The night before our anniversary party, we had a mini family reunion. Our daughter and her family, Mr. Aitch’s brother and his wife, my sister and her sister-in-law, my brother and his wife and, of course, Mr. Aitch and me.
Our daughter used her magical skills and made her family and Mr. Aitch and me these shirts that we wore that evening.
We grilled burgers and hot dogs. Sides included potato chips, veggie platter with dip, fresh strawberries and watermelon. Water, iced tea, lemonade and adult beverages. We didn’t want too many leftovers as we knew we would have some from the official party the next day.
Our 11-year old grandson coerced asked everyone with a pulse to play cornhole. By the end of the weekend, was the champion!
It was a wonderful weekend and we have souvenir shirts to remind us of it!
Four generations of my family got married on the same day. My maternal grandparents in 1921, my parents in 1950, Mr. Aitch and I in 1974, and our daughter and husband in 2007.
I had these photos on the tables as decoration as well as 20 x 30 inch posters on the walls.
From top left clockwise: my grandparents (on the right) with the maid of honor and best man, my parents, our daughter and son-in-law, and me and Mr. Aitch.
Unfortunately I didn’t ask anyone to take photos during the event so all you get are the favors.
I’ve been making these Hershey Nuggets covers for various events for about 20 years. I just use a sheet of address labels (1″ x 2 5/8″), “create” the message, and print them out on my home printer. The labels fit perfectly over the wrappers.
I took a cookie decorating course at our local community college in March and learned how to decorate cookies and cakes using Royal icing. For our anniversary favors I made about four dozen cookies in various shapes and iced the cookies. Some are two-toned with white and pink but most are plain white.
I bought a cookie stencil and gold spray icing to make the cookies shine then piped little dots of icing around the edges.
We attached round labels to cellophane bags. After the icing dried, we inserted a cookie in each bag and tied it shut with white curling ribbon.
I decided to get two cakes, one sheet cake and the other cupcakes in the shape of a champagne flute. The sheet cake was devoured at the party but we managed to bring to cupcakes home and finish them off with some help from our family and neighbors.
With around 40 guests it was best that we had the party catered and hired a bartender. Our caterer supplied us with a variety of sliders, chicken nuggets, chips, nuts, fresh veggies with dip, fresh fruit, loaded potato skins, and sausage kabobs. We served beer, wine, iced tea, lemonade, and water. Everyone was well-behaved and no one danced on the tables.
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