Does this Count as an Anniversary?

[tink713]

DH and I have been married for a year and a half but a few days before our April trip we will be celebrating our 5 year anniversary since we've been dating. As far as putting this on our room reservation and dining reservations, do you think this counts as celebrating our anniversary?

 

[Berlioz70]

Haha... it really doesn't matter. You can say whatever you want. A friend of mine and her gay roommate were "just married" for a day. It's a fun way to experience the parks. Typically you do not "get" anything special, CMs just wish you congratulations all day.

 

[Kat&Dom]

I believe that Disney's official line is that they are happy to celebrate any occasion with you - even if it is not the actual date of the anniversary. I think a 5 year anniversary from when you first met is very sweet and definitely something to celebrate.

When I made a reservation for November, I am going with another single mom and it is her son's birthday while we are there and the CM asked if I was celebrating any occasion with my son and if my son had been before. I told him it would be his 4th trip to WDW and 6th to Disney because we have been to DL twice. The CM told me that he was going to put on the reservation that it was a first visit for my son so that both boys would be celebrating something. I guess it is our first visit to staying on-site because all our trips have been off-site so far.

Disney is all about celebrating!

 

[RMulieri]

You can choose to celebrate anything you want.Disney may or may not to do anything or even choose to acknowledge it.Everyday there are celebrations at disney, not all get acknowledged

 

[Robo]

DH and I have been married for a year and a half but a few days before our April trip we will be celebrating our 5 year anniversary since we've been dating. As far as putting this on our room reservation and dining reservations, do you think this counts as celebrating our anniversary?

Unless you are buying liquor, or using a charge card, or activating a special kind of ticket, Disney won't ask to see "proof" of anything.

Feel free to celebrate any kind of "Anniversary" that you'd like!!

My DW and I celebrate, as one of our anniversaries, the date of the night that we first went out together, and have done so for years and years.

 

[izzie-wizzie]

If you'd acknowledge/celebrate this anniversary usually - theres no reason why you can't at Disney

 

[twokids0204]

DH and I have been married for a year and a half but a few days before our April trip we will be celebrating our 5 year anniversary since we've been dating. As far as putting this on our room reservation and dining reservations, do you think this counts as celebrating our anniversary?

Do you want to celebrate it...

 

[kwitcherkicken99]

The notation is anniversary... not wedding, dating, etc...

Celebrate the heck out of it!

 

[swald91]

Haha... it really doesn't matter. You can say whatever you want. A friend of mine and her gay roommate were "just married" for a day. It's a fun way to experience the parks. Typically you do not "get" anything special, CMs just wish you congratulations all day.

Not sure how they are doing things for anniversaries now, but we had nice surprises for our 18th...not only did we get a signed picture from the characters, anniversary pins, chocolate in our room, we had a special call from Minnie & Mickey at Epcot (American pavilion), we had fresh flower leis made for us, along with our dinner at CP-mickey heads in a heart at the table-many well wishes from CMs & guests. I know there is no guarantee to "get" anything but we were pleasantly surprised.
OP: If you are there to celebrate your anniversary the button they gave us didn't have a number on it-if you are going to celebrate your years together you can! Congrats!

 

[Tinks1984]

I remember asking a similar question when I first started visiting the boards a couple of years ago, as myself and DBF were heading there and whilst there we'd be having our two year 'anniversary' and asked what people would think if we got buttons - and boy was I shot down on here I even got PM's saying that I should leave the buttons for the people who are married and then it doesn't take away the 'specialness' for them!!

I never asked since, but I'm glad many people's opionions have changed. I think people should be allowed to celebrate whatever they like. Some people may never get married, so hense, their anniversary may always be the one were they got together.

Go celebrate - enjoy yourselves!

 

[tink713]

Thanks for the replies everyone. I added our anniversary to our reservation. I'm not expecting anything but DH and I really loved hearing "Congratulations" from the CM's when we went for our Disneymoon.

Tinks1984-That's awful you got such negative replies. Glad things have changed!

 

[PIRATEGIRL007]

I remember asking a similar question when I first started visiting the boards a couple of years ago, as myself and DBF were heading there and whilst there we'd be having our two year 'anniversary' and asked what people would think if we got buttons - and boy was I shot down on here I even got PM's saying that I should leave the buttons for the people who are married and then it doesn't take away the 'specialness' for them!!

I never asked since, but I'm glad many people's opionions have changed. I think people should be allowed to celebrate whatever they like. Some people may never get married, so hense, their anniversary may always be the one were they got together.

Go celebrate - enjoy yourselves!

