Anniversaries of relationships

[MiaMarshmallows]

Did you celebrate them/make note of them before marriage or after?

Dont celebrate it at all. Doesnt matter to me or DP

We've never really been ones to celebrate anniversaries. Both before and after marriage. The only one we made a point of celebrating was 10 years of being in a relationship (which was 5 years into our marriage)

We celebrated by booking the honeymoon we never had....only for it to be cancelled. Thanks covid

Only wedding anniversary. But I still remember the date before. We just don't mark it.

Also I don't know what people imagine under "celebrating". We just have some nicer food or go to a nice restaurant. Nothing massive, no presents or cards (we don't do cards).

Nope, I've never done that in any relationship. I have a friend who knows the date when she first kissed, first had sex, first met her DH, millions of 'firsts' and my head is full of song lyrics from the 80's and 90's instead of any of that information.

I do know when we got married, though, so I'm not completely useless.

I tend to only remember it's our anniversary when my mum gives us a card.

Neither of us are remotely fussed.

Errrm we acknowledged our relationship anniversaries before marriage as in "wow we've been together x years"

Actually thinking about it we don't really do more than that for our wedding anniversary 🤦‍♀️

One of my closest friends and her dp though celebrate their relationship, first date and engagement anniversaries (covid has see their wedding delayed twice now and theyve been engaged 3 years), with gifts and a meal out, which is cute.

Yes - first date.
If you're not married and you don't have an anniversary (regardless of whether you celebrate it) how do you date the age of your relationship?

We do card and a small gift, maybe a nice meal if we can wangle a babysitter for our wedding anniversary. That’s all. My mum sends us a card as well which is nice, appreciated but really not required!

Yes we do, we acknowledge our relationship anniversary and our wedding anniversary. We love any excuse to celebrate. But there are rarely presents/cards, it's more a meal/drinks thing, and a couple of holidays.

I tend to remember this stuff - not our first kiss and things, but I’ll mention it if I notice that it’s six years since the day we met or whatever. I bought cakes for our three month wedding anniversary, but I didn’t plan it, I just like cake and thought it was a good excuse, and 2020 needs all the joy it can get!

So I guess I do, but it’s not calendar entries or remembering every detail, I just have a mind that works like that. And husband remembers our original anniversary and our wedding anniversary.

Neither of us remember when we got together or got engaged.

We celebrate our wedding anniversary usually with a meal out or take away.

We aim to buy cards for each other on our wedding anniversary but we've both forgotten for the past few years. We've been together a long time, neither of us really care how long at this point!

We didn’t get “engaged” with a proposal, ring, etc. We knew we wanted to be together permanently and because we were in 2 different countries we had to marry because I could only immigrate to the USA as a spouse, not as a “domestic partner” or similar.

We celebrate the anniversary of my immigration and the day I moved here for good after 4.5 years of being 5000 miles apart, 2 of those years as husband and wife. For us, that’s when our life together began and it was a huge event after all the paperwork and waiting.

We got together ‘more than two decades’ ago. I say that because after never being sure of the specific day, I am now not even certain of the year. It was definitely before 1999 though. We finally got around to getting PACSéd recently (French civil partnership) and it was only when rifling through the paperwork for our residency applications yesterday that I found the certificate and realised it had been our first anniversary in October. So no, we don’t really pay any attention to the passage of time.

I remember when we got together because it was a significant sporting event we don't celebrate it though, not wedding anniversary really. Mil always gets us a card though.

Been with my partner nearly 5 years and have no idea when our anniversary is. Not even the month.

We only celebrate our wedding anniversary. Our last was silver so we both gave significant gifts (a ring and a watch) but usually it would be a card, flowers and a meal out.

We celebrated very quietly and personally pre marriage. For example we’d perhaps go out for a meal but if anyone asked if it were for an occasion we would say no. Now we are married we only celebrate our wedding anniversary (not relationship start) and close friends and family send cards. We may do something a little more extravagant like a holiday and if asked we would mention to the hotel that we are there celebrating an anniversary

I recall the date we met (mainly because it was a Friday 13th ) but I’m not sure when we specifically became a couple. We don’t celebrate, though. Wedding anniversary is easier to remember.