Nothing Says 60th Wedding Anniversary Party Better Than Diamonds!

Diamonds are forever - which is what makes them the perfect symbol for a 60th wedding anniversary. Traditionally, couples reaching their 60th wedding anniversary are given gifts of diamonds. If you're planning a 60th wedding anniversary party, your decorations can take on a diamond theme.

You can add glitter with rhinestones and crystals, and use them to dance rainbows around the hall. 60th wedding anniversary decorations can include all the previous wedding anniversaries as well - make it a gold, silver and diamond jubilee.

In 1897, Queen Victoria celebrated her own Diamond Jubilee - 60 years on the throne. If you're a British citizen marking your 60th wedding anniversary, you can apply to the British Anniversaries Office for a special greeting from the Queen to the happy couple. Just allow several weeks before the anniversary for the message to arrive. Framed, it will make the perfect centerpiece for the anniversary party table.

If neither of the 60th wedding anniversary couple is a British citizen, you can still get a special greeting for them. Contact the office of your state Senator, your Governor or even the President. Nearly any elected official will most happily acknowledge the special event with an official greeting and congratulations that will be treasured after the party.

Decorate each table for the 60th wedding anniversary with a bowl of 'diamonds'. Fill a glass bubble bowl with glittering crystals arranged in the center of a diamond of candles. To add a note of fun, make a diamond shaped piñata and hang it in the center of the hall. Fill it with 'diamond' baubles that you pick up for a few dollars each - costume jewelry earrings, necklaces, rings and bracelets. Just imagine the oohs and aahs when the piñata breaks to release a shower of diamonds!

Commission a 60th wedding anniversary ice sculpture for the center of the buffet table. There's a reason that 'ice' is a slang word for diamonds - nothing else glitters and refracts light in quite the same way. Choose a symbol of everlasting love - a pair of swans with a heart between them, perhaps, or go simple and basic with an enormous 60 in gleaming ice. Most sculptors guarantee that their creation will last up to six hours under normal room conditions.

Be playful with the 60th wedding anniversary theme. Cut the cake into diamond shaped slices, fold napkins into diamonds instead of triangles and serve puff pastry in diamond shapes. For extra glitter, sprinkle silver sparkles on the tablecloths. Use miniature white Christmas lights to create a sky full of diamonds by twining them around the edges of the room or along the sides of the head table through garlands of ivy and roses.

Give the 60th wedding anniversary couple a very special gift. Turn their party into a walk down memory lane - with a twist. Decorate the hall with icons from the year they were married, find a band that can play songs that were popular that year (special bonus if you can actually get them to play the first dance song from their wedding) and present them with a newspaper from the date of their wedding.

Even better if you can find the newspaper in which their wedding announcement appeared. Have the announcement itself enlarged and framed in a frame engraved with the dates of their marriage. The 60th wedding anniversary decorations that you choose can help make the day as memorable and lasting as their marriage has been.