When planning to give a meaningful gift to a couple celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary, you need to plan ahead and use some of your creative juices. Plan ahead and build your plan keeping in mind important factors in the lives of the celebrants over the past 25 years. Work out a generous budget that your pocket can afford, and within that figure, make a list of the best possible gifts in your assumed order of priorities based on how the couple will react. Visualize what they will comment for each gift. Will they cherish and remember it for a long time?
The traditional theme of a 25th wedding anniversary is silver, and with that in mind, any appropriate gift you list should have some silver attached to it, literally or symbolically. How creative or imaginative can you be when thinking of a silver-themed gift? Whether the couple is your parent, relatives, or friends, your gift should reflect how much you show your care and affection. Much more if you are the celebrant and your gift is for your spouse of 25 years.
This silver anniversary is classified as a momentous occasion or milestone in the lives of this wonderful couple. It is a testament to true love, respect and honor to one’s commitment to marriage vows to go through life’s trials, failures and successes, tribulations or triumphs together.
What touching and loving gift can you think of? How about hosting a silver anniversary party to be mutually funded by immediate family members, close relatives, friends, members of the wedding party, wedding sponsors, and special guests? If the celebrants like to dance, book a ballroom in a fancy hotel. The wedding anniversary cake should have a silver topper and 25 candles adorned with silver ribbons. As Iris is the symbolic flower of the celebration of silver, her wife will be presented with a bouquet of lilies and red roses painted in silver and her husband will be presented with a bottle of Dom Perignon champagne.
During the scripted program, a video presentation highlighting videos, photos of the couple as children, teenagers, adults, such as marriage, children, grandchildren, friends, houses, trips, including some greetings from friends and family. Pre-planned gifts to be presented to the couple could be concert tickets in a silver envelope, an engraved silver tray loaded with fruit, cheeses, Belgian chocolates and nutritional supplements. Some guests may choose to give a family portrait framed in silver, a CD with popular songs from the 25 years of marriage, a quilt with family photos, a poem written in silver ink and framed in silver.
Others wishing to honor the couple may present an enclosed silver painted wishing tree with gift certificates to an Italian or Thai restaurant, traveler’s checks, weekend getaway, spa and massage therapy certificates, membership certificates from gym or dance Special gifts for family members can be personalized cutlery, silver jewelry, rings, necklaces, pendants, bracelets, earrings, watches for the couple.
If some guests would like something unique, they can give a series of gifts to trace the quarter century of living together. Sponsors will pool their funds and create some contemporary or traditional gifts that represent some historical facets of the couple from their first wedding anniversary to their 25th wedding anniversary. These 25 different giveaways will be featured again during the show in another video presentation.
Rest assured that if you and your inner circle were able to host the silver anniversary party and successfully celebrate it with the royal delivery of the couple’s 25th wedding anniversary gifts, you will be overwhelmingly moved and will forever cherish this gesture of love and best wishes from all of you.