Any advice on throwing your parents their 30th Wedding Anniversary?

My older sister and I are planning on throwing my parents a 30th wedding ann party. We only have a month!!! We are working with a very minimal budget and time. Also, my parents know LOTS of people... Any ideas, suggestions, and especially advice welcome.Any advice on throwing your parents their 30th Wedding Anniversary?
Go back to when they first met. Ask them what it was like! Then make that like the little theme, if its interesting!





Have the kind of music they like, there favorite foods.





Games and things they like to do together.





Be creative!Any advice on throwing your parents their 30th Wedding Anniversary?
Talk to some of their good friends to make sure everyone who needs to be invited is. Rent an outside picnic table or something where there's lots of room for everyone (If it's planned in during nice weather). I would make them a video of all their years together with things such as home videos and pictures from when you were younger and maybe show it at the party or just give it to them as a gift. After 30 years of marriage they aren't going to need it to be really fancy, they clearly only need each other to be happy. Basically: picnic tables with burgers, hot dogs, pop, beer, friends and family.





Have Fun!
Oh yay! That sounds like fun. Try to reacteate the scene where they got married, met, went on a first date or something. If you don't mind clearing it up you could maybe pitch a marquee in a garden of driveway? If not rent a town hall of a room in a hotel. Decorate it simply, flowers are expensive so maybe stick to candels? Get the grandchildren to come along for the begining and to maybe say little speeches about their grandparents. Cook simple but good tasty food that everyone will like. You could make little canapees to pass around at the begining, something as simple as little crackers with ham, cheese and an olive on top are simple but still quite good. For the maine dish have a buffet style affair - smoked salmon, nice ham and lots of different veg and potatoes and pastas. Make a nice cake, and personalize it with icing. Pin pictures of them up. Try to only invite those who need to be there and would be offended if not invited. eg. Maureen who they played bingo with ten years ago wont get too much of a sweat up about it. Try to keep the numbers down to around 200. Stuff like this gets pretty pricey! Best of luck. email me if you need any extra help etc. good luck!
if those LOTS of people can fit ur budget just have cocktails or afternoon snack like sandwiches and a few drinks just to keep everybody together.


have them dress up as if it was their 1st wedding where ur mom in white and dad in tux.. and guest in party dresses..


also u can show pics of them or if thepics or video from their wedding is still available have thse for everybody to see.
It depends on what you've got available to you...





If you have someone with an ample backyard, a barbecue is *always* fun for everyone, plus you can do a ';BYOB'; kind of thing, and kids can be involved as well.





Where did they honeymoon? You might use that as decoration inspiration...





Restaurants can get expensive very quickly, so if you're on a budge, I'd skip that option.
I'd go with only close family and friends- and perhaps even make it a pot luck. If you ask people to each bring a dish, you and your sister can focus on a nice fancy cake and wine or even champagne. People know the economy is bad and times are tough so likely they will all be more than willing to cooperate with your request.
ask everyone you invite if they can bring a dish to pass..get pictures taking of all your parents kids with a little saying on them telling them what they mean 2 you...plan them a trip and don't tell them where they are going give them a map and tell them to follow the map.......like book them a room overnight somewhere...
well depend on ur budget u can rent a hall and not tell ur parents and cal all their friends at the hall not at ur house and than tell ur parents lets to out ot eat dinner because of their aniversary. and than u take them in and than boom the surprise. well i game a surprize like that to my parents
Find out what it was that made them fall in love. Find out their favourite song, flowers and foods. combine them all together and they will really know that you love and care for them.
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awwwwwwwwwww keep it simple
a nice dinner
rent them a hotel
try getting them to some wear nice?????