Turning sixty is a new chapter, and this card says so in gold on burgundy book cloth. A row of tiny paper book spines runs along the bottom, antique corners frame the edges, and the message sits on an ivory page with a deckled lower edge, like a title page from a favorite old novel.
It was written for a woman’s sixtieth, but it suits a retirement party, a book-club birthday or any reader’s milestone at fifty or seventy.
Host it at home or in a library’s event room. Ask each guest to bring a wrapped favorite book instead of a gift, and swap them at the end. Name the cocktails after novels, print the menu as a table of contents, and serve a cake with fondant pages. A bookmark with the date is the perfect favor.
