Golden Wedding Anniversary gift

Don't want to change tack but I did a basket with 'things you only find/have at Christmas' for a relative who 'has everything'.

LynWit was Madeleine45 who suggested the gold box

Thanks for coming back LynW well interpreted.

Just thought I’d come back and let you know what I did for the Golden Wedding gift. I covered a box in gold paper then filled it with ‘gold’ themed edible items - easier than I thought. Small jar of Gold Blend coffee, Golden syrup flapjack bars, gold chocolate coins (new in for Christmas!) quite a few things obtainable with a gold theme. Great idea - so thanks to whoever suggested it.

Although an anniversary rose for the garden might be expensive, you can also buy miniature roses which are reasonable and which last from year to year. One I was given last year is flowering again, in a pot indoors.
Some supermarkets stock them.

They can be planted outdoors afterwards.

Madelein , I love your idea of gold items in a shoe box wrapped in gold paper . I will remember that. Fun to do too!

LynW
I googled ‘ Chocolates in a gold box’ and got lots of lovely looking options at various price points and levels of luxury.

madeleine45

An idea I have used for all sorts of anniversaries that you might find a possibilty. So you collect together a group of , in this case, Gold things. That can be anything so you could have a tin of golden syrup, a packet of biscuits that are wrapped in gold paper, a gold coloured candle, a gold biro or pencil, etc., then get some gold paper and wrap an appropriate size box - say a shoe box, and put the collection together in that and perhaps take a bunch of sunflowers to add to the gold theme. It can provide a bit of fun , and if they are small things wrap them up in gold paper - do they still have that pears soap that you can almost see through? That could count as gold as well. - it makes a little bit of a difference from the normal presents, gets people talking about what else they could have added and gives others ideas for things like ruby wedding etc. I find it works well for such occasions for older people , who have already got all the things they need in the house. With my parents ruby wedding I spent quite some weeks getting all sorts of stuff from blackcurrant jelly to beetroot etc, and the point was I suggested that with the money they saved from the housekeeping to also go out and have a nice coffee or afternoon tea later. So if that seems too much effort for this occasion it might be useful in the future, and for now you could buy the sunflowers but perhaps also buy them some prepared yellow hyacinths that would be out at christmas for them. Hope these ideas are helpful

Brilliant; I'd love that. (I got a lovely golden rose; flowering right now)

Just had a melancholy moment realising that without any warning, I'm suddenly TOO OLD to need to think up a lovely gift for a Golden Wedding ever again.

Our old friends (and us) have all passed their golden anniversary, and we'll be long dead before our children's generation reach theirs.

Bottle of wine with a golden label and golden froufrou around the neck?

PS Think it may be a little early for the Christmas flowering hyacinths! I would definitely do Garden Centre voucher or Afternoon Tea if I knew the couple more intimately, not sure I want to put a price on this gift, though - it’s more a token meaningful gesture really. Might be a last resort. All suggestions appreciated, though.

A little tower of Ferror Roche. I can’t spell it - I never eat them but they do look impressive😁

Personally, I’d get a garden centre gift card to the value I could afford and put it in a gold envelope. They could choose to spend it on whatever they wish be it ornaments or plants or perhaps afternoon tea often provided at some larger garden centres.

Small items do take time to build up though - and you are not so close it seems to me to want to spend hours on it.

Thanks all. Some thoughtful ideas. I’m thinking gold Prosecco or yellow hyacinths maybe, agree about not ornaments. I’ll see what I can find. The idea of themed small gold items is useful and for other milestone anniversaries as well. Thanks everyone for your welcome suggestions.

I wouldn't buy anything ornamental or tacky. After fifty years they have had enough of this sort of stuff.

When my sister reached this milestone with her DH I bought them a garden centre voucher. They then bought a plant, but could have used it in the restaurant or really bought anything they needed.

An idea I have used for all sorts of anniversaries that you might find a possibilty. So you collect together a group of , in this case, Gold things. That can be anything so you could have a tin of golden syrup, a packet of biscuits that are wrapped in gold paper, a gold coloured candle, a gold biro or pencil, etc., then get some gold paper and wrap an appropriate size box - say a shoe box, and put the collection together in that and perhaps take a bunch of sunflowers to add to the gold theme. It can provide a bit of fun , and if they are small things wrap them up in gold paper - do they still have that pears soap that you can almost see through? That could count as gold as well. - it makes a little bit of a difference from the normal presents, gets people talking about what else they could have added and gives others ideas for things like ruby wedding etc. I find it works well for such occasions for older people , who have already got all the things they need in the house. With my parents ruby wedding I spent quite some weeks getting all sorts of stuff from blackcurrant jelly to beetroot etc, and the point was I suggested that with the money they saved from the housekeeping to also go out and have a nice coffee or afternoon tea later. So if that seems too much effort for this occasion it might be useful in the future, and for now you could buy the sunflowers but perhaps also buy them some prepared yellow hyacinths that would be out at christmas for them. Hope these ideas are helpful

I haven't looked this up but a newspaper from the day might be an interesting gift.

Have you googled gifts?
This is more expensive than chocolates but might be nice?

www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1043647160/tree-of-life-wedding-anniversary-gift?ref=share_v4_lx

There are several proseccos that have been fancied up in gold bottles. I saw one in Carluccios. Asda and Sainsbury's both do one.

I'm sure it's only ordinarily prosecco but might be along a similar line as the chocolates.

It was a joke present really as my friend wasn’t keen on celebrating. I bought a packet of gold biscuit bars.