It's my 5th anniversary of when me and the other half got together tomorrow and it's got me thinking. After we are married will we still celebrate this date? Or forget about it and just celebrate our wedding day? Or will we celebrate both days?
Then it got me thinking HOW will we celebrate both, will we do the whole cards presents meal etc for both or will we do that for the wedding and just have something nice and simple for the "when we met" one like go out for a nice meal or something?
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What will you be doing, have done?? Or did you get/set your days on the same date??
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CommentAuthorMrs-Mouse-2-be
I would say you should still celebrate both, though as my mum and dad are together almost 40 years neither of them can remember the exact date they met but then so much time has passed and so much life has happened between then and now. All I know is they only knew each other around 9 months when they tied the knot.
Its the day you met him or got together with him and if it hadnt have been for that day your wedding would never have happened :-)
CommentAuthorMrs-Mouse-2-be
Whoops I forgot to add I met my Fiancé on 13th of August but we get married in July 2014. Basically I would just give him a card or something simple and leave the meal till the wedding anniversary as both dates will be so close together.
CommentAuthorTatty
My sister and her husband don't celebrate the day they got together but they do make sure both of them are home for dinner and have some time together when the kids have gone to bed to remember how they met and when they realised they loved each other and stuff. I hope me and my H2b will do the same. x
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CommentAuthorPenguinJ
we will be celebrating both :) wedding anniversary will be 14/06 and our 'got together' date will be 13/07 :) yes we are all about celebrating our time together so we do celebrate every little thing :) i think its nice as its not a necessity is a want. xxx
We dont really have an official got together date so we've never celebrated anything like that. But I think its swert to remember and have a special date night or something.
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CommentAuthorPenguinJ
yeh we have date we met, date we officially together, date we got engaged and date we get married lol. these are all his ideas haha, hes well soppy :) xxx
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CommentAuthorKayleighH98
Yeah, we have a day when we got together, a day we were enagaged and then (hopefully) the day we were married, we always try to make sure we spend sometime together on these days as we have two little ones and its actually easy to forget the days! xx
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CommentAuthorSazzell23
We chose to get married on the anniversary date that we met, it made sense as it was already a special date for us so why not get married on that date too:) x
CommentAuthorKayleighH98
That sounds a lot more sensible Sazzell23! ...Very sensible, actually! xx
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CommentAuthornatalie2614
Our wedding date is the date we got together so we'll still celebrate it, providing h2b is around (hopefully he will have got his place in the Royal Marines by then).
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CommentAuthorOfficially Mrs M
we dont celebrate them anymore we just decided to celebrate the day we got married but we still make reference to when we got together and say to each other X amount of years today and same for when we got engaged
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CommentAuthorKayleighH98
Awww, I hope hes not deployed? dunno if thats the right word Natalie2614 for your special days and Mrs Mann thats really sweet, least you both acknowledge and remember your special days <3 think the memories are the best xxx
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CommentAuthorMel D
Funily enough we have been talking about this recently as it's the 6th anniversary of our first date soon, but 2 year wedding anniversary in May. We decided that we would say x years since our first date ... but we don't acknowledge the anniversary of our engagement at all.
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CommentAuthorMrsA-J
Id celebrate both :P
I think the day you started dating would become less importnant tho... :/ maybe a nice meal? But then again I dont know. Its a tricky one i think, the day you got together is important too me, but so is the day you become mr and mrs... :/
Stuff it. Mr A I want cards, presents and a nice slap up meal on both days please :P hahaha
CommentAuthorPenguinJ
i have all the dates in the diary as thats what i do lol xxx
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CommentAuthorMel D
The problem we have is that our first date was 13th Feb so it's always extra expensive to go for a meal on that anniversary
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CommentAuthorPenguinJ
at least you can mix it with valentines day rather than go for 2 haha xxx
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CommentAuthorLinzi-jo
Our anniversary is on the 14th February so it is Valentines anyway so will always be celebrated, our wedding anniversary will be just over 6 months later on the 30th August, so they arent close together. My parents married on the 17th September and met on the 30th October. They dont celebrate the meeting date as such, but they always make sure they either go out for a nice meal or cook a special one at home xxx
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CommentAuthorMrsWright290912
We have been together for 9 years on Feb 24th and we havent really ever celebrated to be honest. He only gets me a valentines card because he knows ill get him one lol. I think it will be different now we are married
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CommentAuthorlala "mod" bunni
now this is why we got married 10yrs to he day that we met !!!!
He will be in basic training probably but I'm realistic in that he will probably miss our future anniversaries due to deployments. If I get to speak to him ill be happy xx
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CommentAuthor*KelBel*
We haven't bought each other anniversary cards for being together,we're just gonna get those when we celebrate our marriage date, our date of getting together is New Year's Eve so we always try to do something then when I haven't got the children, me n the ex alternate years so it's normally every other yr cos it's very difficult to get a sitter New Year's Eve x
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CommentAuthorlala "mod" bunni
although i have our legal wedding date ( the america wedding) i will also have the date of the uk ceremony ... but i have been told i have to choose which one i cant have both
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CommentAuthorGlitterfairy
I wondered this as well. I thought maybe we would forget it and to be honest I know hubby did anyway.It would still be nice to remember the date though
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CommentAuthorJennyHeather
We never celebrate the day we got together, (we can't actually remember the actual date we just know it was around the middle of June time). Lots of people still celebrate the day they got together along with there wedding anniversary, unless you get married on the same date you got together and then it's a 2 for 1 deal then!
