Do you celebrate your dating anniversary?

[Shelby5514]

I just made ADR for Le Cellier on Valentine's Day and when the cast member asked if we were celebrating anything I immediately said 'Yes, an anniversary'. When she was going back over the reservation she said 'a romantic table for 5' (DH's parents and my mom will be there too). We talked small talk about the Beach Club Villa's, Cape May Cafe and the DVC annual pass discount and then at the end of the call she said 'I hope you have a very special anniversary.' Just by the tone in her voice it was like she was up to something. Now I'm expecting NOTHING special from the restaurant, just good food and service. However now I feel guilty about mentioning an anniversary that maybe no-one but DH and I celebrate. (just a little background here... I'll try to keep it short...

DH worked with my sister, her Birthday is Valentine's Day and she had a party at a local bar that night. DH came to the party with a date, saw me at the end of the table and made some lame excuse to my sis and they left. He took his date home and immediately came back to the bar. Well of course I was gone by the time he got back. Two days later when he saw my sister again he started asking questions about me. She called me from work, on speaker phone, and started asking me questions, was I serious about anyone, would I ever date a co-worker of hers, did I have plans that Sat. night? Then she asks if she can give someone my number. Not 5 minutes after I hung up the phone it starts ringing again and it's my DH asking me out on a date. (I honestly did not remember him from the party! Damn alcohol!) After a rough start (I was a vegetarian, he knew it but still took me to a steakhouse.) we became insepratable and now have been together 12 years and married for 7.

So now back to my original question... Do you celebrate the anniversary of your first date? or are we the only dorks out there doing this?

 

[DisneyAddict_M]

My brother and his wife do it (they used to anyway). I haven't celebrated a dating anniversary since I was a teenager.

 

[Pam]

May 18th for us! I still have the dress I was wearing the day he asked me out on our first date.

We don't celebrate it though - well, every year at the dinner table I bring up the date and ask he if remembers -- and then I make him describe what I was wearing on that day. He and our two teens just at me.

 

[mommaU4]

Nope you're not alone! DH and I are dorks too.

Our first date was Dec. 30 and we went to the Griffith Park Observatory in L.A. Then every year after that we would go back for our first date anniversary. We did that from our first date in 1987 right up until we moved out of CA. last year. We still recognize the date even if we can't go back there any more.

 

[Equidae]

We do it -- but it is also our wedding anniversay too. We got married three years to the day from our first date. In a way, we still celebrate both.

 

[PrincessKitty1]

Heck yeah, we celebrate the day we met through the day of our first date (May 18-28), plus we celebrate our wedding anniversary. We consider the day we met and first went out together as just as big an anniversary as our wedding anniversary. We have been together over 19 years and married 9 years.

 

[SwedishMeatball]

July 6th and it is way more sentimental to me than our wedding anniversary.

 

[Beth76]

I think perhaps I did when I was dating. But, not since being married. I don't even remember the date anymore.

 

[marybet]

June 14th, and I always remember it and sometimes forget our wedding anniversary. We don't really celebrate but we always talk about our first date. Our 8th wedding anniversary is coming up on Nov. 29, I am going to remember it this year and do something special.

 

[gradtchr]

January 17th is definitely celebrated

November 24th the day he proposed will be celebrated, golly we haven't even celebrated our first engagement anniversary and we're already married.

July 21st will be celebrated

All three are important and all three will always be remembered.

 

[Davids-Coco]

Yes we do... although this will be the last one for a while that we celebrate. Its our 10 year. And we have agreed that this is the last one we are really celebrating until a new "big" one.

 

[Rowena]

We were both a bit to drunk to recall meeting for the first time, but we liked each other... it was right around this time 14 years ago. Our wedding was close to the day we do remember meeting a month or so later.

Our first actual date, which consisted of me taking him to Denny's for coffee and talking about out future children in an effort to scare him off......will be after Valentines Day next year.

Another day of importance for us, when our relationship progressed further was July 18th.

Now, we may take note of July 18th, but Dec 5th is our anniversary, our wedding anniversary.

So, no, not really.

 

[2BigKIdz]

Sort of....we started dating on Thanskgiving night (waaay back in 1989), when we decided to get married we set the date for the Saturday after Thanksgiving so our "anniversaries" are celebrated at the same time. Honestly, if it hadn't been a holiday I would probably not have a clue when we started dating though.

 

[Tiggerlover91]

The date we actually celebrate is the first day DH asked me to be his girlfriend.....January 31, 1988! That was Superbowl Sunday in '88. I do remember our first date, Valentines Day of the same year and he took me to see Wes Craven's Serpent and the Rainbow! What a movie to take a first date to....one where she ends up in your lap!! So in about 2 months, DH and I will be celebrating 18 years together and then on May 22nd we will be celebrating 15 years of marriage!

 

[Rowena]

Tiggerlover91, do you just make note of the day with a kiss and a smile..or is it a big deal?

Around here, we know the dates or approximate dates and note them, they just aren't a production. Worthy of a kiss but no flowers or balloons, let alone anything else.

 

[Tiggerlover91]

Tiggerlover91, do you just make note of the day with a kiss and a smile..or is it a big deal?

Around here, we know the dates or approximate dates and note them, they just aren't a production. Worthy of a kiss but no flowers or balloons, let alone anything else.

I wouldn't say it's a big deal, but it's a not a small one either. Something in between I suppose. I will mention to DH, "do you know what today is?" he teases and goes, "nope." I roll my eyes and say, "someone called me on Superbowl Sunday and interrupted me watching the 49ers to ask me to be his girlfriend." he goes, "really, should have hung up on him...how rude!" I say happy first anniversary, he returns the sentiment and that's that. Sometimes a cute little stuffed animal might make into the house by way of DH or myself, but the BIG day is made on the day we got married, that's when I go all out on planning our trips and things of the such!

 

[pogopossum]

dec 4 for us, this year will be 21 years, we still try to do dinner at least, if not the mediocre movie as well, can't stay out as late, anymore. i wish that restaurant hadn't closed, it was one of my favorites. i think i still have my brown suede hiking boots with the red laces in the garage. i should do that look again, no perm though. well it was the eighties, at least i never did the parachute pants thing.

 

[disneynutcase]

Sort of. DH and I had our first date April 1, 1978 at around 5:30pm and our DS 19 was born April 1, 1986 at 5:31pm. So in a way we do celebrate it. Its kinda weird that it happened like that.

Jean

 

[mickeyfan2]

Do you celebrate the anniversary of your first date? or are we the only dorks out there doing this?

No and never did. The only date that matters is you wedding anniversary date.

 

[mickeyboat]

We don't celebrate it, but we do note it every year. September 4, 1984 is the day DH asked me to "go with him."

Denae