A wooden wedding is celebrated after 5 years of marriage registration. Ideas for decorating a holiday are waiting for you - how to make invitations to a wooden wedding, what to cook and what scenario is suitable.
A wooden wedding is a great occasion to gather close people to celebrate the anniversary of the founding of a new family. It is important to know what gifts you need to show up for the anniversary, what the spouses give each other and what usual ones must be observed.
What to give for a wooden wedding - signs
It is not for nothing that the five-year anniversary was named that way, because on this day gifts, signs and customs are associated with a tree. If before this mark the initial years of marriage have more fragile names, then 5 years of marriage are already stronger, associated with a tree. It is the 5 years that the spouses have been in legal marriage that is considered a critical mark, after which the marriage should be even more successful and strong. After all, the newlyweds have studied each other over the years, were able to establish everyday relations.
Many married couples had already had children by this time, so some of the gifts should be addressed specifically to kids.
If you believe in folk signs, then the newlyweds should plant a tree on this day. Each such plant has a specific symbol. So:
- The pine tree symbolizes mercy, kindness and long life.
- Acacia with oak is considered to be a symbol of a reliable and stable life.
- Maple promises prosperity and success in business.
- Birch symbolizes a gentle, pure, romantic relationship.
- Alder and willow promise the heroes of the day to be loyal, faithful and trust each other.
- Juniper is a symbol of eternal life.
- Exotic trees are the guarantors of vivid emotions and new sensations.
- Trees with fruits will be planted by young spouses to ensure a wonderful relationship between parents and children. Also, such seedlings symbolize the continuation of the family.
If you have an infield, you can plant a tree there. And if there is no place here or there is no country hacienda, then plant a seedling in the forest. You can go an easier way, do such gardening at home by planting a miniature bonsai tree in a pot. But the spouses need to do this together.
As you can see, there is even a miniature copy of an oak tree, so you can choose a mini-tree that best suits your preferences and desires.
Of course, congratulations on the 5th wedding anniversary will sound on this day. But where to celebrate, you have to think about it in advance.
To re-immerse yourself in the joyful atmosphere of the wedding, you can celebrate the 5th anniversary in the same way. If it was a boho, nautical wedding, on the theme of your favorite book, movie, then you can celebrate the anniversary the same way. If you have any attributes from that celebration, use them.
You can combine the symbolism of a wooden wedding with the one that the newlyweds had at the beginning.
If there was an eco-style wedding, boho, or another that involves the use of natural materials, then the following design will suit you.
As you can see, the scenery is made in a natural style. Cover the table with a simple linen tablecloth, making it look like a cart and placing wooden wheels on 4 sides. Pull a garland made of rope and triangular flags cut from burlap between them. On them you will write the names of your husband and wife or a slogan regarding a wooden wedding.
The cakes, made of cakes, are made in such a way that they resemble a berry meadow and a tree felling at the same time. The same goes for cakes. Stretch a small garland between the birches to further decorate this natural area.
Wooden wedding - where to celebrate
If this anniversary is celebrated when the weather allows you to go out into nature, be sure to take this chance. Here you can have fun, grill barbecue, walk through the forest, and if it's warm, then swim in the reservoir.
If this idea doesn't work for you, you can use the following. The spouses will refresh their relationship, again plunge into romance, if they hold a wooden wedding the way they celebrated their marriage 5 years ago. Let the young man again answer the questions of his friends about his spouse, so that they will admit her to him. Then you can start a festive feast, organize fun contests. In the midst of the celebration, let the bride kidnapping take place again, and when the guests disperse, the wedding night awaits the spouses.
If you have the financial resources, celebrate such an anniversary in a restaurant. Agree in advance with the owners of the establishment so that they decorate the room on this topic.
There are also options such as celebrating in the country or in a country house, which is rented for a while.
If on this day the spouses want to be together, but change their usual environment, then the idea of a sea cruise or overland travel to another city or another country will do.
Wooden wedding - decoration
Even an ordinary room on this day is not difficult to transform with your own hands. Then it will be clear what kind of wedding is being celebrated here.
As you can see, the interior walls of a wooden house or cottage are great decorations for this day. Cover the tables with linen or canvas tablecloths, Lay out napkins of a different tone, on which or next to place the cutlery. In the center of each such table, place a small cut of a tree, on which you need to put a glass container with flowers.
