https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 02 May 2026 14:21:03 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-did-you-get-your-so-for-your-first-wedding-anniversary/page/2#post-189687 Thu, 14 Jun 2012 16:42:28 +0000 MegWag 189687@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Arden: I did the Dallas skyline on ours. I figured since that was the city where we got married, but not where we live now it would be nice reminder.<br /> Your map idea sounds really cute too! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-did-you-get-your-so-for-your-first-wedding-anniversary/page/2#post-188597 Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:08:26 +0000 googly-eyes 188597@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Is is terrible that I don't remember? I know we took a mini-trip (weekend a couple hours away) and I think that's what we gave each other, rather than the usual gifts. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-did-you-get-your-so-for-your-first-wedding-anniversary/page/2#post-188576 Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:02:51 +0000 StrawberryBee 188576@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Arden: Hey anniversary twin! Love the idea :). If you're short on wall space you could also do a long frame with three hearts in it, or a square frame with the four. I think the more the merrier ^_^. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-did-you-get-your-so-for-your-first-wedding-anniversary/page/2#post-188525 Wed, 13 Jun 2012 18:58:55 +0000 Arden 188525@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I just came up with an idea for our first anniversary on June 26th!<br /> Tell me what you think...<br /> Three frames with white matting and a heart shaped map in the center of each one. First map - of the FL town where he proposed. Second map - FL town where we were married. Third map - Budapest, where we went on our honeymoon. </p> <p>I could add one more map at the beginning... the city in Albania where we had our first kiss... </p> <p>What do you think? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-did-you-get-your-so-for-your-first-wedding-anniversary/page/2#post-188516 Wed, 13 Jun 2012 18:50:57 +0000 MrsCastro 188516@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>we were in hawaii celebrating and his phone died so i bought him a new iphone... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-did-you-get-your-so-for-your-first-wedding-anniversary#post-188508 Wed, 13 Jun 2012 18:36:27 +0000 Arden 188508@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MegWag: I'm now considering this idea too... how did you pick the horizon? I can't choose!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-did-you-get-your-so-for-your-first-wedding-anniversary#post-188343 Wed, 13 Jun 2012 15:53:19 +0000 MegWag 188343@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@StrawberryBee: Yay! Glad I could help. I love ours. It hangs over our bed :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-did-you-get-your-so-for-your-first-wedding-anniversary#post-187839 Wed, 13 Jun 2012 10:26:09 +0000 plaidpants 187839@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We did the paper ticket route also - our anniversary happened to fall around the time we wanted to take our last "baby-free" vacation, so we decided the plane tickets would be our present to eachother. I was around 5 months pregnant. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-did-you-get-your-so-for-your-first-wedding-anniversary#post-187812 Wed, 13 Jun 2012 10:07:22 +0000 sulli301 187812@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ferry tickets to mackinac island :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-did-you-get-your-so-for-your-first-wedding-anniversary#post-187777 Wed, 13 Jun 2012 09:39:40 +0000 LuLu Mom 187777@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We went on a small babymoon for our first last month. Went to a Yankees game and stayed in a hotel, it was fun. So I guess traditional "tickets" were paper...and yummy food was mine! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-did-you-get-your-so-for-your-first-wedding-anniversary#post-187687 Wed, 13 Jun 2012 08:15:24 +0000 Minnie_Girl 187687@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We just went out to dinner. We're having a baby and are buying a house...bigger priorities at the moment. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-did-you-get-your-so-for-your-first-wedding-anniversary#post-187682 Wed, 13 Jun 2012 08:12:17 +0000 mrs. wagon 187682@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If I didn't keep a google spreadsheet of what we gave each other and where we went to dinner, I would have never remembered ;) </p> <p>We switch off doing the traditional gift each year, and that year was me, so I gave him tickets to the NLCS game 1. His team (the Mets) were playing. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-did-you-get-your-so-for-your-first-wedding-anniversary#post-187678 Wed, 13 Jun 2012 08:02:24 +0000 sorrycharlie 187678@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>thanks everyone!! so many good ideas. unfortunately, we can't afford a lot of them right now...but I've got a few more weeks to brainstorm :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-did-you-get-your-so-for-your-first-wedding-anniversary#post-185378 Mon, 11 Jun 2012 09:03:07 +0000 purrpletulips 185378@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We spent our first wedding anniversary with friends seeing a touring production of "Wicked" and didn't give gifts. My thoughts were that we celebrated our wedding day with friends why not celebrate our anniversary with friends as well. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-did-you-get-your-so-for-your-first-wedding-anniversary#post-185376 Mon, 11 Jun 2012 09:01:45 +0000 mrsjyw 185376@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>we actually didn't exchange gifts as we booked a trip to cabo for a week a month before our 1 year!</p> <p>i do plan on doing something this year, we're going to a dinner at a fancy restaurant downtown and i want to make sure to gift him something... trying to stay away from baby-related things because that seems like an obvious choice... but don't have any ideas yet! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-did-you-get-your-so-for-your-first-wedding-anniversary#post-185373 Mon, 11 Jun 2012 09:00:25 +0000 MsLipGloss 185373@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I got him an awesome piece of art from a local artist . . . who is now his favorite artist, and we have added several more pieces to the collection. