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A year ago yesterday (I think it was yesterday, maybe it’s today…) I came home from work and these Casablanca Lilies, my favorite bloom, were waiting for me. Coincidentally, there was a trail of ants in the kitchen, which I got right to cleaning up.
Mr. GT came home after work with a big smile: Hi babe!
Me: Hey
Mr. GT: You like the flowers?
Me: Yeah…
Mr. GT: What’s wrong?
Me: Well… I love the flowers. But next time if you leave food out and it attacts ants, just clean it up. You don’t have to get me flowers because of it.
Mr. GT: WE HAVE ANTS?
Me: Ehh… yeah… you didn’t know?
Mr. GT: There were no ants when I left for work this morning.
Me: Oh… what are the flowers for then?
Mr. GT: OUR ANNIVERSARY!
So that was for our date-a-versary last year. To my total surprise, a week before our wedding, I received this below (personalized with our names and wedding date) filled once again with my gorgeous lilies:
Back when I was blogging anonymously, I posted an entry showing this vase which I thought would make a cute wish bowl. By the time I shared my blog with Mr. GT, I had long forgotten about the post. My wedding present was this handmade crock with the commitment to an anniversary bouquet for each year to come.
I love that the hubs is so thoughtful, but truth be told, I am (as illustrated above) not big on celebrating anniversaries (or my own birthday, for that matter). I don’t need a special occasion to go out to a nice dinner or to get him a present, and find it much more convenient to do so whenever I please. Every day is worth celebrating. In any event, I’m so glad that the date-a-versary is behind us!
I know people who note anniversaries of all kinds including their first date or first kiss, and some continue to celebrate their date-a-versary after marriage.
How important are anniversaries to you, and which ones are on your list to remember?
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how sweet of him! well we seem to be acquiring anniversaries like no ones business. i think for logistical reasons after getting married we will just pick one to celebrate ):
Anniversaries are important to me to remember, but not necessarily to go out and buy some extravagant gift. I think it says a lot to remember these dates because it shows that you hold them as “special” in your mind. My FI and I still say Happy Date-a-Versary and are very lovey dovey, but do not buy each other gifts. It’s just the words and actions that mean the most to us.
We currently celebrate a date-a-versary, and a ring-a-versary each month. For us, it’s our scheduled dates nights! He plans our ring-a-versary on the 1st, and I plan our date-a-versary on the 15th!!! It works for us, and it’s a lot of fun!
A the end of August I said to FI,”hey, did you realize we met 3 years ago any day now?”
*pensive look on his face* “oh yeah that’s right…and that’s our last faux-nniversary too”
*we both chuckle*
The only one that really matters is when we got engaged (sort of) and our wedding anniversary and they will be on the same weekend only one year apart.
BTW: “our thing” is making up words. Faux-nniversary is just one of the many we’ve come up with.
@Shasha: faux-nniversary is a great word!
our first date was the date before my birthday, which we knew he was going to miss because he was committed to a bridge tournament. Having the two dates so close together makes it weird since I do observe my birthday a bit with some extra glee in my ordinary routine. Also, I have never really been one for observing the date-iversary, because I can’t usually establish to the day when a relationship quite started, though I did have one boyfriend who finally relented after I’d chased him for months make it “official” with “I think this is a special day we should remember,” and we did count time from that marker.
Anyway, Mr. P does like to remark in moment of mushiness, “I bet you didn’t know X years ago that you’d be [cooking dinner/snuggling on the couch/whatever] with me today.”
My latest blog entry (yesterday) was comemorating our 2nd smooch-aversary. I’m not kidding. haha. My husband used his outlook calendar to track basically every single first we’ve ever had…plus we got married on the anniversary of the day we got engaged. With is 10 days before the anniversary of our first date…haha…yeah, we’re anniversary-whores.
Awwww, Mr. GT is such a sweetie! He reminds me of my FI! For years, my FI convinced me to celebrate our “date-a-versary”…except we were marking it by MONTH. It was beginning to get absurd when we were starting to say, “Happy 52 Month Anniversary”…
I think/hope after the wedding that we just celebrate one day - our wedding anniversary! But isn’t it nice when the guy cares? Wouldn’t want it the other way around!
Mr. GT is certainly a thoughtful cup of tea! How great 
Mr Peng and I are really picky about what we celebrate. We definitely go out to dinner for a lot of occasions (but uh…we go out to dinner every friday anyway?) but we don’t do a lot of gifts, mostly because I don’t like clutter. I am that really strange unsentimental person that really loves gift cards. I dont care if its to target, or like, the grocery store even. I love gift cards We dont do valentines day or really even our anniversary (although I’m sure we’ll do our married anniversary now? I dunno) and I HATE celebrating my birthday (although I feel compelled to celebrate his a little because I’m not sure if he feels the same way about birthdays). I guess, because, to me, a REALLY nice, special day constitutes sitting on the couch and doing nothing till I get bedsores. Not a nice day out, not dressing up for fancy dinners, just stewing in my own filth, doing nothing but eating and watching TV. I guess I don’t get to do that a lot We always want what we can’t have, right?
Where did you get this lovely vase? Would love to order one for my god-daughters upccoming wedding!
@Idania: the image source link at the bottom of the post will take you there (too long to paste in comment). it’s a well made product, though smaller than i imaged (so check size specs!), it’s a sweet gift though!
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I guess I’m a little sad that your husband cares so much about your anniversary that he crafted a symbol to honor it every year, yet you are “so glad that the date-a-versary is behind us!” Pray re-consider, now that you are in partnership with this (very) romantic man. Best wishes.
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Age and Occupation: 30, Tea Analyst
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 31, Coffee Critic
Engagement Date: November 17, 2006
Wedding Date: August 23, 2008
Blogging Since: June 10, 2008
Venue: Vineyard on the Delta
About Me: I'm just your average obsessive compulsive, arts & crafts loving, funky-on-the-inside/boring-on-the-outside girl, who dares to say 'Hey! I can make that!' Nerdy professional by day, goofy won-ton by night. The won-ton sometimes comes out during the day when I'm fed the dollar breakfast at Ikea. Since our engagement, wedding planning has put me on high alert for bargains and I've been pushing my nimble fingers through callous building experiments!
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