Happy Anniversary!

Hi All,

Just thought of a great idea for a blog entry!  Anniversaries.  How cool is that?  And how universal - if you are married you have an anniversary!!!  And if you're not married you can celebrate with your significant other!

Here's a link for anniversary gifts by year! And it just does make sense that Hallmark is the creator of this site!  Note that there are traditional anniversary gifts (paper, cotton, leather, flowers, wood...etc) and a more modern version (clocks, china, glass, appliances, silverware, wood....etc) next to each anniversary on the webpage.

Click here for another site with similar information - only this time the traditional and modern gifts are organized in an easy to view table. 

For a bit more context of wedding anniversary's, click on this link from Wikipedia that goes to the topic of 'Wedding anniversary'.

And for something completely different, click on this link from OnlineFlowers.com.au that talks about the various meanings behind each wedding anniversary.  Interesting stuff to be sure - and note that the site is Australian.

Finally, here's a link of anniversary quotes for your husband and anniversary quotes for your wife!  Game on!  Which quotes are better or sweeter or nicer?  You choose!

Enjoy the site and the anniversaries - my how the years go by.  (The days are long the years are short!)

Regards,
Stu

Wedding Anniversaries

Hi All,

Weddings are special.  Wedding anniversaries are even more special because they celebrate that special day!  This blog entry discusses weddings, anniversaries and the associated customs and background attached to a wedding.  Enjoy the links!

Click on this link from About.com (Marriage section) that discusses traditional anniversay gift ideas.
1st-10th
11th-20th
21st-30th
31st-40th
41st-50th
51st-100th (wow!)

Click on this link from TheKnot.com to learn about ideas, the wedding registry, wedding etiquette, finding vendors, engagement rings, finding wedding dresses and wedding planning 101. 

For a long, comprehensive article about weddings, readers can click on this link from Wikipedia. 

Click on this article from Slate.com entitled 'The Wedding Industry's Pricey Little Secret'...interesting reading for the newly engaged!  Readers also might want to visit the site PerfectWeddingGuide.com for assistance in making the wedding planning simpler. 

For those who want to write their own weddings vows you might want to visit MyWeddingVows.com or Wedding Vows/The Knot.com.  Other wedding vows websites include About.com, OffBeatBride.com and Wikipedia's entry which can be found by clicking on this link.

Enjoy the links and the wedding and the food and the music and the big day.

Finally, the library has an extensive collection of wedding and wedding-related books and materials for the newly engaged.  Click on this link to see what material we have in the library's card catalog!

Regards,
Stu

Marriage Quotes

Hi All,

Trying to come up with an idea for a blog entry today was somewhat difficult this morning. My thought process went something like this...

Checked online version of Newsday for some local news or tidbit to write about. Nothing of interest really appeared. I did see the Obits byline at the top of the page though. I thought about an entry talking about obituaries - that's too easy. Just go to the Social Security Death Index page from Rootsweb.

Besides a blog entry about obituaries is too depressing for this time of the year. I wanted something more upbeat and a bit less depressing. So...I looked for sites that had birth announcements...no such luck and what I did find were sites that actually sold the birth announcment itself. Not what I was looking for.

What about marriages? Hmmmm...I felt like I was getting a bit closer to a good idea for a blog post. What about marriage announcements? Okay - click on this link from the New York Times to see some fancy marriage announcements in and around New York City.

More to the point, I was looking for a whole bunch of quotes about what marriage does to a man and a woman; and to the relationship. Lots of the quotes talk about change and what happens after the honeymoon is over. There is a bit of truth in each and everyone of these quotes related to marriage. You'll see. And some of them are very, very clever - all of them are, in one way or another true.


This next set of married related quotes comes from QuoteGarden - an interesting quote related website. Note that if you want to find a particular word on the page, just click on the Edit option at the top left side of the page. When the drop down menu appears, click on the Find option and a dialog box will appear where you can type in the word you are looking for. Upon hitting the enter key the first appearance of the word will be shown. Hitting enter again will show the next appearance of the word you are looking for.

Finally, click on this link from Poemslovers.com for yet more quotes on the worlds oldest institution: marriage.

Enjoy the links and the quotes!
Stu