You are about to complete 50 years of your married life.Golden wedding anniversary sounds equally exciting as your first one. Fifty years is a pretty long time and you both have got along through all the rough and smooth patches of your married life. You have been there for each other, for the kids as they have grown up, and for all other commitments in life.

Now you are looking forward to celebrate that special day when you had taken the vows fifty years ago. Obviously you are planning some surprise to make this day special for your beloved. But apart from everything else, you are looking for a special gift for you sweetheart.

Fifty years is a long time to know someone in and out, yet you are confused about selecting the gift. The simple reason is that you want that gift to be really really different!  Here are some ideas that may make you golden day special:

Golden Wedding Anniversary Gifts Ideas

Special Symbolized Gifts

Fiftieth anniversary symbolizes the golden anniversary. Nowadays you get a wide range of gifts symbolized especially for this day. These items are either gold plated, or gold wrapped.

You can select one as per your choice. So you may have anything from a gold plated photo frame, gold decked wine bottles, or any item you can think of. You can even get the design or gold work customized as per you choice.

You can decide on a special item that your partner is crazy about and get it made in gold. For example, gold wrist watch, gold ring with a diamond, diary, cigarette case or clutch with gold embossing, or gold cuff links.

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Gift a Memorable Outing

If health is supporting both of you, you can gift your counterpart a romantic date. It may be a day long or may extend overnight. You can remind him or her of those romantic dates. Book a holiday on a cruise or take your better half for a day out at your favorite outing spot.

The aim is to revive those memories and to spend quality time with each other. You can also plan a perfect day considering your mutual choice. This may include something like a trip or a music show or a sports event that he or she has always been dreaming of but never been able to make it. It may be just holding hands watching the sunset at the beach or on a hilltop.

Get Romantic in a Unique Way

Make your partner feel special by letting him or her know that the romance has not faded. Go together to offer your prayers in the morning and renew your wedding vows. Your partner will get overwhelmed to find the same you that had walked into his or her life.

You can compile a CD with your favorite nostalgic songs or music and gift it along with a romantic musical card and a huge bouquet. If you start working on your gift a little early, you can perhaps create an album with your memorable pictures, starting from your wedding. You can even create a collage.

By Jane A Morris 

OK, now you have your wedding plans made and you are thinking about the decorations. You will need wedding flower centerpieces for the church and for the reception tables. There are a lot of different types of flowers that you can use; there are silk flowers, crepe paper flowers you can buy or make, real flowers, and then there are mulberry paper flowers.

The silk flowers can be bought singly or already made up into centerpieces. You can buy the single flowers in super centers, craft stores, and some floral shops. The wedding flower centerpieces that are already made up you can purchase at floral shops, specialty stores, and on the Internet websites.

Real flowers can be purchased the same way either singly or made up already. The only problem with real flowers is unless they are kept cool and damp they will wilt and die and so they are not easy to keep for any length of time.

Crepe paper flowers can be made by you or family members and can be used over and over for other special occasions after the wedding is over. And they will not wilt or die if they are made in advance of the wedding.

All you will need to do is make several of the flowers you are using for your wedding bouquets etc. and then get some pretty vases or other containers that you think will be pretty to show off your flowers add some small pebbles, sand, or small marbles to the containers and put your crepe paper flowers in these then add some greenery to fill in around your flowers and there you have a beautiful wedding flower centerpiece made by you.

These paper flower centerpieces can be recycled or reused if kept in a safe dry area for years to come. So this makes them eco-friendly too.

You can make mulberry paper flowers out of mulberry paper or you can buy them already made up either as just a single flower or in bouquets, corsages, boutonnieres, or wedding flower centerpieces etc. The easiest way is to buy your flowers already made.

 If you want to buy the flower that is already made and then make your own flower designs this is also a way to make them less expensive to save on your wedding budget. And they will not take as much time to do. All you need to do is buy some of the mulberry paper flowers get a container that will compliment your wedding add some type of filler for the container such as Styrofoam, small rock, sand, or small marbles and then add your flowers and greenery in the design of your choice.

These centerpieces will be your own unique design so you can take the credit for all the compliments that you get on how wonderful the beautiful wedding flower centerpieces look and you can be proud of your creations.

Mulberry paper flowers can be purchased on the Internet as single flowers as I have stated or they can be bought already made up into centerpieces. There are several web sites that sell mulberry paper flowers make sure you check out a couple of them to find the flowers that you are looking for.

Wedding cars are the vehicles chosen to transport the bridal party on the wedding day, they are a very important part of the wedding plans, and one of the most important things to take care of if you want to travel and arrive in style on your wedding day. The wedding car is a good idea for the weddding and can also be used by the bride and the groom to proceed to the wedding reception in style.

 

Type of Car: Classic wedding cars include Rolls Royce, Jaguar, Daimler and Bentley which really are timeless. Vintage wedding cars come in a wide range such as a 1960s Princess, a Beauford, a Regent Convertible, Regal Landaulette or a Fleur de Lys. If you want to take advantage of an open-topped vintage car, do consider what the weather might be like on your wedding day.

Colour: Bridal cars for hire come in a variety of colours with white and cream being the most popular, followed by silver and burgundy. However, you can go for black or even pink if that's what takes your fancy.

 

Quantity: How many cars do you need? You need to decide how many of the main wedding party are going to the wedding in a limousine. Traditionally, the bridesmaids will travel together in a limousine, possibly with the bride's mother, the best man will transport the groom and the bride and her father or whoever is giving her away will arrive last. If the bride wants to travel with her attendants and her father then a stretch limo might be suitable transportation.

Budget: Wedding cars for hire aren't cheap so you may want to hire classic wedding cars for the main party and maybe a town car or two for others. Alternatively, you may only be able to afford a car for the bride, but in that case do make sure that everyone else has transport and knows who's driving.