Anniversaries… One Too Many
February 2nd, 2008 @ 2:32 pm by Mrs. Flamingo
Unless you have chosen a specific date for all the important moments in your life, like myself… you might have one too many anniversaries. Many of us gals love to keep tabs on all the little details, specific dates, times and all of that. So here is my list…
First date: October 28th
Official going out: December 15th
The Proposal: December 24th
The Wedding: June 21st
and the list can go on….
Now my question is this, does the wedding date cancel out all the other dates? In my case my official going out date and my proposal dates are very close - so I can rule out one of the two. What dates do you celebrate? Do you have any special ways to combine your anniversaries? Please share 
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14 Responses to “Anniversaries… One Too Many”
We decided to do an anniversary month - ours is March. This way we are not restricted to any day AND we get to celebrate the WHOLE month instead of just one day. This works well b/c in the beginning when we dated we always had to work on V-day or most weekends so we said screw it - its our time and we’ll celebrate when WE WANT to and CAN. Takes a lot of pressure off on us and not having to recall a specific day.
Once we get married, all the other anniversaries are going out the window. The way I see it, I dated other men before I met my fiance. I had “first date” and “officially dating” anniversaries with them, so to me, they’re not ALL that special, just from the standpoint that it’s not like dating my fiance was the FIRST TIME EVER that I went on a date. I had those anniversaries with other people. But I’ve never been married, so this will be my first ever wedding date and the first time I can ever celebrate a wedding anniversary, and that makes it a lot more special in my opinion. We never celebrated the engagement anniversary… while it was a big deal to be engaged, he didn’t propose on a specific day for any big reason, so it just didn’t seem like something else we needed to celebrate.
I’m sure we will continue to acknowledge the anniversary of when we started to date, but we won’t celebrate it in any way. You can date lots of people…. but you only marry one, if you’re lucky!
our first date, first kiss, and officially going out were all the same day - long story, but we were best friends first for a while, and the romantic side all began on the same day.
we’ll probably still do something slightly special for our dating anniversary and the anniversary of when he proposed… but something along the lines of a nicer dinner, or go out to a movie - normal date night stuff, but in celebration of something a little special to us.
our wedding anniversary, though, will be when we really celebrate each year!
i wondered this same thing. our “anniversary” date is march 13th, and we got engaged on march 31 (a backwards 13, lol) and since the closest date to march 13th in 2009 was march 14th, that’s our anniversary date. so do we cancel march 13th? we’ve been together for 10 years now, but didn’t want to wait until 2010 for march 13th to fall on a Saturday. which would have marked us as being together for 13 years. yes confusing. lol
We had the first day we met, our first date, the date he proposed, and the wedding date.
After the wedding we reduced it to: first date and wedding date.
He doesn’t keep track now, and he said that after we’re married he really hopes not to be expected to remember anything but the wedding date on his own. Right now, we celebrate (once I’ve reminded him) our “officially dating” day, and I remind him of the first date days and 6 month marks. Engagement probably won’t have an anniversary until after we’re married, so I think we will probably remember those, but not necessarily celebrate them. It will probably just be a good excuse to go out to dinner.
We got married on our four year anniversary of (almost) everything. Haha. So that works!
The day I got my ring was 1 year and 1 day before our wedding, so those days got combined. We also combined our first meeting and our first date because they were only days apart. We don’t make a huge deal of the date-aversary, but we always mark it in some way. So, we are down to 1 big and 1 small anniversary
The only anniversary we had celebrated is the date we officially became a couple. We don’t get each other gifts for that occasion but we might go out to dinner and enjoy an evening of quality time. I don’t see a reason for us to stop doing that after we’re married and we’ll do the typical gift giving & romantic dinner on our wedding anniversary. Our anniversary of becoming a couple is important to us. When I met my fiancé, the longest relationship he had been in was 2 months! Now we’re approaching 3 years and in the long run, FOREVER. We were so lost and lonely before we met each other, I’m still sentimental about that date.
Thanks everyone for your input… I think we will be brining it down to one anniversary (our wedding anniversary) Maybe a nice supper on the official going out day… but no gifts.
I mean even Valentine’s day is on its way… then theres christmas, birthdays… why not give eachother gifts everyday of the year! Its come to that point 
We are jsut celebrating our first date and wedding. It looks like they amy only be 10 days a part so we will probably just do the wedding. He proposed on his birthday so that one is just his birthday and we never officially had an exclusivity date. We just were almost inseperabel from our first date on.
We only celebrate our wedding anniversary.
On our “dating” anniversary, we say, “oh we’ve been together for X years,” but don’t celebrate it officially. What it all comes down to is the most important day of our lives - our wedding day.
We’re holding on to just the wedding anniversary. We get to celebrate the engagement by default (St. Patrick’s Day) but other than that I’m happy with one gift giving special anniversary a year.
Mrs. Flamingo, Montreal, Canada
Age and Occupation: 25, Graphic Designer
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 30, Nursing Student
Engagement Date: December 2004
Wedding Date: June 21, 2008
Venue: Imperia Hotel (modern chic hotel)
About Me: I am a passionate designer who loves anything pretty. I heart all paper products (eco-friendly of course). My passion revolves around anything considered glamour; vintage and modern. In my free time, I love reading Martha mags, designing jewelry and making a pit-stop at Starbucks for a chai latte. I'm also a chocoholic at heart and my family drools over my homemade truffles.
We have been married since May, and we decided to only celebrate the wedding and dating anniversaries. The wedding anniversary will be bigger (gifts, dinner out, maybe a trip), while we did something much simpler for our dating anniversary this year (cooking a nice dinner together).
I think it is important that our lives together didn’t just begin with “I Do”, so we will continue to acknowledge the anniversary of our first date.