Anniversary ???

[dreamin_disney]

Dh and I have been together for 13th years. We celebrated our annual anniversary in the beginning only. Well tomorrow will be our 2 year wedding anniversary.

What do women usually buy their dh for their hubby's or is it just the men that buy for thier wife?

Last year he bought me a beautiful expensive snowglobe from "Things to remember" he also had it engraved. I took him to breakfast and a movie.

 

[Piglets Mommy]

oops! Double post

 

[Piglets Mommy]

Dh and I have been together for 13th years. We celebrated our annual anniversary in the beginning only. Well tomorrow will be our 2 year wedding anniversary.

What do women usually buy their dh for their hubby's or is it just the men that buy for thier wife?

Last year he bought me a beautiful expensive snowglobe from "Things to remember" he also had it engraved. I took him to breakfast and a movie.

Happy Anniversary!!!

We usually do not exchange gifts on our anniversary except for milestones (1 yr, 5, 10, etc) Instead, we go out to a nice dinner or a night or 2 away, just the 2 of us. For the milestone anniversaries, I usually give him a nice framed photo, or something along those lines with the dates....nothing expensive, just a keepsake....we'd rather spend the $$$ on doing something together.

 

[dreamin_disney]

We got a giftcard to Claim Jumpers so we will use that for dinner tomorrow night. DD12 will be with us. The 3 of us are always together so DD will be with us.

I would love to hear from the husbands what they get from their spous or what things they would like to get

 

[NHdisneylover]

We don't do gifts either. We do like to have dinner just the two of us. When the kids were little we moved a lot and often did not have a sitter. Then we would go to a casual/family style place and get them their own table where we could see them but still feel like we had some space. They loved feeling so "grown up" and we felt like it was a little special (and the waitstaffs were always really nice about it--we would try to go at off times when they were not buy and we tipped extra well).
Now the kids are old enough to stay home while we go out--so that makes it nicer. They have fun watching movies and eating pizza and we take a nice leisurely time over our meal and really reconnect.

 

[LuvOrlando]

Congratulations!!!

Dinner and a movie sounds wonderful to me, just enjoy each other and if this is something you guys enjoy I'm 100% for it

 

[rszdtrvl]

Today is DH's and myself's 15 year Anniversary.

He is at work. I am down and out with a horrendous cold.

Sigh.

We are going to Las Vegas in 2 weeks to celebrate though. I would much rather be sick on my actual Anniversary day than on vacation.

We don't buy each other gifts. Around our 5 year Anniversary I got a 1/2 ct. Diamond Anniversay Band. I told him that it is the only material present I want for our Anniversary. I have my diamonds, and I am happy.

I love traveling for our Annivesary though. Getting out, getting away, leaving town. It helps a lot with the winter blahs, and is good to get out, just the 2 of us.

 

[golfgal]

We don't usually exchange gifts for our anniversary either. We typically go out for dinner to a nice restaurant to celebrate. If you do exchange gifts, I don't understand why you both would not give each other a gift-you are married to him as much as he is married to you.

 

[shortbun]

We go to dinner. On big #s like 10, 20 we have gone away for a couple of nights. No big gifts exchange hands but we have had small ones. One year he made me heart shaped magnets for the fridge on his woodworking equipment. I bought him a Clapton CD one year. No expectations, no disappointments.

 

[powellrj]

This year we both forgot about our anniversary! We were on a family vacation with my mom and our DS and our DDIL and other kids and just forgot what day it was. It wasn't the first time we had forgotten about it.

If your DH buys you a gift, I would get him one in return. Otherwise I would go with a card and a nice dinner.

 

[MickeySP]

Not married anymore but we did dinner and a hotel room to get away. Maybe a small token gift that meant something.

The 1, 5, & 10 we did a bit more - weekend away or bigger gift.

 

[DisneyScraps]

We did not do anniversary gifts, we went out to dinner. I was married in December and we never had any extra money.

Congrats on your anniversary!

Lisa

 

[Carly_Roach]

Ours is usually kept low-key, too. DH always brings flowers and I typically make a nice dinner for both of us with a good bottle of wine or champagne. We use the good china, the good candles and I set a nice table. Just a small celebration a tiny bit different from our regular meals. Once he surprised me with a dinner and a late show, but I think that had more to do with it being the weekend and we both had the next day off to recuperate.

We usually keep these kinds of things low-key and meaningful to us alone. I don't get involved in the whole, "What did you get for your anniversary?" thing. To me, that kind of activity cheapens the marriage. What we do for each other is between us and stays that way.

 

[Rora]

Happy Anniversary!!

DH and I have been together since I was 15 (now 23), but we just got married in April of 2010. Our anniversaries are always low key. Usually we'll just go out somewhere for dinner (not always somewhere fancy or nice-- just somewhere we want to go) and exchange cards. DH might bring me flowers.

We don't exchange gifts though.

 

[tigercat]

I am lucky if we do dinner. Sometimes a movie is included but we like different movies so that doesn't always go over. On our 25th anniversary we went on a cruise. A lot of anniversarys we don't have a lot of money. We have been married 36 yrs.
tigercat

 

[cm8]

Happy Anniversary! I give my husband an card and we go to dinner and a movie afterward. We keep it simple

 

[Freyja]

Congrats on your anniversary. What a great wedding date

DH and I are also celebrating our anniversary tomorrow, our 14th! We usually don´t exchange gifts other than sometimes flowers and cards but always try to do something to celebrate the day, like going out for dinner and/or a movie. For our 10th anniversary DH bought me a gorgeous diamond ring though

Tomorrow we will go for an early sushi dinner at our favorite sushi place and then a movie. I´m also going to write him a letter with 14 of my favorite memories of our time together.

I´m hoping that we can go away for a long weekend next year for our 15th anniversary!

 

[dreamin_disney]

Thanks for the info. I'm good with going to dinner. I like the idea of gift exchange on 1yr, 5 yrs,10yrs 15yrs etc . It's always hard to exchange gifts because we are simple people and we really dont need anything. I have allergies so flowers set it off and just to expensive. The only piece of jewlery i like wearing is my wedding ring. I told dh we dont need to exchange gifts. I do think card exchange is fine. We have giftcards from x-mas so we will go to dinner.

Its wet and gloomy outside. I'm on vacation this week but I just wanna stay home and under my blankets-lol! I gotta go buy a card still..


Thanks again for the info. My mother was a single mother. There are 5 of us . My sis and I are the only one married. The others have been divorced for years , so I dont know about this stuff-lol! My sis and her hubby always go away for their anniversary.My dh's side his mom was mostly a single mom, dh and his brother are the only married. His other 3 siblings are in their early 20's so not married. Funny thing. I have 1 brother and 3 sisters, dh has 1 sister and 3 brothers..... Dh is the oldest and I'm the youngest-lol!

 

[amyren]

Happy Anniversary!

Not to steal your moment but today is actually my anniversary too (8 years) and DD's birthday (3). It's a big day

DH and I normally just go out to eat (alone) or maybe get dressed up and see a show. A couple of times we've gone out to eat then to a fancy hotel downtown (Atlanta).
We rarely go out on our actual anniversary since we share the date with DD.
We typically don't exchange gifts. Unless you count the flowers that DH always buys me.

Enjoy your special day!

 

[Owlpost23]

Twentieth anniversary coming up on the 23rd.Going to be in Key West for a week! Can't wait!!!