Ideas for 40Th Wedding Anniversary Gift

My parents just celebrated their 50th and they recieved a neat gift from Things Remembered. I would take a look at the site to get some ideas. The gift they got was a heart shaped stone? plaque that had their names and a photo engraved in it. I tried looking on the website for it but could not find it.

I found one randomly on google at http://www.topawards.biz/shop/index.php?main_page=index&a... if you like the idea.

Us kids pitched in for a professional photographer to hang out and take candids at their party. They live on the water so we had a fun beach party. The photographer uploaded all the photos on shuttleflypro and is mailing us a disc. We paid him for his time, we did not have to pay for him to print photos.

We had a surprise party for my parent's 40th and they were surprised to see all of their friends and family from out of town to celebrate the big event. At the party we did a slide show of photos from everyone and they loved watching that.

For my parents' 40th I gave them a gift card for Sundara Spa in the dells. It was a nice weekend getaway for the two of them. The only grandkid related thing I can think of is taking your kids to one of those paint your own pottery places (there's one in downtown Plainfield called "The Art Factory" if you are in that area) and have them paint a big serving platter or bowl4 -- they could put hand prints or footprints since they are still little -- and you could paint "Happy 40th Anniversary"

Weird - I'm actually in the process of completing my parents' 40th anniversary gift. You said not a family photo - this is a photo idea, so I'm not sure if it will appeal to you. We took a current photo of my parents at their lake house and are having it framed with a photo from their wedding album. It's not a wedding photo, just a candid photo of them on their honeymoon. Between the two photos we're including a copy of the section of the wedding album where my mom describes how my dad proposed to her. Hope this helps.

We have some friends that have a business where you can convert your pictures to video/dvd. You can pick the songs that you want to go along with the movie. We are going to do this for my father in-laws 80th b-day. Thought it would be a cool way to try and put his entire life into something he could watch whenever he wanted. Let me know if you are interested, I can get you their information! Good luck!

We just had a nice backyard party for my in-laws for there 40th. The anniversary gift is Ruby. Good Luck!

I made a quilt with pictures for my in laws 50th. I know you can get them made if you look on line