Cheers for 50 years

A customer contacted me with a request for an anniversary card for her parents. They were soon to be celebrating their Golden Wedding (50th) anniversary. She wanted an extra large card that the couple's children could all sign. She sent me a photo of her parents on their wedding day, noting that dad's tie was silver and mum's flowers were pink. I set to work recreating it out of paper.

The 50th wedding anniversary is known as the "golden anniversary". The historic origins of wedding anniversaries date back to the Holy Roman Empire, when husbands crowned their wives with a silver wreath, garland or necklace on their 25th anniversary, and a gold wreath on the 50th.
I created a card with a big gold 50 on it and added a golden background as well. The couple apparently met at UCL (University College London), so I added the university's logo to the card.

My customer told me that she and her siblings loved it!

Around the same time another customer contacted me with a similar request. Her parents were also celebrating 50 years of marriage. She asked me to create a card showing her parents as they are today. They live in Bournemouth, a coastal resort town on the south coast of England, so she wanted a seaside background for the card and sent me the photo she thought I could use.

I created her blonde haired mum and bespectacled dad, adding a big gold number 50 to the card and some gold hearts.

"My parents LOVED their card! Thanks so so much!" their daughter wrote to me, forwarding her mum's delighted message; "I'm overwhelmed at how she captured us so perfectly".

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