Wedding day: great ideas for a wooden wedding

The 5th wedding anniversary is the first milestone in marriage. The best ideas come for the wooden wedding.

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The 5th wedding anniversary is a very special marriage anniversary. In addition to the first wedding anniversary, it is often the first anniversary that is particularly celebrated. Some couples even decide to celebrate their 5th wedding anniversary with a few guests.
There are no regulations on this. If you want to celebrate big, celebrate big. If you want to celebrate small, celebrate small and if you don't want to celebrate at all, you can do that too. Ultimately, the most important thing is that the couple enjoys their wedding day and that is different for every couple.

We'll show you the most beautiful ideas to make your 5th wedding anniversary very special, no matter how you want to celebrate it.

5th Wedding Anniversary: ​​The Meaning of the Wooden Wedding

The first wedding anniversary is the. It makes perfect sense that the next big milestone will be about wood. So it's about further development in a more stable direction. The marriage is now more solid than paper and has reached the status of wood.
Even though marriage is now made of more solid material, it can still change. The wood can be carved and processed. The couple still has to work on their marriage.

An interpretation in connection with the phrase “knock on wood” is also conceivable. The marriage has made it to the 5th wedding anniversary, so knock on wood that this marital bliss continues.

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Wooden wedding: after 5 or after 10 years?

There is conflicting information circulating about when the Wooden Wedding will be celebrated. Generally speaking, the wooden wedding is celebrated on the 5th wedding anniversary and the rose wedding is celebrated on the 10th. However, in some places, the wooden wedding is celebrated after ten years, while the rose wedding is celebrated after five years. So sometimes there are regional differences.

There are also places where the 5th wedding anniversary is called the ox wedding if the couple has no children by then. An ox is a castrated male cow. In other words, a cow that is unable to reproduce and is only used as a work animal.
If the couple already has several children, the term busy wedding is also used in some places, as an allusion to the fact that the couple has “hardly” fathered children.

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Customs for the wooden wedding

The wooden wedding is actually rarely celebrated in a big way. However, if it is celebrated with guests, it is customary for the guests to decorate the couple's garden with wood. You can do this with branches, wood chips or firewood, but also with wooden figures and even wooden chairs. Sometimes the entrance to the house is also decorated with wood chips.
Another custom at a celebration is for the couple to repeat their wedding dance in wooden shoes.

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Wooden Wedding Gifts

The gifts for the 5th wedding anniversary are also all about wood. Wooden cooking spoons are given away, or wooden decorative figures, even wooden shoes, based on the tradition of repeating the wedding dance in wooden shoes.
Homemade wooden gifts are also possible. This can be anything from a bird house to an artistic wooden board.

Wooden accessories are also becoming increasingly popular. There are now wooden bow ties, wooden cufflinks, wooden watches or jewelry and even wooden suspenders. If you have a fashion-conscious partner or are invited to a wooden wedding by a fashion-conscious couple, you can also score points with a stylish wooden accessory.

Personalized gifts are also very popular. There is even the option of adding the couple's names to a wooden bench for the garden. But wooden shoes, cutting boards, key rings, or simply wooden decorations can also be personalized.

Photo gifts are of course also a nice way to celebrate the couple's love. Photos are therefore very popular among gifts on every wedding anniversary. For a wooden wedding, you can, for example, transfer the photo of the married couple onto a wooden board using the DIY process.

Another good idea for every wedding anniversary is time for two. In the hectic pace of everyday life, carefree time as a couple is often the first thing lost. The wedding day is a nice opportunity to put all your obligations on hold and focus solely on the other person. Time for two can be anything - from a relaxed wellness weekend to a skydive.

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Sayings about the wooden wedding

The 5th wedding anniversary is exactly the right time to tell your partner how much they mean to you. You can reflect on the last five years and simply thank others. Unfortunately, especially when you need the right words, you often can't think of them. Expressing emotions is difficult for most people. This is where well-known quotes and sayings come into play. The poets of this world often have exactly the right words for what we want to say.

Love comes after marriage.
Proverb from Lapland

Crooked wood burns as well as straight wood.
German proverb

As a rule, true marital happiness only begins when the first roses have faded.
Adolf Kolping

Walk the path of life with you: there is endless joy ahead of us.
Psalm 16,11

Where love is sown, joy grows.
William Shakespeare

Treat people like wood! Just because one piece is wormy, you would never throw away the whole log.
Chinese proverb

In marriage you have to wage a constant battle against a monster that devours everything: habit.
Honoré de Balzac

Marriage: This is what I call the will of two to create the one that is more than they created it.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Where you feel the most, you know the least about what to say.
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff

As far as the earth can be heaven, it is so in a happy marriage.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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Love, what a lovely haze! But marriage is where the art lies!
Theodor Storm

Whoever wants to keep a good fire must first split the coarse wood.
Johann Nepomuk Vogl

Always choose love! Once you decide to do this once and for all, you will conquer the entire world.
Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski

Love is not just looking at each other, but looking together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

We are shaped and shaped by what we love.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Every wood has its worm.
German proverb

The world is so empty when you only think of mountains, rivers and cities in it, but knowing someone here and there who agrees with us, with whom we continue to live in silence: That's what makes this world an inhabited garden.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Without faith in its duration, love would be nothing; only constancy makes it great.
Honore de Balzac

The greatest happiness of love is to find peace in another heart.
Julie de Lespinasse

Love is always building a bridge out of stones in the way.
Author Unknown

Carve your life out of the wood you have.
Leo Tolstoi

Why worry about firewood when you have a big tree?
proverb

He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. Whoever sows in abundance will also reap in abundance.
2. Corinthians 9, 6

That two really love each other,
gives the world meaning,
makes it round and right
up to the stars.
Matthias Claudius

Neither the present nor the future can separate us.
Romans 8:38