Anniversary Plans?

berriesnpie

How are you celebrating your anniversary this year? E and I have started talking about our travel plans this summer and can't decide if we want to take a trip for our first anniversary or plan to celebrate at home. In either case, we're feeling very uncreative. Any thoughts on your favorite way to mark your commitment?

ctbride08

we may be heading out to Chicago for a long weekend to catch some sox games, although that would be just as much for A's 30th bday than for our anniversary (they are only 3 days apart).  Other than that I'm sure we'll do a day trip to RI because thats where our cake baker is and we may stop back at the winery where we were married to enjoy the day - and cake

Two*True

This will be 2 years for us.  We didn't do anything extra special for the 1yr anniversary.  This year we may go to San Francisco, but only because K has to head out there for a conference anyway.  Sorry - I'm not much help.

bluedaisyus

goooood question. last year we went on vacation for a week. i have no idea what we're doing this year, but we'd better get on it since we're less than a month away. if we go away it'll be a weekend trip to a cabin or something. we're going out of state for a wedding in a couple of weeks, so we might just take advantage of that and have a nice dinner out while we're there.

2brides

We just had our 6 year in March and didn't do anything really special.  We did get a babysitter and went to the Cheesecake Factory sans kids. It was nice to go out without them, but the restaurant wasn't all that special since we go there frequently and we'd spent the day at a St. Patrick's Day parade and were still kinda gross from that. How romantic!   We tend to celebrate our dating anniversary more (it'll be 9 years in July) but I don't think we will do anything special.

 I am hoping that for our 10 year, we can go away on vacation without the kids!

cookiemonster03

We're going to Alaska in July, but that's more our belated honeymoon than an anniversary trip...

thiswillbe

We wanted to take a trip, but were both very busy around our first anniversary. We ended up doing a quick, 24-hr trip to Rehoboth. I got the place that made our wedding cake to re-make our top tier (our actual top tier was served at the wedding), which Sylvia thought was neat. I also calligraphied (well, pseudo-calligraphied) the most important part of our wedding vows on fancy paper and framed it for S (get it? 1st anniversary=paper?). Good luck with whatever you decide to do!

leapgirl8

I really want to think of something special, because:

1) We never really do anything special, even though it feels like a big deal to me, and

2) This is our 5th, and

3) This is probably the last "big one" before we have kids.?

berriesnpie

Thanks for all the great ideas and stories! I've been thinking about whether the first anniversary sets the tone for future anniversaries and, if so, how to make this year particularly special (and replicable). Both E and I feel this strange pressure to set some sort of precedent this year--perhaps because our parents had very specific anniversary traditions. You all have reminded me that we can really do whatever we want, every year.  

I love the idea of revisiting a place we're connected to, especially sharing cake from the wedding again. Since we got married in St Croix, we've discussed going back for our anniversary. But although it's much cheaper than some of our other Carribbean alternatives, I think we're both a bit Croix-ed out. We spent most of 2 years of vacation time there, between planning and the actual wedding. 3 wonderful trips total. 

Since we've been feeling a little isolated in a sea of straight friends lately, we've talked about having a big qu33r anniversary and going somwhere with lots of other LGBT folks. Both Rehoboth and Provincetown sound like good ideas. Does anyone have a hotel you'd recommend staying?  We've also talked about an Olivia cruise...although neither of us are huge cruise fans.

 

ctbride08

out of the new options I vote provincetown. but that might just be because i'm in love with it - its my fave place to vacation.  no hotel recs for ya though...every summer we rent a condo so we can bring the pup along, but there are tons of options. You could stay at the inn where Janet got married

 

berriesnpie

Oh, I forgot about Janet's beautiful wedding. That's a very good idea. I was really bummed that I wasn't able to participate in the get together at that inn.