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What anniversaries are you going to celebrate?
So tomorrow is mine and J's 5 year anniversary. I wanted to celebrate. Well, not go all crazy, but just have a nice dinner together or a movie date or something that's just us at some point this weekend. J wants to go to a hunting expo all weekend. blah!
I had a training about 5 months ago and the guy doing the training was saying how he had been married 40 years and his secret was to celebrate everything. (I don't want to go this far). But he said they still celebrate the date of their first official date, their first kiss, their "dating" anniversary (or once they became officially together), their wedding anniversary and some others I can't remember.
here's how my conversation with josh went:
Me: "So can we have a "date" with just us this weekend since it's our 5 year anniversary on friday?"
J: "I'm going to the hunting expo. And, it's not our anniversary. Our anniversary is in September now."
Me: "people celebrate different anniversaries all the time. I'd still like to do something for our "dating" anniversary. It's important to me."
J: "People don't do that. That's stupid. once you get married, that's all you celebrate."
So, what do you guys celebrate? What do you plan on celebrating?
Re: What anniversaries are you going to celebrate?
We've never celebrated a dating anniversary...we sort of "evolved." We've been friends since we were 13, so the transition to dating at age 25 was a blurry one.
We take note of the day: "oh a year ago today we got engaged and made settlement on our house" or "today we're married six months" (for which I got flowers, +1 to MFD), but we'll only really acknowledge and celebrate our wedding anniversary.
We did celebrate our 6 mo wedding anniversary but that was a once & done thing.
Our dating anniversary is 4 days after K's birthday, so I kind of doubt we'll continue celebrating that. We didn't even do it last year because we had our bowling picnic that day and I was heading out of town the next.
I could not even tell you dates for first kiss, 'official coupledom' or the like, so there is no way K would remember.
BUT, we do make a big deal out of each other's birthdays, go out for V-Day and just have random date nights here and there where it's just us, we go out for dinner & a movie or whatever and try to focus on each other rather than all the day-to-day crap that seems to get in the way on a regular basis.
We were never big into celebrating anniversaries, even our dating one. Alot of times it just so happened to fall around something big we had already planned or we would go to dinner, nothing fancy I'm taking like Applebee's and than just casually mention of we have been dating x amount of years.
We definitley don't celebrate, kiss, offical, engaged ect.
We will celebrate our wedding anniversary. I know we are going away this year and going out to dinner probably on the actual day to our new favorite fancy restaurant Berns.
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We're planning a long vacation in Mexico for our 1-year wedding anniversary. We were both sick on our honeymoon, so we're using it as our excuse.
That said, our dating anniversary is only 5 days before the wedding anniversary. We'll probably mention it, and maybe make a special toast/dessert or something, but since it's so close we probably won't do anything big anymore. If it fell at some other time of the year, I would be expecting DH to take me to a nice dinner (and he knows it).
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We couldn't remember our official dating anniversary, like Steph, ours just evolved. We picked a random date in October b/c we went to a concert together and was the mostest fun ever. So we would use that date in Oct as our dating anni and usually just go to dinner.
From now on, we'll juse use our wedding anniversary and we're hoping to take a trip or at least a mountain weekend getaway.
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We celebrate:
March 13th- our dating anniversary 12 years and also our engageaversary
September 19th- our 1 year anniversary.
I don't think we did anything for our 6 month.
we're not huge into celebrating things either...when we were dating we'd celebrate our "dating anniversary" on the day we decided that we were official i guess you would call it "not wanting to see anyone else" kinda thing. so i think it'd be nice to still go out to dinner on that date, but im not going to expect flowers and the whole shebang. for our wedding anniversary id like it to be more special though.