Ruby Wedding Anniversary Ideas 

The ruby anniversary denotes 40 years of marriage.

The ruby is a symbol of passion and fire, the excitement of spending so much time with the one you love.

It’s a real achievement to make it that long and have a wonderful marriage that is still full of spice and lots of love.

Ruby red is a great color and can be a theme that ties things together, plus it works for both men and women. Red is the universal color of love and romance, think Valentine’s Day but it works for your anniversary no matter when it is in the year.  

Celebrating your Fortieth Anniversary with a Party

A fortieth wedding anniversary should be celebrated with lots of red décor and sweet treats to warm the tummy and heart at the same time.

It is a celebration of great times and one you will most likely want to share with those you love.

You may be saving the big party with everyone you know for your fiftieth anniversary so your fortieth can be more laid back.

Just the Two of Us

Here are some great ideas for ways to celebrate this very special day together.  

Relive the proposal night 

Remember the night you proposed or the night you were proposed to? Relive that night. Go back to the same place and do everything like you did the first time. Don’t remember all the details? Make them up as you go and try to piece things together.

You’ll get a good laugh out of it and the memories will come flooding back about how you felt in that moment, what happened afterward and so on. The night will make you feel like young kids again.  

Have a family dinner 

Invite the family over, your kids, grandkids and parents and have a nice family dinner together. It should feel like old times with everyone gathered around the table talking about their days and weeks.

Then you can turn it into a game night and play with the grandkids or teach them some old card games and such. Or sit back and watch a movie as a family and pop some good old popcorn to munch on as you laugh or cry.  

Relight the fire and share some romance 

Even after forty years together you can ignite the passion and have a romantic evening together.

Make a bubble bath with wine and rose petals after a nice dinner by candlelight and dim lighting. Even finish up the night with some loving romance such as an erotic massage and bedtime together in sexy lingerie or nothing at all.  

Go back through your special memories together 

Have lots of home videos and photos? Sit back and look at all your photo albums together. You can take a stroll down memory lane and remember things together. One of you may not recall something and the other will fill in the blanks.

Or watch your home videos and see your wedding day from an outsider’s perspective or relive the days your kids walked for the first time and hit a home run in little league.

You can laugh and cry as you look back and think about all the great times still ahead of you.