You shouldn't just let your 17th wedding anniversary pass by. Find out the most beautiful ideas for an orchid wedding here.
There are a few key wedding anniversaries such as the silver anniversary that receive special attention. Also anniversaries like thatare celebrated bigger. But crooked years usually pass without special attention. That's a real shame! Not every wedding anniversary has to be celebrated in a big way, but every wedding anniversary should be celebrated properly by the couple!
No year of marriage is a given. Nobody knows how many years together you have been granted and no matter how much you love each other, almost every divorced couple has loved each other very much. Every wedding anniversary should therefore be an opportunity to pay special attention to your marriage. Show your partner how much you appreciate them and do something nice to celebrate your shared love, because it is a gift.
17th Wedding Anniversary: The Meaning Behind The Orchid Wedding
The 17th wedding anniversary is also called the orchid wedding. The orchid is considered an exotic beauty. Sometimes she is even called the queen of flowers. However, orchids symbolize not only beauty, but also grace, elegance and love. A marriage that has lasted for 17 years can claim the same thing. She, too, has already achieved the status of special beauty and deep love.
In addition, orchids always delight us with beautiful flowers. Like plants, a marriage also has different cycles. Sometimes it appears bare, but then tender buds form and it blooms just as magnificently as before.
However, anyone who has ever had an orchid in their home knows that they can be pretty tricky. Sometimes just changing the windowsill is enough for an orchid to lose all its flowers. There are a lot of things you can do wrong when caring for an orchid. Marriage is also very demanding. Even after 17 years, you have to look after it and look after it so that it doesn't die. The orchid wedding is also intended to encourage this.
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Orchid wedding: gifts for the 17th wedding anniversary
The first gift that comes to mind for an orchid wedding is of course a real orchid in a pot. Alternatively, a bouquet of flowers with orchids is also suitable to do justice to the symbolism of the wedding day.
If you like, you can of course decorate the dining table at home with an opulent arrangement of orchids. You can enjoy it for a long time and it looks particularly impressive. In addition, the vase in the arrangement can be reused later. So you can combine the orchids with a vase as a gift.
Anyone who decorates the table so conspicuously at home actually has to eat at home to be able to enjoy the view. Dinner together is a popular gift for every marriage anniversary. Why not just bring the tradition home? A home-cooked dinner is particularly well received anyway.
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On the other hand, if you're always cooking at home, you'll be happy to have a little variety on your wedding day. It can be a blessing for the relationship if you can just let yourself be served. Treat yourself to a visit to your favorite restaurant. You deserve it.
Alternatively, a special restaurant might be exciting for your 17th wedding anniversary. How about a crime thriller dinner (book here at XY)*? Or a dinner in the dark (book here at XY)*?
Orchids are not only known for their beauty. Their intoxicating scent is also world famous. A nice little gift for the 17th wedding anniversary can also be a room fragrance (Here you can order orchid room fragrance directly from Amazon)*.
If you already use an aroma diffuser, you can also use essential orchid oil and distribute the scent of the orchid throughout the house.
Orchid oil can also be found in high-quality cosmetics. This gift is not exactly cheap, but it does do justice to the special occasion of the 17th marriage anniversary.
After 17 years, the daily madness has probably caught up with every marriage. Perhaps the greatest gift for your wedding anniversary is a break from the hamster wheel. Treat yourself to a wellness weekend together full of saunas, steam baths and pure relaxation by the pool. Book an overnight stay in one of Dorint’s wellness hotels right here.*
For some people, wellness is about the last thing they want to do. A break from everyday life is also good for them. In this case, an experience gift would be the better alternative. It doesn’t have to be a skydive either. A joint workshop can also be a cool experience, or a quad tour, a few minutes of body flying and much more. With a voucher from Jochen Schweizer (book now here) you would have every taste covered.
If there's an escape from the daily grind, it's a city trip. This way you can simply get away from everything and everyone for the weekend. Use the time to just take care of yourself. Sometimes all you need is just a little time for each other and relationship problems fade into the background. Here you can go directly to the overview of city trips with Jochen Schweizer.*
The pinnacle of wedding anniversary gifts is a shared holiday. You can really switch off and forget the hustle and bustle of everyday life. Instead, you reflect on yourself. Let's review the past 17 years. Be proud of what you have already achieved and overcome and make plans together for the future. At this point, some couples may not have had a vacation together for years because the children are always with them. Treat yourself to this break as a couple, you really deserve it after 17 years!
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Sayings for the 17th wedding anniversary
Sad but true: After 17 years of marriage together, appreciation is often neglected. Don't let that happen. Instead, use your wedding day to tell the other person how much they mean to you. Praise and gratitude can be balm for the soul. If you don't have the right words yourself, use a saying or a famous quote. We have a small selection for you to inspire.
“Where you feel the most, you know the least to say.”
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
“Without belief in its permanence, love would be nothing; only constancy makes it great.”
Honore de Balzac
“In marriage you have to wage a constant battle against a monster that devours everything: habit.”
Honoré de Balzac
“I always loved you, I still love you today and will love you forever.”
Ludwig Uhland
“To love means to seek the happiness of others.”
Johannes Bosco
“Human happiness comes not so much from great strokes of luck that rarely occur, but rather from small fortunate circumstances that occur every day.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Walking the path of life with you: infinite joy lies ahead.”
Psalm 16, 11
“Love lives from lovely little things.”
Theodor Fontane
“In love, all of life’s contradictions sink and disappear. Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“Is there anything more satisfying than knowing someone you can talk to like yourself?”
Cicero
“A good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
“True love is like ghosts: everyone talks about it, but only a few have seen it.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
“Marriage: So I call the will of two to create the one that is more than they created it.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
“As far as the earth can be heaven, so far it is in a happy marriage.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
More sayings in the video: Short, funny and sometimes even rhyming
Congratulations on your wedding: Short, funny and sometimes even rhyming
“To experience the full value of happiness, we need someone to share it with.”
Marc Twain
“Love is a celebration, it must not only be prepared but also celebrated.”
Plato
“The greatest joy of love is to find rest in another heart.”
Lespinasse
“All happiness in marriage lies in mutual trust and accommodation. Foolish love soon fades, but one must respect and serve one another.”
Maria Theresia
“To write a good love letter, you must begin without knowing what you want to say and end without knowing what you said.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“To love a person is to see them as God intended them to be.”
Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski
“Where love is sown, joy grows.”
William Shakespeare
“We are shaped and shaped by what we love.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Love endures everything, believes everything, hopes everything, withstands everything. Love never ends.”
1. Korintherbrief 13,7
“Love, love, what a lovely vapor;
But marriage is where the art lies.”
Theodor Storm
