only available in the spring, we advise you to make them by taking containers from eggs and a plastic bottle. You will make such primroses at any time of the year, you can also decorate your summer cottage with them.
Lilies of the valley from plastic bottles and egg trays for 13 years of wedding
To do this, take:
- foam tray for eggs;
- green plastic bottle;
- scissors.
Cut off the bottom of the bottle and cut a hole in the center of the bottle just enough to insert the neck of the bottle. From below you fix it, screw it with a lid.
To make it easier to cut a hole in a plastic bottle with a knife, preheat its blade.
Use scissors to chop the top of the bottle until it becomes four lily of the valley leaves.
For the stability of the container, pour sand inside the resulting container. You can also use other bulk materials of sufficient weight for this.
Rinse and dry the egg container. Cut off its top cap. You won't need it. Cut out the cells from the bottom, giving them the shape of lily of the valley flowers.
Take three cocktail tubes. From them you will make lily of the valley stalks. You will need 6 more tubes, from which you need to cut off the lower part to make legs for lilies of the valley in the amount of 9 pieces.
Make cuts in the long tubes, insert the short ones into them.
Make a cut in the center of each flower with a knife and put these blanks on the tubes.
Now the resulting stems need to be placed in the sand, tamped it, and from above cover this surface with decorative elements: pebbles, beads, braid.
You can leave the vase like this or cover it, for example, with a strip of fabric.
And to make the gift for 13 years of wedding even more thematic, decorate the vase with a strip of lace on the sides.
Such gifts can be made by hand. And if you want to know what you can buy to give to spouses, then check out the list of such gifts.
What do you give for a 13 year wedding?
Guests can present:
- lace products - tablecloth, napkins, bedspread, shawl, curtains;
- dishes or a picture showing lilies of the valley;
- amulets for the family, made of aspen, it can be a bread box, figurines, cutting boards;
- a cake to order, on which the names of the heroes of the occasion are written in cream - the number 13, hearts, lilies of the valley or other symbols of this wedding;
- certificate for parachute jump, hot air balloon flight, for horseback riding;
- scrapbooking album trimmed with lace;
- a basket with lilies of the valley;
- an embroidered picture, where the main accent will be lilies of the valley.
Decide what gift you will give for 13 years of wedding. Will it be handmade, custom made or purchased?
See how to make lilies of the valley from satin ribbons with your own hands. Such an elegant gift will surely be appreciated.
If you want to make these edible flowers, then take a look at how to make sugar lilies of the valley.
