I think buying him a new wedding band would be the perfect gift!!! You could maybe make a little basket of "Love". Pretty basket, lined with silver tissue paper and tie silver streamers on the handle. Inside the basket put scented candles, wine glasses, bottle of wine or champayne, CD or tape of your & his "song", body oils or bubble baths (he he he), etc etc. I did this for my parents 50th Wedding Anniversary and they just loved it. I also sent off for a copy of their marriage certificate!! (Yep, it was still on microfilm in SC where they got married) You could make a copy of your marriage certificate or get a new copy, and roll it up like a little scroll and tie with a silver ribbon! :) And of course put the new ring inside the basket!!!! :) You are blessed to have been able to be married for this long. I was widowed after 4 1/2 years of marriage and would give anything to have been able to grow old with him! You are blessed indeed, so make that hubby of yours feel special on this milestone anniversary!!!! :) Gail

Candy, your outdoor witch votive holder sounds really neat, hope to see pictures of it. Another 'thrifty' find I presume? ;o) Thank you for kind words on Jas, and watching his speech. Yes, that was last year in Denver, when he was speaking to a cop group there. I only have seen his power point speech one time in real life (here), so I am thrilled someone put it on the web where I can see it whenever I want. And be able to share it. Kind of scary your Mr O. sounds so much like mine, LOL. But since they are keepers, guess that's a good thing! I have to say, mine darn near got served with divorce papers when Jason was born tho. LOL. (I have a son and daughter from an early, short, youthful marriage, but Jason was planned 2 yrs after I married Mr Oblivious.) Anyway, after being in hospital for 3 days...required back then!!...I was so anxious to get home with my little baby boy. And all the warm and fuzzy feelings of our new family being together. So when DH came to take me home at 11 a.m. check-out time, the doc was late coming in to sign me out. DH paced and and paced and was acting so anxious to get us home. I was really touched by him. Till I noticed just how often he was looking at his watch! I asked him about that and he said he had a TEE TIME at 12:30. Luckily for him, I was speechless! Didn't know whether to cry, scream, or throw something at him! All my little thoughts of us going home and being snuggly with our baby son went right into the dump. I wouldn't even speak to him on the way home. He did say he thought I'd want a nap and the baby would be sleeping so he saw no reason to NOT play golf. Arrrggghhhh. (my kids love hearing this story now, but I didn't appreciate being dumped off home while he raced to make his tee time!). But that sure was a 'defining' moment as to how important golf was going to be the rest of our marriage. No wonder I went to the dogs!! LOL. (Jason is a golfer too, started at age 7. And Candy, hope you noticed his hands, that were almost amputated and only saved by drastic measures. He was a 2 handicap before he was burned. No one thought he'd be able to even hold a club again with all the damage and amputations of fingers. He's now a 2 handicap AGAIN!) Jason doesn't make lemonade from lemons, he makes Margaritas! LOL hugs, Karen

I would go ahead and give them their silver anniversary gift now, because now is when they are celebrating. So what that it's a little early? It's no big deal, just a mistake. They aren't misrepresenting anything, just celebrating early -- nothing wrong with that. But it you prefer for some reason, you can wait another year -- just don't spill the beans to anyone else.

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