At anniversaries traditionally kinds of material properties are assigned to. Best known is the Golden Jubilee: 50 years, followed by the silver anniversary: ​​25 years. About the most common numbers one agrees, , the less common have sometimes two or three terms. The list below was a few years ago in ‘Our Language’.
                                                                                                             English speakers:
    * 14 days: paper                                                                        
    * 1 year: cotton                                                                        paper
    * 1 ½ years: look
    * 2 years: paper, cardboard, leather                                   cotton
    * 2 ½ years: Aluminum
    * 3 years: leather, wheat                                                        leather
    * 3 eighth year: canned
    * 4 years: flowers, fruits, wax, silk                                        linen
    * 5 years: tin, wood, plastic                                                   wood
    * 6: gypsum, iron, sugar                                                          iron
    * 6 ¼ years: tinplate, tin
    * 7: bronze, copper, nickel, wool                                          wool
    * 8 years: pottery, tin, bronze                                                bronze
    * 9 years: pottery, basketry                                                    copper
    * 10 years: crystal, steel, tin, roses                                        tin, aluminium
    * 11 years: coral, steel                                                             steel
    * 12: linen, silk                                                                          silk
    * 12 ½ years: copper
    * 13 years: lace, lily, lily of the valley                                    lace
    * 14 years: ivory, lead                                                              ivory
    * 15 years: crystal, porcelain                                                  crystal
    * 16 years: sapphire
    * 17 years: rose
    * 18: turquoise
    * 19 years: linen
    * 20 years: crystal, porcelain, silver plated                        porcelain
    * 25 years: silver                                                                     silver
    * 30 years: ivory, pearl, mother of pearl
    * 35 years: coral, ruby
    * 37 ½ years: aluminum, silver plated
    * 40 years: ruby, emerald, double
    * 45 years: sapphire, gilded silver, vermilion
    * 50 years: gold                                                                      gold
    * 55 years: orchid, emerald, gold
    * 60 years: diamond
    * 62 ½ years: diamond
    * 65: brilliant, iron, rosewood
    * 70 years: platinum, coral, brilliant
    * 75 years: alabaster, diamond, crown jewels, platinum, ruthenium, rhodium
    * 80 years: oak, plutonium

We will when we got married 40 years to a desert island go? Fine, what do we do when we married 50 years? I'll pick you up again.
You stare for an hour for our marriage certificate. Husband: "I find the expiration date.

Often celebrated wedding anniversaries

    * 1 year: cotton wedding
    * 2 years: leather wedding
    * 5 years: wooden wedding
    * 10 years: pewter wedding
    * 15 years: crystal wedding
    * 20 years: porcelain wedding
    * 25 years: silver wedding
    * 35 years: pearl wedding
    * 40 years: ruby ​​wedding
    * 45 years: sapphires wedding
    * 50 years: golden wedding
    * 60 years: diamond wedding
    * 65 years: diamonds wedding
    * 70 years: platinum wedding
    * 75 years: alabaster wedding
    * 80 years: oak wedding

If you are married 50-60-65 or more years, you will in many communities be put in the spotlight by the (city) administration.