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Given all the social distancing and travel restrictions that are currently in force what could you do to celebrate your 10th wedding anniversary during a lockdown.
A simple celebration would be to go for an early evening intimate meal for two at your favourite restaurant. Given the current restrictions you are sure to have a quieter and less interrupted evening together.
If you don’t like the idea of going out then you should look to the wedding anniversary gift themes and build an evening in around them
The 10th anniversary has a traditional gift theme of tin. You could look to have a movie night with a film or box set which some way reference Tin. The Tin Cup is a love story. ‘Cat on a Hot Tin roof’ is a classic movie that springs to mind although the storyline may not be the perfect mood setter. The Wizard of Oz famously has the tin man in it. The Poldark box set is a binge worthy set around the Cornish tin mines.
You could take a lead from many restaurants that do similar nowadays. Present an anniversary meal with your chips/French fries served in tins. You could go a bit further and serve the meal on tin plates. Perhaps Cornish Pastie and Chips is a perfect corny menu for the celebration. Personally I’d be happy with a Fray Bentos Pie that you get in tins!
Other entertainment could include the physical game ‘tin can alley’ there are video games also available along similar lines. If outdoors then get a Frisbee which was born out of originally using pie tins to throw to each other.
The 10th year of marriage also has a modern theme of Aluminium, a gemstone theme of diamond jewellery and the appropriate flower being Daffodils. So from these you could extrapolate something to do.
Although not the perfect anniversary celebration you should always try an do something to commemorate your marriage. Not only will it help your mood it’ll help lift your spirits in what is a bleak period. Do remember though this too will pass.
To see our full range of 10th anniversary gifts please go to our main Tin Anniversary page
Mothers Day in the UK is also known as Mothering Sunday. Mother’s Day is always celebrated on the fourth Sunday of Lent in the UK. However as the dates vary as to when Lent falls, the actual Sunday chosen to celebrate it varies every year.
In 2021 Mother’s Day is on 14th March, 2021 and next year (2022) it is almost two weeks later on 27th March, 2022. (See our annual celebrations dates for the next 10 years)
Mothering Sunday is more often referred to as “Mother’s Day” and it origin is distinctly different to Mother’s Day in America although the sentiments are similar.
In Victorian times, it was a day when children, mainly daughters, who had gone to work as domestic servants were given a day off to visit their mother and family.
Today it is a day when children give presents, flowers, and cards to their mothers.
We’ve a great selection of Mother’s Day Gifts on our site some of our selection we’ve shown here.
Most Sundays in the year churchgoers would worship at their nearest parish or “daughter church”.
In olden times it was considered important for people to return to their home or “mother” church at least once a year. So each year in the middle of Lent, everyone would visit their “mother” church.
As the return to the “mother” church became an occasion for family reunions when children who were working away from home returned. It was quite common in those days for children as young as ten years to leave home to work in service.
The majority of historians think that it was this return to the “Mother” church which led to the tradition of children, particularly those working as domestic servants, or as apprentices, being given the day off to visit their mother and family.
This special day has now become a time when people give thanks to their mothers and offers an opportunity to express both love and thanks for the work that they do.
How to personalise commemorative gifts for couples can seem complicated however there are very few formal rules. If you have your own special words for personalising your flutes then great, if you need some inspiration please read on.
Specialising in Anniversaries we have seen many variations on engraving requests. By far the most common and possibly the best is
If you want to include a date it’s easy for the wedding however if it is for the anniversary remember to ensure the date is correct. For example if you mention the Anniversary then the date should be the date of the anniversary and not the wedding date. So lets say the couple in Question are celebrating their Silver Wedding (25th Anniversary) having got married on 19th June 1994 you would include Silver Wedding, 19th June 2019.
To ensure the best impact and most pleasing engraving here are some simple rules
If you are wondering about any other text you would like to include but not sure then check out advice related to wedding or party invitations, this advice is often directly transportable on engraved products especially if you want to use formal wording.
A great anniversary or birthday idea would be music of your era and in this case specifically the 1980’s. We’ve a selection of CDs with music of the 80’s available which also come with a code so you can download the tracks to a computer. The hits of the year are sure to bring the memories flooding back, as music does so well, to the lucky recipients.
The music included on the CDs are from the original artist from that year so they’re most likely be the favourite version of any cover versions.
Ideal gift for Couples married in 1980 Greeting Card and Gift in one Quality Mailing Envelope included. Physical CD and download code supplied.
Ideal gift for Couples married in 1981 Greeting Card and Gift in one Quality Mailing Envelope included. Physical CD and download code supplied.
