50 years of marriage
Golden Anniversary: 50th Wedding Anniversary Gift Ideas
The gold anniversary, more often called the golden anniversary, celebrates fifty years of marriage, half a century of shared history. It is the best-known wedding anniversary, often celebrated with the whole family, several generations gathered around the couple.
Fifty years is a story worth telling properly. Here is what gold stands for, 50th anniversary gift ideas that follow the tradition, and others that tell half a century of marriage.
Why gold for the fiftieth anniversary?
Gold does not rust, does not tarnish and keeps its shine. Tradition holds that it suits the fiftieth anniversary because a love that has lasted fifty years has the same qualities: it has resisted time and still shines.
Like silver, gold is one of the oldest anniversaries on the list. Tradition often traces it to central Europe, where a wife was said to receive a gold wreath after fifty years of marriage. Both the traditional and the modern lists name gold for the fiftieth.
On the list, gold follows sapphire for the forty-fifth anniversary. Emerald comes next for the fifty-fifth, then diamond for the sixtieth.
50th anniversary gift ideas
A comic book of your fifty years
Half a century told in 24 comic pages, with both of your faces as the characters: how you met, the wedding, the family and the anecdotes everyone at the table already knows.
Discover the couple comic bookEngraved gold jewelry
New wedding bands, a pendant or a bracelet in gold, engraved with the wedding date and the number 50. A golden anniversary gift for him or for her.
A family celebration
The great classic of the golden anniversary: a meal with children, grandchildren and friends, often planned as a surprise.
A shared memory book
Ask each family member and friend for a photo and a few words, and gather them into an album to give during the party.
A professional family portrait
Every generation together in front of the camera, for a photo that will stay on the wall for years.
A vow renewal
Fifty years later, say yes again in front of the people who matter, sometimes in the same church or venue as the first time.
A comic book to tell the story of your fifty years of marriage
Fifty years of marriage are full of stories your family knows by heart. If you are the one giving it to your spouse, our AI scriptwriter helps you pick the anecdotes in a chat of about ten minutes and turns them into a 24-page comic book, with both of your faces as comic characters, from one photo of each of you. You write the dedication, and nothing is printed until you approve the book. A gift to read as a couple first, then with the whole family.
How is your personalised comic book made?
No form to fill in: you tell our AI scriptwriter about your couple and it turns it into a personalised comic book.
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Step 1
Tell us about your couple
Your photos, nicknames, habits, jokes and memories: our AI scriptwriter asks the right questions, in about ten minutes.
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Step 2
Approve the script
Our AI scriptwriter writes a 24-page comic book: one short funny story per habit. Something to change? Just ask.
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Step 3
See the free preview
The cover and the first page are generated with your faces, before you pay anything.
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Step 4
Order, the AI creates the rest
The other pages are generated as soon as you order, and you can retouch them for free before printing.
Free retouches before printing
Once your comic book is ordered, you can have any page you don't like changed, for free, up to 10 retouches.
- You see every page before it is printed.
- Something to change? Describe it in a few words.
- The AI redoes the page with your change.
- Nothing is printed until you approve your comic book.
How to celebrate your golden anniversary
Golden anniversaries are almost always a family affair: a big meal, sometimes a blessing or a vow renewal, and plenty of photos. Showing the wedding photos during the party and recreating the first dance are the moments everyone remembers. Cards and messages often arrive from relatives far away, and they are worth keeping together in a box or an album.
Traditional anniversary gifts by year
| Years of marriage | Traditional gift |
|---|---|
| 1 year | Paper |
| 2 years | Cotton |
| 3 years | Leather |
| 4 years | Fruit & flowers |
| 5 years | Wood |
| 6 years | Iron |
| 7 years | Wool or copper |
| 8 years | Bronze |
| 9 years | Pottery |
| 10 years | Tin or aluminum |
| 11 years | Steel |
| 12 years | Silk or linen |
| 13 years | Lace |
| 14 years | Ivory |
| 15 years | Crystal |
| 20 years | China |
| 25 years | Silver |
| 30 years | Pearl |
| 35 years | Coral |
| 40 years | Ruby |
| 45 years | Sapphire |
| 50 years | Gold |
| 55 years | Emerald |
| 60 years | Diamond |
What people ask us about this anniversary.