Do you celebrate an anniversary for your years of dating, or just your wedding anniversary?
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We don't, but it was always difficult to celebrate it pre-marriage as it's a few days before Christmas. We always mention it to each other though.
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We acknowledge our dating anniversary and celebrate our wedding anniversary. We try to plan a trip around our wedding anniversary, but we don't do gifts.
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We acknowledge our dating anniversary, but dont celebrate it.
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Just wedding but we never celebrated our dating anniversary while dating we always knew we'd have our marriage anniversary to celebrate eventually
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We try and casually acknowledge it, and at least go out to dinner. For our wedding anniversary, the dinner we go out to will just be a little nicer.
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We did for the first 10 years. The last 3 we were married but this year would have been our 11th but we both forgot when it rolled around on June 9th. About 2 days later I realized we both missed it. I guess having a toddler and being 8 months pregnant does that to you. Lol
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We got married on our anny so we would just have one date to remember and celebrate.
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Wedding anniversary only. We kind of forgot about the dating one after 1-2 years of marriage.
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Just wedding. I'm really not even sure when we started dating. But we were together for seven years before we got married.
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We celebrate both - one's in December and one's in July, so it gives us a good excuse to focus on each other at least once every six months.
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We celebrate just our wedding anniversary since the date is a week and a half away from our dating anniversary. We are low key with anniversary stuff as is, so I can't imagine celebrating both.
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We acknowledge our dating anniversary, but celebrate the wedding one more. They're in April & October, so we get a day to be mindful of our relationship every 6 months!
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Our wedding anniversary and our dating anniversary are the same day.
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When we were dating and engaged yes, but once we got married we only celebrate the wedding anniversary.
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We acknowledge our dating anniversary, but we don't celebrate it.
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@pui: @pinkb: do you only acknowledge the years you've been married or your dating years too?
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@Crystal: I count only the years we've been married for our anniversary. I usually tell people that we've been married for two years, but if they ask how long we've been together I'd say 6 years.
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We acknowledge it and sometimes do dinner for it. This year will be year 10, so we'll just go out
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Like some of the previous posters, my dating anniversary and wedding anniversary are less than a week apart so we celebrate both. We were married after ten years of being together so I still really like to celebrate all that time.
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@MrsMcD: I do too! We were married on our 8th anniversary, so this year we are celebrating 2 years of marriage, but 10 years of being together.
DH keeps saying the first years "don't count," so I was curious how others felt.
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We acknowledge the day we met which we consider our dating anniversary. But we only celebrate our wedding anniversary.
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@Crystal: we celebrate and acknowledge both! 7 years together before marriage was still a commitment to each other.
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We dated for over 5 years before getting married and we celebrate both still.
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We got married on our third dating anniversary, so I'm not sure we qualify as having been together a long time, but we actually got married on a Thursday because keeping the same date was really important to us, we are both super attached to it.
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@Crystal: I would slap my husband if he said the first years don't count!
I think its easy to disregard the "first years" if there were only a couple. But when you get into something crazy like 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10..... how do you disregard and not celebrate those?
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@lauraeabel: That's just about the sweetest thing.
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Our dating anniversary is the day before our wedding anniversary, so no, but sorta yes lol
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@Crystal: haha I totally agree with @MrsMcD: DH better not ever think the pre-marriage years don't count!
this year will be the first time though that marriage years > dating years (6 vs 5)
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@runnerd: Wow! Congratulations, lady! I think that's an exciting little milestone to celebrate.
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@lauraeabel: I also got married on a Thursday, for the same reason!
@MrsMcD: ugh, I want to! Lol It all started because I told him this year was a special anniversary because we've been together 10 years, and he said that didn't count. Ummm, what? 8 years is a long time to not recognize!
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@runnerd: that's so fun!
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Oohhhhhhh our anniversaries are 6 months apart so it's a lot different than if it were the same month. Started dating in a Dec and married in a June
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@Crystal: In all fairness, my DH would probably say the same thing, too. He's not particularly sappy and would assume (correctly) that I was just fishing for an expensive night out. Good thing I usually prevail in my household on issues like that. I don't know what you can do differently since the anniversaries are the same, but it should definitely be something a little more significant than what you may have already planned. And by significant, I mean something like if you were going to just BBQ at home, you should BBQ and have a little dance party with champagne as well.
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I might leave him a little card and we certainly used to celebrate it but not anymore... we have family in town this year so definitely no dinner out or anything.
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we dont,. I dont think we even remember when we started dating LOL
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@MrsMcD: I have time to talk him around to my way of thinking (pouting counts as talking right?). I agree we'll probably just making something we are already doing slightly more special.
I wonder if the answer would be different if we had picked a different day.
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@pinkb: Same here! It's much easier to remember/celebrate both at once.
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@Crystal: glad we aren't the only ones, certain guests were not happy with us for a weekday wedding. And I agree with other posters, 8 years is way too long to not count!! Men can be so dense.
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@Crystal: That's laaaammmmmme. I use both anniversaries for an excuse for a fancy night out. And champagne. Then again, I don't need an excuse for champagne.
We just celebrated our 10-year, too - congratulations!!
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