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wow we are making progress on planning my parents 50th wedding anniversary party! we wanted a picnic/BBQ in the mountain town we lived in during high school. i just turned in a request for the shelter picnic area for that date. they will get back to me but it did take the deposit (the date is in June).
then my parents have sooooo much stuff i don't know what to give them. i decided to collect quarters for every year they have been married and put it together in some wonderfully artistic idea. i am open to ideas, and have quite a few months to decide.
Now back to the sick room, geez this sucks.
No stuff; just the party. Hope that helps you some. Thankk mee.
Something simple, ZG. Why not a large picture of them with family miniatures in a collage with the coins providing the frame?
ooh nice idea, my parents just want the BBQ and a large photos of all 12-15 (if we include the married in's of course) relatives. the coin frame is a nice idea.
I just did my parents 50th 2 years ago.
I collected a few photos to make the invite cards and took care of creating/printing/mailing.
The church hall was available. I ordered flowers, cakes, decor, tableware, etc...
Mom and I made a display of her wedding dress and things from their wedding and honeymoon album.
Veggie trays, fruit trays, cake, punch (including one huge sticky spill in the kitchen).
And then I took lots of photos of everyone who came (300 people) and I printed all the photos for mom. She is big into making photo albums.
That was my gift....it was huge. Nothing else needed. The event was the gift she wanted. Their 52 anniversary is next Sunday...I'm sure I'll get a call to talk over memories of the big event and how thrilled she was.
For my in-laws 50th, one of their kids took all their old home movies, edited together sequentially and put to music from that era. Then put on a CD. Scenes from a much simpler life in the 1950s-1960s that always makes me tear up when I watch it. They loved it.
Our 50th is coming up in August, and hopefully our "celebration" will be simple. We have no relatives close-by other than #1 son (whose kids don't live anywhere near), and #2 son and daughter-law and their son. We do have a wonderful church community (UU) and the church and grounds will be available to us at minimal cost (though we would make a good donation for use), so we might plan something "smallish", perhaps a potluck or somesuch. We aren't party/social people, so something very simple will be fine. Another couple from church will celebrate their 50th a week after us, so we've joked about having a joint party ... we'll see. Still plenty of time to "worry" about all that ...l......
Teacher Terry
3-30-15, 7:45pm
If they have a favorite restaurant I would get them a gift certificate to that.
i wonder about tickets to the sports they like, college basketball is a much different time of year i think. they are coming from iowa and we are all meeting in colorado where we lived in high school. i think just straight up alcohol would fit except that i don't feel like that considering my daughter right now,
Teacher Terry
3-30-15, 8:04pm
I would not do the alcohol either but the events tickets sound like a great idea!
For my parents-in-law's 50th, we put together a kind of memory album. We got in touch with many of their friends and family, and asked people to write some reminiscence about them. Lots of people did - some especially touching things came from my DH's cousins in England, who as children had known DH's parents as the adventurous aunt and uncle who moved to Canada. We used an ordinary photo album to stick things in -- it wasn't fancy or scrap-booked or anything like that.
They really liked it, and it gave them something to enjoy after the big day. That was the only material thing we gave them, I think.
a couple of years ago most of us went to michigan and my parents rented a house near the beach at south haven, very cool. So i put together a book of the photos and had us all sign it. it was a shutter fly bound book which turned out very nice.
iris lilies
3-30-15, 11:34pm
The 50th wedding anniversary of my parents was decades ago. We aren't much for big parties.
My brother and I, and our spouses, along with our parents went on a long weekend trip to St. Joseph, MO and Kansas City. It was nice for us because we don't go places as a family of adults. They would have liked anything that we did, but the parties with hundreds in a hall just are not their style.
DH and his siblings carried out a more typical party in a hall for their parents, but that's sort of what people in that littlebitty, insignificant town way up north in the middle of nowhere do. I do not believe they ate pizza with oooey gooey cheese, however.
iris lilies
3-30-15, 11:40pm
a couple of years ago most of us went to michigan and my parents rented a house near the beach at south haven, very cool. So i put together a book of the photos and had us all sign it. it was a shutter fly bound book which turned out very nice.
That sounds very nice, I'll bet that they loved it.
woo hoo! my brother has all the quarters except 2 years in the 70's. yeah for quarter collections. we have reserved the park they wanted and my brother found a couple photographers to choose from. i want to get the food from the biker bar in the area but we can always do the local deli or king soopers i guess. So we are on our way, ...
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