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I'm not at the one year mark yet but I have no intention of exchanging gifts. I think we will celebrate somehow, but no gifts. I think your going away next week will be a celebration of your anniversary and that marks the occasion nicely.
We bought a car about 6 months after we got married and agreed to call that our 1 year anniversary "gift" to each other. We didn't exchange anything on our around our anniversary itself other than DH getting me flowers.
Thanks girls, glad I'm not the only one! I just can't see spending money on something I don't actually need right now when their are other things we are savings for.
Ours is coming up next month. I wanted to get him something tangible but we are also putting our finances elsewhere.
Ah well, I guess a private strip tease and heartfelt card and yummy dinner will have to do ;)
We didn't exchange gifts either. We took a three day weekend from work and went out to dinner. We're not big gifters, even on holidays. We pretty much just do birthday gifts.
We didn't exchange gifts for our first or second anniversaries, either. How much crap do we all need, really??? It's so much more important to just spend some time together doing something fun -- in my humble opinion.
@Just Squeeze- What guy doesn't love that?! :)
@bluegreenjean- Exactly! And gifts are usually things that you want, not need. Whenever I need something I buy it so its okay.
We arent married yet but we bought our first house last year which obviously is a huge expenise each month. Last year for our dating anniversary we didnt exchange gifts. I made him a scrapbook of our years together and a fancy dinner (with red velvet whoopie pies! yum!!) and he made me breakfast in bed. It was wonderful!!
When you have been together for a while it can be hard to come up with gifts. I love spending money together-going out to dinner, buying stuff for the house, etc.
I was hemming and hawing about exchanging gifts because our budget has been really tight, but it was totally worth it. We totally surprised each other with really heartfelt gifts that are now part of our home decor and it's really nice to look at them and remember our 1 year anniversary.
I don't think we are going to be exchanging gifts. I think we'll end up with a tradition of either buying something for our home or doing something jointly vs individual gifts.
I'm having our vows written out and professionally framed - so maybe that will be our 'gift' to ourselves for our 1-year (kind of goes with the paper theme, anyway).
I don't think it's a bad omen :). We're probably just going to go out to a nice dinner so that will be sort of our "gift" to ourselves. We just bought a house and are having a baby next year so we have way too many other things to be spending money on! I know it sounds very unromantic but at this point of our lives, I'd rather our disposable income was put towards fixing up the house then personal stuff we probably don't need.
lol I don't think it is a bad omen. We actually didn't even go out to dinner or anything like that. We just stayed home together and snuggled up on the couch and watched some movies. It actually was perfect I think. He did end up getting me a little gift even though we agreed not to. It was inexpensive though so he at least stuck to that idea :) He got me a really sweet little carved Willow Tree figure that is the 'Anniversary' one. I thought it was thoughtful - it has 'I love thee' carved in the tree stump they're sitting on.
Anyway, you don't need anything but each other to honor that occassion so I think its great that you aren't getting each other presents!
I guess we didn't "technically" exchange gifts. We went on an awesome vacation, and kind of felt like we didn't need buy presents on top of that.
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Our one year anniversary is coming up very soon (next sun) and DH and I are not planning on exchanging gifts. We have run into some financial difficulties lately and do not want to dip into our savings to buy gifts. We are going away next week, we just rented a house a couple of hours away and will enjoy some time hiking, shopping, going to dinner, etc. but we are not planning on gifts.
Did anyone else skip gifts for the 1st anniversary or is this a bad omen?