10 year wedding anniversary....

[Desnik]

This July will be my 10 year wedding anniversary with DH. Originally we had wanted to renew our vows at WDW(where we honeymooned). Well, that can't happen because of a lot of reasons. So, we would still like to celebrate in a special way, just the 2 of us. What did you do for your 10 year anniversary or what do you plan to do? Any suggestions? We have 2 young kids, my mom would watch them if she "had to" for a few days.

 

[Crankyshank]

We're going to Europe for ours We don't have kids though

 

[mickeyboat]

We did not make any big plans, but we ended up going to Las Vegas for my father's wedding, and used that trip as a celebration of our 10th.

We had a lot of fun, although we are not huge fans of Vegas.

We left our two small kids (almost 2 and almost 3 at the time) with my in-laws. They all had a great time, even though MIL was not feeling well. The kids went to day care during the day, and they only had to take care of them in the evenings and mornings. MIL passed away 3 months later, and FIL has always said that he was so thankful they had that great time with the kids before she passed.

I hope you find something fun to do. We are celebrating our 15th this year, and I would like to find something to do, but we are having a tough time coming up with something.

Denae

 

[Patsfan7]

I am in the same boat!!! Exactly... except I didn't honeymoon in WDW. We always said we would do the vow renewal on the ten year. We didn't have a WDW wedding, because DH's cousin had one eight months before our wedding, and we couldn't put the family in a position for another destination wedding. I also have two little ones. Our 10yr is 8/31. I don't have a plan as to what to do yet, but I lost my engagement ring a couple of years ago, and gave him until the 10yr mark for a replacement... so, hopefully that will be the special thing we do.

I would love to do a Disney cruise. I don't know how old your little ones are, but if you did a cruise, they may be old enough to go to the kids spot while you guys have some time alone, and then your mom wouldn't have to watch them, and you wouldn't really have to worry while you were away, because you wouldn't be too far away. (like in another state or country if you took a vacation by yourselves) My lyoungest is too young to leave on the cruise... but we hope to go as soon as he is old enough.

Good luck, and I will keep an eye on the responses for good ideas!

 

[Desnik]

DD is 9 and DS is turning 4 next month. Our anniversary is July 21st. I couldn't do anything "Disney" without them! We go there a lot as DVC'ers and I would love to do the cruise with them, but not for our anniversary. We kinda want something romantic and special because we really don't go anywhere or do much without our kids. I really am having a hard time coming up with something.
Thanks for the responses!

 

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

We're renewing our vows at WDW for our 5 yr, since we got married there and this timeDH is planning everything!

I agree with you, i could never do anything without our kids. Why don't you all go on a Disney Cruise together? you can renew your vows there too!

How about renewing your vows at some cute little hideaway? The place you met? somewhere you've always wanted to go that's only a few miles away?? and involve your children! we are going to involve ours! You can make anything romantic!!! You could even renew at a small banquet hall and have friends and family there if you would like and have a Disney theme

 

[KTSMOM]

Our 10 year anniversary is in April. Right now we are considering a non Disney cruise. We honeymooned at Disney at the Wilderness Lodge and I have suggested to my DH that we go and stay there for a long weekend but not really go to the parks, or just do Epcot (I can go there without my DD and not feel guilty since it's more a grown up park).

 

[luvmy2sams]

DH & I spent 6 days at WDW for our 10th anniversary, so I'm no help.

What about a nice little bed & breakfast getaway?

 

[MareQ]

Dh took me on a cruise for our 10 year

 

[It's A Happy Day]

This July will be my 10 year wedding anniversary with DH. Originally we had wanted to renew our vows at WDW(where we honeymooned). Well, that can't happen because of a lot of reasons. So, we would still like to celebrate in a special way, just the 2 of us. What did you do for your 10 year anniversary or what do you plan to do? Any suggestions? We have 2 young kids, my mom would watch them if she "had to" for a few days.

1st thought was a B&B for a little R&R - which someone else has posted. Then I tried to think of other things and came up with the reverse....get a "nice" hotel room - think expensive - that you wouldn't necessarily do. Somewhere with a spa, nice restaurant, mints on the pillows kind of place. Have flowers delivered to the room - or check in earlier w/o DH for "setup" - bring flowers, champagne, special glasses (things remembered or your original toasting glasses if you have them), scatter rose petals, etc. Spend the night (this way mom only has them 1 night), have a nice meal in the restaurant or 1 nearby or even get rooom service Sometimes it's just nice to be "adults" for an evening instead of hearing mommy 15x in 3 minutes. Your location says NY (not sure where), what about finding somewhere in NYC that has a good location/view that you could do some type of 4th July celebration and watch the fireworks out the windows of your hotel room? You might have to celebrate early/late but it would be memorable!

