Is it bad to wear an anniversary badge if it's not quite your anniversary?

[marthachick]

We were supposed to celebrate our 30th anniversary in May 2013. We had to cancel due to DH's parents health and eventual deaths 3 days apart. We rescheduled for December 2013. We wore our celebration pins then. It had been a hard year and I told DH we deserved a celebration.

 

[svecchitto]

We will be in Disney on our actual anniversary but are a few weeks ahead of my daughters bday, and I will absolutely give her a birthday button. Our intention was to go for her birthday but it didn't work out that way, it def. won't stop us from celebrating both her birthday and our wedding anniversary.

 

[UmmYeahOk]

Whatever you do, don't wear it at euro disney. Apparently it just confuses them. Anniversaire = Birthday.

 

[Di$$$neyPoor]

My husband and I got married in late September....2004. After meticulously planning our honeymoon and my first visit to WDW, I realized the error of my ways when Hurricane Jeanne (the 5th of the month??) closed the airport for several days. No honeymoon at WDW. From then on, we do not plan anniversary trips during hurricane season. We have gone a few times in early Dec, and will be there this year end of Oct. We still wear our buttons.

Funny thing is while we were at the airport in Las Vegas trying to get an alternate trip going, there's the Disney plane parked on the tarmac. I didn't even know there was such a plane. The final slap in the face from Jeanne

 

[amy1115]

Where can you get the pins in MK?

 

[UmmYeahOk]

Guest relations at every park

 

[amy1115]

Guest relations at every park

Thank you!!

 

[Lucius Best]

Where can you get the pins in MK?

Besides Guest Relations, we've also gotten them at the front desk when checking in. Once also got a couple at Citricos for anniversary dinner when CM noticed we didn't have buttons and brought two out for us.

 

[BadPinkTink]

I love wearing the buttons and pins and everything when we go to Disney! But due to our jobs this year we have to go about two months before our actually anniversary. But we do consider this our anniversary vacation. I feel a little weird about it and I'm not sure about getting them this time. Just was curious about everyone's thoughts on the matter

Im going to Disneyland Paris in February, my birthday is in March and I will be wearing my "I'm Celebrating" button

I am planning on celebrating my sons 8th birthday while we are there and our 19th wedding anniversary. Would you wear the buttons just one day or every day??

Whatever day you want, every day or just one day, its up to you.

 

[mocame]

My family and I are going to WDW in May, 2016 and we will be celebrating that I am getting my college degree. I'm actually graduating this December, 2015 but we can't go until May. It took me 4 years to get this degree, while still juggling the family and life, and my husband said this can be a trip to celebrate that. So, even though it's happening a few months later, we will celebrate because not only did I work my tail off getting the degree but the rest of the family deserves to celebrate because they had to pitch in more at home, listened to me practice my speeches, read my papers, etc. They worked hard too!

 

[hisgal2]

I'm really glad you asked this question! Our trip will be our first trip to Disney (which is cause for celebration in itself) We will also be celebrating my birthday which is on New Year's and I don't want to battle crowds and get anxious on my birthday, so we are going at the end of January instead of on the first (tho, I have no doubt that the NYE fireworks would be an awesome sight to see). Anyways, I wanted to wear pins, but didn't know if we could if we were there after the occasion.

 

[kkgolden2]

Now I don't feel so bad about telling them it's my anniversary when we get there 2 days after the fact.

 

[WIcruizer]

I guess I'm in the minority. I think it's strange to wear the buttons when the event you're celebrating is months (or even weeks) away.

Every time we've ever been to WDW it would have been within months of a birthday or our anniversary. I would feel weird having CMs tell me "Happy Birthday" or "Happy Anniversary" all week when it's really not even that close.

But that's just me. That doesn't mean you can't celebrate an event while you're there. An early birthday, late anniversary, whatever. And sure, you can certainly wear whatever pin you want, any time you want. It's just me, I wouldn't do it.

