The First Wedding Anniversary
This is another one of those posts where I reveal just how newly married my husband and I are…
I feel like I have been running behind on pretty much everything this week, and I have been hurrying to not only try to catch up but also get ahead. Even with all the work thoughts swimming through my head, one thing has been on my mind for the past couple of weeks…
My first wedding anniversary.
This queen of giving presents and creating a good time for people has found herself intimidated a bit by the prospect of the first wedding anniversary. I also have the feeling my husband is as well, poor guy.
I would like to make the day (and night) very special and memorable, but I’m curious as to what other people have done for their anniversaries. What other people have done to celebrate the occasion.
So, this is a call out to everyone who has been married for more than a year (or celebrating wedding-like anniversaries yearly): What did you do on your first wedding anniversary? Did you exchange presents? Go on a holiday? Spend the day in bed?
Yes, I have ulterior motives in asking – I reckon the more ideas I have, the better the chances I have of giving my husband a day/night he will never forget. So if you’d like to help me with ideas that you haven’t done yourself, feel free to leave those in the comments as well!
April 10th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
To be honest, we completely ignored our first anniversary because we had purchased our house and could barely afford to feed ourselves! We avoided the one after that as well.
For the last few years, however, we’ve been doing something. We’ll be married 6 years in May, and we’ve been going on a camping trip every year around our anniversary. One year we went to Maine, the next to Salem, MA, and last year to Plymouth, MA. We look at it as our time to get away, as we don’t have much. We don’t spend a lot to go camping, and try to find the perfect place - one that shows how joined our relationship is. For instance, I love the ocean and desire to be near it once a year at least. HE loves old things and history - there you get Maine (lighthouses), Salem, and Plymouth! This year, however, I’m stumped…must do more research on historical things in our driving distance!
Just do something that is fun, and don’t worry about making it too ‘memorable’. The point is to reaffirm the reason you got married in the first place, and hopefully to fall in love all over again.
April 11th, 2008 at 7:07 am
We argued about when our anniversary was. Due to one of those curious coincidences the Universe loves to cook up, my first marriage was two days before my marriage to my present husband, and his first marriage was two days after ours. I wasn’t mixed up, but he was, confusing our anniversary with his first.
It was only after I produced an actual wedding invitation that he conceded the point. Then we went to dinner.
April 11th, 2008 at 8:12 am
The night before our anniversary (a Saturday) we planned a nice dinner at a Hawaiian restaurant someone had recommended because our wedding was Hawaiian themed and that is where our honeymoon took place. They put as at a high-top table in the middle of the busy restaurant, even though they new it was our anniversary. Not too romantic. Add to that tables on either side of us with loud drunk people and it was not fun.
The next morning on our actual anniversary, we went to breakfast at a local place and made each other cards on the back of our paper placemats. I liked that experience much better.
April 11th, 2008 at 9:51 am
When I read this post I realized with horror that I could not remember what we did our first anniversary … that was the summer that I took the bar exam, and the bar loomed over everything we did that until the results came out on Labor Day. We probably went out to dinner or something that did not involve studying or working, which that summer would have been a real treat!
April 11th, 2008 at 10:30 am
We usually go out for dinner and rent a movie. Not wildly exciting but it’s nice getting away from the kids.
Our honeymoon was the best since my mom took my only child at the time for a whole week. We hung out at a cottage near the beach, sat and sang by the fire, streaked in the woods etc.
April 11th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
Randi - No drama.
I’m not worried. A camping trip does sound like a lot of fun. 
Beth - Eesh. I think that’s one of the reasons my husband wanted to get married on an easy to remember date. I hope you had a nice dinner.
Winnie - Awww. I’m glad you got to salvage things with a nice breakfast.
Margie - When it comes to other stresses taking the front seat, I don’t think anyone can blame you for not remembering. I do hope you went out and did something special for the next one.
Sandra - Streaking too? Hehe. Nicely done. And I’d take comfort and relaxation over wildly exciting any day.
April 12th, 2008 at 9:06 am
It was so long ago, our 28th is coming up this summer. I remember putting on my wedding dress, and we ate the top of our cake by candle light. Then he helped me take the dress off…and….well, you know.
That’s all I remember doing. Probably because I always thought putting my dress on was corny. Oh well, life is short, we might as well have fun, right?