Golden Wedding Looming

Congratulations on your upcoming Golden Anniversary!
It’s quite something isn’t it, 50 years married🥂🍾🎂 hope your celebrations go well with the family and that you have a fabulous holiday.
Having seen nature programmes on the Galapagos it looks an interesting and memorable place to visit.Have a go at snorkelling and tell us about it.

Thank you Oreo, I’ll be sure to report back on the Galápagos.

This is us on the day we celebrated in New Zealand. Unfortunately MrM’s eyes are closed, but all the other photos we have have got our daughter and grandchildren on.

That all sounds lovely Maddyone 🥰

For our 30th anniversary we took our three adult children, one son-in-law, one girlfriend and my mother-in-law to the Algarve for a week, in two self-catering apartments.

For our 40th anniversary we took them to Tenerife: three adult children, son-in-law now replaced by partner plus granddaughter, different girlfriend.

Three years to go to our 50th!
Fingers crossed the current line-up of family members, same partner plus now two grandchildren, new girlfriend and new daughter-in-law will all be coming 🤞

Actually his eyes aren’t closed are they? It must be the one of us that our daughter took where he had his eyes shut.

Lovely floral sundress you’re wearing, a nice happy pic.Unless somebody takes a really quick photo I always end up squinting into the lens.

What a lovely photo!
MrM's eyes are open as I see him 👀

Many congratulations to you and MrM maddyone. What a great achievement.

Congratulations, it’s ours in August as well. We have a small family on both sides, so having a special lunch at an Italian restaurant and then in the evening drinks in the garden.
We had a big trip to Asia last Autumn so haven’t quite decided on where we’ll be going later in the year, must fit round son and DILs special birthdays as well.
Enjoy the Galapagos, sounds wonderful.

Congratulations! Have a lovely day, sharing lovely food and happy reminiscences.
My husband died before we'd made it to 50 years and he wasn't a great celebrator of anniversaries ("it's just a day!") but for our 25th, we returned to Bridgnorth where we'd spent part of our honeymoon and had a wonderful time on the Severn Valley Railway which we'd visited for the first time - first of many - during the honeymoon.
For our 45th, we spent the day with close friends and had a celebratory lunch together and a couple of nights in a good hotel.

We are not likely to live to see our golden anniversary and neither of us realised it was our silver anniversary until the following year when we did the maths! However we are not ones for big celebrations so it didn’t matter. We just celebrate each day for what it brings.

Congratulations to you though!

Congratulations maddyone

Like GSM I doubt if we will see our Golden Wedding, we had children, house and business first getting married was a bit of an afterthought

We are not far of 50 years together though.

Congratulations Mr&Mrs maddyone - enjoy your day !

It is lovely to read your wonderful plans.

We nearly made it - OH died in the February - our golden was in August.

But we had some lovely celebrations of other major anniversaries. We had a lovely ceilidh with a live band for silver. For the Ruby we went to a lovely old manor house and everyone donned wellies with their glad rags and we went for a walk across the fields; then back to the small bard where we all shared a meal accompanied by a live classical guitarist.

Lovely celebrations to look back on.

I hope yours goes well.

bard?? - barn.

Congratulations to you, and hope you enjoy the Galápagos Islands. Sounds fabulous.

Not sure whether we’ll live long enough to get to Golden. It’s our Silver next month and OH is poorly at the moment and probably won’t even notice. Hoping we can celebrate later in the year when he’s more himself.

We tend to celebrate our anniversaries on our own. We do get lovely presents from the children though.

We do celebrate birthdays.

Many congratulations! I'm so envious. However, I did have thirty lovely years and many people are not even that lucky. Enjoy your celebrations. 👍🌷

Many congratulations maddyone and Mr M. You have lots to look forward to with those celebrations.

It will be our ruby anniversary in August and we haven’t any definite plans yet but we will do something. Like Kitty it’s just ourselves usually but I think our small gc will want to do something all together. Probably a meal out together. DH and I may return to Paris for a few days as we honeymooned there.

Our best anniversary was our 25th when our son surprised us with a holiday abroad with him and his then gf. I was gobsmacked but so kind and we really appreciated it.

Maddy you’ve got me thinking maybe I should be making a cake I hadn’t thought about it before.

Enjoy your celebrations 🎉🎂💐🥂

Congratulations to you both, we celebrated ours last year.
We took DS DiL and grandsons on an all inclusive to Spain, unfortunately DH was ill so holiday did not go as planned but it was a nice break with family.

It's our 50th this summer too .. no way am I baking cakes!
We hosted family + close friends for 30th and 40th, but I'm done with big gatherings now ... this time we are taking children and grandchildren to a seaside family hotel for a week .. with a "formal" gathering for dinner on the day .. otherwise everyone can come and go as they wish ...

Congratulations to you both! A Golden Couple indeed

maddyone Congratulations. We had ours last December. Mr P would have had a big party at home - nightmare,not for me. I organised a lunch at a beautiful restaurant in Oxford for 24 close family and friends. Everything was superb so a memorable occasion which everyone still comments on.

Maddy I've just reread your OP and seen you are going to the Ivy for lunch, don't know where but that was our venue.

Maddy, you look fabulous! So Not how I envisaged you!. 😉

Congratulations!!