How to celebrate 23 years of your wedding, what kind of anniversary is it and what to give? Learn more about the beryl stone, which is named after the 23rd wedding anniversary, how to make cards and the tree of happiness.
23 years of marriage is a significant date. Not everyone knows how to celebrate this anniversary, what to present, how to decorate the place of celebration.
About beryl stone
The 23rd wedding anniversary is called beryl. This stone belongs to semi- and precious gems. So the marriage of the spouses for such a long time has become truly precious. But there are various types of beryl. The so-called "good" are especially appreciated, they are regulars of museum collections and collections. Beryllium oxide is obtained from ordinary beryl, which is an opaque stone.
The miraculous properties of beryl are interesting. Previously, sorcerers made magic balls of a mystical appearance from a transparent mineral. This stone is believed to have healing properties. Although beryl comes in various colors, any one is suitable for medicinal purposes. It is said to relieve toothache, aids in proper metabolism and normalization of body weight.
For bronchial diseases, runny nose and colds, beryl is worn in the form of pendants.
Rumor has it that the translucent emerald, which also belongs to beryl, helps with insomnia, inflammatory diseases. Aquamarine also belongs to the group of these gems. He and other blue beryls will help reduce stress, fight seasickness, and phobias.
It has long been believed that beryl is good for strengthening family relationships. Therefore, when you think what to give for 23 years of a joint wedding, present the heroes of the occasion with decorations with this stone. If one of them suffers from any of the above ailments, then present the beryl of exactly the color that is necessary to fight the ailment. If the heroes of the occasion do not complain about their health, then all the same, this gift with a gem will come in handy. After all, beryl is able to maintain family relationships, and will also help internal relaxation, the fight against stress, which are many in modern life.
It is believed that the bearer of such jewelry can restore their energy balance. The owner of beryl will have a better mood, he will be more benevolent, he will improve his sense of humor.
23 years of wedding - what to give
Thinking about what to present on this day, you should familiarize yourself with the traditions, although there are few of them. Since this is not a round date, it is not customary to celebrate it widely. It is enough to get together with a small group of relatives and friends. Also, a husband and wife can celebrate the event together. But regardless of the scale of the proposed celebration, the spouses should get up early, present gifts to each other, not forgetting to say gentle warm words at the same time. The husband will present 23 flowers to his beloved. Since love is symbolized by red roses, let it be them. But the 23rd can be white.
The husband knows which flowers his wife loves most of all and can present them to her on the day of the celebration of this date.
The spouse will also give his beloved woman a ring, pendant or earrings with beryl. She can give her husband a bracelet decorated with this stone.
But if a man does not like such jewelry, then for 23 years of marriage, the spouse will present him with exactly what the beloved man will appreciate. He will also surely like a handmade card made with love and warm words that will be written there. And the husband will read his wife love poems that he will come up with.
The varieties of beryl are emerald, aquamarine, heliodor. With this in mind, give each other gifts that contain these stones. Also invited guests can present such a valuable gift to the heroes of the occasion.
Guests can:
- order a portrait of a married couple;
- buy paired figurines or candlesticks;
- give something from household items, for example, dishes, bed linen, a service.
From the children, mom and dad will be pleased to receive a wall newspaper, tickets to a theater or a spa salon, a gift made with their own hands. Since beryl most of all symbolizes yellow and green colors, you can make a gift in exactly such colors, as well as decorate a place of celebration.
The greeting card can include this particular color, as well as pink and white. See how to make a similar postcard using scrapbooking and quilling. Take:
- paper of different colors;
- scissors;
- glue;
- white sheet of cardboard;
- light carved paper napkin;
- pencils.
Fold a piece of cardboard in half. On the front side, glue a white napkin, and if you wish, a color picture. It is made in delicate pastel colors. Twist the main quilling elements from thin paper strips, make leaves, petals, various curls from them. Cut one thin strip with a fringe on one side, roll it into a roll and glue the ends. Attach this piece to the core. Cut out several chamomile petals one pattern at a time and create this flower on a card.
