RUBY WEDDING ANNIVERSARY IDEAS PLEEEEEEEEASE!

carola
carola Member Posts: 786
edited 16. Oct 2010, 10:06 in Community Chit-chat archive
Hello my Friends

A few days before Christmas my Parent's will have been married for 40years - their Ruby Wedding Anniversary.

You are all imaginative creative people and would be grateful for any ideas you may have?

My Dad loves a party however my Mum does not so that idea is out.

The only thing I can think of is booking them into a luxury hotel to be pampered for a couple of days. I have commissioned an artist friend to paint a portrait of Parent's dog as a surprise as they are crazy over the dude.

Please help!
Keep smiling, Carol :lol:

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  • coco67
    coco67 Member Posts: 2,374
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    not sure if this would be possible for you but how about getting a nice photo book or scrap book then placing a photo in it taken on every year they were married

    i.e start with an early photo from just before they married, then the wedding photo, then find one with the next year, i.e birthday , baby, party etc etc and so on, untill you have a memory of each year.

    it would take you a bit of time but well worth it and very different. hopefully you have photo albums your parents have kept.

    leave the page for this year empty ready for there photo of there special day


    coco xx
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    What a cracker of an idea coco. Not putting mine now - yours is far better! DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • coco67
    coco67 Member Posts: 2,374
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    DD

    please put your idea down, mine may not be possible so they could use yours, besides i wont sleep wondering what your idea was :)

    coco xx
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 30,061
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi Carola

    When my parents made their 40th (the last one before ny Dad died :( )

    I had a copy of their wedding photo enlarged and framed professionally in a wooden frame with a tiny mosaic pattern in the wood - in Ruby.

    they loved it.

    Sadly since we lost my Mum three years ago it is now on my Sis' wall :(

    Congratulations to them :D

    Love

    Toni xxx
  • scattered
    scattered Member Posts: 326
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    We gave my grandparents a potted Ruby Wedding rose bush and a specially baked cake with a bear ornament on top that represented them.
  • trisher
    trisher Member Posts: 9,263
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi Carol


    Give us an idea of what they like/ do. Are they gardeners?
    Would they like the hotel and being pamperd? Would your dad like that?

    Give us a brief outline then we can work on it for you.

    Love Trish xxx
  • cthornley
    cthornley Member Posts: 627
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    My parents never made their ruby wedding much to the rest of the families relief they are far better apart than together :?
    but this year we celebrated my grandparents in law diamond wedding anniversary. We had a big family dinner with the twist of hiring caterers who cooked, served and tidied up. It was lovely and meant we had a special family meal to remember. My husband and I had a huge bouquet of flowers sent on the day in the right colours and everybody got an engraved paperweight to remember the day with. It doesn't sound like much but it really was a nice day kind of a half party I guess
    Chrissie
  • carola
    carola Member Posts: 786
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi and thankyou so much for taking the time with your ideas.

    Toni - the pic with rubies sounds a wonderful idea. I'm sure your sister cherishes your Parent's one.
    Scattered - lovin' the rose bush idea.
    Coco - brilliant idea however will never find a pic for every year as my Mum is camera shy! What a wonderful gift that would be.
    Chrissie - that's brilliant! Inspired! Think they would love caterers doing it all and the paperweight thing - where'd you get that?
    Trisher - yep, it would help if I gave a quick idea of them! :lol:
    Dad is very outgoing, loves to party, very patriotic, golf daft.
    Mum is the opposite! Has some aches & pains of her own so pampering is the way to go. She always goes out of her way for others and ignores herself.
    Both are absolutely dotty about their dog and love good food and horses. They are forever jumping into the car and staying away for a few days in yorkshire, middleham etc.

    Have a great day my Friends.
    Carol :lol:
  • angel1
    angel1 Bots Posts: 1,464
    edited 14. Oct 2010, 05:57
    Oh Carol....I almost burst into song there!....... no contest, a weekend in Wensleydale, at a lovely olde worlde hotel, with roaring log fires, and fab food. There are a couple of great golf courses nearby for dad to have a round, while mum has a pamper session........Ange.x.
  • cthornley
    cthornley Member Posts: 627
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    carola wrote:
    Chrissie - that's brilliant! Inspired! Think they would love caterers doing it all and the paperweight thing - where'd you get that?

    My dad and I engraved the paperweights – he used to own a glass gallery when I was a child and I learnt how to do it then – mine weren’t as elegant as my dads but he writes in proper copperplate handwriting anyway, I don’t know how he does it but this also meant we could choose paperweights that were individually special for each person.
    But you can get it done for you in various places – local to my dad Stuart Crystal in Chepstow definitely used to do it, but if you Google engraved paperweights loads of other places come up
    hope that helps
    Chrissie
  • carola
    carola Member Posts: 786
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Chrissie - that sounds so lovely doing it yourself, I'm going to look into it.

    Angel - shall research the area tonight as it sounds like a plan - Golf for Dad, pampering for Mum and then roasty-toasty in a fab hotel and good food.

    Thank you so much :lol:
  • lindalegs
    lindalegs Member Posts: 5,398
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi Carole,

    My suggestion, if it's not too late, is to wrap up 40 presents of varying sizes, to do with their married life in red wrapping paper and put them in a red box covered in red paper too. This can be as expensive/inexpensive as you want.

    Luv Legs :D
    Love, Legs x
    'Make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing'
  • tkachev
    tkachev Member Posts: 8,332
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    What lovely ideas. When I am 50 I will be asking you all how to celebrate!

    Elizabeth
    Never be bullied into silence.
    Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
    Accept no ones definition of your life

    Define yourself........

    Harvey Fierstein
  • carola
    carola Member Posts: 786
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi Legs

    Thanks for that idea. That'd tie in great with the standing joke my Mum and I have ..... every Christmas she/Santa gives me a Christmas Stocking full of little pressies all individually wrapped so now it'd be Mum's turn :lol:
  • angel1
    angel1 Bots Posts: 1,464
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    carola wrote:
    Hi Legs

    Thanks for that idea. That'd tie in great with the standing joke my Mum and I have ..... every Christmas she/Santa gives me a Christmas Stocking full of little pressies all individually wrapped so now it'd be Mum's turn :lol:



    I like your Mum Carol! It`s what we do. My lads are in their forties, and I still do twelve pressies, one for each of the twelve days of Christmas. Trouble is, as they have got older, the pressies have got dearer, and there`s still their main ones to buy.......Ange.x.
  • carola
    carola Member Posts: 786
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi Ange

    Don't make the pressies expensive in the stocking. Amongst some dearer pressies, my Mum wraps up things like make-up wipes etc. Although it is really funny her giving me marks out of 10 for whooping with joy at the most silliest of pressies in the stocking the silly ones come in really handy haha :lol:

    I will let you know the silliest one this year :lol:

    Carol x

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