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Anniversaries
SO JTC's thread got me to thinking... I realize that now that we've gotten hitched The Companion and I have both our relationship anniversary (Dec) and our wedding Anniversary (June).
I have some questions:
Do you celebrate the anniversary of when your relationship began, your wedding anniversary, both, neither?
Do you celebrate (i.e. gifts, special outings, etc) them all or do you acknowledge some and celebrate the big ones (i.e. 5, 10, 15, etc)?
Do any of you actually give gifts according to the list?
I have some questions:
Do you celebrate the anniversary of when your relationship began, your wedding anniversary, both, neither?
Do you celebrate (i.e. gifts, special outings, etc) them all or do you acknowledge some and celebrate the big ones (i.e. 5, 10, 15, etc)?
Do any of you actually give gifts according to the list?
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Permalink Reply by hermit crab on -
Neither L nor I ever remember our wedding anniversary. I know we're at number 5 this year, but I can never remember the actual day - I do know it's sometime in early August. Similarly, I know we started dating in late spring of 2001, but I can't remember exactly when. We usually don't do anything, but I will say "happy anniversary!" if I do manage to remember which day it is.
I also don't like birthdays or holidays in general, so this is pretty par for the course for me.
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Permalink Reply by Annaevilred on -
We are really bad, I actually don't think we have ever celebrated our anniversary. I usually don't even remember until the night of, or a couple of days later. In fact we just had our 13th anniv and I rolled over about 11:30 that night, poked Doug and said "happy anniversary" to which he replied "oh fuck, that's right, oops"
I kind of did the same thing on his birthday this year but my big excuse was I broke my leg the day before so I told him happy birthday between surgeries. We'll do something when I can walk again.
And that reminds me - Brandon's birthday is next week. Crap.
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Permalink Reply by mightyninjamom on -
Once AG and I got married, we kinda forgot about our other anniversaries. We don't generally tend to do much celebrating these days since the advent of the kiddos. We sometimes do gifts - it just depends on what kind of month it has been. A couple of times I've told him that my gift to him was asking him to upgrade my computer - something he wouldn't have to put a lot of thought or time into, since it's something he could do in his sleep. He deeply appreciated that, and his geek friends all asked if I could speak to their wives about that. heh.
We keep talking about doing a big bash on one of the milestone anniversaries, but thus far, something has ALWAYS come up to prevent us from doing so.
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Permalink Reply by DLBK on -
We celebrate our wedding anniversary by going out to a nice dinner. We don't usually get each other presents, but will get a card. We celebrate our dating anniversary by talking about it and wishing each other a happy anniversary, and sometimes we remember our engagement anniversary, but not very often. It helps that they're all in October.
We've only had a 5th wedding anniversary so far and I did get a very nice ring, but it was a combination anniversary/baby (I was pregnant) present.
In theory I'd like to do something special for our 10th anniversary in 2 years. We'll see if that happens.
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Permalink Reply by Meghan on -
So far we have remembered our wedding anniversaries with "Happy Anniversary" and sometimes I get flowers and sometimes we go out to dinner. Last year (our 5th), I helped his brother's family clean out the kids room so they could put up bunk beds.
My parents gave us some cash for our first anniversary (paper), but since then we have not really done anything off the list.
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Permalink Reply by Mamawho on
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I'm terrible about remembering dates, but I can remember all of our important ones. We met on Apr 24 and had our first date on Apr 26. I had just gotten back to work from the bank when DW came in and asked me out, and I have the deposit slip. We don't do anything on those dates, but we do mention them.
We eloped on July 5th, but had a wedding on December 15. Our families wish us happy anniversary in December, but we celebrate it in July. We usually don 't do much - we packed to move this year. Our 10 year is next summer, so maybe we'll do something. Maybe we'll even take a honeymoon someday.
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Permalink Reply by ks on -
Ours is August 8, which is also my baby sister's birthday. We'll usually at least mention it, but there is almost always something else going on, so we don't do anything specifically for our anniversary, generally. Sometimes we'll go out to dinner or sometimes there will be flowers if there is nothing else. We've had two of my cousins get married on that day over the years (it's why we were in Seattle last August) and this year is my family reunion on the 7th, so we'll be driving back from WV on our 12th anniversary.
For our 10th, we had planned a trip without the kids, but that fell through because his sister scheduled her vacation for that week and we had to take his other sister's daughter. I was pissed. Instead, my mom drove 8 hours to get up here and kept the kids so we could at least have a night out. We went to dinner and a movie in Ann Arbor and then had our trip the next week. I remember complaining about it on Old Offsprung.
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Permalink Reply by Boring User Name on -
Our anniversaries are tied to political events: We started dating during the '04 election (first kiss was after one of the Kerry/Bush debates), our 1st wedding anniversary was Obama's inauguration, so we usually end up celebrating (or not celebrating on occasions) causes and forces much bigger than us.
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Permalink Reply by The Oracle on -
For our wedding anniversary (12 this year!), we usually make the same meal (or some approximation of it) that we had for our wedding, and sit together on the couch and write down all the good things that happened in our lives in the past year. This is great because I tend toward mild depression so it's a wonderful way to remember that the world is not all doom and gloom. We should actually probably do it more often. Also, every once in a while I'll come across the lists when I'm looking for a file and it's a neat little serendipitous surprise.
The anniversary of our first date is the same day, 10 years later, that the Dragon came home from the NICU. We usually at least remember and mention it, but we don't do anything particular to celebrate.
No gifts, since we have enough stuff and we're usually broke anyway.
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Permalink Reply by mcglory13 on -
Spouse and I tried to put our wedding date as close to the day of our first date as we could. Of course, neither of us could really remember when our first date was, so it was an approximation. On the plus side, this means that the same day we add another year to the tally we can do so for both simply being together and for being married. Different year counts, of course.
Whether or not we celebrate depends on what's going on. This year we bought a house, so we didn't feel like spending any more money. And then spouse decided to go play hockey and leave me alone on the couch. Not the most successful anniversary.
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Permalink Reply by MamatothaMax on -
We have The Birthiversary which has been made more awesome by the addition of Finn's birthday. His is the 22nd, mine is the 24th, Sailor's the 26th, and our anniversary is on the 27th. If all the dates weren't on top of each other I doubt we'd celebrate them to the extent that we do.
When Sailor is home we have a big dinner out and presents. This year we forgot all about our birthdays and had to be reminded cause we had just had Finn (we came home from the hospital on my 28th birthday). Next year with Finn's first b-day will over shadow the Birthiversary (as it should).
We remember our dating anniversary Sept 11 with a nice dinner at home.
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Permalink Reply by Tea on -
We usually try to get dinner out together. This year is our 20th though so we have planned a night at Stratford for a show and an overnight. We have also splurged and are treating ourselves to new dressers for our bedroom. The boys will usually make a nice dinner for us to have together as a family.
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