 

[HerbivoreMom]

I was kind of wondering about this. We are planning to go about 3 weeks before our son's birthday but it's a birthday trip so I was considering getting him a button. Glad to know it's acceptable to most people.

We always celebrate his birthday early because it falls so close to Christmas. Otherwise it's not really a "separate" event.

 

[CupcakeLisa]

If you are there celebrating it then wear the badge!

 

[smiths02]

If you are celebrating that event and you don't expect anything other than "Happy Anniversary," then go right ahead. Our anniversary is Feb 15, but this falls on the President's Day holiday weekend, which is extra expensive and extra crowded. To top it off, I can't get personal time off work because days surrounding a holiday are protected. So we are going Feb 3-6.

 

[smiths02]

I guess I'm in the minority. I think it's strange to wear the buttons when the event you're celebrating is months (or even weeks) away.

Every time we've ever been to WDW it would have been within months of a birthday or our anniversary. I would feel weird having CMs tell me "Happy Birthday" or "Happy Anniversary" all week when it's really not even that close.

But that's just me. That doesn't mean you can't celebrate an event while you're there. An early birthday, late anniversary, whatever. And sure, you can certainly wear whatever pin you want, any time you want. It's just me, I wouldn't do it.

I'm mostly with you. I haven't done a birthday button when it's not my birthday. However, I think it depends how far from the event and if you are specifically celebrating the event. I mean, we often celebrate a birthday on a Saturday even if it falls on a Tuesday, I don't think that is weird.
I'm not going to feel weird about wearing our buttons on Feb. 5th when we have our anniversary dinner at Narcoosee's...it is our anniversary dinner and it is 10 days out.

 

[BadPinkTink]

For me, my February DLP visit is my birthday treat for myself. My actual birthday is in March but I am not free that week to take a vacation. I don't expect much more than CMs commenting on the button, its from Disney California , so that in itself will get comments, the same as my DLP lanyard gets comments in Disneyland California.

 

[Oz Mouseketeer]

I think this is an interesting question to examine – As we can see, there’s lot of opinions around that nothing should stop anyone wearing a badge at any time of the year, even if it’s not actually on your birthday/anniversary… but if you’re there “celebrating” then go your hardest – The problem with this is, everyone is wearing a badge when you go – You can’t walk past a 10 people without seeing at least one or two badges for someone “celebrating” something… and now that it’s become the norm, I feel like it’s lost its charm.


My Fiance and I were there last year celebrating our engagement, and we had a few different badges given to us by CM’s to wear, which we did – We’re a same-sex couple, and it was nice to have our relationship recognised by others (as back home here in South Australia, it’s not something that people would normally recognise/celebrate publically) We got annoyed by a group of guys who were “joking” about wearing “Just Married” badges that they got from Customer Relations – All clearly straight… and none of them at all married to one another – However they wore the badges and were joking about all the congratulations and pixie dust they had been receiving… hearing their conversation over lunch really took the edge off our experience, as it seemed “just about anyone” could get a badge and wear it for whatever reason they wanted, when for us, it really was to mark a special experience we were legitimately celebrating on that trip…


When we arrive again next week for our Honeymoon, no doubt we’ll be wearing our “Just Married” badges in replacement of our “We’re Celebrating” and “Happily Ever After” badges from last year – Personally, I don’t think it’s right to feel like you have to find an excuse to wear a badge to acknowledge you’re celebrating for “your birthday that was 7 months ago, but we couldn’t make it then so we’re celebrating now…” or “We’re celebrating our Anniversary from 5 months ago but had to reschedule our trip so now we’re celebrating our anniversary” because lets face it… it’s not actually your birthday or anniversary while you’re there – that was months ago – now you’re just on a holiday.


But anyway… just my two cents…

 

[ElizabethG]

I agree that is has become too common. Everyone is celebrating something that happened within the year. Our anniversary took place during our last trip. We got the buttons and only wore them on the day of our anniversary. When going to breakfast at Ohana, I stepped into the store before checking in. There were only five other people in the store, but all of them had anniversary buttons on. It has become like the Mad Hatter's Un-Birthday celebration.