Your parents' anniversary: the card they don't expect
Almost nobody sends their parents an anniversary card, which is exactly why yours will be a small event. You have something no one else has — an inside view of their marriage — and the card is where that perspective belongs. Mail it ten days out.
Rule of thumb: start 10 daysahead. That's enough time to choose a card, write something real, and let the mail do its slow, charming thing.
Timing and message tips
Mail 7–10 days before the date so it arrives on or just before the day. Their anniversary probably isn't on anyone else's radar — yours may be the only card.
Write from the kid's-eye view: what their marriage taught you, a household moment you still think about. That's material only you can write.
Milestone years (25th, 30th, 40th, 50th) deserve coordination — get siblings to send cards the same week, or one card signed by all of you.
Humor about surviving each other lands well with most long-married couples; they've earned the joke.
If one parent handles the mail, address it to both by name so it's clearly for the marriage, not the mailbox-checker.
Set a recurring reminder — parents' anniversaries are the most-forgotten date in the family calendar.
Never white-knuckle this date again
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