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Beverly, at, How Sweet the Sound
is hosting Pink Saturday. Thank you
Beverly for your dedication to Pink Saturday.
Sally at, Smiling Sally is our host for Blue Monday. Thank you Sally for being so faithful to this event.
Warning: Lots of photos
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"OH WHAT A PARTY"
It was held at the Balsam Inn in North Carolina
Our granddaughter is in this photo. The Inn was a wonderful place to have our anniversary celebration. The sky looks like a water color of blue.
Here's to my Blog friends for your many comments about our 50th Anniversary. You have commented on our anniversary cruise in Dec. 2012 as wells as the several posts about our 50th anniversary plans in 2013 and now 'no doubt' the 50th celebration party I am sharing today. From out hearts to yours we send you all our heartfelt...
NOW LETS PARTY ON...
Decorations
The first thing we did when we arrived at the Balsam Inn was to decorate the event room. All of my family pitched in and we made magic happen.
The cake table.
The flowers on the cake table are from my dearest friend of nearly 43 years. Did you guess it is our Pink Saturday hostess, Beverly. The next photo of flowers from Beverly were on the head table. Thank you so much my dear friend. We are thrilled to have them.
They were gorgeous. This photo was taken after the party at home.
We chose to serve cupcakes with a small cutting cake. There were five different kinds of cupcakes.
The table decorations and mints handmade by Jeanne (me)
The fireplace mantel
The Banner
The wedding dress
Our room had a wonderful surprise waiting for us.
Beautiful flowers with greetings all the way from Canada. They were from our sweet and very dear friends, Claudie and Randy. We were surprised and so very pleased.
Thank you so very much with love to you both. We missed you so much.
A toast and happy anniversary wishes from Claudie and Randy.
Back to the celebration...
After the most delicious dinner was served and enjoyed by all, we renewed our vows. The minister is our brother-in-law. This was a very special moment.
Thank you so much Robert.
Our vows.
The cake ceremony
The toasts
Our oldest son Brett gave the toast along with our brother-in-law Bill.
Thank you Brett for a toast to remember. Brett gave us advice with a list of several words of wisdom we said to our children as they grew up. I will post them another time. The humor was not lost on us. Smile.
Our son Brett with is beautiful wife Lori. We love you very much.
Another toast
My brother-in-law Bill gave us a beautiful toast that was full of emotion and love. He apologised to me for not waiting for me one morning (I was 16 and always late) as he took my sister to school. They have been married over 50 years. He thanked us for accepting him into our family like a brother. We love you dearly Bill and your toast meant so much to us.
Check out Beverly's gift of flowers behind my brother-in-law.
The music
Our granddaughter Molly sang and played the guitar with our grandson Cody accompanying her.
This was a very special part of our evening.
Molly and Cody
Our granddaughters Molly, Ashley and our grandson Cody. Our son John got in this pic. Do you see him? HA! Ashley was dedicated to taking photos for us of the party. Thank you so much Ashley.
Our youngest son John and his beautiful wife Yvonne. We love you very much.
SLIDE SHOW
Our daughter Diana spent untold hours making a slide show of
our 50 years together. I can't share this with you but it was a
wonderful addition to our celebration.
Thank you so very much Diana.
All eyes were on the slide show. Lots of laughter and sounds of approval were heard during this 16 minute show. (I phone pic)
We love your dearly for the effort you made with this slide show. We will cherish it the rest of our life.
Our niece Beth, our daughters Christina and Diana and our niece Shelly.
Beth and Shelly came all the way from Kansas to attend our 50th. We love you dearly. You made our celebration so much more special to have you share our special day.
Random photos
Our daughter Christina with her son/our grandson, Caleb.
Our grands Molly and Jacob
Our granddaughter Roxie. She took a lot of the photos I have shared today. Thank you Roxie dear.
Our daughter Andrea with our grands.
A bunch of awesome grandchildren. Sadly, two of our grandson's are missing.
Barbara and Ed, our friends for 49 years. You both look wonderful. They have been married 60 years. You rock!
My dear sweet blog friends that came from GA to share our special day. Teresa in the back and CC and her husband Johnny. Thank you so much for sharing our special day.
Rick and Bill...friends since they were kids. Rick was our best man and Bill was Ricks best man for his wedding. Rick took all of the portraits of the many guests whe attended our party. His lovely wife Dee is not in any of the photos I have. Sigh!
