What to give young people for their first wedding anniversary?

So a whole year has passed since the wedding ceremony. You learn to live together, you adapt to each other's shortcomings. The bright flame of love is slowly turning into an even fire of a home.

The first anniversary of living together ... The roots of its name - calico wedding - lie in the long-standing tradition of giving diapers and clothes for babies on this date, because often during this period the spouses become young parents. And relationships are partly reminiscent of this material: at first, colored and bright chintz quickly loses its colors and changes its structure, often this happens with relationships.

There are many different signs and ceremonies for the chintz anniversary.

• For example, it is undesirable to let strangers into the house on this day, this may wake up the infidelity of the spouses.
• If you woke up at the same time on your anniversary, you should wait for a replenishment in the family.
• Bed linen and clothes should be clean and well ironed, wrinkled and wet things signal family problems.
• On their 1st anniversary, the spouses need to present each other with a piece of clothing. If it is a scarf, life together will be built on daily work, if a shirt - on mutual love and fidelity.
• If this day brought only joy and harmony, then further life together will be smooth. If the newlyweds quarrel - the relationship is still immature, the spouses have not "got used to it" yet.
• If you have invited guests, you need to pay attention to who will be the first to cross the threshold of your house. A man is for money, a woman is for a child.
• In Russia, for a long time, on the day of a chintz wedding, a rite of tying knots was carried out. The spouses gave each other chintz handkerchiefs and tied knots at the corners. It was believed that they were a symbol of the desire of the newlyweds to carry their feelings through the years.

If you are a young spouse, then you certainly know what your soul mate wants, how to please her / him. Whether to buy your wife a bouquet, favorite sweets, beautiful lacy underwear, a new phone (laptop, tablet) or make an original gift with your own hands - the choice is yours. Wives can sew a shirt for their husband, embroider a scarf, a picture on fabric, knit a scarf, a sweater, or buy something their spouse needs in the store.

According to long-standing traditions, newlyweds are presented with fabric products, wishing a smooth and even life together. It can be:

• tablecloths;
• bed sheets;
• textile rugs;
• curtains, drapes, tapestries;
• aprons;
• napkins with an embroidered ornament / pattern;
• handkerchiefs;
• diapers;
• baby clothes;
• toys made of fabric for children.

It is also not forbidden to give toilet items. Or, you can simply make a gift in the form of a certificate from a ready-to-wear store.

• "Aesthetic" sets are also very popular as gifts, for example, an embroidery kit with a base fabric, threads (for example, a floss), and an embroidery guide. If you paint beautifully, you can paint a picture on fabric with watercolors with your own hands. Photo printing on fabric is also a good solution.
• Original processed photos are a great surprise.
• A notebook for your favorite culinary recipes, a beautiful jewelry box for jewelry and bijouterie - this will be a pleasant gift for a young wife.
• Tickets to the theater, to a concert of your favorite performer, to a seminar or master class will also impress the newlyweds.
• If you find out what the newlyweds want, give just that. After all, the main thing in a gift is the joy that the gifted people will experience.

• A traditional gift from a mother-in-law to a young wife is a chintz dress.
• Parents, who have lived and seen a lot of people, usually give the necessary things. Home appliances and digital appliances, a clothes dryer, a heater, a plastic chest of drawers - the list of practical gifts is truly endless.
• If you don’t know what your children want or they cannot choose themselves, donate money. Yes, unoriginal, but definitely useful, because they are never superfluous, especially for a young family.
• A good surprise from parents will be a ticket to a country holiday home or a tourist tour to the sea, a romantic dinner for two in a restaurant.

It is not customary to give expensive gifts for a chintz wedding, but if there are a lot of you (friends), you can chip in for one big common gift. If you are giving separate gifts, take advice so as not to duplicate each other. A photo session on this significant day will also bring joy, as well as a long good memory. If you cannot find the right and pleasant gift, money as a gift will always be in place, young spouses will find a worthy use for them.

If you are invited to your friends' chintz wedding, come up with something original. You can (with the consent of the owners, of course) arrange a fun coloring of plain chintz T-shirts as a keepsake. Funny photos, original figurines, funny toys - you can give everything that the newlyweds will definitely like and what your imagination will be enough for!

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