To ask about your anniversary?

[Eliza9917]

Either the day you got together or the day you got married.

Do you do/give anything for it?

Yes we go away for the weekend or out for a meal. Our anniversary is on Valentine's Day so it's a double celebration 🍾 we always buy gifts for each other too because we don't do Xmas for each other

We celebrate our wedding anniversary, (married 20 years) and make sure to mark it every year. When we have had no money , we gave each other massages, did dishes, and foot ribs and such.
In the years we have had more money, we go away.
It's not the amount we spend, it making the effort together to to say hey, we have made it another year with out killing each other!
Or something to that effect!

Last year was 10 years since we met so we recreated our first date in the neighbourhood where we used to live.

For our wedding anniversary we get each other a small gift relating to the traditional theme for that year, a card, and we go out for dinner, but nothing extravagant, just some time alone

Yes. We do traditional presents if possible as it adds a little challenge....nothing majorly expensive though.

We also go out for the day with DC and have a night out alone if we can get babysitters.

We got married in secret with no fuss but we like to make a fuss of each other.

The anniversary of the day we met and the day we got married are also now important family birthdays so we're always too busy celebrating them. Maybe one day........

Just cards but we go into London for the day and have a nice meal

We’re doing cards and a meal. This year is our first so might go somewhere a bit fancier but I figure in future years we may just get a takeaway.

We devised big years we’ll do something more special or get presents

We usually go out for a meal. We'll be at a festival this year though, with the kids

Cards and dinner, sometimes a weekend away if it falls right. Our getting together and wedding anniversary are the same date (albeit they were 10 years apart).

Nothing usually but we did go to Rome for a long weekend, child free for our 10th anniversary.
Imagine it'll be 25th anniversary before we do anything again.

not married and usually just say ooh so many years today but dont celebrate as such we go out for birthdays instead

We got married on the 10 year anniversary of the day we got together! It's just been out 2nd wedding anniversary and the hotel we got married in gave us a free night's stay, we usually do cards and a meal although last year we went on holiday to the place we went for our honeymoon. It's nice to celebrate it.

No, I think we might have bought cards for our first wedding anniversary but otherwise we don't bother.

We don't bother with Valentines either. Romance for us is the little things that make us smile. For example my husband was delighted last night when I found some Cherry Tango cans and brought them home for him he hasn't seen any for ages and is partial to it. For the sake of £1.50 I made him walk on air

Ok, I don't feel so bad that all I've got him so far is a card then (we met tomorrow, 4 yrs ago).

No. In fact this year we only remembered around lunchtime when an IL text us happy anniversary. We’ve only been married two years, but it’s just another day really.

We always celebrate it, usually by going for a nice meal and spending the day together. We sometimes give gifts and cards, but we both are busy and work long hours, so sometimes will agree to not.

We never usually do anything for our "when we got together" anniversary. Although we did use the 10th anniversary as an excuse to have a posh hotel night away toddler-free which was a lovely chance to reconnect a bit and reminisce.

For our wedding anniversary my DH always organises an afternoon tea which is what we had for our wedding breakfast. One year it was in a beautiful old hotel in Stratford because we happened to be having a little holiday there, another year it was in our back garden while I cuddled newborn DD, another time we took it as a picnic to the park and toddler DD tucked into jam finger sandwiches. It's sort of transformed into this lovely, low-key little family celebration and I cherish it every year.

@CoastalLife That sounds lovely.

No. Neither of us even remembers the date we got married. I hate anniversaries, anyway. They make me think of Clinton cards and teddybears with twee messages on their stomachs.

No we don't. We both actually forgot our wedding anniversary a couple of years ago. We joked it's because we've had so many of them - nearly 30 in fact

Not really. Sometimes. We don't seem to have a rule about it. We try to mark the occasion somehow, though. Last year we went out for a meal and drinks - just to a nearby "gastro"pub though, and agreed on no gifts, as it was an expensive month for other reasons.

We always try to be on holiday for our anniversary, which is the same week as DH's birthday. We buy each other cards and gifts, some years the gift is quite small (e.g. book or jumper), other times more extravagant (perfume or theatre tickets). We started going out for a date on our 13th wedding anniversary*, and it has generally stuck.

(*DH didn't want to go out previously because his ex had gone out with him for a meal on their 13th wedding anniversary and told him she was leaving him for another man)

I've only been married 1.5ys. Last summer on our first anniversary I got him a white "paper" rose bush, but tbh it was a gift for us both as I really wanted a new rose bush for the garden 😂 I've no intention of making a fuss over our anniversary, I'll probably just cook a nice meal at home. Maybe we'll have a meal out at 10/20/30/40 etc years

Yes. We celebrate both our wedding anniversary and the anniversary of the day we met. Always swap cards, usually a meal out though sometimes a takeaway and a DVD. I always get flowers and we usually give each other a small gift. For bigger anniversaries such as silver, pearl etc, we might go away or we buy each other a more significant gift.

We normally just do a small gift or card..although last year DH went a little over the top and bought me a pandora bracelet with a load of the Disney charms on....made me feel slightly guilty!