50th Wedding Anniversary Gift Ideas

Our parents wishes were for there to be no presents, that in essence the gathering of family and loved ones to celebrate their 50 years of marriage was the best present. This was stated on the invitations as "Your presence is the best present". For those however, that will be receiving gifts, and those looking for 50th Wedding Anniversary gifts, following are three 50th Wedding Anniversary gift ideas. Each gift idea has the 50th Wedding celebration them featured, with a variety of ways to enjoy the gift beyond the actual celebration with family and friends.


Golden Anniversary Hearts Square Wall Clock

 

Golden Anniversary Hearts Square Wall Clock by Peerdrops
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Personalized Poker Cards

 

Cheap 50th Anniversary Gifts PERSONALIZED Poker Cards by LittleLindaPinda
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Snowflake Pewter Christmas Ornament


 

Vintage 50th Anniversary ID173 Snowflake Pewter Christmas Ornament by arrayforhome
See other Gold Ornament at zazzle

I am not certain which of the above gifts I like best, however, I am taken with the snowflake ornament because it's pretty enough to have displayed all year and I especially like that it's a Christmas tree ornament. Over the years I have accumulated many family themed ornaments that at Christmas time our decorated tree tells a story of life, love, and family. Which 50th Wedding Anniversary gift featured above do you like best?

Relax Post Party In Style

50 Years of Love Golden Wedding Anniversary TShirt
Treat yourself, and all those celebrating the 50th Wedding Anniversary of your loved ones, to these stylish t-shirts! Relax in one of 4 available colors. These memorable take home gifts will be treasures of this momentous family celebration! Relax and celebrate in style!

50th Anniversary Pearl Rose Cake Top, a Hortense B. Hewitt Wedding Accessory

Recently I became aware of this beautiful 50th Anniversary Pearl Rose Cake Top by Hortense B. Hewitt Wedding Accessories.

 

50th Wedding Anniversary Pearl Rose Cake Topper

There are many things I like about this cake topper and the first is the pearl roses and gold-tone embellished 50th at the bottom center of the heart.  

This cake top stands 5-1/4 inch tall ad 3-1/4 inch diameter and can decorate a cake, or be used as a table decoration, or stand alone as a figurine.

What I like most is a combination of the colors, off white and gold, and the glazed porcelain with the rose and leaf accents. 

When looking at this Pearl Rose 50th Cake Topper, I think it would stand nicely in a curio and admired long after the 50th Wedding Anniversary Celebration!

Elegant Golden Anniversary Invitations

These Elegant Golden Anniversary Invitations are a beautiful choice of 50th Wedding Anniversary Invitiations.

This style is wonderful if you want a customized and personalized invitation featuring photos of the celebrating couple.

With these invitations you customize the name, date, and details of the special couples's Golden Wedding Anniversary and celebration! As I mentioned in this earlier post my sister and I choose to use an invitation kit, but had I known about these inviations when we were celebrating our parent's 50th wedding anniversary I think we would have chosen the Gold and Cream color choice shown here.

50th Golden Wedding Anniversary Photo Invitations offered at th_party_invitations at Zazzle

Although I do like the Gold and Black color also:

Elegant 50th Wedding Anniversary Photo Invitations offered at zazzle
More 50th Invitations

Just some ideas to offer that may be of help to you. Congratulations!

Happy New Year! And Let The Planning Begin!

Well it is 2011 and just one short year ago, my sister and I began to plan our parent's 50th Wedding Anniversary Celebration which was held on June 11, 2010.

Celebrating such a momentous occasion with family and loved ones was a remarkable experience.

Our planning began with a list of guests, selecting invitations, securing a location to have the party, then deciding on the food choices and service, printing and mailing the invitations, as well as choosing a gift, making a Memory Book, and creating a celebratory movie using Windows Movie Maker.

Your plans may include some of the above activities and it is my hope that you find some items here that are helpful in planning your family's 50th Wedding Anniversary Celebration.

50th Wedding Anniversary Music

Have you chosen music to play at your 50th Wedding Anniversary celebration?

Here are a few ideas for music selection for the special celebration:

1) The couple's First Dance song: My parent's first dance song was "True Love" written by Cole Porter and performed by Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly in the 1955 film, "High Society". I found the True Love version performed by Dean Martin online, purchased and downloaded it and added it to the movie we made as well as a CD we made that we played during the party.

2) Classic Love Songs: Including "When I Fall In Love”, “Some Enchanted Evening”, “Someone to Watch Over Me”, “You Make Loving Fun", “Songbird”, and “Just the Way You Are”.

3) Favorite Songs from Broadway Shows: As a family we all enjoyed the Mama Mia and Fiddler On The Roof Broadway productions and therefore included a couple of songs from these shows in the CD and movie musical compilations.

Hope your planning for your special celebration is going well and that these ideas for selecting music for the party, pre-party, and post parties is helpful!

It's been fun to listen to the CD even today, almost 6 months after the celebration. But why not, we're still celebrating to this day the love, dedication, and commitment of our parent's True Love.

50th Wedding Anniversary Cake Toppers

As many of you know, my parents celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary this past June.

It was their preference to have chocolate mousse cakes. Well sort of. My parents knowing how much their youngest grandchild loves chocolate delegated the distinct honor of choosing the dessert, knowing that it would most definitely be a chocolate creation. And it was. It was delicious.

I have read and know of celebrating families that request and order cakes that are replicas or resemble the couple's wedding cake. What a great idea! Of course the cake topper would be celebratory of the occasion, possibly like the one pictured above.

Many manufacturer's offer 50th Wedding Anniversary cake toppers, including Wilton. Decorating the cake with this commemorative topper will definitely make it special. The topper will also be a wonderful souvenir from the celebration of 5 decades of love, honor, and commitment.