ETA: Other ideas....replay your 1st date, the night he proposed.

 

[Sonya]

Well we had wanted to go to WDW on ours, that is where we homeymooned, but me being pregnant with twins really didn't make that work. So I thought we would go to a B&B or a hotel for the weekend but that didn't happen either. (We got married Dec 21st and it was too close to Christmas)

We went to the melting pot for dinner, and I get a diamond ring! (that I picked out and bought )

 

[beattyfamily]

We went to Paris for 5 days and, of course, visited Disneyland Paris for one day. We brought our then 2 and 5 year old DDs with us though and still had a great time.

 

[Desnik]

Thanks for the ideas!
DH and I met at the Gap in a local mall and worked together before finally dating! So, can't really rekindle that moment. Our first date was at a restaurant that no longer exists and he proposed in our apartment we lived in years ago! We got married at the town court house because I was pregnant and didn't want a big wedding. We moved in together after dating for just 2 months and married after 3 years of dating. Feb 6th was the anniversary of our first date 13 years ago! We really wanted the vow renewal at WDW because we didn't have the big wedding. That was my choice but I know DH always wanted that.

DisneyMommyMichelle
I think you misunderstood. We do everything with our kids so for this ocassion if we didn't do the vow renewal we want to keep it a celebration for just the 2 of us. I meant that I could never do any type of Disney trip without the kids. We really need to do something without them. We don't ever get time alone.

It's A Happy Day
We do live about and hour and a half north of the city so we could easily do something in Manhattan. Thanks for the great ideas!

 

[Evil Genius]

I would look into vow renewals in Vegas. You can do one at the top of the "eiffel tower" at the Paris resort. You can book for sunset or in the evening if you want. The view is spectacular. They also give you a discount on a very nice room. You can also renew your vows at the Bellagio. They have different packages and I think one of the choices is that you can have your renewal in the beautiful atrium surrounded by plants and flowers.

 

[PatriciaH]

We wanted to go to Europe or the 11 night Disney Wonder Southern Caribbean cruise, but went to Playa del Carmen, Mexico instead (much less $$$$$$$$$.) Then after Mexico was paid for I got an offer (Travel Agent) for the 11 night cruise for a rate of $275!!! We had a great time in Mexico but I wish that DCL offer came sooner I wish we could have afforded a Disney vow renewal too. Oh well maybe for our 15th!

 

[Sleeping~Beauty]

This July is my tenth anniversary, also. I can't believe it's been ten years for us! So far we have two children. My MIL offered to let us go to Las Vegas all paid, but we didn't want to leave the kids (ages 4 and 2.5), so she is sending us to Disney World! I have a really good MIL.

 

[tw1nsmom]

Some Ideas:

-take a cruise out of NYC... they have Bermuda and Canadian cruises, some for as little s 4 days.

-Spend a night in NYC at a really nice hotel, get dressed up, go to the theater, dinner, Dancing

-Friends Lake Inn in Chestertown, NY is a lovely inn with gourmet food and a stellar wine list. (we spent our wedding night there).

-Montreal...it might give you the flavor of Paris on a short trip (you said your parent were only willing to watch the kids for a few days)



We'll be making the same decision next year. This year will be our 9th anniversary.

 

[NCDisneyMom]

Our 10-year is at the end of March. We had said we'd do the vow renewal at WDW (we also honeymooned at the WL, like a pp did!), but that's just not in the cards this year. So, for now, we don't have anything at all planned.

I have been wanting a nice ring with both of my kids' birthstones (which happen to be Diamond and Saphire, which look really nice together), so maybe we'll go shopping for our anniversary.

 

[camreesmom]

I would look into vow renewals in Vegas. You can do one at the top of the "eiffel tower" at the Paris resort. You can book for sunset or in the evening if you want. The view is spectacular. They also give you a discount on a very nice room. You can also renew your vows at the Bellagio. They have different packages and I think one of the choices is that you can have your renewal in the beautiful atrium surrounded by plants and flowers.

This year is our 10 year anniversary also (December). We want to renew our vows somewhere nice since we just went to the minister's office by ourselves when we got married. This sounds really nice. Off to check it out......

 

[mrsg00fy]

We went to WDW and splurged to stay at the Contemporary Tower...we took our two sons who were very young. There are lots of different philosphies on this...but for us, we would not even have considered going on any vacation without our kids. We had a blast.