Mrs. Penguin, Sacramento
Age and Occupation: 26, Video & TV Producer/Director/Editor
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 29, Doctor of Physical Therapy
Engagement Date: January 29, 2007
Wedding Date: June 7, 2008
Blogging Since: September 14, 2007
Venue: Winery in the Gold Country
About Me: I'm a silly mess of a girl who, above all else in this world, LOVES the Spice Girls. I eat sushi at least 3 times a week, and feel guilty about how much it costs the other 4 days a week. I love designer jeans and cheap accessories. I don't like sweets, but I love the UCLA Bruins!
Starting Over
April 29th, 2008 @ 11:40 am by Mrs. Penguin
Today Mr. Penguin and I celebrate our 7th anniversary as a couple!
Rose Bowl 2001
Maintaining a relationship for any amount of years is quite a feat and I’ve loved celebrating each new year with Mr. Penguin on this date. But soon we will have a new date to celebrate…and we’re starting back at one!
This kind of bums me out a bit. I love how incredibly seasoned we are as a couple and to celebrate our first anniversary next year sounds a bit backwards. Although our “coupledom” anniversary will always be a date of note, it obviously doesn’t have the same importance as our actual wedding anniversary, and I don’t know whether or not we will continue to celebrate this one. So it’s almost like a dying date of sorts…the last time we celebrate this particular anniversary!
Will you continue to celebrate your anniversary “coupledom” anniversary in addition to your wedding anniversary or will you start anew?
26 Responses to “Starting Over”
Happy Anniversary, Pengy!
I know what you mean…each year is such a thrill, that it’s quite the downer to have the slate wiped clean 
Yeah, I agree. We haven’t been celebrating an exact date, but we are at 8 years. That does mean a lot to me. I guess just the fact that we will be married now will show our “experience” with each other.
Happy Anniversary!
We’re getting around this by getting married on our anniversary 
… although it is a bit gutting going down from 6 years to zero!
Your 7 years will always count though … they are the foundation for your long and happy marriage. You’ll just be able to say “Oh us? We’ve been married 50 years, together 57″
We set our wedding date as close as possible to our dating anniversary — 1 day apart and only because we need to hold the wedding on a weekend, we’d have preferred to get married on our anniversary if we could have. I think we’re going to keep celebrating as if our wedding was on the original date, and just pretend that we got married on the “right” day. So the only thing that will reset is the number of years, but it’s easy to say “six together, two married” or whatever, and not lose any sentimental value.
My old boss and his wife always celebrate both every year and always tell people “well now, we’ve been together for X years but been official for X…” I think this is super cute and think thats the way I’ll go too
We were on a different end of the spectrum: we had no clue which date to celebrate before we were married. The day we met? The day I fell in love with him (um, ok, that was about 12 minutes after we met)? The day he fell in love with me? The date of our first trip together? Our first kiss? Our first date? The day we made it semi-official?
I’m so relieved to have a concrete anniversary now. The four years leading up to it were of monumental importance, of course, but now I have a date that’s embroidered on stuff and that makes it really easy to remember.
@Darla: Your boss is so cute! I love that idea
Happy Anniversary!
I figure I just to celebrate more. Whenever we can, we celebrate 3 anniversaries each year- the date we got the whole the thing started, the date he proposed, and the wedding! They aren’t all the same and they don’t get treated the same, but I am glad I didn’t have to give up those other momentous dates.
and Happy Anniversary Penguin!
Congratulations on your anniversary. We will have been together six years, one month and three days when we get married. I don’t think we’re starting from zero at all and we’ll definitely still celebrate our anniversary. The great thing about getting married is gaining an anniversary! AND you gain an anniversary in the day you got engaged too - bonus!
(This reminds me, I know a couple who got married on the anniversary of the day they met and he proposed on Valentine’s day, so they missed out on these extra anniversaries - be happy you didn’t!)
yay!!! happy anniversary Peng!
our 5th yr anniversary will be this weekend. We’ve quibbled back and forth over the years whether to celebrate the 3rd of the 4th since we became official on a walk thru my alma mater sometime bw 11pm and 1am.
having our wedding anniversary on an official day and not some vague time bw 11 and 1 makes me happy.
my FI proposed on New Years Eve, so we will always be able to celebrate that one with a big bang!
Happy Anniversary!
We celebrated seven years last December… I know we’ll keep celebrating that day too- it’s too special not to!
I plan to keep celebrating both…we have celebrated our first official date (we’d known each other for a while), because I love that a several months after we started dating, we were arguing over the exact day we went out and it turned out we both saved the movie stub…I love thinking how we both knew we were starting something special on that day. I don’t want to give it up!
When we got engaged, my fiance made me promise that we’d celebrate our dating anniversary instead of our wedding anniversary. Our first date was on Memorial weekend, so it’s so convenient and easy to remember! (I suspect we’ll celebrate both, but our wedding anniversary will be smaller).
Congrats on 7 years!!
we are getting married on our anniversary as well. the number really isnt important, just the fact that we are together still will be fun!!
We are celebrating our 7 year anniversary as a couple this October, despite being married in August! We have too many special traditions surrounding that anniversary - neither of us wants to give it up! Hope you two have a happy anniversary!
Happy Anniversary! We are still going to celebrate our dating “anniversary” since it will be 10 years this year!! I don’t think I could ever give up celebrating it.
We don’t celebrate a couple-dom anniversary. Our thought is, how many anniversaries do you really need to have??
We’re getting married on our 12th dating anniversary… a long time ago I looked up when our anniversary would be on a Saturday… the next year was 2003 (not quite ready) and then 2008 came up, and the timing worked out well (we lived apart from 2001-2007 for school)… I love that we will be continuing to celebrate the same day! But I don’t know if we’ll celebrate our “1st wedding anniversary” or our “13th anniversary”
Happy anniversary!
Well, we got engaged on our anniversary but I didn’t really want a january wedding. However, the date we’re marrying on is my fi’s grandparents’ anniversary. I think that’s pretty sweet!
Happy anniversary pengy!
We have also been together for seven years, but now we have the added problem of having 2 weddings (one abroad, one here). One will be a religious ceremony, one will be legal. Which one do we celebrate!?
I am leaning towards just making the whole summer one big anniversary…although it would be nice to have a date
Happy Anniversary, Pengy!
Like Teeners, I have 2 wedding anniversaries (legal in the US, sentimental in Italy).
Mr. beanchar also likes to mark the day we met and the day we got engaged, which end sup giving us an “anniversary” every quarter of the year!
At first, I thought that was kind of silly, but now I like taking a moment on those days to reflect back over our time together. We don’t always “celebrate” in the traditional sense of dinner out/presents, but it’s nice to realize how far we come as a couple and as individuals with the support of the other.
We’re getting married on what will be our 5 year anniversary. So we still get to celebrate both!
This year was our 5 year anniversary on April 12th and I really wanted that to be the wedding day, especially since we lucked out and it is on a Saturday this year. However, I’m finishing up my schooling and decided to focus on just finishing school and graduating. So, we ended up choosing another date. =( Bums me out, though, because I feel almost like the anniversary marking how long we have actually been together has more significance. I know the FI just wants to celebrate the wedding anniversary from now on, but I want to just celebrate both…what a dilemma.
My parents still celebrate their coupledom–and after 31 years.
i know what you mean! My finace and I celebrated our 6th and last coupledom anniversary this Feb. Now we will start over…with 1? I know i will forever be saying, “we’ve only been married for a year, but we were together for 6 years and best friends for 2, so that’s really like 9!” wow. that is SO me.
