Any suggestions for a 25th wedding anniversary?

Congrats!! Don’t forget that it is the Silver wedding anniversary. Make sure at least part of the gift is Silver.

@missingbite I had forgotten it’s considered the “silver” anniversary. We’ve kind of said no to separate gifts. We have Red Sox tickets for the next week though. We live for baseball.

I wrote 25 things I love about my wife on 25 slips of paper. Then I slipped those into 25 balloons and blew them up. I put all of the balloons in a room that I knew she would be going into later. I bought a fancy hat pin, tied a ribbon around it, and pinned it to the door of the room.

She found the pin first of course, was thoroughly puzzled, but then she opened the door and understood what it was for.

Great bang for the buck

Congrats. How about renewing vows?
Nothing says it better than if given a choice I would choose you all over again!

Wow, @thorninmud! That is so incredibly romantic! How did you come up with that idea? Do you remember?

@wundayatta It definitely was not original to me, but that was 5 years ago, and I don’t remember where I stumbled across it. I’m afraid I’m not really much of a romantic.

I was at a 40th wedding anniversary recently. It was great meeting up with people I hadn’t seen for years. At the end there was a nostalgic slide show with musical accompaniment that the groom had put together. It went down really well with everyone there.

@thorninmud I just read your response, with my mouth open by the way. It’s brilliant! You must be a romantic if you found the idea and then acted on it.
@flutherother Also a great idea. The only thing is this: I absolutely hate having my picture taken, and avoid the camera, at all costs. Always been a bone of contention with my husband. So there are few pictures of me, very few.
@blueiiznh Renewing our vows is something we’re planning for our 30th, somewhere sunnya and beachy. Excellent idea, as well

I would capture a special moment from when you were dating and gather up mementos from that time and place when you both knew you were the one for each other. Picture, poems songs, whatever it may be to recognize what it was that provided the glue for your 25 years. A collage, scrap book, dvd whatever format you can archive that moment in time. Congrats and have a great time!

ooooooooo I like the scrap book idea.

Best wishes for continued happiness. Call the ball park and ask them to announce Happy Anniversary to you and your husband. Or have it flashed on the sign. I’ve seen that done and it would be a surprise.

Well, I wish it were going to be Fenway. No, I believe it will be White Sox park. Now, that park I can call. Good idea.

@thorninmud Great idea! (I’m terrified by the noise balloons make when they burst though, so I hope no one ever does this for me!)

@annewilliams5 Try to think out of the box re the silver…. on a paper anniversary my other half bought me a beautiful pen… Erm, could you buy him a cloud???

@harple Do they have clouds for sale? A star perhaps? A silver sharpie maybe? Ok, I’m just spitballing here…Silver stars with all of the fun stuff about my husband? Ah heck, I can decorate the whole house. By the way, I haven’t seen “erm” for awhile….....not since a cartoon I happened upon a while back.

Cloud in a bottle :-) I like your ideas better though…

My husband and I went back to the city we got married in and we had a party to which we invited as many of the original wedding guests as possible. It was so much fun to see everyone again.

@marinelife Most of the people that were at our wedding, were my relatives. My relatives are nearly all dead. It would be a small party. The reception we held, in the town that we still live in, was a lot more fun. Although, when we were married we had a wonderful time on our honeymoon. It was on Lake Tahoe.

@annewilliams5 Could you swing a tip to Tahoe?

@marinelife I looooooovvvvve the idea, but the small business, and a family member’s health is keeping us here. This is going to be a “close to home” event.

@annewilliams5 Then maybe create the Tahoe feeling at home. Create a picnic lunch and take it to the shore of a local lake to eat.

@marinelife Now you’re talking. I do want to go back to Tahoe again. There will be time for that, I hope. If not….then it wasn’t meant to be. I want to take my husband, who never traveled when he was younger, sooooo many places. It just won’t be for a while. What do they say? Home is where the heart is. I just hope we can get to a much, much, much older age together.