Silver Wedding (play)
Silver wedding or Silver Wedding may refer to: * ''Silver Wedding'' (novel), a 1988 novel by Maeve Binchy *House of the Silver Wedding, the archaeological remains of a Roman house in Pompeii *Silver wedding, a 25th wedding anniversary A wedding anniversary is the anniversary of the date a wedding took place. Couples may take the occasion to celebrate their relationship, either privately or with a larger party. Special celebrations and gifts are often given for particular ann ...

Silver Wedding (novel)
''Silver Wedding'' is a 1988 novel by the Irish author Maeve Binchy. Set in London, Dublin, and the west of Ireland in the year 1985, the novel explores the lives and inner feelings of a couple and their family and friends who are about to celebrate the couple's 25th wedding anniversary. Plot The plot surrounds the planning for the upcoming 25th wedding anniversary celebration of Desmond and Deidre Doyle, natives of Ireland who have resided in London since their marriage. They have raised two girls and a boy, all of whom "have turned out to be disappointments". The burden of planning the party falls on Anna, the eldest, who works in a bookshop and is supporting an out-of-work actor. Brother Brendan left the family long ago to live on his uncle's farm in west Ireland, and can't be counted on to even make an appearance. The youngest sister, Helen, who is constantly getting into trouble as she tries to be accepted as a nun, will be no help at all. As the novel unfolds, each charac ...
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House Of The Silver Wedding
The House of the Silver Wedding is the name given to the archaeological remains of a Roman house in Pompeii, buried in the ash from the 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The house was excavated in 1893 and was named after the silver wedding anniversary of Umberto and Margherita of Savoy, which took place in that year. Description The house is in the last side street off Via Vesuvio, next to an as-yet unexcavated part of the site. Built sometime around 300 BC and renovated in the early 1st century AD, it was the domus of a wealthy resident. Its architecture is classical and it bears fine decoration such as the atrium which has four tall Corinthian columns supporting the roof, and an elegantly ornamented exedra An exedra (plural: exedras or exedrae) is a semicircular architectural recess or platform, sometimes crowned by a semi-dome, and either set into a building's façade or free-standing. The original Greek sense (''ἐξέδρα'', a seat out of d ... and is gen ...
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