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Next week my husband and I will have been together for 10 years! We've been married almost 5 months. We definitely plan to celebrate our "dating" anniversary this year, and probably every year, along with our wedding anniversary. I know that some bees only celebrate their wedding anniversary, but I personally would like to celebrate when we actually became a couple, not just when we were officially recognized as one by the state.
Do any other bees celebrate both? What do you do differently for each?
We will celebrate both. Unfortunately with our schedules, we couldn't get married around our dating anniversary. It counts for the years we have been together so we definitely will celebrate that. We have traditions and places we always visit on it so we will keep that up whereas our wedding anniversary will be more romantic.
Today is our last "dating" anniversary and we probably won't celebrate it in the future. It is just too close to his birthday, Halloween and the additional holidays...too much at once.
I will enjoy our May 18th anniversary without its other conflicts.
we celebrated the anniversary of when we re-met as adults by returning to the "scene of the crime" and I intend to do so for as long as we can!
never thought about this!! i want to keep celebrating our dating anniversary :) that's where it all begin, right??
@Monkeyface: that's nice you're going to keep old traditions, but start something new, as well!
@Angelz_love: lol, i like that you return to the "scene of the crime." that's hilarious, and romantic, too, of course! :)
I think we will. Our dating anniversary is Halloween (8 years in less than a week, wow!). We love Halloween, so we celebrate and have fun anyway, may as well throw in a reason to have a nice date and some cake and wine :-)
@NDBee: ours is a few days after halloween! gotta love costume parties, hahahaha. glad i'm not the only long relationship bee that wants to keep celebrating, even it's just an excuse to drink wine and have a nice dinner.
I'm sure we will continue to acknowledge that day but we won't really celebrate it or get gifts or anything.
@simplifiedbride: We are practically twins! DH & I will be celebrating our 10 years dating anniversary next month (11/22)..we will be married almost 5 months by then too.. We plan on celebrating our dating anniversary until this year only..then next year we will begin celebrating just our wedding anniversary..we just didn't want to skip over the big 10!
We do. Its small, but a recognition. I made a really nice dinner with our wedding china. I baked and decorated cupcakes (I never really do stuff like this) and wore pretty lingerie. Granted, he didnt do much and let me tell you next year that will change! ( I want at least a single flower, or for him to cook or something out of the ordinary)
@bride2bejc: how cool! not many people I know have even been with their SO, FI, or DH for 10 years, so I certainly think it's worth celebrating!
We don't usually exchange gifts, anyway, so I don't think we'll have any issues celebrating twice a year.. meaning, it's not going to strain our finances to go out to dinner and have a bottle of wine and dessert.
Our dating anniversary IS FI's birthday, so I don't think we'll ever overlook it. However, I don't know that we'll "celebrate" it, as I always liked to keep the focus on his birthday anyways and pick another day to celebrate our "anniversary." We think it's funny though...Our 10 year dating anniversary will be his 30th birthday. :p
Our dating anniversary is Valentine's Day, so I hope we keep celebrating!!
We usually just go to dinner or something. No gift exchange but just a little acknowldegment.
We celebrated our 5 year dating anniversary in combination with our 6 month wedding anniversary and Valentines day because they all fell within a few weeks of each other. We're coming up on 6 years in January and I don't think well celebrate by going out to dinner or anything but maybe I'll do something nice for DH :-) I'm sure we'll celebrate big ones in the future though, like 10,15,20, etc
i dont know if we will. this year our 6 year dating was august 17th and we didn't do anything on that day because i purposely chose the closest saturday - aug. 13th - to have our AHR. And we made a big deal for our 5 year lst year as it would be our "last" one before getting married. so i guess we will see come august if we will celebrate it or not. i think it will be acknowledged - i certainly won't just forget that date! but i want to make a bigger deal for our wedding anniversary every year.
Our dating anniversay is ON our wedding anniversay so yes, we celebrate both! Our first wedding anniversay will be our 10 year dating anniversary :)
We'll probably still celebrate it, but in a small way. We definitely won't forget it, but I'm sure our wedding anniversary will be the more acknowledged day for us.
