Anniversary Dance - what did you gift?

I've seen them given a bouquet of flowers. I like the idea of a bottle of sparkling wine.

I am doing this too! Most people at our wedding are married so we are doing this instead of the bouquet / garter toss... I plan to give them one of my Jr. Bridesmaids bouquets (the one I would have tossed).

We are skipping the bouquet toss and garter toss because a lot of our family/friends are already married. We think we know who has been married the longest, but we plan to gift a card with a note from us in it, as well as a gift card to a local restaurant that way they can use it whenever they'd like and we will include something in the card like "have a date night on us!"

I didn't want to give away a bouquet and we thought alcohol was a bad idea because not everyone drinks or has the same taste. When the winning couple is left on the dance floor the DJ is also going to ask them to give us a piece of advice for a long happy marriage.

Edit to add: at the end of the day we might skip this, only because we think FH aunt and uncle have been married the longest, and they are actually having a lot of issues right now and we don't want to cause tension or make it awkward for them if they decide not to dance so we will decide closer to the wedding.

I am pretty sure that the people I am inviting, although I want to do an anniversary dance, will be my aunt and uncle and my uncle is DEFINITELY not attending due to some health issues but they've been married 54 years. My aunt may or may not come solo we don't know yet.

That's a cute idea.

Honestly, I was just curious but we probably won't also because my fiancés parents are recently separated and want to file for divorce (great timing, huh?). I know it wouldn't bother his dad, but his mother is a whole mess of emotions (she's bi-polar/borderline), and she probably wouldn't let it go if we did end up doing it.

Maybe what I'll do is give my aunt and uncle a gift privately on the side, since I had already told them we were doing this many months ago before this all happened with my FH's parents.

It's always nice to gift something, even a bottle of wine, just because its sort of a "game" in a way. At most of the weddings I've been to there has been a gift whether its wine, a card, etc. Something small and meaningful to congratulate the couple on a long marriage.

This is a nice idea I like it a lot! I kind of wish we could do this but I do not want to upset my mom. My dad passed away and it still new and hurts. My mom would be fine with it if that is something we really want to do, but I would be upset along with my mom.

But then there is FMIL would make a sense. Her and FFIL just got divorced almost a year ago, and she would make a huff about it. So I am going to avoid that.

But love the idea! It is so sweet!

We did the anniversary dance differently - my mom and dad were celebrating 49 years of marriage on the day before our wedding, and my close cousins were celebrating 10 years of marriage on that day too. So, we played my parents' wedding song and invited them to the dance floor in honor of their anniversary, then invited my cousins and announced their anniversary too. Then, after a bit, we invited any couples who wanted to dance to the dance floor.

We wanted to include as many people as possible, but to also celebrate my parents' and my cousins' anniversaries too. We didn't give them any gifts at the wedding.

Yes but it is a much better alternative than singling out the single people, especially those that get a lot of family pressure to hurry up and get married.