If you plan on using one large table, then it is fine if it is made of wood. Folding chairs made of the same material will also fit perfectly here. To let guests know where to sit, divide the large common table into zones and put up signs. If one table is not enough, then you can put the second one. A wooden wedding will be so interesting. Ceiling decoration will be most interesting if you create a light fixture using a wooden wheel. You can wrap it with an LED garland, decorate it with tree branches or vines.
On such a day, even a large rustic shed or barn will come in handy. These rooms are removed, and two more transverse ones can be placed on wooden beams and wooden wheels can be fixed at their ends. From below it will seem that there is a wooden cart at the top. Since this is a holiday, decorate the wooden pieces with paper flowers. Use bright colors. Then hang them on a soft wire in the winding or on the top of the thread.
Arrange tables in the room, cover them with a tablecloth. Place wooden chairs and several barrels of the same material next to it.
For this day, you can change the Russian proverb that you cannot spoil porridge with butter, say that wood and wood products cannot spoil a wooden wedding.
Let the tables be made of this material, cover them with a tablecloth or such a rough cloth napkin.
Place vases on this decoration element. To make them, you will need:
- dry wood;
- drill with a round nozzle;
- small glass jars;
- water;
- flowers;
- saw.
Follow the instructions below:
- Saw the tree trunk into blocks of the same height. Using the lock drill bit, make a round hole in each such workpiece. Place a glass jar with water in it. Arrange flowers.
- If you do not have such material or you do not know how to work with a drill, then take the bark of an old tree, soak it in water so that various insects, if any, are present in this natural material will go away.
- Now you need to cut the bark into rectangles, connect its ends with a stapler so that you get rings. Dry them in such a position that the water is completely gone. Then place such pots on the tables, and containers with flowers should be placed in them.
You can make original decorations for chairs from the bark. Using a stapler, attach the satin ribbons to it, and on one side tie such a ribbon to create a loop. Cones are also an integral part of the tree, so they are used to decorate the place of celebration.
You can put a sign near each bump with the name of the person and the number of the place that you have prepared for him.
The bark makes wonderful candlesticks for a wooden wedding. But you need to saturate it with a fire-fighting compound so that it does not catch fire. Use a curly hole punch or a sharp knife to make hearts. Take non-flammable candles. The same goes for the next idea. You can see it in the photo located at the top in the middle in the next collage.
In a wooden block, you need to make the same holes with a drill lock in order to install candles here. If you care about fire safety, then put them in jars or in such candlesticks, made in the form of a lantern, as in the upper left photo.
Refractory transparent glasses can also be used for this. And if you take a large and a smaller one, rewind them with braid, then it will be clear that they symbolize a husband and wife who have a wooden wedding.
Weave a kind of nest from the branches, giving them a ring shape. Fix some colors here. Let such a family nest also decorate a wooden wedding. Saw branches of the same size, you need to attach them to the outside of such jars and tie them with rope or wire, as in the lower right photo.
To make the bottles of champagne, the legs of the glasses look like those made of wood, wrap them with twine. Glue the turns of this thread periodically to fix them. You can also decorate wide candles with such a rope, tying them in the center.
You will have a chic wooden wedding, the pictures below confirm this if you decorate the hall as follows.
Take:
- tree branches;
- white acrylic paint;
- silver paint in a can of sparkles;
- brushes;
- wire.
Follow these instructions:
- If there are leaves on the branches, pick off those. But it is better to take a dry tree. Connect several branches together to create a fancy tree trunk out of them. You can twist the branches below for this.
- Now you know which ones you will compose with which ones. Arrange them in different piles so as not to be confused and paint with acrylic white paint in several layers. When it is dry, reassemble the branches so that each group is a small tree.
- Now connect the elements with white wire. You can also do this with a strong rope of this color, a glue gun. If the table has a hole in the middle, then you will fix each tree in such recesses. If not, then fix the compositions on wooden blocks.
- Spray the created trees with a silvery glitter varnish. When it dries, you can additionally decorate the compositions with flowers.
These trees look great against the background of white tablecloths and chair covers of the same color.
If you have a cart, put it in the photo zone. This is not difficult to construct yourself. To do this, fasten 4 bars and stuff the boards tightly on top. Then this base is varnished. Attach round wooden wheels here. Such a small cart-shaped table can be turned into a snack bar. Add canapes, cakes, and other snacks and treats here. A loaf on a towel will be useful - a symbol of a well-fed family life.
