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planning parents anniversary party, need advice
This year is my parents 25th wedding anniversary and my IL's 30th. We are throwing surprise parties for both. We are wanting to include little details from their weddings like the colors and wanting to use flowers from the bouquets for the centerpieces/ decorations, just little things like that. In order to find out the little details we are trying to come up with a questionnaire that is asking about their weddings and proposals etc. Both think that the questionnaire is for a book that I bought and have been filling out about the family, but I keep forgetting the book at home ( 
darn) We have questions like where did you meet, how did he propose, where did you get married, what was your first song as a couple, who was in your wedding, but sil feels like we need to ask more we've just all hit a blank spot. So can anyone think of any other questions that I can include in this questionnaire?? also have any of you thrown an anniversary party? if so what is the norm?
darn) We have questions like where did you meet, how did he propose, where did you get married, what was your first song as a couple, who was in your wedding, but sil feels like we need to ask more we've just all hit a blank spot. So can anyone think of any other questions that I can include in this questionnaire?? also have any of you thrown an anniversary party? if so what is the norm?
Re: planning parents anniversary party, need advice
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I work in a public library and several times a year we are asked by people who live far away if we could get the marriage announcement for their parents' wedding from our local paper.
It is fairly easy to print it out and scan it to email to them and I know most of the time the reason they wanted it was for an anniversary party...
I've thrown surprise 25th and 50th anniversary parties for my parents, and a 40th for my ex's parents.
If you can get your hands on anything from their wedding (invitations, original veil, things like that) you can display them. We were able to do that with a few "visits" and asking to look at memory boxes or photo albums and "sneaking" stuff out in my purse.
For the 25th anniversary I ordered a small 2 layer wedding cake and got silver bells for the top. Favors had the color silver in them, and gold for the 50th (little faux gold bells tied to lace baggies with potpourri in them). I made my ex's parents and my mom small bouquets, my dad and ex's dad bouts, and little veils with a small piece of lace on a headband. Nothing super expensive or hard,but the gals loved wearing them.
I found a picture of them at their wedding, and a more recent one from a New Year's Eve. I put them side by side in a frame that had 2 hearts on it, where the pictures were inside the hearts.
I honestly can't think of any other questions. But it is thoughful of you to plan this. Good luck.
I love that idea also! we are thinking for my in laws everyone sign a personalized wine bottle from our local winery. but my parents do not like wine so this might work. love it!