CommentAuthorAtaraxia
We got married on our anniversary too :) we just have the fun of two wedding anniversaries - we celebrate our Spain wedding as the actual anniversary on July 5th but are also planning on doing a little something to celebrate our legal wedding date :)
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CommentAuthorAlytaR
We're marrying on our got together anniversary too lol. No excuses of forgettinglol
CommentAuthorPenguinJ
well we met on May 19th, got together on July 13th, got engaged October 18th and we get married on June 14th. lol :) xxx
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CommentAuthormillz090
Ours will be the same date..... Meet and got together on 10th August 2004 and 9 years later will be our wedding day. Means our first year wedding anniversary is our 10 years together so a big celebration! Xxx
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CommentAuthorPenguinJ
awww thats really good Millz. i wanted our wedding to be on the weekend of our get together anniversary but friends of ours have booked their wedding for the same weekend :( xxx
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CommentAuthormillz090
We didn't plan it that way really, just happened. We have always celebrated between us our anniversary, only cards, little present and dinner out so something we will keep doing but always more special if wedding anniversary.
I think you only really need to celebrate one anniversary a year and will be your wedding date plus you'll get cards from family then too xxx
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CommentAuthorClaireS2bMrsSimpson
We getting married on our 10 year anniversary, h2b said it will be easy to remember how year he have been married then!!
CommentAuthorPenguinJ
haha. well i wont ever forget any of the dates. h2b wont forget when we first met as it was on his bday lol. i will always mention them, like we do now (every 18th of the month i mention how many months we been engaged lol). but we will prob only celebrate the wedding one :) xxx
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CommentAuthorKayleighH98
ah PenguinJ, we do that aswell, everytime we get to the certain date we say X many months til weve been together X years :) its so cute, its kind of like a little game :) xx
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CommentAuthorSianyCaitlin
We're marrying on our 5 year anniversary as I wanted a wedding date that was special to us (plus h2b won't have so many dates to remember!) lol xx
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CommentAuthorSianyCaitlin
We do that too Jordan, every 6th of the month, I ask him the date & then he works out the months lol xx
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CommentAuthorClaireS2bMrsSimpson
We cant forget the date we got engaged.... 17/7/07 and then our son was born on the 17/7/10
CommentAuthormrscookiecrew
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We wont really have a choice about celebrated both days as we got together on my birthday so obviously we celebrate that anyway lol x
also wold have been nan and grandads anniversary
CommentAuthorMrsLJDeaton
Hails this got me thinking obviously we celebrate the day we started going out and now we have a separate day for when we got engaged I want to celebrate both wondering what to get H2B for our 1st year of Engagement on 23rd August 2013 hmm thinking When we finally say " I DO" we will hopefully be saying It on our 6yr Anniversary so we do not have to change the day and celebrate our wedding day on another day Presents and cards movie with snacks and cola in bed snuggled up together all Loved up just perfect =D ♥ X
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CommentAuthorLittle Kettle
Now we are married, the only date we now celebrate is our wedding anniversary itself. We still, however give a 'wow, it's X years since we had our first date - can you believe that?' on the 13 July each year.
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CommentAuthorLauraJo87
It's funny, we actually made a bug fuss of our anniversary of the getting together (9 dec 2006) last year as h2b said 'it will be our last one ever, because next year we'll have our wedding and that anniversary'.
I think we will probably acknowledge our getting together anniversary, maybe cook a nice meal etc and go out on our actual wedding anniversary xx
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CommentAuthorPenguinJ
To be honest we don't really go out out on our anniversaries! We will just have a special night in xxx
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CommentAuthorEcoFreak
We got together 23/11/07, engaged 23/06/11 (he wanted to propose on 23/5/11 as a 'halfiversary' but I had a huge uni deadline the next day lol) so we'll try coordinate with that - probably May 23rd 2015 and take our honeymoon in November Xx
CommentAuthornadia13
We will still celebrate our 1st date but just go 4 meal, maybe cards not sure about presents tho and then on our wedding anniversary we will go way, already decided that our 1st wedding anniversary we will go back 2 Venice, we went there about 7 yrs ago loved it said we go back but never did and we even have a 'Venice pot' where we put a couple of quid away a week!! X
CommentAuthorSarahR582
We'll celebrate both in one as our wedding day is 2 days before the anniversary we celebrate now. I'd still do both if they weren't close together though! I doubt we'll celebrate the engagement date though but we'll see xx
CommentAuthorkimi1987
we met in person on 3/6/2009, started going out 06/06/09, got engaged 15/10/2010 and getting married 25/05/2013 we dont really celebrate any of the dates but will definitely start celebrating our anniversary next year.
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CommentAuthorVickie
We met online roughly a month and half before our first date which was 29th July. We will be getting married on 13th July so prob only celebrate the one, wedding one. Didn't do anything for anniversary last year and don't think yr before either.
CommentAuthorMrsGothBride
We celebrate our got together date, its 8th Feb and also the date that we got engaged (5 years later). We usually go out for a meal and exchange anniversary cards. We get married on 5th September and I think this Will replace the Feb date in terms of sending cards.
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