Wedding anniversaries are a wonderful occasion to relive the most beautiful day in your life over and over again. Starting a year in, the paper anniversary is the first to be celebrated properly. While a marriage is still a blank sheet of paper after just one year, five years in will have seen it grow and gain consistency – our couple now celebrates its wood anniversary. After ten years, at the rose anniversary, a marriage will already have had thorny times and will now be in its most beautiful bloom. After 15 years, customarily, the crystal anniversary will replace any broken crystal amounted during this period.

However, it’s 20 years of marriage that mark a very special celebration – the porcelain anniversary. As with others before it, the name giving material stands as a symbol for this very special anniversary: marriage is a precious good, firm and hardy after two decades but still in need of care and dedication or else it will suffer cracks. Porcelain anniversaries can be celebrated on a grand scale – traditionally smashing dishes to make way for new ones and dispel evil spirits. Usually, it’s the table service the bride and groom received as a wedding gift, but often only the soup bowl is sacrificed. Another porcelain anniversary custom is a wreath on the door, adorned with pieces of porcelain to mark this special occasion. The festive decoration in total is kept simple otherwise: a white color scheme with accents in delicate pastel shades or gold. Porcelain, of course, takes a prominent role: as a service for food, vases for lush flower arrangements, candlesticks, and accessories such as figurines and boxes. Meissen porcelain – with its wealth of tableware collections, home accessories and porcelain figurines to choose from – is always the perfect choice.