Talk:Wedding anniversary

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Contents 1 German List 2 Aluminium/Aluminum 3 Merge 4 Symbolism 5 Britney? 6 Traditional gifts

[edit] German List

Is the German list really necessary? It seems to take up more than half of the entry, and it is at best somewhat interesting, but probably useless for most people searching this entry. Also, the article doesn't include the English ones. I don't speak German, so it is entirely possible that the German version includes the English version somewhere, but I digress. I'm not saying that that said German page is a reason to remove the German counterpart from the English entry, but I just feel this is an unnecessary part of the page. Drunkasian 19:22, 2005-05-16

I have to concur; it's not only trivia but (a) arguably irrelevant trivia, as I doubt many people even in Germany have ever celebrated their 6 1/4th wedding anniversary with a gift of mutton, (b) contains enough obviously-ridiculous entries (radium? Crown jewels?) to make the authenticity of the list look dubious, and (c) seriously unbalances the article. If anyone feels strongly that this information needs a place in English, perhaps they could create an article specially for "Alleged German Wedding Anniversay Traditions"? Haeleth 21:57, August 14, 2005 (UTC)

I have to disagree with the 'double diamond' anniversary As far as I know only three English speaking couples have celebrated their 75th wedding aniversary;

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_east/3583743.stm and they chose to call it a 'Diamond Gold' anniversary

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/156640.stm who called it a 'Gold and Silver' anniversary

and

http://www.abc.net.au/milduraswanhill/stories/s784768.htm but I can't find any reference to what is was called

[edit] Aluminium/Aluminum

Since Aluminium appears only in the American column, it makes sense to rename it Aluminum. Kayman1uk 11:09, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

And again Kayman1uk 21:53, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

As per that decision, I've changed "jewellery" to "jewelry". Bobo. 05:31, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Except that "jewelry" only appears in the "modern" column, so that decision doesn't apply. Furthermore, looking over the MoS again, it becomes pretty clear that an article should be restricted to one spelling system or the other, not mixed, even if parts of the article relate to practices in different parts of the English-speaking world. As such, since this article has always predominantly used British spellings, I'm changing the anomolous American spellings back to the British forms (including "aluminium", for consistency), in accordance with what the MoS recommends. — Haeleth Talk 14:53, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge

This whole article has pieces that belong elsewhere and possibly nowhere in wikipedia. I think the wedding remarks should be merged into wedding. The unsourced identification of gifts at various points is sufficiently covered in anniversary. I think we should remove the mergto anniversary tag as the redirect should most likely lead to wedding and not anniversary.Alan.ca 21:31, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

• No merge — I was searching specifically for the topic "Wedding anniversary" and found this page. I would not have looked for wedding for the information. The topic wedding anniversary merits its own article, albeit this article could be improved. — ERcheck (talk) 03:22, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Would you not have then looked in the page for anniversary ?

• Merge with Anniversary would seem OK to me. That page already duplicates most of this one, though there is some non-overlap. DFH 18:58, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Note that discussions about merging with wedding are at talk:wedding and discussions about merging with anniversary are at talk:anniversary - at least that is where the merge tags direct one to. In case anyone is counting votes here rather than there - I think wedding anniversary can stand on its own, and does not need to be merged, though it should be referenced in wedding, anniversary, and perhaps wedding traditions and customs. j-beda 14:04, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Symbolism

It would be great if someone could add the symbolism of each anniversary. --203.122.234.30 05:33, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

What do you mean? --Masamage 08:07, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Britney?

Albeit it's funny, but is there a source somewhere for it?

Nevermind, someone got it...

[edit] Traditional gifts

The traditional gifts list is hardly official. I don't think it's appropriate to define the official list of wedding gifts based on one author's opinion in one published book. Further, the link provided is full of pop up and in articles ads. A dubious source at best. Alan.ca 19:46, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

I agree that we shouldn't call it "official," but it is certainly a well-known list and an extremely common phenomenon. It should be mentioned and explained and talked about and well-sourced. (And Bartleby is the only place I know of the find the full text of that book online; if someone has a physical copy of the book, it would make a tidier citation, but of course wouldn't be a different source.) --Masamage 19:51, 6 January 2007 (UTC)