golden wedding

English

Noun

golden wedding (plural golden weddings)

1. The golden anniversary of a wedding, the 50th anniversary of a marriage.
   • 1850, Jemima von Tautphoeus, Initials, volume I, page 121:

     ‘Perhaps you have no golden or silver wedding in England?’
     ‘I confess I never heard of any thing of the kind,’ said Hamilton...
     ‘To be fifty years married and to have a golden wedding, is a sort of event in a family.’

   • 1922, Emily Post, chapter XXII, in Etiquette:

     ...in fact the paper, wooden and tin wedding presents are seldom anything but jokes. Crystal is the earliest that is likely to be taken seriously by the gift-bearers. Silver is always serious, and the golden wedding a quite sacred event.

Coordinate terms

• silver wedding (25th)
• ruby wedding (40th)
• diamond wedding (60th/75th)

Translations

50th anniversary of a marriage — see golden anniversary