50th wedding anniversaries are a special occasion to celebrate and honor the couple’s many years of love and commitment. Toasts are a great way to highlight this milestone, so if you’re looking for ideas on what to say at your parents’ 50th anniversary celebration, here are 25 50th wedding anniversary toasts that will help get you started.
Marriage is not an institution, but it is an adventure. Like all adventures it takes you into unknown territory, where there are surprises, thrills and spills – otherwise known as everyday life! Please enjoy yourselves today….for tomorrow…..who knows?
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Love will find a way because it finds a way to heal wounds, make wishes, and hold on when we can’t do so anymore. -David Seifert
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We never stop loving each other by ending our relationship; we do so by letting go of those things that are not important in the long run.
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Marriage is the union of two different people who bring out the best and worst in each other.
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There are three stages to marriage: engagement, marriage, and fighting about which one of you doesn’t clean the dishes.
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The reason men don’t like marriage is that they like doing things more than being with someone. The same goes for dogs.
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The finest gift that love can offer is an understanding of the heart and its secret ways.
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The best part of being a couple is the rest of your life begins when you say I do.
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You cannot have nice things without work or patience. Like the young couple married for their first time, so are we coming to close to our second anniversary because this marriage still works, weathered many storms but always has stood strong together. Although sometimes getting over every little bump in the road can be tiring but true love still prevails after all these years…
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Celebrating an anniversary is not about the amount of time, rather it is about how often a more than fifty years and the love that has grown between you.
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Marriage should be a commitment to cherish forever those we have loved and lost; a pledge renewed and made anew in every new day of our lives.
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Weddings and anniversaries are times to celebrate the love you have for each other. By using the suggested quotes you can use to express your feelings about your marriage, you can do this in a creative way. It is a great idea to have some place setting cards with the choices on them since this makes the presentation of these quotes very easy to do.The 25th was chosen for these anniversary suggestions because it is a special gift for couples and their family members and friends. The 25th wedding anniversary will always hold a special place in the life of any couple who has walked down that path.
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It is said that every wedding anniversary brings with it an anniversary of its own. The first year was a start, the second year a new beginning, the third a slowing down, the fourth an acceptance of reality and the fifth an ache to keep going.
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You don’t know love until you’ve been through it or until you have seen it in others. You don’t know why people marry or divorce, but you do know that they have to do both before they can stop doing either.
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I’ve watched my parents live together for 50 years and I think maybe the real reason for marriage is to see if you can stand being with someone for 50 years without killing them.
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It is amazing how a lifetime can fall into 14 years. The celebration of this anniversary is about love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity.
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On your wedding anniversary, I am reminded of the joy that existed on this day years ago. On this day I am also reminded of the great love and laughter we continue to share on many days.
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I would hold you in my arms and whisper in your ear, “We have come to our 25th anniversary together, a gift from God.” And then I would pull you close for a big bear hug.
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The first year of marriage is the honeymoon; the five years after are the arguments; and then there are two decades of making up.
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You don’t just marry someone you can live with – you marry someone you cannot live without.
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On this your anniversary may you share many, happy hours, and recall the day you were joined in holy matrimony; may you recall it with joy as long as life shall last and praise God who so mercifully has dealt with you.
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Happy anniversary to the lovers of 50 years. We salute your stamina, strength and stamina. You have proved that love can withstand the stresses and strains of time.
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I was a young bride, and he was a young groom. We had no idea where we would live or what we would do for a living. Neither of us had family nearby. We were both very interested in the military, so it seemed like the right idea to take our training to Fort Benning, Georgia and start our lives together there.
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On anniversary weekend, we sat hand-in-hand on our back porch as the birds chirped around us. We each pulled out one of our wedding day pictures and looked at it again. Tears fell down my cheeks as I remembered how wonderful that day had been and how far we’d come.
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Marriage is a commitment to be faithful and share your lives for better or for worse, in sickness and in health.
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It’s wonderful how two people with little money can also have little taste and still be able to stand each other.
