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Post by elsee on Aug 10, 2015 22:08:30 GMT -5
How do you celebrate your anniversary? If you're not married, do you celebrate your 'dating' anniversary?
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Post by busymom on Aug 10, 2015 22:39:29 GMT -5
We really don't do anything fancy. We usually make each other's favorite desserts (both DH & I like to bake). And, we often go out to eat, but usually end up bringing the kids along.
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Post by tcu2003 on Aug 10, 2015 22:42:35 GMT -5
We're low-key - usually just out to eat, and since having a kid, he goes with us so it's nowhere fancy.
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Aug 10, 2015 23:13:20 GMT -5
We usually go to a play.
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Post by quince on Aug 10, 2015 23:24:10 GMT -5
We don't.
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Post by msventoux on Aug 10, 2015 23:27:34 GMT -5
I'm not married, so no anniversary. I've never celebrated an anniversary with anyone I dated, even if it was a long-term relationship. Anniversaries to me always seemed like something you do if you went through the hassle of getting married.
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Post by TheHaitian on Aug 11, 2015 6:28:32 GMT -5
Sex, dinner and a movie ... Sometimes we plan our vacation around our anniversary so that is always fun.
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Post by mamasita99 on Aug 11, 2015 7:11:28 GMT -5
I like getting a little mini vacation out of an anniversary, just a night or two away is perfect. If we can't get away then I can go for a nice dessert, followed by some good Thai food if the kids are not at home. Thai food is always better when the kids aren't around
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Post by Cookies Galore on Aug 11, 2015 7:16:49 GMT -5
We always went out to dinner for our dating anniversary. Now that we're married we acknowledge that we've been together for x amount of years on dating anniversary. We're only just approaching our second wedding anniversary (together 8 years) and we are going to go out to dinner to a very good BYOB with an excellent tasting menu. For our first wedding anniversary we had a fancy hotel night in Philly and went out to dinner and to a bar where a friend works. We're kind of talking about going back to Cooperstown one of these years and staying at the inn/room where we got engaged.
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Post by sarcasticgirl on Aug 11, 2015 8:01:45 GMT -5
Our wedding anniversary is in a week and a half... We're taking the day off and spending it together and will go to dinner. Last year we had a weekend away. It depends on the year and what we have going on.
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Post by hoops902 on Aug 11, 2015 8:22:57 GMT -5
"We made it through another year" followed by a high-five.
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Post by steph08 on Aug 11, 2015 8:27:39 GMT -5
We usually don't do anything for our anniversary. Sometimes we'll get take-out.
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Aug 11, 2015 8:32:49 GMT -5
Dinner or drinks out for the 2 of us. The last couple of years the kids parent/teacher conferences have landed on the actual day so we the kids on grandparents and handle the kid stuff and then do the drinks/dinner. But it depends on what time we get slotted in for conferences. We've also gone to a waterpark for a weekend with the kids to celebrate it. DH really seems to like going to them and Lord knows the kids do too. Last year I had to go to Vegas for work in early Nov. so I cobbled together care for the kids and we flew out early to poke around. Neither of us had ever been to Vegas before. It was also our 10th anniversary. *-*- We also try to do a dinner out in Feb. to celebrate our first date and the day DH proposed. I'm not willing to drop doing this because I like eating out without the kids. I find it hard to force myself to schedule this without some event to tie it to.
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Post by Ryan on Aug 11, 2015 8:43:58 GMT -5
We go out to dinner on our anniversary and then usually we go away for 1-2 nights at some point around then.
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Post by cael on Aug 11, 2015 9:58:58 GMT -5
We've had 4 wedding anniversaries - the first one we went to NH for the weekend, second one I don't remember (I think just dinner), last year we went to a show in Boston, and this year we went to a concert. We do cards and that's about it. Neither of us has much interest in doing a lot for anniversaries... for a big one like 10 years though we may do a trip or something. Dating anniversaries... holy carp, our 14th is coming up. (we don't celebrate it anymore besides just saying "wow, I've been putting up with you for a long time!)
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Post by Cookies Galore on Aug 11, 2015 10:10:58 GMT -5
For our first (paper) anniversary, hubs used the file of a really sweet picture a friend took of us after we got married and "framed" it with the text except from "Oh The Places You'll Go" that was used in our ceremony. I have a print out thumb tacked to the wall at work. I got him a card that says "I choo choo choose you," because Ralph Wiggum is awesome. We're not big on effort. Lol.
