Honoring any anniversary is
really a special moment for the husband and wife to think about a reaffirmation of vows they took at their
wedding and also to generally remember yesteryear. And, since it's a special milestone, it is truly worthy of a meaningful
anniversary and remembrance party for the loving couple. After determining
a party theme, you will want to put
special effort into unique, perhaps Pinterest - worthy, party invites, that incorporate lovely media
(either 2-D or 3-D), accessories or graphics along with treasured words of tribute.
Continue reading to review a few other tips to help your party planning be even easier.
Why a Party for an Anniversary?
A tribute celebration for a
loving coupe shows just how much you care about them and honors their many successful years of marriage. With the ups and downs of modern life, it has
become even more rare for couples to
make a loving relationship work. By
reinforcing a celebration of their long
relationship effort, it helps the couple cement an even stronger bond together
and within their family. As a couple reaches numerically higher
anniversary years...like their 20th, 40th, they
provide inspiration to their younger family members. The anniversary party is also a wonderful
way to have a cross-generational party
all together that is fun for everyone and special for the couple. To pull it off successfully does take some
planning, however, especially if it is to be a surprise party. And as families and friends over the years
become more far flung, getting everyone together usually takes some travel coordination.
Noteworthy Ideas for Anniversary
Parties
Among the first choices you will
have to make is exactly what type of event you'll want to have. Formal or beachy? Casual cookout or sit down dinner? A formal affair might lend itself to
being more of an occasion to invite
adults, peers and work colleagues. A family
anniversary party may be smaller and
more intimate. Maybe if the couple
originally had a small, inexpensive wedding due to their limited finances when they were
younger, it might be time to throw them the occasion they now deserve.
Once you decide on the type of event, think about what type of venue you
will need to get everyone together. For a formal event, you may want a ballroom
or banquet hall allowing for seating
everyone comfortably and dancing afterword.
For a simpler event, a lovely park or hosting it in someone's generous backyard may be an
option. But you may wish to rent an
event tent just in case it rains. Some families do escape weekends where
everyone gets together in a comfortable
lodge or boutique hotel and celebrates the anniversary couple with multiple fun activities, including silly reminiscing
events, and lots of feasting, for an entire weekend, usually as an opportunity for a family reunion.
Once you decide on location and
number of guests, think about your invitations.
If you are hand-making the
invitations, estimate carefully the time you might need to put them all
together along with lead time so that
people can have time to RSVP back to you and also plan travel arrangements.
Get other family members to help.
You may even want to put together a funny video and send it out to everyone via
Facebook to encourage people to come if it is to be a less formal event.
As you choose your anniversary
party theme, start thinking about specifics as to whether it will likely be a home-based barbecue or beach
fiesta, or black tie party. The theme might
be selected based on the particular
color of the original wedding or as a symbol of the specific anniversary milestone number: a first anniversary is paper, so white for
paper or yellow for papyrus. For
the other anniversary years, Hallmark
Cards has a helpful gift guide: { http://ideas.hallmark.com/anniversary-ideas/anniversary-gifts-by-year/
} and this gemstone site, Gem Selec, {
http://www.gemselect.com/gem-info/birthstones.php } has a list of gems (use
this for party theme color ideas or for
presenting jewelry) for each anniversary.
A 9th year anniversary gem is
Lapis Lazuli. A traditional gift is
pottery, a modern gift is leather. All
kinds of ideas incorporating blues with
pottery and leather could really make a special party theme for a 9th anniversary allowing for lots of decor options
as a complement.
Having a surprise anniversary
party is the ultimate challenge. Making
sure your guests don't tip off the
couple and leak the surprise by having your invitations well-worded and
prominent in your conversations with the
invited guests will help to not ruin the surprise. Setting up a simple candlelit dinner date or a romantic cruise
for "just the two of them" to revisit their first date is usually a good tactic which allows for either
a simple anniversary for the couple and allows for the other guests to get together to secretly plan
the special date. If possible, everyone
can then all show up later to party with
the couple after they have had some time alone to reminisce.
Embellishing Your Invites for
the Anniversary Party
Before beginning to spend money
on supplies to customize your anniversary invitation cards, you will want to determine if it's a household
party or perhaps a more formal event. For formal parties, your party invites must have a little more formal
wording, somewhat like a formal wedding invitation. And, for timing, you will need to send your
anniversary party invites out 4 to 6 weeks prior to your scheduled event, whether it's formal or
casual. If you're planning an anniversary open-house, think about having it buffet style where your
visitors can appear and disappear at whatever time most closely fits all of them with a period range
detailed inside your anniversary invites, get a bit to eat, mingle, and hug the happy couple. Also make sure your invitation wordings
indicate the dress code, especially if
it's a color-based theme celebration
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