Any ideas for a 25th Wedding Anniversary Hamper please?!

3tabbycats

Hi everyone
You were all so helpful with my Christmas Hampers which went down a storm, I thought this was a good place to ask for suggestions for a 25th Anniversary Hamper.

I'm looking for a silver & 1984 theme & am struggling! So far I've come up with:
Silver photo frame
The number 1 single from the week of the wedding (Stevie Wonder)
Chocolates re-wrapped in foil

Then I'm stuck!! Any ideas and suggestions would be gratefully received!

dogstarheaven

hi
you could create a cd with all their favourite songs from 1984. that'll be really special particularly if they're into their music. even if you don't know their tastes, you could still select random hits from that era.

KirstyonCloud9

They will probably get quite a bit of silver for their anniversary so maybe a tube/bottle of silver polish?

piglet6

We did a Ruby hamper for my parents just a couple of weeks ago, containing 40 things which were either Ruby or relating to 1969. Some were serious, some were funny, but my parents absolutely loved it.

Some ideas for you (based on what we put into our hamper)...

- A CD of 1984 music
- Coffee mugs (you can get them from Amazon or Ebay - just search "silver", and I've just checked they do them for silver anniversaries - we got the Ruby ones. Much more practical than all those decorative plates/champagne flutes!)
- We also put in one of the lucky sixpences (again Amazon or Ebay, comes up on the same search!)
- A rose bush with "Silver" in the title. We got our Ruby one for under £5 from B&Q and they do silver ones!
- Food/Grocery items with "Silver" in the name: Silver spoon sugar, Silver Shred lemon marmalade, Silverskin onions, Sierra Silver Tequila, Elastoplast Silver Healing Plasters, a Silver polishing cloth, silver foil, etc, etc (search the supermarket websites for ideas). Marks & Spencer do a bottle of "Silver Tree" Chardonnay...
- Seeds: Unwins do a "Silver Chimes" narcissus, Mr Fothergill has "Chard White Silver" and "Dichondra Silver Falls", Suttons have "Cinararia Maritima Silverdust" or "Silverline" brussels sprouts!
- Rimmel 60 second nail polish have a colour called "Silver bullet"...
- Coalport Sentiments do a lady called Silver Anniversary (although she is quite pricey at about £55...)
- We topped the whole thing with a Ruby Anniversary helium balloon

We wrapped everything individually in different red papers (some with hearts, some with roses, some in tissue paper) and it was like Christmas. I'm not sure who got the most fun out of it - Mum and Dad opening everything, or us searching for everything. In fact, I'm still fighting the urge every time I go shopping to wander up and down the aisles searching for the word "ruby"!!

Piglet

3tabbycats

Wow! There are some fab ideas there! I hadn't thought of the jokey things..thats a really good idea, especially to pad it out abit without costing the earth! Thank you very much..!

piglet6

Forgot to say, M&S do some chocolates that are wrapped in silver - they come in bags by the tills (not sure what they are...obviously, we bought the ones wrapped in red :rolleyes: which were chocolate caramels, and absolutely delicious!) - might be a bit easier than re-wrapping your own.

Also, try searching for books with Silver in the title. We put in a copy of "Ruby" by Virginia Andrews - cost us 35p from Amazon marketplace and was brand new! :T

You're exactly right, the jokey things help to bulk it out and keep the average cost down...

Good luck with finding everything (I'll be back again if I think of anything else! ).

Piglet

humblebumble_2

Dont forget to have a look in your local Poundland. You never know what you might be lucky enough to find!!

chelmsfordgirl1

How about a copy of the newspaper from the day they got married.
Also, for my parents I got an album and put loads of photos in it from when they started going out together to the present day - they loved looking at it and still adds to it with special photos now.