---
title: 'Anniversary party invitations'
description: 'Send an anniversary party invitation as one link. Six designs, replies collected, nothing printed.'
source: 'https://envelope.love/anniversary-invitations'
occasion: 'Anniversary'
price: '$100'
---

# Anniversary party invitations.

A tenth, a fiftieth, or any year worth filling a room for. One link out, and the numbers come back on their own.

This is the plain markdown copy of https://envelope.love/anniversary-invitations, published by Love Envelope for machine readers. The page itself carries the same words.

A milestone anniversary is the one occasion here that somebody else usually organises. Grown up children book the room, write the invitation and chase the replies, on behalf of two people who would not have made a fuss themselves.

That changes what the invitation has to do. It is written by the hosts about the couple rather than by the couple about themselves, and it goes to a guest list spanning four generations, some of whom will read it on a phone held at arm's length.

One link handles all of that. It resizes itself to whatever it is opened on, it can be forwarded by anybody to anybody, and every reply lands in one place instead of across three phones belonging to three siblings.

## What an anniversary invitation has to handle.

A number, a host line that is not the couple, and the widest guest list of any occasion on this site.

- **The number is the headline.** Fifty years is the entire reason for the party, so it belongs at the top of the invitation in the largest thing on it. Not in a line of small print underneath the address.
- **The children are often hosting.** Say so plainly. "Their children invite you" tells a guest whose party it is and, just as usefully, who to reply to and who to ring if they are running late.
- **Four generations on one guest list.** Some of them are on a laptop and some on a phone at arm's length. A page that sets its own size is the only format that suits both, and it saves anybody having to read a card out over the telephone.
- **Presents, and what to ask for instead.** A couple married fifty years needs nothing at all. Asking for no gifts, or naming something worth giving to, is the line guests are most grateful for and the one most often left off.

## One that works.

Written by the hosts, which is who usually sends this one.

> Fifty years ago
> John and Mary Ellis were married.
> Their children invite you to lunch to mark it
> Sunday the nineteenth of July at one o'clock
> The Bell, Sandford
> Your company is the present.

## Six to choose from.

- **Atelier.** Ink set enormous down the middle, one pressed stem in the corner. Live sample: https://envelope.love/i/atelier
- **Noir.** A hairline frame with the date cut into the rule. Parts down the middle. Live sample: https://envelope.love/i/noir
- **Verdure.** Everything ranged left, foliage running the full right edge. Live sample: https://envelope.love/i/verdure
- **Poster.** No flowers at all. Names the size of a headline, ranged hard left. Live sample: https://envelope.love/i/poster
- **Arch.** A single arch holding your photograph, closing around it as it opens. Live sample: https://envelope.love/i/arch
- **Horizon.** A band of solid colour over paper, names reversed out of the dark half. Live sample: https://envelope.love/i/horizon

## Guides for this occasion

- [Anniversary party invitation wording](https://envelope.love/blog/anniversary-party-invitation-wording.md): Wording for a fortieth, a sixtieth, one thrown by the children, and a quiet one for two. Including the line that gets the older guests to reply.
- [How to ask for money instead of gifts](https://envelope.love/blog/asking-for-money-instead-of-gifts.md): Nobody wants to write this line, and every couple has to. Wording that asks plainly without sounding like an invoice.
- [Milestone anniversary invitations, from the tenth to the fiftieth](https://envelope.love/blog/milestone-anniversary-invitations.md): Who hosts, what to call it, how to word an invitation for a couple rather than from them, and what changes at each decade.

## What it costs

$100 once. No subscription. No renewal. Nothing to cancel. Publishing is free for the first 24 hours, so the invitation can be live and looked at before anything is paid.

## Questions

- **What do you write on an anniversary party invitation?** Lead with the number of years and the couple, then say who is hosting, then the date and the place. If the children are arranging it, that line should come before the detail rather than after it.
- **Which anniversaries get a party?** The tenth, twenty fifth, fortieth, fiftieth and sixtieth are the ones people gather for. Any year is a reason if there is somebody willing to organise it, and the invitation reads exactly the same.
- **How do you invite older guests who are not online?** The link opens in any browser, so most will manage it. For the few who will not, print the page or read it to them over the telephone and enter their reply yourself, which takes about ten seconds.
- **Should an anniversary invitation ask for no gifts?** Usually yes, and it is better said warmly than formally. "Your company is the present" does the whole job in five words and nobody has ever taken it badly.

## Other occasions

- [Wedding invitations](https://envelope.love/wedding-invitations.md): Design a wedding invitation online and send it as one link. Six designs, replies collected, $100 once.
- [Engagement party invitations](https://envelope.love/engagement-party-invitations.md): Send an engagement party invitation as one link. Six designs, replies collected, nothing printed.
- [Vow renewal invitations](https://envelope.love/vow-renewal-invitations.md): Send a vow renewal invitation as one link. Six designs, replies collected, nothing printed.

Start yours. Make an invitation: https://envelope.love/create