Married for 50 years
What am I letting myself in for
I am calling on everybody to help...PLEASE!!!!
My parents are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary in a just more than 1 weeks time.
They met as teenagers, Mom and her lady friends always seemed to be at the same functions as Dad and his male friends (there weren't too many functions for them to attend in those days
)They started dating within the groups. Anyway, at the end of it all, they all ended up marrying within their groups
It is now fifty years later, and out of the 7 couples,
2 couples divorced
1 couple deceased (lady 2 yrs ago, man 2weeks ago)
4 couples still happily married
The remaining couples are still in contact with each other
THIS IS MY DILEMMA:
I am planning a surprise party for them, but am still looking for a few ideas to round things off.
I am planning on about 80 guests(at our home)
Some ideas required for the following:
1. Table deco
2. Cream chicken and corn soup - recipe
3. pasta based main meal
4. baked dessert (its winter here)
5. simple to make hors d'ouvres
Please note that in our culture we always supply VERY HEALTHY food portions ...
Comments (28)
Give your Guests a Bag of Crisps and a Bottle of Beer Each and save Money in these hard times!!!
my sincere congratulations to ur parents and their friends....
did u know ppl dont get that long for murder in some parts of the world......
Only gagging (joking)
I would suggest following the KISS rule.....
Keep It Simple Silly....
They would much rather reminence about the GOOD old days i would think....
So maybe ur decorations could be like those of the places they used to hang out together,,,,,what wonderful memories that will bring back for them...
Just an idea.
Otherwise ... a brilliant idea
if any of them had killed eachother after 10 years, they should have probably have been released from prison by now. . .or at the least parolled for good behaviour?
The pics from the past is a good one . . . I have quite a few of those
86yo WOW, that's a good age . . .
Can't ignore the food aspect though
They do eat in the evenings, so they will be looking for something to eat
Long Live Commitment!
Cofy you need caterers or at least a handful of helps to pull this off. Is anyone helping you?
with the pics, maybe if u have a different pic for each year they were married,
i.e.
when they had their children, when they had grand children
when they celebrated each anniversary,
but see if u can get close to the decorations that adjourned the places where they use to hang out.
And maybe u can purchase a newspaper that was printed the day they got married...not sure if thats possible but hey that would be bring a tear to their eyes.... remembering what happened on the day of their wedding....
maybe my ideas for u are too late...sorry.
Have you got the recipes sorted?
Sorry I have nothing to share here
I am sure you will do a great job
Still researching the soup recipe
So good to see you around . . just your presence here is great
You're NOT supposed to remember EVERYTHING I post here
Now you've reminded me that I need to proceed with caution.... Now what
I invited family a few friends and the minister that married them who they hadn't seen for all those years.
I made all the food..
I had a lot of food because my family focuses on food. Another family might focus on music.
My suggestion would be to bring your parents past back to them.
A progression of photographs from the past on the wall; somebody they haven't seen in many years.
Make the party about them and what THEY have good feelings about.
The rest would be for private party use only
I'm definitely going to look into them.
thanks for the effort
Some of them are in the pipeline while others are worth considering. As you mentioned time is a factor, so I will consider some of the simpler ideas.
Thanks so much for the in-put
The kids are all drama queens, they would love to do something
No matter what you do, I am sure they will appreciate the effort and thought gone into it and I am sure they adore you as you obviously do them.
Have a GREAT TIME!
I hope my parents also get to celebrate their 65th together
I am certainly getting some good ideas here, thanks
I will try to post something after the event to let you know how things went.