50th Anniversary Project Ideas
Fifty years of marriage deserves commemoration. Instead of just giving your spouse, parents or grandparents a present to celebrate this impressive milestone, put some time and thought into a meaningful project that shows your admiration and love for them. The couple will appreciate all the time and effort you put into a scrapbook, poem or party and cherish the memories. Does this Spark an idea?
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Scrapbook
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A spouse, family member or friend can help celebrate a 50th anniversary by putting together a scrapbook for the happy couple. Unlike photo albums, scrapbooks allow you to include more than just picture memories in a book. Along with pictures from their courtship and throughout their marriage, include small anecdotes about how they met or how he proposed, playbooks, movie stubs, pressed flowers, postcards from vacations, their children's drawings and other items that invoke memories and emotions. Cataloging 50 years of marriage is quite the undertaking, so make if a communal project with friends and family members each adding something to the book. Not only will the couple be able to look back on their life, but they will appreciate how much time and effort their loved ones put into the project.
Poems
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Young lovers are more likely to write love poems to one another than a couple who have been married for a long time. Bring back the romance and excitement of young love by writing each other a love poem for your 50th anniversary. In the poem say how much your significant other has bettered your life, how you've handled the hard times together and how much that person means to you. Friends and family members can also write poems about how the couple's long relationship and love inspires them.
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Vow Renewal
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Recommit to your partner, marriage and life together by renewing your vows on your anniversary. You can make the vow renewal an extravagant event by planning a second wedding complete with church, dress, cake and reception. Or you can keep things small by writing your vows and reading them to each other in front of a small group of friends and family. Either way, you'll be reconnecting with your loved one and celebrating the union with the people closest to you.
Video Presentation
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Watch the first 50 years of your marriage on a television screen along with loved ones. Friends or relatives can comply a video presentation using pictures from past to present, clips from homemade videos, captions, graphics and music. You can also interview the married couple as they tell how they first met and got engaged and tell their secrets on how to stay married for so long. Friends and family members can tell their stories as well and wish the couple another 50 years together.
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- Photo Credit smiling old couple image by buckwheat from Fotolia.com
