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Submitted by: JLVK
My first husband's parents were coming up on their 50th wedding
anniversary. We HAD to do something special but logistics were such that
we lived in Tennessee, they were in North Carolina for the summer and
most all their friends were either in Florida or Connecticut and not
able to travel easily. We decided to throw them an anniversary party
anyway!
We talked his parent's into coming over to visit us over their
anniversary so we could take them out to dinner and booked them a room
at a local motel. Then I managed to get names and addresses of people
they had been close to over the years. Then I sent everyone an
"invitation," explaining that, while we knew that travel would
be difficult, we were planning a "This Is Your Life" style
get-together and we wanted them to participate by sending a card,
photos, letters or audio tapes detailing special memories, or video
taped greetings. As the items came in I organized them so we could
present them in somewhat of a chronological order beginning with their
wedding. We were thrilled with the response!
We took them out to dinner that night and then back to our apartment.
That was where the real surprise was waiting. I had made a miniature
wedding cake for dessert and while they were eating that we started the
"presentation".
They were speechless and couldn't figure out how we had done all this
without them catching on. They had a great time and a lot of wonderful
memories brought back to mind. And we learned some fun things about them
in the process.
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