50th Wedding Anniversary Favours to Make that Special Celebration Memorable

With higher divorce rates and people getting married later in life, the 50th Wedding Anniversary is indeed a special one. Truth be told, most of us will not ever have to worry about celebrating 50 years of married life and will never have to think about 50th wedding anniversary favours for ourselves, but we might know a couple that will. For those events, with some careful planning, you can make the celebration of 50 years truly memorable.

Lets face it, 50 years together is truly a remarkable feet. It means 50 years of waking up together, enjoying life’s highs and lows with each other, and tackling the challenges that life throws at us without wavering for half a century. To put it in perspective, consider what was not around back when the clock on those 50 started ticking.

50 years ago means that you or a couple you know got married in the late 1940’s. The Allies had only recently defeated the Nazis in Germany and Imperial Japan in World War II. No one had even sent a satellite into space, let alone walked on the moon.

An automobile cost around $1,500 and gasoline was about $.26 a gallon. To buy a house, you plunked down about $14,000 and you could afford that because the average annual salary was $3,000. Milk cost $.86 a gallon, bread $.14 a loaf and the minimum wage was $.40 an hour, if your employer honored it.

Televisions were available, but only one in ten Americans had ever seen a set. In all, only about 350,000 had been sold and most of those in New York. You had a choice between a whopping 7 inch screen and the mammoth, and some said vain, 10 inch screen.

Personal computers were a figment of one’s imagination. There were no CD ROMs because tapes were not yet available to the public. Communicating to someone by mail meant sitting down, writing a letter, plunking a $.03 stamp on an envelope, mailing it and hoping they were faithful in their response.

Under that setting, some of us took a vow to another person that still exists today. While 50 years of marriage in any era is impressive, with all the changes we have undergone in the last 50 years, to tie the knot then and still have it tied today is a remarkable feat.

This is why when you celebrate a couple’s fifty years of bliss, you want it to be a celebration of a lifetime. You want the party to be fun, entertaining and memorable and you want the 50th wedding anniversary party favours to exude the import of the accomplishment. The wedding itself was important personally, but you want the celebration of that wedding 50 years later to stick in everyone’s mind for years to come.

Gold is the color of 50 years and that means your decorations should have a gold flavor throughout. Gold wrapping paper for gifts or cards is a nice touch as is a gold highlighted centerpiece for the table the guests of honor will sit at. You can announce seating with a beautifully beaded gold photo frame/place holder or a miniature gold chair favour box with heart charm and ribbon.

Gifts are also important and you want to give the couple something they can enjoy together. Consider a trip such as a cruise or a home entertainment center or backyard grilling and patio setup. The nice thing about 50th anniversary gifts is that they are usually larger and have a theme, such as a vacation, a backyard patio, a room remodeling or something that is big and includes more than just a collection of disparate gifts. 50 years means you have just about everything you need, so the cost of a large gift can be distributed among many people, which make it more affordable.

Fifty years together is truly a remarkable accomplishment, not only in terms of years, but also in terms of the unique quality of the achievement, commitment and dedication that each party gave the other through one half of a century. Most of us will not get there. Celebrating those who do in style is important.