What to write inside a Golden Wedding Anniversary card

By Photobox on 19 August 2025

It’s a fact: celebrating a golden wedding anniversary is something that doesn’t happen every day. If you’re going to be celebrating one soon, we know it must be a very important occasion for you, your family, and friends.

That’s why we want to help you create the best personalised gifts to mark this incredible milestone, whether it’s a heartfelt photo book, a meaningful card, or a beautifully crafted wooden photo block.

To inspire you, we’ve rounded up some of the best phrases and sentiments you can include in your golden wedding anniversary gifts. Take notes, these words are made to be remembered.

Funny Phrases for Golden Wedding Gifts

Using humorous phrases in your golden wedding anniversary gifts can be very fun and original, and it always brings a smile. So here are some examples that will surely inspire you to create your golden wedding gift:

  • “Marriage: The ultimate endurance sport. You win gold.”
  • “50 years: From ‘young and in love’ to ‘where are my glasses?'”
  • “I thought the sun had come out, but now I’ve realised you’ve simply smiled.”
  • “Half a century together… and still arguing over the thermostat.”

You can include these and many more phrases that come to mind, along with all those special photos that sum up those 50 years of love in a photo book, with which you’ll definitely surprise and move them.

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Golden Wedding Anniversary Phrases for Parents

If it’s your parents who are celebrating this great event, have a look at these golden wedding anniversary phrases from children to parents to move them and leave them with a great memory:

  • “An exceptional marriage doesn’t happen when a ‘perfect couple’ gets married. It happens when an ordinary couple learns to live together and love each other with their differences. Here’s to another 25 years! We love you.”
  • “Marriage is a boat that carries two people across a stormy sea; if one of the two makes a sudden move, the boat sinks. For 50 years, you’ve managed to keep the oars steady and make the journey a wonderful trip. Happy 50th Anniversary!”
  • “For 50 years, you’ve loved each other and formed a wonderful family. Thank you for being there and always being an example for us. Congratulations on your Golden Wedding Anniversary!”
  • “Love isn’t about counting the years, but about making the years count. You’ve achieved it, and your children and grandchildren are very proud. Happy 50th Wedding Anniversary!”
  • “All these years of marriage and happiness are a worthy example for us. Thank you very much for raising and protecting us. Happy Anniversary!”
  • “As a child, I aspired to be strong and patient like my parents. Today my greatest aspiration is to be able to give as much love as I received and to be as good a husband to my wife as my parents have been to each other.”

As children, it’s an honour to celebrate your parents’ golden wedding anniversary, so we recommend you get them a unique 50th-anniversary gift like a Premium Layflat Album with the best moments of their 50 years, which you can make with the photos you have on your mobile.

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Phrases for Friends’ Golden Wedding Anniversary

If you’ve been able to witness your friends’ love story up close and enjoy so many years together with them, what better way to dedicate some special words and wish them all the best with a unique golden wedding anniversary card:

  • “We want to express our joy at having witnessed your love all these years, and we wish you health to enjoy many more years of joy, friendship, and great moments.”
  • “I don’t know how you’ve managed to love each other like this for so many years, but just in case, if I’m in time, give me the recipe. As the great friends you are, I hope you enjoy many more years of love and tenderness.”
  • “You’re still just as cheerful, kind, and romantic as when we were all young and you met. Never lose that spirit of youth that makes you so unique and special. Congratulations! On this special day when you’re celebrating your Golden Wedding Anniversary. Fifty years of marriage doesn’t happen every day. You’re a true example for everyone.”
  • “May love always live between you, and keep the magic formula under lock and key. I wish you many more years of happiness, friends, and enjoy this very special day.”
  • “Celebrating your friends’ 50th wedding anniversary means much more than celebrating the union of two people; it’s recognition of a lifetime of dedication and love for others.”
  • “For 50 years, you’ve loved each other and formed a wonderful family. Thank you for being there and always being an example for us. Congratulations on your Golden Wedding Anniversary!”

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Emotional Phrases for Golden Wedding Gifts

Whatever phrase you use, it will undoubtedly make your partner transport back to a special moment lived with you throughout all these years. You can opt for a long sentiment or a short and simple phrase. What’s important is that it’s a sincere message and that you express from the heart how you feel and how special it is to share your life alongside that person.

Here are some phrases and sentiments for golden wedding anniversaries that will surely help you find inspiration:

  • “There’s absolutely nothing I can wish for you since we’ve achieved everything together: we managed to find love and keep that flame alive for a long time; we managed to live together, supporting and loving each other every moment; we managed to overcome all the adversities and obstacles that stood in our way. The only thing I can wish for you is that this love continues to shine and that it stays healthy and strong forever.”
  • “Today I can be calmly happy to celebrate. To celebrate the victories and the defeats. The sorrows and the joys. I can celebrate each and every moment when we disagreed and the moments when we met. Today is the perfect day to celebrate everything we were and what we are: both the same soul, the same heart, the same story, an inseparable love.”
  • “Today is a truly special day for us: I’m seeing before me the purest and most lasting love I’ve seen in my life. Together we’ve enjoyed incredible and special moments, in the same way that we’ve faced the challenges and overcome the adversities. All our experiences strengthened our union, our marriage, bringing us closer and closer. Congratulations, I love you!”
  • “Gold isn’t only one of the strongest and most precious metals but one of the most brilliant, beautiful, and elegant metals. That’s how the love I still feel for you is after fifty years sharing by your side – that lasting, strong, wonderful, and special love. With you, I knew and found what it feels like to truly love someone. Congratulations on all these years together!”
  • “In these 50 years that we’ve spent together, I’ve learned that life has beautiful, wonderful things that deserve to be enjoyed. I’m happy to have been able to live them with you, and I want to tell you that I love you with all my heart.”
  • “Our marriage is like good wine, maturing and improving as the years go by. Let’s toast to many more years together. Happy 50th anniversary!”
  • “For being the light that illuminates my life, for always supporting me in any situation, and being the first smile when I wake up. For all this and much more: I love you. Happy Anniversary!”
  • “True love doesn’t have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Here’s to another 50 years of being married!”

Surprise your partner with an acrylic block with a recent photo of the two of you. One of the most original golden wedding anniversary gifts to celebrate your special day and keep a good memory.

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