anyone ever done an anniversary announcement?

Re: anyone ever done an anniversary announcement?

• babygirlpriest

  September 2011

  I've heard of it for 25 and 50 but never 40... I'm lame so would just scan what's in the local papers and write accordingly.

  As for how to celebrate, my parents loved what we did for their 40th (but they're kinda odd so, you know...). It's a Bucket List - a spin off of what you see at a lot of 50th birthday parties.

  I emailed all their family and friends (FB was a huge help as I just scanned their friend list and privately messaged them that way). And asked them to submit ONE (or two or three) thing for the couple to do before their 80th anniversary (or make it 50 or whatever).

  It was everything from silly and small to serious. Here are a few I found C&P:

  1. Head downtown and spend the day committing random acts of kindness together.
  2. Read each other?s favorite book and discuss.
  3. Take a class together (foreign language, yoga, cooking, fencing, dancing ? your choice).
  4. Face-to-face with a certified financial planner to discuss retirement goals.
  5. Go to a drive-in movie. Currently in Eldersburg, Baltimore and Churchville.
  6. Spend a day at the mall and find the cheesiest/cheapest/matching/honeymooners-type outfits. Wear them out in public to the zoo/Smithsonian/etc.
  7. Individually write out your courtship (meeting to engagement) in as much detail as possible. Try to include facts/thoughts you think your spouse might not have known. Then compare notes and see who has the best memory.
  8. Wake up early, make a pot of hot apple cider (or coffee, if you must) and doughnuts and drive out to the ocean for sunrise.
  9. Write out your advance directives. (I know, not really romantic, but even more important than recycling!)
  10. Meet at a coffee shop and pretend it's your first date.
  11. Build a Habitat for Humanity house.
  12. re-write your wedding vows as they would have been if you had known 40 years ago what you know today
  13. re-name your entire family--without telling them--then refer to them only by those names for 1 month without any warning or explanation
  14. together create a 40 years remembrance "time capsule" and bury it in a special place where you can dig it up on your 80th anniversary, OK, maybe a little sooner

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• tomandcourt

  September 2011

  babygirlpriest:

  I've heard of it for 25 and 50 but never 40... I'm lame so would just scan what's in the local papers and write accordingly.

  As for how to celebrate, my parents loved what we did for their 40th (but they're kinda odd so, you know...). It's a Bucket List - a spin off of what you see at a lot of 50th birthday parties.

  I emailed all their family and friends (FB was a huge help as I just scanned their friend list and privately messaged them that way). And asked them to submit ONE (or two or three) thing for the couple to do before their 80th anniversary (or make it 50 or whatever).

  It was everything from silly and small to serious. Here are a few I found C&P:

  1. Head downtown and spend the day committing random acts of kindness together.
  2. Read each other?s favorite book and discuss.
  3. Take a class together (foreign language, yoga, cooking, fencing, dancing ? your choice).
  4. Face-to-face with a certified financial planner to discuss retirement goals.
  5. Go to a drive-in movie. Currently in Eldersburg, Baltimore and Churchville.
  6. Spend a day at the mall and find the cheesiest/cheapest/matching/honeymooners-type outfits. Wear them out in public to the zoo/Smithsonian/etc.
  7. Individually write out your courtship (meeting to engagement) in as much detail as possible. Try to include facts/thoughts you think your spouse might not have known. Then compare notes and see who has the best memory.
  8. Wake up early, make a pot of hot apple cider (or coffee, if you must) and doughnuts and drive out to the ocean for sunrise.
  9. Write out your advance directives. (I know, not really romantic, but even more important than recycling!)
  10. Meet at a coffee shop and pretend it's your first date.
  11. Build a Habitat for Humanity house.
  12. re-write your wedding vows as they would have been if you had known 40 years ago what you know today
  13. re-name your entire family--without telling them--then refer to them only by those names for 1 month without any warning or explanation
  14. together create a 40 years remembrance "time capsule" and bury it in a special place where you can dig it up on your 80th anniversary, OK, maybe a little sooner

  Good call on cribbing from other papers. I love these ideas! I might steal them for myself . . .
  

  
  

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