Sorry bout that more than likely that was before Disney turned everday into a celebration and took away the uniqueness of all of them. As others have said you can celebrate anything you want now and Disney encourages it. Now instead of having one or two people with buttons celebrating this or that its hard to find people who don't have a button celebrating something. I used to make it a point to congratulate whoever was celebrating whatever buy anymore I dont bother, I would never be able to keep up and all I would say all day is Happycongratulatedmarried or something to that effect.

 

[bumbershoot]

I remember asking a similar question when I first started visiting the boards a couple of years ago, as myself and DBF were heading there and whilst there we'd be having our two year 'anniversary' and asked what people would think if we got buttons - and boy was I shot down on here I even got PM's saying that I should leave the buttons for the people who are married and then it doesn't take away the 'specialness' for them!!

I never asked since, but I'm glad many people's opionions have changed. I think people should be allowed to celebrate whatever they like. Some people may never get married, so hense, their anniversary may always be the one were they got together.

Go celebrate - enjoy yourselves!

It's always so random as to who answers your question...some people still feel strongly about it; those people just haven't yet replied.

But as the pp said, Disney changed it all last year (and this year the official Celebration theme continues since the Give a Day stuff ended) with the What Will You Celebrate theme. I think, maybe, more people see that Disney just wants people to celebrate.



OP the one little thing that might get to you is.... in '07 DH and I were checking into PPH (with our son) one month exactly after our 4th wedding anniv. We had specifically not celebrated so that we could celebrate at Disneyland. And we got the buttons and some balloons at checkin, then lots of congratulations for the next days that we wore the buttons. Some people wanted to know when our anniv was, how long, etc etc. Since I am a really truthful person, I would have to stop myself from saying "well it's 4 years and a month, but honestly we didn't celebrate last month"...it got old to do that in my mind. And about 3 days in, I took off the button. It was just too much for me, LOL. DH has no complicated stuff like that in his head about it, and kept his on.

So if it might bug you to explain, or feel you need to explain, that it's your dating anniversary intead of your wedding...then you might not enjoy it as much as you thought. Or maybe I'm the only one that it bugs.

(on the other hand, DS has now been to DLR for two of his birthdays. And each time he has NOT wanted to wear his button on any day but his exact b'day...I asked him to wear it a second day last year, b/c we hadn't gone to DCA like we'd planned on his b'day, and I wanted him to get the extra tortillas at the tortilla factory...but he made us do that immediately, and then took the button of when we got out of the factory...he only wanted the attention on that ONE day and that was it!)

 

[RabFlmom]

Getting a button for a celebration can be fun. Took my brother to Epcot last week. He turned 75 and had not been to anything but DL before. He got lots of Happy Birthdays from CMs and he would tell them he turned 18. By mid afternoon he was telling people 19, by dinner time he was saying he was 39, and even the guys on the Tram kept up a conversation about his birthday while we were walking to the car. He had fun having people pay attention to him. By the time we got to the car he was telling the tram driver he felt like 45 ....LOL The next day he felt 75 and slept most of the day.

 

[Absolutely Disney]

Yes!!! We usually go in August and I celebrate my b-day then, (a month early). This yoear we will be there exactly a month before I turn 12, and I will just say that my birthday is then when it is really Sept. 10. But I wear my b-day button the whole trip. It makes me feel special.


Happy Anniversary!!

 

[FlightlessDuck]

My DW and I celebrate, as one of our anniversaries, the date of the night that we first went out together, and have done so for years and years.

Us, too. To us, it's just as important, if not slightly more so, than our wedding anniversary.

 

[Jenny_WDWFan]

I think it's fine We stayed at SOG, but I put our 2nd wedding anniversary on our dining reservations. My husband was deployed for much of the holidays of 2009, so I figured we were celebrating everything we had missed together, including our anniversary.

We got a dessert at Kona and Boma, so that was nice. I was too full to enjoy the one at Boma, though. haha...

 

[SnowandMittens]

We celebrate dating anniversarys... and while on the phone, the CM was asking me about our last trip (see my ptr... it was horrible) and she just about cried and said that this was an official do over trip. She said she was surprising us with the celebrations, so I'm trying not to peek at the resort reservation online.

I think she did put down our anniversary becasue we didn't make it last Jan to celebrate like we normally do.

 

[dzorn]

You could celebrate the 30th Anniversary of learning to tie your shoes and Disney would be OK with it. Have Fun.

Denise in MI

 

[taylor3297]

I say go for it and celebrate it if it is important to you. That is all that matters.

Our trip in Dec is for our dd and ds birthdays which both are in Nov and for my and dh 10th anniversary which is in July. We won't be able to celebrate in July and the trip is birthday presents for our children. When I booked the trip we were asked if we were celebrating and I explained so, it was added to our reservation.