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Marriages are made with good intentions but they are strengthened by fair play and understanding. In other words, don’t cheat on your spouse because you know full well what you’re doing is wrong or unfair to the person you’re doing it with. You can’t expect them to understand why you did it so some type of explanation or just an apology will go a long way toward healing your relationship together.
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When you are married and you have children, you will realize that you are the center of your family. You’ll also come to understand that nothing in life is ever perfect, because it never will be. The beauty and the pain of life may sometimes be too much for one to bear, but your marriage will show that love finds a way, even when there seem to be no more roads left to travel down.
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With age comes wisdom and maturity, with this comes strength and grace.With these most precious gifts comes time for reflection about the good times with one another and about your commitment to make things better than they were before as parents.
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As the years have passed, I have learned to appreciate what we have more than what we once had. I now realize that marriage is a choice and it always was, not just for me but for both of us. Love can be patient and understanding and will always be there when true love has grown old.
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Marriage is not about two people being in love with each other forever, it’s about commitment to a lifetime of sharing life together. No one knows the whole story until they’ve been married 25 or 50 years! It’s a choice that should be made in good faith, and when you’re ready to make it, let the person you are most attracted to know.
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Finding the right person is a life-long challenge, but once you do, it’s for life. It is an exciting adventure that builds character, fosters growth and allows you to travel a road no one has ever travelled before.
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The best things in life are never planned. They just happen when you least expect it. Marriages are the same way—you have to be ready for them to happen and when they do, you have to make the most of it. Let your marriage be full of surprises . . . like stumbling across new adventures together, or learning something new about each other every day.
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I did not walk into this marriage with an attitude of entitlement expecting to be catered to or taken care of all the time. Sometimes we have to put ourselves in someone else’s shoes and think about what we have done when we have been rude or insensitive.
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I made a deal with my husband that the first of July will be his day and I will let him choose the date for our anniversary because everyone deserves a day devoted to them.
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Marriage is not about having the perfect marriage. It’s about hanging in there when your partner is wrong, loving them when they are right, and sticking together through the hard times and celebrating when things are going well.
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There are people who love passionately and truly but there are also those who plan their love to last a lifetime. Marriage is one of those combinations of these two kinds of love.
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When it’s right, marriage will make you as happy as you can be without children. You’ll find that two-person family unit offers a unique happiness we otherwise can’t achieve outside it.
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May each anniversary be as beautiful as the love you share and may you always be as happy as you are today.
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Marriage is an exercise in forgiveness. There is no conversation more serious than the one about who gets the remote control.
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Marriage is not a noun; it’s a verb. It isn’t something you get, it’s something you do. It’s the way you love your partner everyday. You can’t just say “I got married.” You have to say “I married him/her.” It’s an action, it’s a choice you make every day, over and over again… and that’s what makes a marriage.
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Every marriage takes work, but the rewards are great. The two of you can learn to trust in each other, create a life of value and happiness, love your children and share a friendship that will last a lifetime.
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Character is who we are; it is not what we do. We should be known by our decency, integrity, strong work ethic and by the things we do for others.
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A great marriage is one in which each knows that he or she has as much of life as they need without being afraid to ask for more! (Doug Woodring)
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There is no love like mother’s love. It knows no envy. He who has experienced it never thirsts. The world is full of loving hearts: but there is one fount of love that flows over all the rest and is inexhaustible. It is the love between mother and child. (Hiram Ward)It’s true; it’s the best type of love; ’tis that which God intended from the beginning. (Paine Wallace)
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The one thing we can do to ensure a happy marriage is to be ready for each new season, smiling, hopeful and open to learning from each day…
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Marriage is an old-fashioned word meaning two people in love with each other and that’s how we want to keep it.
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It’s said that a happy marriage takes work. So work at it. Don’t let the “two of us” get lost.
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Marriage is just another word for partnership, the partnership you choose to live out of together and make it your own.
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The secret of a happy marriage seems to be more in what a husband and wife expect from each other, than in what they actually get.
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Marriage is a partnership of two worlds, each half as wide as the whole universe. When two come together they help make one world and because they are two halves of one whole they fit together perfectly.
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