Copper Wedding Anniversary

[mls]

                                                       

                                                                          

 

              On 14 November 2016 Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary have been married for 12 1/2 years.         

               In Denmark this anniversary is celebrated as “kobberbryllup” (copper wedding anniversary).

               They were married on the 14^th May 2004 in Vor Frue Kirke.

                                                                                                

          

                                                                                                                                                            ,     
                Crown Prince Frederik 14 May 2004:

"I love you Mary - Come, let us go, come let us see - through a thousand worlds, weightless love awaits."

 

 

                                         

                                                                                                                                                

 

[mls]

2004

 

2016

 

 

 

[mls]

                                                                 Danish Anniversary Traditions

 

http://www.denmark-getaway.com/danish-anniversary-traditions.html

 

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"The main wedding anniversaries in Denmark are 12 ½, 25 and 50 years.

25 years used to be the main celebration but with many people getting married late or getting divorced and remarried, the 12 ½ year anniversary is

sort of taking over as the bigger celebration today.

 

One of the Anniversary Traditions are that at the 3 main anniversaries 12 ½ , 25 and 50 years the neighbours, family and friends make an arch

around the front door of the home where you are living, if it is a Copper Anniversary (12 ½ year) however it will only go half way.
The arch is put up during the evening before the anniversary and it is a tradition that in the early morning, between 6 and 7am., of the anniversary,

family, friends and neighbours gather in front of the arched door most likely accompanied with some kind of music and start singing for the

anniversary couple.

 

The anniversary couple thereafter invite all the singing guests in for breakfast after a couple of songs, they serve coffee, bread rolls and Danish

pastry and most likely a couple of Old Danish Bitters.

 

Apart from the breakfast, family, friends and the closest neighbours are usually invited to a party, most likely in a hired hall or community hall where

a three course meal are most likely to be served. At the party there are speeches and singing involved, homemade songs are personalised

to the couple of the day and contain stories about their lives.

Another one of the Danish anniversary traditions is to take the shoes off the groom and cut the toes off his socks or cut a piece off his tie."

[mls]

The anniversary will be celebrated privately but there are photos, articles and congratulations in the Danish press.

 

"A video story - Wedding of the century- The day Denmark still remembers"

 http://underholdning.tv2.dk/2016-11-13-aarhundredets-bryllup-dagen-danmark-stadig-husker

 

A gallery

http://kendte.dk/kronprinsesse-mary-kronprins-frederik-kobberbryllup/?image=1

 

http://hasseferrold.blogspot.fi/2016/11/congratulations-on-14-november-2016-thr

 

 

TV2.dk:
"TV 2 flicks through the royal photo album and lets four famous Danish couple give advice on how to keep love alive when the adventure

turns into everyday life. The program 'Royal copper wedding - come let us go ...' broadcasts on TV 2 Sunday, November 13 at. 20:00.

We follow the newly married couples highlights both at home and abroad over the years and especially the happy moments in the form

of four family additions: Prince Christian in 2005, Princess Isabella in 2007 and twins Prince Vincent and Princess Josephine in 2011."

http://omtv2.tv2.dk/nyhedsartikler/nyhedsvisning/kronprinsparret-fejrer-kobberbryllup/

 

DR.1 - Wednesday 16th 8pm:

"Frederik og Mary - 12½ år med Kronprinsparret" (Frederik and Mary - 12½ years with the Crown Prince Couple)

 

"It is 12 ½ years ago Frederik and Mary were married and became Denmark's Crown Prince Couple. In celebration of the copper wedding DR1

looks at the years gone by - from first love to the big wedding and the births of their four children. The program also looks at how Frederik and

Mary have grown with the task over the years, and what kind of a couple in the future will take over the throne."

 

 

 

 

 

 

[gudinde]

Billed Bladet video

http://www.billedbladet.dk/kongelige/danmark/kgl-kobberbryllup-eksperter-derfor-er-mary-og-frederiks-kaerlighed-saa-stor

In which court reporters Marianne Singer, Ulrik Ulriksen and editor Annemette Krakau talk about the Crown Princely Couple's joy in each other as a married couple, as parents and as representatives of Denmark. 

Maybe someone can pull out a few quotes for us.

[gudinde]

Another BB video - Danes send greetings to Frederik and Mary

http://www.billedbladet.dk/kongelige/danmark/kgl-kobberbryllup-danskerne-sender-videohyldest-til-frederik-og-mary

[mls]

Gallery from kongehuset.dk. Photos from the past 12½ years. Nothing new except for the last one

 

http://kongehuset.dk/sites/default/files/styles/slideshow/public/2014ziigy_0.png?itok=kVlVHYsd

http://kongehuset.dk/foto-video/kobberbryllup

[gudinde]

Thanks. I don't remember seeing this one before either

http://kongehuset.dk/sites/default/files/styles/slideshow/public/nyt_graasten.png?itok=m2M5hGky

[gudinde]

A good article from BT, with experts saying how Frederik & Mary's characters and focus areas compliment each other 

http://www.bt.dk/royale/alle-husker-oejeblikket-for-12-og-et-halvt-aar-siden-derfor-er-frederik-og-mary-saa

[mls]

11 minutes ago, gudinde said:

Thanks. I don't remember seeing this one before either

http://kongehuset.dk/sites/default/files/styles/slideshow/public/nyt_graasten.png?itok=m2M5hGky

Me neither. Thanks.

