WEDDING CUSTOMS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 153, 29 June 1881, Page 4

WEDDING CUSTOMS.

To the kindly German custom of: celebrating certain periods of married < life, which has of late years found many; admirers and imitators in this country, ; we owe our familarity with silvern, golden, and even diamantine weddings, ' commemorative respectively of the. twenty-fifth, fiftieth, and sixtieth, anni- : versaries of the marriage day. But we now learn for the first time that the ; Americans with characteristic thorough- ; ness, have added a number of newdevel- : opments to this class of family rite. They have bestowed the tempting title of " Sugar- Wedding " upon the first: marriage anniversary ; the second tbey ' style the Paper-Wedding ; while tho ,' fifth, tenth, fifteenth, and twentieth are , feted by them undor the respective ties- ' TgrnrtioTis of the "Wooden," "Iron," 1 " Tin, " and " Electro-plate" Weddings. \ The guests bidden to a "Wooden Wed- : ding " are expected to bring with them '■ congratulatory offerings in the material from which that ceremony derives its , predicate, such aB tables, chairs, salad- i spoons, butter-stamps, bootjacks, and so forth. At a " Paper Wedding " recently celebrated in San Francisco all pre- [ sent, including the clergy and the happy pair, wore elegant paper caps, and the '> presents included a large variety of useful and artistic objects, executed in a substance which was peculiarly appropriate to at least one of the two persons thus begifted, tho husband being an eminent Californian journalist. If only regarded as a plausible pretext for an additional number of cheerful family gatherings, these latest American inuov- , ations upon an ancient Teutonic practice may sooner or later find adoption by degrees on this side of the Atlantic.