50 Years of Love

• Watch a slide show commemorating the anniversary couple's 50 years of love. Include photos of the couple prior to meeting as well as together, along with their friends and families. Show then and now pictures of sites where the couple married, vacationed and spent time with their family. Add slides of commonly heard quotes from the couple. Pause between slides to ask questions and allow the couple to share their memories of events. During this time, ask the husband to recite to all gathered how he proposed.
  
  

Family Vacation

• Take a family cruise or vacation. Include the couple's children, grandchildren and other family members and friends who wish to celebrate. Rent a lodge for a weekend, decorate the dining room with gold as a nod to the couple's golden anniversary and eat dinner as a family. It's a simple way for a family to acknowledge a once in a lifetime milestone. After dinner play the couple's favorite music and dance or remissness on the couple's life around a fire pit.
  
  

Renewal of Vows

• Surprise the anniversary couple with a renewal of vows ceremony. Invite friends and family to watch the couple reiterate their agreement to love one another for the rest of their lives. After the ceremony, invite all in attendance to celebrate at an anniversary party. Fill a table with 50 cupcakes or 50 cookies. Ask guests to write adjectives which describe the couple on the cupcakes or cookies with edible markers or frosting. Be sure to show the couple what their friends and family wrote about them before serving the desserts.
  
  

50 Years Ago

• Create trivia based on the couple and the year the couple married. Ask questions about how much gas, milk, bread, gum, pants and cars cost in the year the couple married. Create a fill in the blank section based on pop culture during the year the couple. For example, if the couple married in 1961, write, "Breakfast at ______ was a popular movie in 1961." The correct answer would be "Tiffany's." Finish the game with questions about the couple's favorite foods, hobbies and colors. At the 50th wedding celebration, pass out the questionnaires to entertain guests after they eat.