Ideal gift for Couples married in 1982 Greeting Card and Gift in one Quality Mailing Envelope included. Physical CD and download code supplied.
Ideal gift for Couples married in 1983 Greeting Card and Gift in one Quality Mailing Envelope included. Physical CD and download code supplied.
Ideal gift for Couples married in 1984 Greeting Card and Gift in one Quality Mailing Envelope included. Physical CD and download code supplied.
Ideal gift for Couples married in 1985 Greeting Card and Gift in one Quality Mailing Envelope included. Physical CD and download code supplied.
Ideal gift for Couples married in 1986 Greeting Card and Gift in one Quality Mailing Envelope included. Physical CD and download code supplied.
Ideal gift for Couples married in 1987 Greeting Card and Gift in one Quality Mailing Envelope included. Physical CD and download code supplied.
Ideal gift for Couples married in 1988 Greeting Card and Gift in one Quality Mailing Envelope included. Physical CD and download code supplied.
Ideal gift for Couples married in 1989 Greeting Card and Gift in one Quality Mailing Envelope included. Physical CD and download code supplied.
Some of these tracks were critically acclaimed other were hits in the UK or America and some were even both, we were comparing all our tracks above to NMEs top 100 best of the songs of the 80’s and was surprised by the results and how many were on the list.
We’ve also some booklet style CD Greeting cards that cover the music of the 80’s. These cover up to 1986 as later years have not been produced by the manufacturer, Retro Co.
We’ll this is a post I didn’t expect to write, celebrating the anniversary of the beginning of the end of World War 2 whilst not being allowed the freedom to go out. Strange times to say the least.
Perhaps we can look forward to celebrating a VoC day (Victory over Covid-19) in the very near future.
The 75th anniversary of VE Day, which marks the end of the Second World War in Europe, takes place this year on Friday, 8 May, 2020.
Due to the COVID 19 lockdown, plans to commemorate and celebrate this momentous occasion have had to change, with national events postponed.
We’ve a few ideas here that may help you celebrate the event the event within the confines of your home this could include decorating a poster, creating bunting for your garden, cooking a menu using war time recipes or downloading a 1940s’ playlist.
The official Music charts did not exist at this time although many lists were offered by different organisations, claiming to be the defacto list.
We’ve a selection of hit songs from the original artists of the year available should you want an authentic sound for the year.
The track list for the CD, which is a great who’s who of the artists of 1945 is as follows:
We do similar CD’s for all the War years, in fact we span the years from 1929 through to 2002 for music and have news DVDs for 1931 through to 1995 should you be interested in any other year.
We’re off to dig out my Nan’s recipe book’s for some authentic recipes from the 1940’s
Whilst not from the original celebrations, in fact these are 1977 and the queen’s Silver Jubilee, I thought these pictures of Happier times may cheer your up a bit. Would love to see any from the original celebration if anyone has some.
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We continue to keep abreast of the developments of this pandemic and at the time of writing do not envisage any serious disruption to our services to our customers. The only caveat to this is if Royal Mail services are affected by staff absentees due to people looking after their dependencies, this may introduce delay into deliveries but not stop them. Their difficulties unfortunately has resulted in the suspension of the next day delivery option for the time being.
We have confirmed our services will continue as detailed on this page, we are open for online retail and have confirmed Royal Mail continue to pick up and deliver our parcels. They have stated there may be delays in certain parts of the country depending on staff availability.
Some of our manufacturers and suppliers have closed, we have sufficient stock of our best sellers currently however stock replenishment may take longer than expected.
If you are unable to visit the celebrants we are able to deliver gifts directly to recipients, and if you tell us will gladly include a gift note at no additional cost. Please tell us what to write in the note section of the order at checkout. We can accommodate up to about a quarter page of A4 writing if necessary.
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Stay well and stay safe from us all at Anniversary Ideas.
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Many parties are thrown to celebrate a 50th Wedding Anniversary whether they are formal, informal or just slung together we can help with the right music to celebrate 50 years of marriage if the marriage occurred in 1969.
Get our CD gift greeting card for 1969 which has a CD inside with a multitude of top hits from the year they were married with many love songs that will bring the memories of yester-year flooding back.
The complete playlist is as follows with a brief synopsis as well to help you.
You could complement this with the number one for the week they got married (check what song here http://www.officialcharts.com/chart/) or if you want a longer playlist then how about a montage of number ones from their anniversary for every year since they wed.
It’s also the 50th Wedding Anniversary of John and Yoko, so you can’t omit the song that reflected their marriage which reached number one on 11th June 1969
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