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Post by NancysSummerSip on Aug 11, 2015 10:54:06 GMT -5
We are usually on vacation close to our anniversary, but not this year. This time, I want to do a race the weekend before, so I am thinking it can be a destination weekend for both of us, with a nice lunch after the race.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Aug 11, 2015 11:14:55 GMT -5
Since we got married at the same time the state fair rolls around we tie our anniversary and annual family vacation together.
DH usually buys me something, he tries to go with "tradition" but for 7 years the gifts were either wool or copper. I am allergic to wool and he couldn't think of anything in copper I'd want. So he bought me a small gold heart pendant from JCP instead.
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Post by flamingo on Aug 11, 2015 11:22:08 GMT -5
We got married on the day after Thanksgiving. We don't celebrate the actual date, but on the day after Thanksgiving every year. And by celebrate, I mean we wake up, say "happy anniversary", and go about our usually daily routine. The week leading up to the anniversary we each confirm that we aren't doing gifts. It'll be 5 years this Thanksgiving. If we are going on vacation over Thanksgiving (which we sometimes do), we claim that it's our anniversary gift to each other. But really, we would have gone on vacation regardless. The Flamingo household is not very sentimental!
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Post by zibazinski on Aug 11, 2015 11:26:12 GMT -5
DH and I celebrate our getting back together date. I'm not into the actual day we got married. That's much less special to me
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Post by shanendoah on Aug 11, 2015 11:46:22 GMT -5
By throwing Pop Tart a birthday party, and inviting some of our friends to it, too. Turns out the kid was born two days before we got married.
We try to go out to dinner just the two of us, sometime near our anniversary, but it doesn't always work. We got married in Labor Day weekend (so 12th anniversary is right around the corner), so we have a 3 day weekend right in there if we want it, but we tend not to do too much. Some years we have gone back to the gardens where we got married and wandered around.
I am thinking of planning an Alaskan cruise for Pop Tart's birthday/our anniversary next year.
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Post by muttleynfelix on Aug 11, 2015 13:03:36 GMT -5
We say hi honey, Happy Anniversary. 1st Anniversary we did a weekend getaway. The next year we had a really nice dinner. It has gone to not much. This is year 10 and we are hoping for a weekend without the kids. Hoping.
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Post by kittensaver on Aug 11, 2015 13:10:14 GMT -5
Our 32nd anniversary is in two weeks. Because we have season tickets to the Hollywood Bowl (and have had for our entire married life), we spend it there. Normally (every week in our series), we pack a picnic . But for our anniversary we spring for dinner and drinks at the Rooftop Grill [Joachim Splichal's outdoor restaurant at the Bowl]
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Post by lurkyloo on Aug 11, 2015 20:44:52 GMT -5
We usually put more emphasis on our dating anniversary than wedding anniversary--dating one is when our lives actually changed, wedding is just when we made it official This year we both forgot our dating anniversary til a couple weeks after the fact though, and I'm pretty sure DS is a product of celebrating our fifth wedding anniversary, so maybe times are changing Either way, mostly we just go out to dinner.
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Post by ArchietheDragon on Aug 11, 2015 20:48:54 GMT -5
We drove to Provincetown today without the kids. Even though it was raining it was still a nice way to spend the day
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Post by andi9899 on Aug 11, 2015 20:53:11 GMT -5
My parents will be married for 40 years next year. I don't know what we'll do for them, but it should be good. Maybe a party with both sides of the family at home. Definitely a huge party at a rented venue for 50 years.
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Post by whoisjohngalt on Aug 11, 2015 20:59:23 GMT -5
Now that we have kids, my husband thinks we need to include them. Ummm...no, thanks
He does write me really nice cards, I am a few years behind on that.
We don't do anything "big", but we do acknowledge the day one way or another
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Post by swamp on Aug 12, 2015 9:16:26 GMT -5
Not much. Dinner sometimes
This year DH has to work. I'm doing a mud run with the kids.
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Post by Blonde Granny on Aug 12, 2015 11:05:01 GMT -5
For our 50th anniversary last year we took 2 cruises...one 10 day to Alaska and then a 10 day cruise with 4 day land portion included.
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Post by cktc on Aug 12, 2015 12:52:34 GMT -5
Dating anniversary is actually right near my birthday so whatever I plan for that usually ends up also being an anniversary celebration. Last year we went to San Francisco with friends, the year before that we hiked the Grand Canyon with my sister. Before that I didn't plan anything so neither my birthday or our anniversary got much fanfare. DH complains that we never do anything fun for his birthday (usually just dinner/drinks). I'd be fine with him planning something. Now that we are married we will probably just acknowledge the dating anniversary, and celebrate the wedding anniversary. It's around Memorial Day weekend so that should work out well if we want to get out of town.
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