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Yesterday was FH and I's 5 year anniversary. In years past, we'll go out to a nice dinner (or he'll cook), and exchange cards. It's really nothing too extravagant.
Well last friday we went to dinner at Flemings Steakhouse for what I thought was a celebration of his birthday, which was earlier in the week. At dinner, he made the decision that we were celebrating our anniversary instead. Oh well...no big deal.
I get home yesterday and was excited about relaxing with him. I'll be honest, I was kind of expecting him to get me flowers because he has every year we've celebrated this. He gets home, no flowers. No card...nothing. When I gave him my card, he said he 'thought we already celebrated this.." .
I know we have a "new anniversary"...but I dont think expecting a card to mark 5 years together is asking too much.
Did you and your FH celebrate your last dating anniversary?
We don't actually technically have a dating anniversary, so FI let me me pick one a couple years ago. We usually just decide that we're going to do something special together (but its not really any different than any other date night, but gives us a good reason to splurge a little and go to Sakura nom nom nom). I totally get you, I love cards where as FI...not so much. I've gotten him quite a few for different occasions and I've gotten none. He's not good at writing, and he honestly just doesn't think about it.
Try not to let it bother you, guys just are not wired the way we are...
My FH actually proposed on the five year anniversary of our first date, so I guess we might be celebrating it from now on. I am actually planning on surprising him with his wedding band on that day next year. :)
He made me a little card and gave me 5 roses to celebrate our 5 year ann. last winter. And that was so much more sweet to me than the 3 dozen he gave me on our 3rd! (I mean don't get me wrong, they were gorgeous - but the 5 individual ones in their little vase - something about that just got me!)
We just celebrated our five year dating anniversary on Sept. 5 and honestly, we didn't even exchange cards this year. We're getting married in Nov., so I feel like we'll have a big celebration soon enough for an even bigger date. And normally, I'm pretty adamant about at least celebrating with dinner and cards!
Our anniversary is actually valentines day. For our 1 and 2 year anniversaries we decided to do cards/gifts for our anniversary and ignore v-day. I expect that after we're married we'll just go back to celebrating v-day. :)
We never celebrated our dating anniversary much. It's too bad he just sprung it on you while you were at dinner that this was your anniversary celebration, otherwise I'm sure you would have been more ready. Guys can be weird and maybe he's just figuring that from now on since you're engaged, you'll just celebrate your wedding anniversary.
my fi was smart. we met, he proposed, and we're getting married all on the same date. we didn't mean for it to be that way, but lucky for him he only has to remember one day.
We usually do something (like dinner) but not really presents, flowers, etc.
I had same thing happen to me too, Miss Casanova! Fi & I's 4 year "dating" anniversary was in Jan, & we got engaged just 3 months earlier in November. Since year 1, we have always done something, cards & dinner at least. Whelp this year, nadda. FI & I are paying for most the wedding ourselves, so he assumed that I wouldn't want to do anything and in his mind, this anniversary is a moot point in light of our new anniversary date. He just had no clue that I was still expecting at least a little something :)
We're date twins! My husband and I just celebrated our five year dating anniversary last night too! Congrats to you and your Fi!
To answer your question, in years past, we normally go out to a nice dinner on our anniversary, or go see a show. Last night (first dating anniversary as a married couple) we decided to do a low-keyed version of our usual celebration. Instead of going out to dinner, we got a bunch of fancy cheeses and dessert from the store for dinner. Instead of going out to a show, we watched a Netflix movie and then the season premiere of How I Met Your Mother. We didn't exchange cards or anything, but we told each other "Happy Anniversary."
I think it's nice to continue celebrating your dating anniversary, even if it's just a little acknowledgement. Let your Fi know that what you wanted was the sentiment of the celebration; it doesn't have to be big and fancy, but you just want a little acknowledgement that you've made it X number of years and you're both still happy. Maybe he just misunderstood and thought what you wanted was the fancy dinner, getting dressed up, etc... when really you would've settled for a nice card. :)
We never celebrated our (dating) anniversaries ... =) haha. We are always doing fancy dinners and have events ... and to be honest with you ... I don't even think I know our dating anniversary. It's not like we decided on a certain day that we were "exclusive" ...
