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[VanSleepy]

On 5/23/2014 missyw1 said: Romantic night at a fancy hotel. No bedbugs.

But the bedbug suite saves a few bucks :-)

[Zoologist_1]

How about 25 red roses?? Or 25 roses in different colors??

Next March will be our 25th anniversary.

But my dh passed away right before our 10th.

I can't imagine having the luxury of buying him something different than what I have for all these years........dozens of red roses with tons of babysbreath. He wanted lots of babies, and every month from our first date til he passed away, he bought a beautiful bouquet of flowers - always different - for me...but each one had a huge amount of his favorite flower: babysbreath.

That's what I'll be buying next March....25 red roses instead of 12.

[hckynut]

We've been together over 42 years and from this male perspective? Why give him anything if he is content as is? That is what I tell my wife on every single occasion where she feels a gift is necessary.

[MurphiesLaw]

All of your ideas are wonderful, full of meaning and sentiment.

[muttmom]

We chose to give ourselves a trip to Paris for our 25th anniversary. We didn't need stuff.

[lolakimono]

Here are some ideas from Gifts.com.

""Your memory lane""

Personalized golf club links

Business card case

RL cocktail shaker

Swiss Army knife

[lulu2]

On 5/26/2014 muttmom said:

We chose to give ourselves a trip to Paris for our 25th anniversary. We didn't need stuff.

I agree. After 25 years who needs more stuff? We too took a fabulous trip.

[151949]

I have done things for DH's birthday such as take him on a helicopter ride over the city to take pictures. Rented a corvette for the weekend and we drove to a inn that is a few hours away. He loves to fish so I took him for a fishing weekend once - charter boat. You have to use your imagination a little and think about things he likes to do. Almost forget - we went for a train ride from Pitts to washington DC and toured around DC for the weekend and rode the train back home.

[mima]

On 5/24/2014 sidsmom said:

Go to Victoria's Secret, slap a bow on your bottom & call it a night. You know that's all men want!

Yes, this would be preferred over a gift any day!

[Jeanhelen57]

For our 25th I made one of those photo books--back then you could only get them (that I knew of) here on the Q...so that's what I did...I titled it "Dave & Jean 25 Years"..and I started with a wedding pic, put in pics of our early years, then when each kid was born, then later events, etc..I titled each page with something clever..I ended it with a page of just the 2 of us that said something like "If the first 25 years were THIS amazing, just imagine how awesome the NEXT 25 years are going to be!! These day you can get a professional-grade book, like a pro-photographer would make, at a site called Artisan State...and I'm sure there are many others--I'll do this again for our 50th--but that won't be for another 13 years! Happy Anniversary! PS--My DH cried!!!