Rick, we can't thank you enough. That was the best gift ever. We can't wait to see the photos to share them with our family and friends.
My maid of honor Shirley, my sister-in-law and Bill's sister, with Rick our best man.
Shirley, we are so thankful you and Robert could be here to share our special day. We love you dearly.
My dear sister-in-law and brother-in-law, Shirley and Robert.
There are so many more photos we would love to share but I will end this post with two special photos. I apologise for such a long post. This post is not only for my blogging friends, it is for my friends and family too. I left many of our dear friends and family out with regret.
Our children Bill and I are in this next photo. We are blessed to have wonderful children, grandchildren and friends.
Andrea, Brett, Diana, Christina and John.
We love you and we are so proud of you all.
One last photo I couldn't resist. It is our oldest daughter Andrea toasting our 50th most special celebration that anyone could ever have.
Thank you Andrea.
We love you dearly
Blessings and love,
"Mom and Dad"
JEANNE AND BILL
Ohhhhhhh my sweet and dearest friend. How magical, wonderful and sooooo special for everyone involved. Gosh I still CANNOT believe I wasn't there. OMGOSH.... but all in all you look SMASHING and gorgeous and look at those gold nails!!!! I LOVE IT ALL.
Glad you liked the flowers. They are pretty and they have my most fav flower the Star gazer. Did it smell good??
Your cupcake table looked soooo yummy. You know i LOVE cupcakes. Hand me one will you?
Time for bed. Randy and I just got back from seeing the Tom Cruise movie Oblivious. LOUD!! but good. Too many Tom's though. I think he loves himself tooooo much.
Well I know i LOVE you TO THE MOON AND BACK AGAIN... Had to spell it out this time.
So glad you posted this on PINK SATURDAY.... my favourite day.
xoxoxoxooxoxoxoxoxoxoxooxoxox
Posted by: Claudie | April 26, 2013 at 10:24 PM
OH WAIT... the tables, the cake topper. SOOOO Sweet... and Brett, how handsome he is. Just great Jeanne, just excellent.
ok now I'm leaving....
xoxoxoxoxo
Posted by: Claudie | April 26, 2013 at 10:26 PM
I see faces I love and hold dear. I told you everything would be perfect, and it was.♥ Life is made of moments that become treasured memories. You and your family are part of many of my treasured moments.
Posted by: Beverly | April 27, 2013 at 07:27 AM
What a day---I always love counting YOUR Blessings, too.
Thank you for sharing so much of your beautiful, loving life with me.
love and,
rachel
Posted by: racheld | April 27, 2013 at 12:22 PM
Thank you so much for sharing this special occassion with all of us. Everything was so beautiful. I know you will treasure these photos and memories of this special time with Family and Friends forever. You have a beautiful family. I'm so glad I didn't miss this special Pink Saturday Post. You made me feel just like I was there, too. Congratulations!
Posted by: Sue | April 27, 2013 at 03:52 PM
Great post Mom. Love all of the pics. :)
Posted by: Diana | April 27, 2013 at 10:25 PM
Wow you added more great pics. Look at CC and sweet Teresa sitting there with Johnny. Awe we should have been there.
Everything was perfect Jeanne. Just perfect.
Your family is all very special. I know you love them all soooo much.
Well it's 3:35am. Been thinking about what we talked about tonight on the phone. Can't sleep. I'm suppose to go to Cornwall tomorrow to see my Aunty. She's dying and not sure if she's going to make it till morning : (
I better try and sleep.
Good night my sweet Jeanne.
LYTTMABA.
xoxoxo
Posted by: Claudie | April 28, 2013 at 02:37 AM
Happy, Happy Anniversary! What a wonderful celebration, it was simply beautiful!!
Posted by: coloradolady | April 28, 2013 at 10:05 AM
Oh Jeanne, I loved loved LOVED seeing all these photos, and tried to imagine what a wonderful evening this must have been for you. Thanks for sharing it with me through your words and photos.
Everything looks like it turned out so beautifully. You look gorgeous. Was fun to see CC...and Teresa (even though I have not met her as of yet)
Fun to cut the cake
renew your vows
show off your wedding dress.
All sooooooooooo perfect. And I am not surprised that you had flowers waiting for you from Claudie and Randy. That would be so like them to do that. I know how very sad she was to not be there. Broke her heart.