It wasn't there when I checked the photos.

 

 

The two new ones from last summer at Gråsten. Photos Franne Voigt.

http://kongehuset.dk/sites/default/files/styles/slideshow/public/2014ziigy_0.png?itok=kVlVHYsd

http://kongehuset.dk/sites/default/files/styles/slideshow/public/nyt_graasten.png?itok=m2M5hGky

[mls]

A politician congratulating the CPC with a link to Lars H.U.G's surpise pre-anniversary congratulation a month or so ago.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNu21eG2XWE

1.16-1.40 is the part Frederik quoted from in his wedding speech.

[commoner]

Congratulations on the 12½ years:-)

The DRF Facebook has posted a picture from this morning

https://www.facebook.com/detdanskekongehus/photos/a.252278945110694.1073741828.236903853314870/381795582159029/?type=3&permPage=1

Family and friends woke them up at 6.30 this morning with a port of honour and probably also singing

 

Edited November 14, 2016 by commoner

[mls]

So nice that we got to see a photo of this! This was 6.30 this morning.

 

Bigger version of the photo

https://scontent-arn2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/15003248_381795582159029_5022098127077000506_o.jpg

 

[mitchell]

dr live https://www.dr.dk/tv/live/event/genoplev-kronprinsparrets-bryllup%23!/#!/

all the best Mitchell

[mls]

Video of friends and family arriving for the morning wake up.

http://www.billedbladet.dk/kongelige/danmark/kgl-kobberbryllup-til-morgensang-hos-kronprinsparret

 

Joachim&Marie, Helle and Otto Reedtz Thott with kids, Ellen Hillingsø with kids, Christian and Elisabeth Buchwald & two daughters

(one is Frederik's god daughter), Count Bendt Wedell & family, Malou and Jorgen Skeel and Per Thornit and his wife among others.

 

The Life Guard Music Corps was in charge of the musical side. Half the town probably heard that.

[abbie]

Thanks for the links.

Lovely that  traditions such as this continue and that good friends bring their children for the early wakeup.

I like the two new pictures, especially the one of Mary and Federik it is such a happy shot.

[mls]

1 hour ago, abbie said:

 

Lovely that  traditions such as this continue and that good friends bring their children for the early wakeup.

 

It is a lovely tradition!

 

 

"The anniversary couple thereafter invite all the singing guests in for breakfast after a couple of songs, they serve coffee, bread rolls and Danish

pastry and most likely a couple of Old Danish Bitters."

 

According to the video, they all stayed there for some time and then, yesterday being a Monday morning, all the kids off to school,

as Ellen Hillingsø said when leaving.

 

[gudinde]

People magazine picked up the story

http://people.com/royals/denmark-crown-prince-frederik-princess-mary-celebrate-copper-wedding-anniversary/

 

and Swedish magazine Svensk Damtidning

http://www.svenskdam.se/2016/11/har-overraskar-familjen-frederik-och-mary-se-fina-bilden/

 

a Dutch website

http://www.reetketel.nl/royalty/zien-prinses-mary-en-prins-frederik-als-ze-net-wakker-zijn/

 

Swiss

http://swi.s4.webdigital.hu/aktuell/prinzessin-mary-prinz-frederik-uberraschung-zur-kupferhochzeit-gala

 

and Danish Se & Hoer

http://www.seoghoer.dk/nyheder/frede-og-mary-overrasket-i-nattoej-se-billedet

Edited November 16, 2016 by gudinde

[mls]

On 13.11.2016 at 11:26 AM, mls said:

 

DR.1 - Wednesday 16th 8pm:

"Frederik og Mary - 12½ år med Kronprinsparret" (Frederik and Mary - 12½ years with the Crown Prince Couple)

 

"It is 12 ½ years ago Frederik and Mary were married and became Denmark's Crown Prince Couple. In celebration of the copper wedding DR1

looks at the years gone by - from first love to the big wedding and the births of their four children. The program also looks at how Frederik and

Mary have grown with the task over the years, and what kind of a couple in the future will take over the throne."

 

https://www.dr.dk/tv/se/kronprinsparrets-kobberbryllup/-/frederik-og-mary-12-ar-med-kronprinsparret#!/

 

 

[commoner]

Well, that was late:-)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3955930/Princess-Mary-appears-dressing-gown-woken-family-traditional-celebration-mark-twelve-half-year-wedding-anniversary-Prince-Frederik.html