You need to order or make your own wooden rings in advance.
At the most solemn moment, the spouses will exchange them. Also, excellent accessories for a wooden wedding are glasses, caskets made of this material.
You can buy these, just varnished or painted.
Similar wooden items will also be great gifts for newlyweds. Hang a horseshoe on the door near the celebration site for good luck.
How to dress anniversaries for a wooden wedding?
This question is not fundamental. Spouses can dress up in comfortable party clothes to feel comfortable. Since a wedding is made of wood, its ideas should be close to nature. Therefore, the spouses can dress up in light colors, and the husband can wear dark beige trousers to match the color of the wood.
Let the spouses sit on wooden chairs decorated with openwork ribbons, a sacking garland, and other elements. A young wife can decorate her head with a wreath of wildflowers.
If a married couple wants to repeat the celebration that was 5 years ago, then let them get their wedding dresses out of the closets and shine in them.
Registration of invitations to a wooden wedding
It will be great if they are made in the same style.
If you know how to burn wood, then you can surely make the following original invitations. And you can buy wood blanks or cut a tree trunk or plank to get a base. Then it needs to be sanded and burned out the words of the invitation and the date of the celebration.
If you have thin plywood, then you can cut this into rectangles so that they fit into the envelopes. Also create invitations using pyrography or write the words with a quality marker.
It is good if the heroes of the day are photographed against the background of a tree or on a bench made of such material. Print several of these photos so that they become both cards and an invitation to a wooden wedding. Fragments from cardboard are used as a wax seal. Make a hole in each and tie to the main card using twine.
If you burn wood or have souvenir circles made from this material, you can decorate cardboard envelopes with them. It will also be clear that they are invited to a wedding in honor of the fifth anniversary of the creation of the family.
You can make original invitations by putting puzzles in an envelope for each guest. After a person solves this fascinating puzzle, he will find out what date and in what place he will be expected.
Tree cuts are great for creating an original postcard. On them, the words of the invitation can even be written with a simple pencil. Place each wooden postcard in a cardboard box, secure this souvenir with moss and decorate with pine cones.
What to cook for your wooden wedding anniversary?
Here the scope for imagination is simply endless. But a cake made in the form of a tree stump would be a wonderful idea. It is decorated with real berries or made from sugar mastic. Mushrooms must also be edible, so you can first bake them out of dough and then decorate with icing or mastic. Place the figurines of the newlyweds holding hands on a tree stump.
Look at another cake made in the form of a picturesque stump. As you can see, the first letters of the names of the newlyweds are written on it with glaze.
With the help of edible devices, you can write on sweets not only the first letters, but also the names in full, as well as make an image of the child of a married couple. It is easy to cut flowers and greens from sugar mastic of different colors for the next dessert.
You can bake a gingerbread and decorate it so that it looks like the bark of a tree. Such a treat also looks fresh and original.
Small gingerbread is made from the same dough. They can be shaped like a heart, a wedding car or a bouquet, the outfits of the young.
If you want to use the Gzhel theme at a wooden wedding, then order or make your own gingerbread cookies and decorate them with blue and white glaze.
If by that time the spouses already had two children, then please them too. You can do it yourself or order a cake on which all the main characters will be made in the form of hedgehogs.
Photo session for a wooden wedding
Be sure to take photographs as a souvenir. It is great if the background for them is a tree or products made from it.
Two wooden barrels make excellent countertops coasters. Place a bouquet of flowers, a wedding cake, a bottle of liqueur, candles on it. Husband and wife will be able to take a picture against the background of a wooden wall, and there will be another building made of this material in the back. Such a photo can be taken in your country house or in the village.
The next souvenir photo was taken against the background of the firebox.
In a relaxed atmosphere, photographs turn out to be life-like, not staged.
A wooden wedding will be remembered for a long time, because then the photos can be framed and hung in the most conspicuous place in the apartment.
As you can see, there is a minimum of props here, so the emphasis is on the main characters of the holiday.
You can take photos right in the forest, decorate trees with burlap, flowers and wreaths.
Wooden wedding script - contests and congratulations
It allows you to plan your party to keep your guests entertaining and fun. They will be able to show their talents and have an unforgettable time.
