It is the silk wedding which symbolizes the 12th wedding anniversary. Here is the meaning of this beautiful tradition full of love and some ideas for celebrating your loved one.
What weddings for 12 years of marriage?
After the coral wedding, we celebrate the silk wedding for these 12 years of marriage. Every year, your wedding anniversary is a new opportunity to prove your love, growing stronger and stronger over the years, like the materials referring to wedding celebrations!
Why a silk wedding?
There silkthis noble and delicate material, which comes from certain arthropods (such as the bombyx caterpillar), is a real invitation to travel… Let yourself be carried away by Leizu, the Chinese goddess of silk ! It was she who, according to legend, discovered silk thread around -2500 BC. JC. Still in China, a proverb directs us to the origin of the symbolism of the silk wedding: “With time and patience, mulberry leaves transform into a silk dress.” How to be more poetic in the metaphor of a love story? In addition, this noble material should undoubtedly remind women of the wedding dress they wore on their wedding day.
What gifts to give for a silk wedding?
If you wish give a gift to your loved one for your 12 years of marriage, you have the choice! Depending on your personality, opt for a book on the origins of silk, or the novel by Jean-Paul Malaval: The Silk Wedding. More classic, you can also offer the material itself with a bedding set, underwear or a silk dress. Finally, travel lovers will leave in weekend in Lyon, a city listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and French capital of silk. Several museums are also dedicated to this subject. If the budget allows you, you can also go on the Silk Road and discover its origins… in China!
What gifts for a man?
These gentlemen will appreciate being offered a tie, a shirt or even a nice pair of silk socks Of course ! If your husband often wears suits, don’t hesitate to give him a silk pouch that it will therefore slip not far from his heart. More daring, silk boxer shorts also have their fans!
What poems for silk weddings?
Many poets have written about love and passion. Don’t hesitate to borrow some of their most beautiful poems to see stars light up in your partner’s eyes. Here are some ideas:
- We will sleep together. “Whether it’s Sunday or Monday. Evening or morning midnight noon. In hell or heaven. Loves to loves resemble. It was yesterday that I told you. We will sleep together. It was yesterday and it’s tomorrow. I only have you left to go. I put my heart in your hands. With yours as he walks. All he has of human time. We will sleep together. My love, what was will be. The sky is over us like a sheet. I closed my arms around you. And I love you so much that I tremble. As long as you want. We will sleep together“(Louis Aragon)
- Dream for winter. “In winter, we will go in a little pink wagon. With blue cushions. We will be fine. A nest of crazy kisses rests. In every soft corner. You will close your eyes, so as not to see, through the mirror, Grimacing the shadows of the evenings, These snarling monstrosities, populace. Of black demons and black wolves. Then you will feel your cheek scratched… A little kiss, like a crazy spider, Will run around your neck… And you will say to me: “Search!”, bowing your head, – And we will take time to find this beast – Who travels a lot…“(Arthur Rimbaud)
- If I were an object. ” If I were an object, I would like to be a book, So that your hands could touch me. And your eyes devour me. And you would be my religion, Because of you I saw the invisible, I believed the incredible. And I received the impossible” (Stéphen Moysan)
