Anniversaries-do anything special or not

[sunlver]

This is a spin-off on the post about birthdays, and do we do anything special for ourselves for our birthdays, and then a spin-off on the post about the lady who was cancelled the cruise etc..

Do you do anything special for your anniversary? Do you(the females)always have to make the plans, or do the husbands every come up with anything.

And...if the wives dont make plans, would the husbands just kind of forget about it?
Just curious

 

[harleyquinn]

Well DH and I both totally forgot last year. It was great. We talked early in the week and decided to go out to dinner (It was our 4 year and on a Thursday). The actual day came and we didn't remember until his grandma stopped by with a gift for us! We had a good laugh, ditched the HORRIBLE dinner experiment we had made and went out.

I would love to do something special this year, but I'll be 8 months preggers, so dinner will be about it.

Basically if/when we ever do something special, it will be all me planning, but I do all the planning for all of trips, so that's no biggie.

 

[PatriciaH]

We often take a trip around our anniversary (10/20.) If we are home, we usually go to the spa and a nice dinner out. We plan together. DH often gets flowers or a gift on his own.

Some I remember:
1 year-Cancun
5 years-Beaches Turks and Caicos
10 years-Playa del Carmen, Mexico
12 years-Europe

 

[NMAmy]

My birthday and anniversary are the same day so DH only has to remember one day and he always does a great job.

 

[ez]

oue anniversary always falls around thanksgiving so it usually seems to take a back seat to whatever else is going on. This year will be our 25th though, and we are already trying to figure out what we can do that would be really special (Lord knows I deserve it!) For one thing we are getting our rings redone.

 

[jsmith]

it has depended on finances and things like the need for baby sitting in the past-when we were very young or had young children we usually made a nice meal at home-or just went out for a simple dinner. With age and wisedom have also come better finances so now its usually a weekend away. We have done something really nice for the 5 year points-really nice dinner which was a financial stretch for 5, weekend away for 10 and 15, two weeks in hawaii for 20 and 25. Also at 20 and 25 we had known we would be spending 21 and will be spending 26 apart so we worked to make those extra special. We make those decisions as a couple and plan together.

 

[dhcoffey]

Well, today's my anniversary, 19 years, and no, don't have anything planned. Too busy with work and kids this year. My oldest starts driver's education this afternoon and won't be done until 7:45 and my youngest has tumbling from 5:00 to 6:00 and I'm still at work waiting on a jury to come back with a verdict. Maybe next year!

Heather

 

[jodifla]

This is a spin-off on the post about birthdays, and do we do anything special for ourselves for our birthdays, and then a spin-off on the post about the lady who was cancelled the cruise etc..

Do you do anything special for your anniversary? Do you(the females)always have to make the plans, or do the husbands every come up with anything.

And...if the wives dont make plans, would the husbands just kind of forget about it?
Just curious

Yes!!!! We almost always go away for at least a night. Last year, it was Chicago...this year, likely a lodge in the wilderness for a wild game dinner and a horse-drawn sleigh ride.

Our marriage is a priority....we make time for it and each other. It will be 21 years at the end of the month.

 

[staley7580]

Ummmm... we havent done anything exciting for any of ours. So far.. But we have only been married four years. This year we both totally forgot, until about 2 weeks after the fact. BUT.. We had just found out we were expecting twins, so our minds were in other places.

 

[PrincessSuzanne]

We usually take our trip to Disney in Dec and it is our Anniversary/Christmas present to each other, even though I usually pay for everything and do all the planning.

We do ususally get each other a small gift of some kind, maybe a CD, DVD, new purse, jewelry and go out to dinner close to the day, since I work at night.

My husband has to be pushed to do something for me no matter what the holiday, so that is no fun. I still haven't gotten a Christmas present for 2008. Mom always took DH to buy my birthday or Christmas gift, but she passed away in Aug, so I guess I will have to start buying myself something

Suzanne

 

[Binnie]

We have 2 anniversaries (we got married and then had a family wedding), which are 3 months apart, with Valentine's Day and DH's birthday in between. This year, we're ignoring them all and going to Disney instead.

It's the best idea we've ever had!

Otherwise, we both struggle with trying to do something, and we end up doing nothing other than going out to dinner on each of the nights. Whoopee.

DH is very good and putting off planning anything, so if anythign does get planned, it's almost always me. He does sometimes pick up flowers for me on his way home, but that's about the extent of his planning....

 

[redshoes]

We usually do dinner out, sometimes with the kids and sometimes without. We don't typically go away because we still have younger kids at home and it's hard enough to find a babysitter for dinner out. In the ten years we have been married, I would say we have celebrated our anniversary about half of those times.

 

[crz4mm2]

We used to go out for a nice meal.... then work got in the way.
We still go out to eat (some of the time) depending upon work schedule.

This year we are going on a CRUISE!!!! it is our 30th.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Our anniversary is Dec. 21st.

We have gone out to dinners in the past, eh. Now if he took me to a 5 star that might be something cool.

My hope is to go to VEGAS or some destination for our 20th which will be 2010. So dang it, we are going to plan something for that anniversary!

 

[minniecarousel]

Since we celebrate #34 this year, we've had a lot of Anniversaries! Some years, we went away for a weekend, some years just out to dinner. While it's a fact that I do most of the planning around here, we'll usually talk about what we want to do for an Anniversary. We laughed one year: we went out for a nice dinner, but then got home and had to haul the garbage cans to the curb!

 

[Cool-Beans]

Some things I'm just not girly about. This is one of them.

DH and I both kind of figured when we married that it was a life-long thing and see no reason to do big celebrations over the fact that we continue to be married. It's kind of a "duh" thing. He's (hapily) off the hook gift-wise.

Not as enthused about birthdays as I once was. Kind of "just another day" at this point.

 

[momrek06]

We just celebrated our 28th in October. We usually always do something but generally on the following Saturday. Dinner, movie, or both.

This year having moved from MA to CA, we spent the day in DisneyLAND!!! We already have our bdays set for the Land, me-March, DH-April!!!

 

[georgina]

Our first anniversary we rented a cabin in a state park a couple of days. I think for our 25th we will take the kids and go to Hawaii (where we honeymooned). Other than that, no, we don't do anything special. (we are on 21 years now)

 

[geffric]

We always celebrate the weekend before or after depending on everyones schedule. Usually we go out for a nice dinner.. but last year we went to WDW and this year we gave ourselves an early present and took a DCL 15 night panama canal cruise.

 

[tazdev3225]

I will be married 28 years in July and I know that we will go out to dinner at the same restaurant we have gone to for the last 25 years. We only go there because they are reasonably priced and my DH gets his favorite meal. I wouldn't care if we skipped it but my DH is the one who plans this every year and looks forward to it.