Ideas please

[Kaz]

Di, that's an excellent idea, about the buffet Not exactly the same, but when my MIL came for Christmas she made and bought with her the sausage rolls, and a huge bowl of delicious fruit salad It takes off a lot of the pressure on the hosts

[Weka]

We call it "bring a plate" and it's very common practice here.

As for a present? Sorry, no ideas.

[Rodo]

http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/gifts ... rsary-gold


Another idea is to buy one of those very special boxes that wedding and similar shops sell. They can keep all their cards and momentos of the day in it.

[meriad]

Gal, how many photo's do you have of them, separately and together? What about a commemorative printed album to celebrate their lives together? you know one of those where you upload a whole lot of photo's and then have then put into a book?

Something they could always look at when they want to?

[Kaz]

Oh I like that!

[Weka]

What a great idea!

[Osc]

a golden rose is fine, but it is not exactly thinking outside the box. It's a bit safe and.... TBH, a bit boring and traditional.

I'd actually really love the rose as a present, guess that makes me boring and traditional so - each to their own

[Workingman]

I have met you and you are not boring or traditional, but you are a bit of a, ahem, golden Rose(ie).

[Kaz]

My parents loved their rose too Osc, and now my sister has it in a pot in her garden with little phials of their ashes in it xxxx

[meriad]

My parents loved their rose too Osc, and now my sister has it in a pot in her garden with little phials of their ashes in it xxxx

that is lovely Kaz. I like the idea of a rose as well - any plant in fact; not fussy