To do this, you will need an invited host or a guest can play his role. He reports that the couple lived together for 5 years. In ancient times, this number was considered a symbol of risk. Someone said that this figure means independence and energy. Pythagoras argued that the number 5 is the happiest.
And the newlyweds now know each other like the back of their hand. The time has come for a competition for it you need to prepare:
- two sheets of cardboard;
- scissors;
- felt-tip pens or pencils.
In advance, it is necessary to cut out a pair of palms of different sizes from two sheets. Then, at the wedding itself, the presenter will give the husband a large palm made of paper, and his wife - a smaller one. Each finger has a specific question written on it. The couple will take turns reading the address addressed to them and responding to it. These are the questions that might be. First, addressed to the husband:
- With which hand the spouse fastens the buttons and stretches them.
- With what finger he scratches the back of his head.
- Will he be able to lift a glass of alcohol with his little finger.
- Which hand is stronger.
- With which finger he points to something.
Questions for the wife:
- If she clenches her fingers tightly into a fist, what could that mean?
- With what finger the spouse removes a lock of hair from his forehead.
- Does she love growing her nails?
- How many rings does the wife have, on which fingers they are.
- Which hand does she wear the bracelet on.
After this competition, the presenter summarizes that the spouses love each other very much and offers to raise a toast to them.
Then the presenter says that a wooden wedding is a serious anniversary for a young family. Since ancient times, the tree has warmed people, personified the continuation of life. Many peoples have customs associated with amulets and wood ornaments. He invites the spouses to accept cedar jewelry. The presentation of such talismans is in progress.
Matryoshka dolls are also made of wood. But their role will be played by guests. They dress up in matryoshka costumes. A folk song sounds, the mummers appear before the guests and the young. They say in verse that they brought a chest of gifts.
There may be a tablecloth here, which the husband and wife will lay on a wooden or other table. You can also give a cutting board, stand for a wooden wedding. Wooden candlesticks, glasses made of this material will do.
The host invites the rest of the guests to present their gifts to the young. One of them may be a log. The host will explain that this is a symbol that will help maintain the warmth of the family hearth, if necessary.
It's time to dance. After that, everyone takes their seats. The presenter distributes cards to the guests, on which the words of the song are written. But they cannot be said aloud. These lines must be conveyed using a pantomime. The heroes of the day have to guess what kind of song it is.
Then a toast is made to the parents of the newlyweds. You need to prepare wooden rubles in advance, on the back of which there will be signatures. A total of 5 such coins are needed. Here are the wishes written on the reverse side:
- New friends.
- A lot of children.
- Pets.
- Much money.
- Large harvests in the country.
The parents of the spouses take turns taking these coins out of the bag and reading out the wishes. Depending on where the wishes are located, in this order and at such a speed, the spouses will have the acquisition data.
This could be the scenario for a wooden wedding. See what fun games you can include in your celebration program.
Leapfrog
Those who wish go to the dance floor and break up in pairs. Now, to the music, each of the two people will first tilt the neighbor, and then jump over him. Whoever does this more times will win.
Limbo
You need to pull the rope in advance. When it's time to start running your wood wedding contests, put on some fun music. Now each guest in turn must walk under this rope, bending back. But each time the task becomes more complicated, as the rope is gradually lowered.
Guess the melody
The presenter should include music that will repeat the song, but without words. Whoever guesses the most songs will win.
Dress each other
For this competition, the host invites the spouses and gives them a roll of toilet paper each and plays a song. While it is being played, the couple should dress each other up in a wedding suit or dress, using only the provided toilet paper props.
Cornhole
For this wooden wedding competition, jubilees are also called. You need to prepare a platform with holes in advance. The spouses should get into them in small bags filled with cereals.
Learning dances
The most energetic guest is invited for this competition. He will show the movements, the rest will have to repeat them after him.
Here is such an interesting scenario for a wooden wedding with contests and a fun entertainment program you can take.
As always, you can see with your own eyes interesting ideas related to the fifth anniversary of the wedding in the proposed video plots. The first one will tell you how to organize a wooden wedding using the fairy tale "Golden Key". After all, the main character of this story is made of this material. On the beach, such a holiday will be easy and fun.
And if you still don't know what to give for a wooden wedding, then watch the second video.
