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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 Herasmus B. Dragon on
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Our first date was October 5, though it wasn't much of a date, we watched the Mummy and stayed up.all night talking. We'd been friends before that. It is coincidentally the same day we did somehing else. We're both sluts.
Wedding anniversary is June 26, which was decided because we were trying to find an open day between Hubby's sister leaving for Cuba and his best friend coming back from the UK. Tuesday happened to be the only day our church had an opening that week.
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Permalink Reply by jenra on -
We don't really celebrate much... We tend to get a sitter and go out on our anniversary weekend, but we don't celebrate the anniversary of the start of the relationship or any other date. I cherish the memories of hundreds of good times we have had. Dozens of places around the city and general suburban sprawl make me smile remembering us there.
Sometimes I'll remember and make a special dinner on the anniversary of the date we moved in together, to me that was a bigger step than getting married. It was more work and by the time we got married we'd been together and lived together for years. We were already legally and financially entwined for years.
We don't do gifts except for Christmas and birthdays. Those tend to not be very big though, and never practical. When we need something practical like dishes or silverware or a computer we just buy it.
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Permalink Reply by Jersey on -
The date we officially started dating (April Fools Day) is very important to both of us and we both always remember it and send each other texts/phone calls/e-mails or whatever to let the other one know that we remember and we usually end up reminiscing/joking about that time of our lives. We've been "officially" together for 16 years, we were friends in high school, and have known each other since we were 5. So we have a lot to reminisce about.
Our wedding anniversary (celebrated 11 years this year) is usually just acknowledged by wishing each other a happy anniversary and we give each other cards. If we have the money and can swing getting a babysitter we'll usually try to go out for dinner. We don't do gifts for anything other than Christmas and birthdays.
I'm hoping that in a few years we'll be able to take a nice trip together to celebrate either 20 years together or 15 years married. We'll see how that works out.
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Permalink Reply by StitchyWench on -
We know when both are but we only celebrate our wedding. They are only a few weeks apart so that makes sense.
This year will be 13 years of marriage and I'm celebrating with a long weekend up at WASU with my sis and dad. It's dads weekend and my sisters first year of college, and she really wants us there. The Husband is very sweet and understanding!
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Permalink Reply by Gumbo Momma on -
This past July marked our 5th wedding anniversary. We usually always celebrate it, though how depends on how life is going is for that month every year. Our first anniversary we took our honeymoon since we didn't get one after the wedding. After that though, we've mostly just celebrated with a nice evening out for dinner and maybe a movie or something along those lines. We wanted to do something more for our fifth, like a mini-vacation or something, but didn't get to because of the pregnancy complications we've had so far this round. I just wasn't comfortable with leaving town for any length of time. We generally remember our date-a-versary, but don't really celebrate it other than just taking a trip down memory lane. We've never really done gifts by the list, just generally cards and flowers, that kind of thing.
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Permalink Reply by SweetJudyB on -
We'll attempt to make an effort to go out to a dinner to a place with cloth napkins for our wedding anniversary. I still keep track our our "meeting" (easy 7/7), and our "other" wedding on new year's day (that last one's a secret).
And I only remember because every new year I go through and put all the birthdays/anniversaries on the calendar...
I never got into "the list" and don't know many people who do. I did attempt to come up with a similar list for kid's birthdays. Year 1- board books Year 2- bubbles Year 3- drum set....whad'dya think?
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Permalink Reply by Joe Mama on -
PF and I celebrate our wedding anniversary every year, but we were smart enough to put it on New Year's Eve so its not hard to remember (number 16 coming up...holy crap!)
I am fond of the first "I think I love you" since it was on a Friday the 13th, but only make any sort of deal about it on the multiples of 5 or if it actually lands on a Friday (I just checked, this year its a Saturday and will only mark year 23 ... cripes, he's been around for a long time!)
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Permalink Reply by rommie on -
Neither, really. I've been gone for every wedding anniversary since our first, and frankly, our wedding was an utter disaster anyway. We would have celebrated our 5th last Friday.
I rarely get gifts of any sort and haven't since we were dating. I stopped making or buying special gifts when I realized he didn't really care or appreciate the work that went into them. J bought me new chucks this year as a surprise, though, which was cool and very unexpected.
Guess that means we don't really follow the list, either.
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