We did get engaged on the day after Valentines day ... so that day will always be special to me. Our wedding anniversary is on October 24th and we keep saying we'll go back every year (even with our children one day) and celebrate!
Yes, we most certainly <span style="text-decoration: underline;">did celebrate our last dating anniversary since that was the day he proposed. 
Incidentally, we will be getting married on our three year dating anniversary. We get to keep the tradition alive.
We've already discussed it and we will acknowledge, but not do much of a celebration for this year's dating anniversary. Next year though we will not only be celebrating our 1st wedding anniversary but 3 months later we'll be celebrating 10 years of being together. I already told him that we'd definitely be celebrating that one. :)
We celebrated our 1st anniversary & then we broke up 3 months later lol. We are both unclear as to when we got back together (about 6 months later- I think?) so we kind of stopped celebrating. We can't celebrate our original b/c we broke up. lol we just celebrate each other as often as we can throughout the year...
Thank goodness we have a wedding anniversary to look forward to. That date won't be nearly as complicated to figure out... lol
Yes, we'll celebrate it, but only b/c we got engaged at our 4.5 year "dateaversary" so you know, we'll be engaged for six months! Woo! and dating for five years. It's still a milestone, but in all honesty, if our wedding was in january instead of may... we probably would just say something sweet to each other like "Happy fifth, can't wait to make it official" and go out to have mexican food or sushi, something not too big. So if your wedding is soon, don't take it too hard!
I hope we celebrate our dating anniversary after the big day :) but I was wondering what people do in this situation though, so thanks for bringing this up!
We still do a little something to mark the date, but nothing big. We like to celebrate things! :)
We're not married yet (wedding is July 2010) - so this was kind of the "last" dateaversary. I'm not heartbroken or anything...just a little hurt that he didn't even pick up a card for me. :) I'll survive.
Actually Me and honey have 3 anniversaries ..lol There's the dating one ..which we celebrated Sept 12 :) , then next March will be TECH be when we ACTUALLY got married at City Hall ..and then there's the June 5 next yr wedding .. I asked him, does this mean i get 3 gifts a yr ...lol.. He said No..( deadpan face)..He said were only gong to celebrate 1 anniv and that will be June 5 ..it was a nice try on my part though ..lol..He thought so too :)
we don't really celebrate dating anniversaries... the wedding one is the important one :) don't be too disappointed!!!
We celebrated our two year on the 15th. I made him a 'timeline' with pictures of all the awesome things we've done together and he gave me a gorgeous card with a pencil drawing of a horse on it and a hearfelt note inside. Saturday I asked what he wanted to do and he asked if we could celebrate at the same place we had a first date two years ago :-)
We celebrate by more or less acknowledging it....we say happy anniversary, we do a nice dinner, we relax, maybe do somethign else. Frankly we haven't spent an anniversary together ON our anniversary since our 1st one. This year is our 5th and I told him since it's Dec 15 and our wedding is June 20, they are far enough apart that we should do something small. Casual dinner nothing fancy
Flemings is really yummy btw, we have one here! MMmmm
I like the first date idea. If that was the case, we'd have to go to Applebees! Buah ha ha. Applebees was all we had, folks.
We don't have a dating anniversary... there wasn't an exact date when he asked "will you be my girlfriend?" How do you girls figure out your dating anniversary anyway? Did your man ask you to be exclusive? Or was it just implied?
In our relationship, we went on a few dates, and we clicked and it kinda of evolved from there. There wasn't a particular date when we were like "yay, we're officially BF/GF." I'm not even sure what date our first date was (since we met through mutual friends, we had met each other before the first date)... I just know it was in March sometime...
So tomorrow is our 5 year dating anniversary. He does not want to celebrate, but I am just so darned proud that I have been in a stable and loving relationship for 5 years, let alone married, that I have to celebrate!! With or without him :) :)
The way that I'm getting my way, it is also our 3 month married anniversary this weekend, so we are having a "fake" anniversary and a "real" anniversary dinner at Che' Yogigal (aka home)
I will be SO glad to get rid of my dating anniversary!
Our anniversary was Memorial Day weekend, but then we broke up that weekend the next year. So even when we got back together, I did not want to continue celebrating that anniversary. So we took a best guess at when we first said "I love you" and started calling that our anniversary. It's just never felt right to me, and I'll be glad when we have a new anniversary to celebrate.
