How important is your Wedding Anniversary?

[disykat]

We don't celebrate on the exact day. For example: We went to WDW and DCL (with the kids) the year of our 10th anniversary. We started planning that trip on our honeymoon (WDW and Big Red Boat). However, we got married in December and our trip was in July.

We also usually go out on New Year's Eve, rather than 3 days before Christmas. It's simply not practical to take time out right before Christmas, so we save it for whenever we can enjoy it. When we've done overnight getaways, we also save those for a convenient time - but still consider them an anniversary celebration.

On the exact day, we usually talk about the wedding, etc. but that's not the day we go out. We don't do presents either. We're not really gift people anyway, so Christmas is overwhelming enough!

 

[powellrj]

we usually never make a big deal about it. We might go out to dinner and get each other cards, but other than that, its just another day!

this year when I got up I asked DH if he had gotten me anything for our anniversary (28th) and he said no, I told him not to feel too bad because I didn't get him anything, so we got up and went out and bought a new car and had a nice dinner.

I tease him that it would have been cheaper to just buy me a card!!

 

[Cyndiu]

We don't celebrate in a huge way, but we always exchange cards and go out for a nice dinner. Now that the kids are old enough for us to leave them on their own for dinner sometimes, going out has become less of a big deal though...

Maybe we should start exchanging gifts. I can think of a few things I want!

 

[Cool-Beans]

Not at all important. We meant "till death do we part" when we said it and do not celebrate the fact that we haven't failed to keep the promise. Plus, neither one of us is able to be "romantic" on demand. For us, we take our romance where we find it.

I'm really happy for people who like to celebrate, but we just don't.

But I do remember the date each year.

 

[mickeyfan2]

We consider our anniversary to be a very wonderful day to spend with each other and show how grateful we are for the kind partner that we have. This year we spent 10 night at the BC for our anniversary.

 

[hiwaygal]

Well....we haven't had our first one yet!

But we planned the date as a "quarterly" holiday (DH's birthday in March, my birthday in July, our Anniversary in Sept., and Christmas) just so we would have another excuse to get presents!

We may not do anything "extravagant" but we will do something special together.

 

[belle&beast]

We go to Disney World!!! Or at least we did this year! We have been married for 6 and a half years and we always do something. Not necessarily expensive, but go out to dinner alone, send the kids to Nana and Papa's for the night, exchange cards, but we always acknowledge it. The anniversary of our first date is coming up this week and I am wondering if DH will remember that one! Usually one of us does- we don't do anything special just remind each other of how we met and our first date--it was a BLIND DATE!

 

[mrsheppo]

We may not get to do something special each year, but we do acknowledge it with at least a card to each other. Sometimes, like this year, DH will have to work a 16 hour day on our anniversary and can't celebrate that day.

It is a special day for us because each of us having had a failed marriage and now finally finding the RIGHT person, we do make sure to recognize the day of our marriage.

It will be 8 years next week for us.

 

[Tink33]

Do you celebrate it at all - or is just another day? If you do celebrate it, what do you do?

Just wondering what others do for their Special Day, as I do believe it IS a special day!
Jill

What would you like to do to celebrate your 20th next year? If your DH is not a planner or a person who remembers, then you need to be the one to make the plans.

We too will celebrate 20 years next year. I will do the planning (with suggestions from DH). It has never bothered me to be the one to make the arrangements.

 

[wdw4us2]

Before we had the kids, we would go out to dinner. After that, we just did cards until our 10th anniversary and we went away for the weekend. After that, we decided to go away every year for our anniversary.

We now go to WDW (it's only 2 hours away) without the kids. It's nice to spend time together and do what we like to do. The kids don't mind because we take them several times a year.

Next year is our 20th and I'm hoping we can do the Grand Floridian. DH has never stayed there, so I thought it would be nice if we could stay there and go to Victoria & Albert's. We'll see.

 

[Saphire]

Every year in September we go back to the same place for a long weekend...a cottage by the ocean in Maine. It has a kitchen where we prepare some meals, and a fireplace for cool nights. It has two Adirondak chairs in the yard overlooking the tidal river in Ogunquit and the ocean beyond. It has boats to use, and you can take the boat over to the beach. We go out to dinner at a favorite restaurant on our anniversary. I have traveled to many places, yet it is just about the most romantic place I have ever been. But maybe that is because my DH is by my side...

 

[Buckalew11]

We do cards and dinner. Some years we do more elaborate things like a night or 2 away or something. Our anniversary is a BIG deal to me because during the first three years of marriage I wasn't very happy. I never thought we'd make it this far (isn't that awful to say?!) But, I stuck it out because I've always loved him and love him more now (19years later) than ever.

You can see in my sig that HE has plans for our 20th (which will be next August) but we'll celebrate in January '07 (If I make it...I'm not happy with the thought of trying to prepare for that 1/2 marathon--I am NOT a runner).

 

[dolphinrescuegirl]

For our 1st anniversary next year we are going on a cruise. In fact most of our vacations will probably fall around that time as it is in May. I'm too scared to go anywhere in the summer being hurricane season, living on the coast, and having 2 cats.

 

[scrump]

I am more fond of the anniversary than the actual wedding day.

We're approaching our 2nd this year, and we usually celebrate with small gifts and a dinner. Relatively speaking, I didn't really care about the wedding day, but I view the anniversaries as really special.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

We go out to dinner every year. We don't go all out buying presents for each other, but if there's something that we'd like we will occasionally buy a joint present, but not usually. To us it's more about spending time together without the kids. Now that's not so uncommon, but when they were little the time alone was not easy to come by and was precious to us.

Our 25th anniversary is next August and so far we don't have any plans. Maybe we'll plan something. I really wanted a cruise, but want to do that with the kids.