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s/o dating anniversary

Do you really still celebrate your dating anniversary after you are married?

DH and I never did celebrate a dating anniversary, so maybe I am biased. To be honest, I don't even have a particular date that I consider our dating anniversary. Does this make me a weirdo? 

 

I agree with everything that muddled said. You should listen to her. -ESDReturns

Re: s/o dating anniversary

  • Ohhh Muddled, can you predict the future? Tomorrow night we're celebrating our first date! It was really January 30th, but having margaritas on Monday night sounds like a bad idea. Plus our first date was on a Friday! We kept meeting up for weeks before our first date in our apartment gym, so technically, that was the first time we "went out" outside of the gym.

    I'm not sure whether we'll still celebrate once we're married, but hey it's a night that's special to me at least so it'll be hard to forget.

  • We do, but sometimes it's more of just recognizing it and then using that as an excuse to go out to eat or have a bottle of champagne. But we'll do the same things just because it's Friday sometimes. Any excuse to have fun/celebrate/makeout a little bit more. Also, our dating anniversary is really the first time we banged, since we didn't really have dates before that.
  • imageMotzie:
    Also, our dating anniversary is really the first time we banged, since we didn't really have dates before that.

    This is exactly why we don't have a dating anniversary. 

     

    I agree with everything that muddled said. You should listen to her. -ESDReturns
  • We don't celebrate it, but I know when it is and I like to recognize it in some way.  We were together for 11 years before we got married.  To "forget" our dating anniversary seems to say we should "forget" those first 11 years! 
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  • Yes, we do.  Our dating annivesary is 5/23/1998 and we celebrate it.  We never do anything crazy.  We'll go to dinner and get each other card (and maybe a little gift).
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  • Nah, I don't think it makes you weird at all. 

    Our first date was the first Friday in February, so about 6 months in I looked back at the calendar for the exact day, and we are just kind of ridiculous people and make sappy eyes at each other every month on that day. I told him I know it's probably weird to call the first date our anniversary, but I was off the market by the end of the first date, and he was all, I was off the market before we ever went on the date (we have a long, ridiculous back story). Heh. Once it's been a year though I don't think we'll be quite as ridiculous. 

    If we get married, then no, I don't think we'll continue to celebrate a dating anniversary.  

  • Not uncommon, but weird anyway.
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  • Nah.

    Our first date was actually H's birthday, so we just celebrate his birthday. He didn't tell me it was his birthday until a few days after. I was a little bummed... I would have embarrassed the schit out of him all night long.

    Oh, and we got married exactly one year after H proposed (11/10/06 engaged, 11/10/07 married).

    And just to throw in more weirdness... our first date was along a river (waterfront restaurant with a deck out over the water), got engaged on the shores of the Chesapeake bay in MD, got married on a beach of the Pacific Ocean, and had DS in a hospital butted up on the shore of the same river where we had our first date.

    Apparently we have a thing with water and shared anniversary dates.

  • We celebrate our first date anniversary. It was 09/15/2007. We usually make a special dinner at home and get a little gift. Since our birthdays are 12 days apart right before Christmas and our marriage anniversary is six months later, it's nice to have another something to celebrate at a different time of year.
  • I don't know my dating anniversary with BF.  We went out on either a Tuesday or Wednesday.  I think.  It definitely wasn't a Thursday.  Hmmm.  

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  • We started "officially" dating around mid-February, so we use Valentine's Day as our dating anniversary.

    We don't do gifts, but we like to go out and enjoy ourselves.

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  • imageEastCoastBride:
    We don't celebrate it, but I know when it is and I like to recognize it in some way.  We were together for 11 years before we got married.  To "forget" our dating anniversary seems to say we should "forget" those first 11 years! 

    I feel the same way, we were together for five years before we got married, so 8 years total on Feb 21st.  I feel like those years were harder work than the married ones, I put effort into those years, they have to count somehow!

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  • We are more likely to celebrate our dating anniversary than VD in any given February, but that doesn't actually mean we are all that likely to celebrate it.  We celebrated it half the years before we got married, and have celebrated it somewhat less since getting married.  Really all depends on what else is going on and if one of us is looking for as excuse for something fun.  DH has been known to get me gifts for an "X and 3/4 wedding anniversary" (twice in 6 years), so while you certainly don't need an excuse to do something fun, normally we can come up with one when we want to...
  • Nope. But I usually think to myself around that date, "oh, we've been together X years now!". Also, we celebrate our engagement anniversary, but that's just because it's Feb 13th and it makes for a less crowded Valentine's day dinner.
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  • We normally go out to dinner.  No presents or anything. We also celebrate the anniversary of the first time we had sex. Honestly, we look for any reason to celebrate.  We'll celebrate the full moon just because it's there. 

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  • I feel like this might be partially because of my post in the VD thread. This is our first married Valentine's Day but I assume Feb 18th will always be important to us. We celebrated it 11 times before getting married. It's infinitely more important to me than Valentine's Day and no one side eyes you for celebrating that with any SO you have at that moment.
  • We celebrated the date that we met by getting married, so that took care of that problem. I remembered the date because we met at my best friend's birthday party.

    I have no idea even what month we made it official in.

  • Our dating/wedding anniversary is the same day.
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  • We don't purposely celebrate it, but our first date was at a county fair and we go to that fair every year. Since the fair is only around for a little over a week and at the same time each year, the odds are pretty good that we will go either on or close to our dating anniversary.  We do speak of our first date when we go. We had a good time, so why not?

     

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  • Ours are the same. DH wanted to get married on our dating anniversary so he wouldn't have to remember both.  Lol.
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  • Our first date was on Valentine's Day. I don't know if we would celebrate it otherwise.
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