Print a greeting and glue it inside the card, after which you can hand it over. If you want, make another creation in the style of scrapbooking.
Cut such flowers from scrapbooking paper or packaging. You can make multiple petals or multiple tiers of flowers. Create flowers from these elements, glue a bead inside, you can also make butterflies and other decor elements from paper.
You can remind the hero of the occasion about the Wedding Day, draw her image on a postcard with a dark pencil or marker, and cut the photo out of white guipure or tulle. Make flowers of various sizes from quilling elements, create others from cut wavy openwork stripes that are rolled up in the form of a rose and a daisy.
Such signs of attention, made using white paper for scrapbooking, look beautiful. But first you need to cut out two hearts of different sizes from cardboard. Now glue a flesh-colored paper on each, but so that white frames remain at the edges of these hearts. Glue a small one on a large one slightly obliquely, cut out doves, feathers from cardboard, glue them in place. Make flowers out of paper. Glue 3 imitation pearls on one side and 2 rings on the other.
Cut out a dress for the hero of the occasion from white lace fabric, make a face, hands and hair from colored paper. Glue this figurine to the front of the card and the groom to the inside. You can glue photos of real heroes of the day, also write their names on the front of the postcard. Decorate it and you can give this wonderful token of attention.
If you want to make the images of the heroes of the occasion more close to reality, and not when they just got married, then the following idea will suit you.
As you can see, you need to find a picture of a man and a woman in beautiful clothes. You can print the presented. Glue it to the cardboard to which the scrapbooking paper is attached. Decorate with various elements, it can be:
- openwork framing;
- paper flowers;
- butterflies from the same material.
How to make a tree of happiness for your 23rd wedding anniversary?
Since beryl can be of different colors, creating a topiary for a gift for a 23 year wedding, decorate it with blanks of pink, blue, green so that they are of the same color as beryl. But these gifts must still fit the theme of the event itself. You can use ideas for 5 years of wedding, because this is called emerald. And this stone is a kind of beryl. Present your woman with an unfading flowering tree.
To do it, take:
- pots;
- wooden stick;
- napkins of the desired color;
- newspapers;
- scissors;
- PVA glue;
- stapler;
- cement-sand mixture or dry alabaster;
- decor elements;
- threads.
Pour 2/3 of the cement-sand mixture into the planter. Add some water and stir. Alabaster can be used instead of this mixture. Do the same with it, and then wipe the edges of the planter with a dry cloth. Place a stick in the middle of this viscous substance. Lean this trunk against a support so that the mixture freezes and the branch remains in this position.
You can then wrap twine around the trunk to give it a more natural look.
Another good option that you can take on board when making a gift for a 23 year wedding is to attach willow branches to such a trunk to decorate it.
While the solution in the planter hardens, fold the newspaper lengthwise and carefully wrap it around the top of the trunk. Then bind the next one. As a result, you should have a kind of ball at the top, which will become a rounded crown.
Now you can start making flowers. Take a napkin, do not open it, but, on the contrary, fold it two more times. Then cut a circle out of the workpiece, and fix it in the center with a stapler.
Start giving this element the shape of a flower. To do this, first fold the top layer of the napkin, then the bottom. Crumple differently each time to create multi-tiered.
Make about 30 of these plants, and then proceed to glue the ball. First attach the flowers at the bottom, then move higher and higher.
It remains to attach decorative elements, which can be paper butterflies, ladybugs made of plastic or wood, and other figures that resemble their natural counterparts. A gift for a 23 year wedding is ready.
Satin ribbons are also suitable for decorating such a wonderful tree. You can use one color or several. Make the base as in the previous case, but you can use a regular tennis ball for it. He will need to make a hole with an awl, and then insert a wooden skewer here and fix it with glue.
See how to make this type of tree of happiness. First, roll a shiny ribbon that resembles the color of beryl stone, create a rose from this blank.
Tuck the tip over, sew it up.
You can trim the bottom of the rose, then burn it over the flame. Then the workpieces will stick better to the base.