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-did-you-get-your-so-for-your-first-wedding-anniversary#post-185364 Mon, 11 Jun 2012 08:52:29 +0000 Sammyfab 185364@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We are following the traditional gift guides :). For our 1st anniversary we were on a flight to South Africa. DH bought me a bunch of scrapbooking and watercolor paper and art stuff. I drew him a pic of the two of us. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-did-you-get-your-so-for-your-first-wedding-anniversary#post-185352 Mon, 11 Jun 2012 08:42:23 +0000 Alivoo01 185352@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I got him a couple things, but for the "paper" present I made him an I &lt;3 You Because _________ in a frame. I printed it on our leftover program cardstock.</p> <p><a href="http://kikicreates.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-02-21T21%3A50%3A00-08%3A00&#038;max-results=4" rel="nofollow">http://kikicreates.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-02-21T21%3A50%3A00-08%3A00&#038;max-results=4</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-did-you-get-your-so-for-your-first-wedding-anniversary#post-184661 Sun, 10 Jun 2012 12:20:42 +0000 Smurfette 184661@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We didn't really do gifts. But I him a book of reasons why I loved him. I wrote down a reason every single day during our first year why I loved him. He loved it and totally cried. He got me a new cake topper since our original one was ruined when our fridge died one weekend when we were out of town. We got married 4 hours away, so the fact that he drove secretly 8 hours in one day to get one from our cake baker meant so much to me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-did-you-get-your-so-for-your-first-wedding-anniversary#post-184655 Sun, 10 Jun 2012 12:16:18 +0000 WiLLoWtReE 184655@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We took a trip to Charleston and Myrtle Beach for our 1 year anniversary. It ended up being a babymoon too since I was about 8 weeks pregnant at the time :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-did-you-get-your-so-for-your-first-wedding-anniversary#post-184540 Sun, 10 Jun 2012 09:59:47 +0000 Mrs. Pen 184540@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We went to a really nice sushi dinner and stayed at a historic inn after.<br /> As for the gifts, my main gift was an electric tool set and he bought me a speaker set for my iPod - it was both stuff we wanted. But I did a side "paper thing". I made him a set of "coupons", back massages, control of the remote, control of the music in the car, night of dishes/dinner, do his laundry - etc. He loved it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-did-you-get-your-so-for-your-first-wedding-anniversary#post-184536 Sun, 10 Jun 2012 09:53:03 +0000 StrawberryBee 184536@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MegWag: Thank You! I've been struggling trying to come up with an idea for a gift (our 1st anniversary is on the 26th). Just ordered our wedding night sky :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-did-you-get-your-so-for-your-first-wedding-anniversary#post-184420 Sat, 09 Jun 2012 23:28:46 +0000 PitBulLover 184420@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I got him concert tickets to see his favorite band and then framed a printed lyric from our wedding first dance song (written by his favorite band!)... he loved it </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-did-you-get-your-so-for-your-first-wedding-anniversary#post-184401 Sat, 09 Jun 2012 21:26:55 +0000 littlebug 184401@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I hand-painted the lyrics to our first dance song ("Chasing Cars") on a canvas. Not exactly paper, but I treated it like paper, so I let it slide. Hubs loved it and it hangs in our bedroom now. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-did-you-get-your-so-for-your-first-wedding-anniversary#post-184392 Sat, 09 Jun 2012 20:16:22 +0000 heffalump 184392@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I gave him a book. Not romantic, but it was paper and he loved it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-did-you-get-your-so-for-your-first-wedding-anniversary#post-184355 Sat, 09 Jun 2012 18:51:51 +0000 Ms.SK 184355@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Earrings- LOL! Plus we took an overnight trip I planned the day of. I was getting over a miscarriage and it was nice to go to dinner (where we went on our first date) and to a local hotel. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-did-you-get-your-so-for-your-first-wedding-anniversary#post-184347 Sat, 09 Jun 2012 18:34:37 +0000 Grace 184347@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I got him a travel book about Nova Scotia, PEI and New Brunswick (it's where we are going on vacation this summer). It's easy to find inexpensive paper gifts! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-did-you-get-your-so-for-your-first-wedding-anniversary#post-184344 Sat, 09 Jun 2012 18:06:56 +0000 petuniasandpearls 184344@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We gave ourselves a vacation, but we took it about 2 weeks after our anniversary because of work stuff. It was a great first anniversary trip and we ended up bringing back a souvenir that will be making an appearance in our life at the end of November. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-did-you-get-your-so-for-your-first-wedding-anniversary#post-184328 Sat, 09 Jun 2012 17:29:35 +0000 MegWag 184328@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I got him a print from IndigoNight.com . You tell them the date and geographical location you want and they do a picture of what the night sky looked like with your choice of skylines.<br /> I did the sky the night of our wedding. It was especially apropos because he told me that before the ceremony he'd gone for a walk to clear his head and prepare and was feeling really sad about his family (his parents and sister are dead). Then he looked up in the sky and saw 3 really bright stars and felt a sense of peace and calm. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-did-you-get-your-so-for-your-first-wedding-anniversary#post-184194 Sat, 09 Jun 2012 12:46:08 +0000 skibobrown 184194@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I got him a card that announced that I was pregnant! :-) </p> <p>We decided not to do gifts b/c we took a big trip to Hawaii for our anniversary. That was our gift to ourselves. </p>