Anniversary gift?

[frugalone]

My sister and her husband will be celebrating their 20th anniversary soon. Their son is giving them a party. I have no idea what an appropriate anniversary gift is. They have a fair amount of money and don't want for anything. I don't have a lot of time to shop or make anything.

Ideas, anyone? :)

[sweetana3]

A very nice bottle of wine to toast their anniversary, a good restaurant gift certificate to have a special meal, or tickets to something they really like.

[CathyA]

Yeah, I agree with sweetana. I think a gift certificate to one of their favorite restaurants is good!

[razz]

A bottle of wine and two nice wine glasses will be special. Not sure why people celebrate so many events but that is a personal choice and may have great merit in each circumstance.

[catherine]

My go-to gift source for occasions like this is Wine Country Gift Baskets. They're really quite reasonable, IMO, and have GOOD stuff, as opposed to some gift basket that have stuff you'd never eat. Here's the listing of anniversary gifts. Some are high. The cheapest is $25. They're generally very good value.

http://www.winecountrygiftbaskets.com/gift_basket_list/GIFT-BASKETS/ANNIVERSARY-GIFTS/1/2/

[Tussiemussies]

You could read up on the web how to take . Portraits, providing you have a camera. Take their picture on the date of the anniversary. Buy a relatively expensive frame maybe 5x7 and have the picture printed Out. I think this would be a sentimental gift. Have them dress nicely for the picture! I don't know what they would like as a frame but you might score something great at Marshalls or Tj Maxx. Otherwise A Lenox frame is very nice.

[jp1]

Assuming that they like wine I agree with that idea. If they aren't in need of 'stuff' it seems silly to buy them something durable that they will then have to deal with and may or may not actually want. As someone who is old enough, and financially successful enough, to have all the 'stuff' I really want (and I'm not really much of a 'stuff' person to begin with) I would personally much prefer a bottle of wine or a gift certificate to a nice restaurant over just about any other gift someone might give me. If the gift givers were really close friends/relatives and the occasion really important I'd also be pleased with perhaps a night or two at a nice hotel in a nearby place that they knew I wanted to go to.

[razz]

Do they have a special interest group to which you could make a contribution - time, item or $? I would love to hear that someone gave a bag of dog food to the local humane society for one example.

[Tenngal]

one of my most used gifts........a homemade rice bag that can be heated in the microwave for aches and pains. I like useful things.