Make several of these roses, to some of them you can attach leaves created from satin ribbons of a different color. To make these, first cut a rectangle out of the fabric, then wrap its opposite corners towards the bottom, towards the center. Sew in this position on this side. Then pull the remaining two corners together and also sew them.
Now you can sew on the leaves on the back of the flowers. Subsequently, you can decorate the miracle tree with shiny elements, also similar to precious stones. To do this, take a silver ribbon, cut out squares from it, put a ball of cotton wool in the middle of each.
Now you need to bring the edges inward, tie them with thread to get such round blanks.
Get down to creative work, start glueing roses on a round ball with a hot gun. Tie the trunk with satin ribbon.
To further make a gift for 23 years of marriage together, decorate the pot. To do this, cut out a circle of the appropriate size from the fabric, sew it with a thread and a needle. But back off a little to wrap the edges and glue them to the top of the pot. You can decorate this decoration with roses from narrow satin ribbons.
Attach an artificial fabric or sisal on top, glue a few shiny balls between the roses, after which you can present this interesting gift for a beryl wedding.
No wedding anniversary is complete without flowers. Therefore, on the 23rd, be sure to present them. But so that flowers can be admired for a long time, see how to make a tree of love.
Take:
- corrugated paper;
- acrylic paints;
- brush;
- Styrofoam;
- scissors;
- plastic cup;
- pen;
- wooden stick;
- lighter;
- lid;
- glue.
Place a sheet of Styrofoam in front of you and draw a flower on it with a pen. Separate the petals so that there are notches between them. Draw a circle in the middle that you want to decorate with a circle of orange corrugated paper.
Take a bamboo stick, grease its tip with glue, then insert it into the foam flower. Place an inverted glass on top of the styrofoam, outline and cut out. Insert the resulting lid into a glass and stick the opposite end of a wooden stick into it.
Now cut the corrugated paper into strips, which are two cm wide. Then chop each so that squares with a side of 2 cm are formed. Take the first one, attach the tip of the tube to it and wind it on it.
You have a trimming. Without removing it from the tube, dip the back part in glue and attach it to the core of the flower. This way, fill in the entire center. Decorate the edges with trims of a different color.
Since the 23rd wedding anniversary is beryl, you can use the most popular colors of this stone by making the core green and the edges yellow, or vice versa.
Using the same crepe paper or a different color, wrap it around the outside of the pot. Now decorate its surface with trims.
It remains to tie a ribbon to the trunk, after which you can give this unfading flower for the 23rd wedding year.
The next gift will also be able to delight the heroes of the occasion for a long time, because this Miracle tree is made of money.
Take:
- foam ball;
- coins of 10 kopecks;
- large diameter aluminum wire;
- scissors;
- hot glue;
- Scotch;
- satin ribbons.
Cover the foam ball with tape. With hot glue, start attaching coins here. Glue one first, then attach the others around it with a slight slope.
When you fill the balloon with coins, leave a small area unsticked. There you will need to insert the wire, which you have previously wrapped with gold tape. Secure this barrel with glue.
Make curls out of the ribbon, glue beads here to decorate. You can make the leaves for this money tree from shiny threads using knitting. Another way is to cut them out of lace fabric and then spray them with gold paint. Let these blanks dry.
Decorate the leaves with beads, glue them to the trunk. Here is such a wonderful gift plant.
Foamiran flowers will also help make a beautiful gift.
Cut petals out of this material, make flowers from them and glue them to a round base. Fasten sheets of the same material between them. The surface of the pot can be auto decorated with coffee beans, so that this gift also smells pleasantly.
The heart will also be a great gift for your 23rd wedding anniversary. After all, it is a symbol of love. Cut a heart shape out of the foam, then attach the white and red paper trims to it, alternating them.
These are the 23rd wedding anniversary gifts you can make. If you want to see a step-by-step master class to also craft a love tree, then turn on the video player. This can be presented not only for this event, but also on February 14th.
And what kind of congratulations on the 23rd wedding anniversary you can say, you will see further.