We still celebrate ours, despite it being just two weeks after our wedding anniversary. We'll be celebrating 3 years married on July 4th, and 10 years together on July 18th.
Which reminds me, does anyone have a good 10 years together gift idea? I want to do something fun and unique to mark our first decade together!
We will probably always do something for ours (it's Labour Day weekend...so not even just a day), but I'd really like to stop giving gifts for it. LOL My husband is really big on anniversaries, which is cute...but I'd rather we both save up for our wedding anniversaries or our birthdays....To be honest, I just love planning special dinners and sweet things rather then give or get presents on those days...
We'll celebrate it in a cheesy way, but not in a gift giving sort of way. I'll always remember our dating anniversary - the next one is 10 years! :)
Our dating anniversary is Christmas, so I imagine we will keep celebrating that for a very long time ;)
Our dating anniversary is St Patty's day, so we'll for sure be somewhere fun drinking green beer!! I don't ever see us not celebrating on St Patty's day!
Our wedding date is kinda close to our dating date... April 24th and June 23rd... so I'll probably remind him of it but we won't celebrate it (we actually chose the date we did because nothing else is close to it besides the 4th of July.) When we get married we'll have been together 2 years and 2 months but if it were 5 years or more I'd probably celebrate the dating date.
Well our wedding anniversary & dating anniversary are only 4 days apart. We will say happy anniversary & such on our dating anniversary but wont do gifts or anything since they are so close.
CONGRATULATIONS on ten years!!!!!!!!!
I still hope to do something small... Not a full blown anniversary celebration but at least a nice homecooked dinner and a movie night in. Our dating anniversary is Jan 1st and we have so many holidays to worry about in the same time frame. It'll be a nice load off to not have to worry about another gift.
Luckily, we might be getting married on our dating anniversary! Which lands on a Saturday next year, which will be perfect! If we dont go with that date, we will be celebrating both days...plus it gives us a reason to dress up fancy and go out :)
I will remember and celebrate ours because its Valentines day! I still smile when I think about Fi coming to my house with a big balloon chocolate and a teddy bear and he asked me to be his girlfriend (we were still in High school) This Valentines day will be 6 years!
Yes we will still celebrate it after getting married! :) This December will be our 7th dating anniversary and we got married 3 months ago. But not in a big expensive way. More like just acnkowledging the day, having a cuddle, a special meal or watching a film, that sort of thing.
We will but that is because we got married on our dating anniversary.
@peacegrl099: Same! we are getting married on our 6 year dating anniversary :)
We celebrated the most recent one, because our 6th dating anniversary was only 6 days after our wedding - one of those happy coincidences :)
We probably won't celebrate it anymore because it's so close to our wedding anniversary.
Wow. The cheese stands alone!
We don't but we just aren't sentimental like that. We will acknowledge our dating and engagement anniversaries (like, Hey! Wow! Six years!) but celebrate them? No. It seems like it just doesn't matter. To the rest of the world our life together starting "counting" at our wedding, so to say "Well, but we've been TOGETHER this long" feels like . . . I don't know. An excuse? A way to give my relationship more validity? In the grand scheme of things it just doesn't matter and honestly, I'm busy.
@daybyday: Aw, that's kinda sad, I don't see it as an excuse or something for validity at all. My parents always go out to a nice dinner on their dating anniversary, and I've always thought it was really cute and nice that they still did a little something special with just the two of them alone to acknowledge that date.
We've never celebrated a "dating anniversary" even before we were married.
Our 3 year dating anniversary is 3 days after the wedding and we'll still be on our "stay-moon" so we'll probably use that as an excuse to have another nice dinner!
Today is our dating anniversary - I hadn't even thought about it until I saw this post! Oops! So I guess we won't be celebrating hahaha!
Our dating anniversary was the day before our wedding so we'll celebrate both on the same day.
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