Well............shall we say "here's to another 50?"
ha ha
why not eh
love ya to pieces
Posted by: wendy | April 28, 2013 at 03:13 PM
Oh Jeanne, everyONE and everything is just beautiful ! What a blessing to have had fifty wonderful years and all the memories. To have almost all your family with you and so many special friends, I am so happy for you. Thank you for sharing with all of us (())
Posted by: Francie T | April 28, 2013 at 05:05 PM
What a beautiful way to celebrate 50 years of marriage, Jeanne, surrounded by your family a dear friends both old and new! I wish you and Bill much more love and happiness for the next 50 years!
Hugs,
Pat
Posted by: Pat @ Mille Fiori Favoriti | April 29, 2013 at 12:12 AM
Oh Jeanne, I had to stay up to see your entry. I knew that it would be special, and it is! Even though you told me the details, this was such a superb party; I can't imagine how it could have been better. You and Bill are such lovely people and your family and friends are all smiles.
The live entertainment must have been super special with the professional grandchildren preforming.
The cake table looked so golden and special.
To have your Best Man and Maid of Honor present is a treat, I'm sure.
Happy Anniversary, Jeanne, and of course, Happy Blue Monday!
Posted by: Sally | April 29, 2013 at 01:40 AM
Congratulations to you and Bill. 50, wow! The pics are wonderful.
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Posted by: Pie | April 29, 2013 at 02:28 AM
Hello!! Oh my.....that was a fantastic celebration, Jeanne! Of course, i knew it would be ...you are such a great party planner!!
The Inn looked like the perfect venue for your party...just gorgeous, too!
I LOVED seeing all of your wonderful long time friends and family gathered to share this moment with you!! It was so fun to see Shirley and Robert again, too! :)
How awesome that your grands provided a bit of muscial entertainment......I'm sure you were soooo pleased for them to do that!!
Oh my. . .it was awesome that you displayed your beautiful wedding dress there, too! Mine is folded up and in the cedar chest in my attic....be it doesn't look too great anymore! ha ha!
I LOVE your cake. . .and the yummy variety of cuppy cakes!! I would have been hanging around that table too much!
The flower arrangedments from Beverly were the perfect touches from your besty of sooo many years! They were truly lovely and served as lovely reminders of your long time friendship. Claudie's flowers were very pretty, too!
I would have loved to have seen the slideshow.....I'm sure it's a real treasure that you and Bill will love to watch again and again!
Well....now that the party is behind you, what's your next big event? I know you will have something in the works real soon!
Happy Anniversary to you two. . . and many, many more!
L, Dana
Posted by: dana | April 29, 2013 at 07:07 AM
Happy Day! Wow! 50 Years ~ so happy for you ~ Wonderful array of beautiful, elegant and happy photos ~ ^_^
Posted by: Carol and artmusedog ^_^ | April 29, 2013 at 07:17 AM
a fabulous milestone--what a happy occasion!
All the best to you, your husband and your whole family.
Posted by: Luna Miranda | April 29, 2013 at 01:05 PM
What a wonderful party you all had. Love the photo's. Happy 50th! What a great
accomplishment. My Mom and Dad are celebrating their 60th on 5/2
Posted by: Joy | April 29, 2013 at 03:21 PM
How wonderful to share this special moment with family and friends. Blessings, Debbie
Posted by: Debbie | April 30, 2013 at 10:16 AM
Oh, what a beautiful party! You two look radiant as you celebrate your 50 years of marriage. Congratulations! How wonderful that family and friends were there to celebrate with you on this very special occasion. ~ Sarah
Posted by: Sarah | April 30, 2013 at 12:56 PM
Happy golden anniversary - what a beautiful celebration! Thank you for sharing this. It's very inspiring.
Posted by: Hazel | May 01, 2013 at 12:19 AM
Hi Jeanne..*hugs*
I am FINALLY here to see your wedding anniversary pictures. They are wonderful...oh my you had so many wonderful friends there to celebrate with you and your whole family and all of their help. Your food and the cupcakes are delicious. So beautiful Jeanne. Lovely lovely pictures and you and your hubby are such a charming couple. It is too bad Claudie was unable to be there but your pictures share so much.
Enjoy this beautiful evening....with your dear hubby...*s*..
Judi
Posted by: Judi | May 13, 2013 at 07:02 PM