My FI and I do celebrate our dateaversary. Last year it was cards, flowers, and dinner and this year he whisked me off for a surprise romantic vacation across the state during which we toured a museum, caught a great outdoor play, drove through beautiful countryside, went swimming, and spent time touring the city and eating out at great resturants. We are both lucky, as we plan to marry the day we met as an omage to..well...having met. :) Our wedding day will be 3 years to the day we met and we will be married a mere 2 hours or so before the time our first date started. I'm truly excited to have only 1 anniversary a year to remember!
We go out to dinner for the anniversary or have a date night and get all dolled up. haha. No real gifts just cards or small tokens. We better celebrate our last dating anniversary at least. We rarely have special going out dates, so its nice to have that.
We have always celebrated each year by going to a really nice restaurant but since we got engaged we celebrated our 6th anniversary and it didn't feel as big of a deal as it usually would.. I suppose anticipating the wedding instead has caused that. We did still go out for the day and to a nice restaurant but it didn't feel as big of a milestone!
Also, we worked it out by celebrating the date we had our first kiss although we didn't officially become 'boyfriend and girlfriend' until a couple of weeks later.
I am horrible at remembering when are dating anniversary is, so I can't really make a big deal out of whether or not he makes a big deal out of it haha, he is always giving me crap about never remembering when we started dating or how long we have been or anything.
Damn my bad memory. 
We have in the past celebrated our "dating anniversary" by going an 1 hour away to an huge indoor waterpark for the weekend (our dating anniversary is December 15 and we live in WI). Now that we are married I am sure we will still make note that we have been together 3 years this coming December, but I don't think we will be doing anything special. Although, we have decided to keep on with the tradition of going to the waterpark sometime in December while it is decorated for Christmas (we are going again this year but the first week in December as he graduates from Grad school the anniversary "weekend").
With ours, there is just too much going on at that time, too. The waterpark weekend, his birthday is the 19th and then Christmas is right after that.
Our 5 year anniverary is today. We are not celebrating today becaus we live 92 miles apart and only see each other on the weekend. Last weekend, I made the "engagement chicken" (just for fun,I already have the ring) and we exchanged gifts. We were supposed to go to Fleming's for dinner next weekend, but our friend's birthday celebration is putting a total crimp in the plans. Sigh.
FI said he wasn't planning on celebrating this anniversary after we are married, but I don't like the idea of discounting our first fiv years together. It seems wrong. I told him I want to at least acknowledge the day with a nice homecooked dinner and wine or something. No gifts anymore.
Since our last dating anniversary, we have gotten engaged and we will be married a month before our next dating anniversary. I don't know if we will do anything.
We're not married yet, but I mentioned today to FI that this coming anniversary will be the last time we celebrate our dating anniversary, but he said that he wants to continue to celebrate it in at least some way - even if it's just going out to a simple dinner or something.
Nope, we've never celebrated our "dating" anniversary. We just say something like, "wow, has it been four years???" and give one another a big ole squeeze.
I have been thinking about this, because FI and I will only have one dating anniversary before we get married! It's October 7 and we are celebrating it by going to NYC and seeing a Broadway show and then having a nice dinner out. It's important to me to do it up big like this because I know after that, it will come second to our wedding anniversary. And while part of me thinks that's the right thing, I also feel like there is something extra special about celebrating when we first got together -- if we never had, everything else wouldn't have followed! I love thinking back to those days when we had no idea what was about to unfold :)
Does anyone celebrate their engage-iversary too? Maybe I'm a celebrate-aholic, but I know I will want to commemorate that day too next year!
We did! It was our first (and only-he proposed a month later). I made dinner and he bought flowers and we exchanged cards. We kept it pretty low key because it was right after Christmas and New Years and he had just bought my ering (which I didn't know at that point).
Well, we had our 1st date on 2/14/2008....it just happened to be Valentine's Day so it's easy to remember. Every month we celebrate the 14th with a card that we either make or purchase and just take a few minutes to spend time together. It could be walking the dogs, going out for dinner or just a quick lunch during the workday but we always make the time. It's seems silly but we just celebrated month #19 and we really look forward to fun cards and the few moments we share without the phone ringing or the computer letting us know of another email waiting for us.
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