Off topic... Gift advice

[SpringCrane]

Hi ladies. I know this is off topic, but I'm hoping y'all are more creative than I am! We are celebrating my grandparents' fiftieth wedding anniversary this year and I don't know what to get them. It's my dad's mom and his step-dad. We and they will be traveling to the party, so it must be compact. I know popular ideas are scrapbook/memory things or prints of family tree type things. However, I have never been very close to them as they have lived all over the world and traveled a great deal, so I don't have many memories to share. And our family has too many divorces for a family tree type thing to not be super awkward...

I'm stuck! I guess something where I compile memories or photos from other family members could work... But we are spread all over the country (and world), so I don't know how successful that'd be.

Maybe my gift will be, "Surprise! You're getting a second great-grandchild!" when I show up with my belly ;-)

Any ideas?

 

[DobbyForever]

If they love babies and would be excited by that, it would be super cute to get them something that says they are going to be great-great-grandparents. Or something cheesy (I love cheese)that says you two are GREAT like really GREAT.... (flip page or over) grandparents.

Otherwise, have you looked into 50th anniversary presents on Pinterest?

 

[SpringCrane]

Duh. Pinterest! Great idea. I scoped out Etsy but it was a lot of the same and wouldn't work.

Thanks! And yeah, they might just get news as a gift... Oh well

 

[DobbyForever]

I'm sure your presence and the news will be more than enough to send them over the moon.

 

[neverbeast88]

Seeing as they've lived all over the world you could create a 'memory' box in the sense of finding out where they have been/lived and getting small iconic symbols for each place [eg london - big ben etc] and some maps etc.

But the baby new would be amazing!!! And as dobbyforever said Pinterest is amazing.