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Do you celebrate, acknowledge without celebrating, or ignore your "dating" anniversary?
DH and I just passed the 5 year mark from when we started dating. We acknowledged it, but we didn't do anything to celebrate (like dinner out or something).
How about you guys?
I'm pretty sure we both forgot and I brought it up a few days later when I realized the date. It'll fade into the background more and more I'm sure.
Not married yet, but I'm sure we'll always acknowledge it. Our dating anniversary is February 14th.
We've only been married a few months, but ours is 3 days before our wedding anniversary, so we'll probably ignore it (or have a three-day celebration).
DH and I had been dating for 8 years when we got married, and our dating anniversary was special to us (and very easy to remember). Prior to the wedding, DH said, I want to keep our old anniversary... June 19th is just a random day, but November 1st means something.
The day after the wedding, while we were re-hashing how AWESOME and memorable our wedding was, we both agreed "forget November 1st... June 19th is our anniversary!" We sort of acknowledged it this year when it passed, but nothing special.
We celebrate, but not because it's our dating anniversary - just because it's 4th of July. Hard not to celebrate in America!
The timing of this post is funny because today is actually my and my hubby's three year dating anniversary. I wanted to celebrate (I like any reason for a celebration) but he only wants to celebrate our wedding anniversary now!
We went out to dinner for our last dating anniversary before the wedding. It was pretty big to us because we celebrated 7 years. We will always remember it beccause it is on July 5 which is also my cousin's birthday. But we will not make a big deal of it any more.
We didn't ever really celebrate our dating anniversary (but then, we dated for less than a year before getting engaged), but we celebrated our engagement anniversary every month leading up to the wedding :-). Now we pretty much just celebrate our engagement, but sometimes remember the other annivesaries
We pretty much ignore it, but we only had one "dating anniversary" before we got married so it wasn't that important to us.
We maybe acknowledge it if we remember. Last year we barely did. I just happened to glance at the calendar and was like "oh yeah. happy anniversary." But we just don't really celebrate that stuff much. Christmas and Thanksgiving and our birthdays is about all we celebrate lol
DH and I are sentimental. We haven't had our dating anniversary since we've been married, but I would assume we would go to a nice dinner or something. My parents celebrate it still. (33 years dating, 30 years married) Isn't that cute? LOL
We went out this year, but it's the last time we will go out for it. We'll always acknowledge the date though.
We haven't really gotten there yet but, our dating anniversary is the day after our wedding anniversary, so we can really just celebrate both at the same time! (yes, I did this sort of on purpose...)
I think we will for a while anyway. It's been our anniversary for the last 5 years and always the reason we never celebrated Valentine's day, so we could really do it up March 20th. Unless we all of a sudden decide to embrace V day, I think we'll celebrate our anniversary.
Well probably acknowledge ours, since we're getting married the day after our two year dating anniversary.. Maybe we'll just have two days of celebrating!
We don't have an official date of the start of our dating years, but we do have 8 years of dating!
"Do we really have to start over at 1?" I whined to DH the other day.
"Yes. We have to start over at 1. You get paper next year," he said.
Sigh.
We never celebrated our dating anniversary. Sometimes I would remember it the day of, but usually it was days later and not worth it anymore. We're not big celebraters. We'll see if we celebrate our wedding anniversary!
Hehe, we are getting married ON our dating anniversary. So yes, I think we will be celebrating it. :)
we usually just acknowledge it (and not always on time) and have a drink to toast.
@KatNYC2011: Wow, you had a first date on Valentine's Day? That's a lot of pressure on a first date!
I have a friend whose parents still celebrate their dating anniversary, which I think is super cute :). We'll probably do it to, but I guess I can't say for certain yet, lol.
Nah, we haven’t ever really celebrated our dating anniversary, so we’ll just celebrate the married anniversary going forward. We both usually miss the dating anniversary, and then a week or so after one of us is like “oh yeah – ummmmmm….happy anniversary!”. We’ll usually pick up some nice champagne to have, or go out to a nice dinner after that, but honestly, the dating anniversary is more the justification/excuse to go out to a fancy dinner, rather than the reason for going out.
We are already talking about how to celebrate our 1 year (marriage) anniversary though! We might acknowledge the dating anniversary going forward, but I doubt it. We’re both sentimental people, but just not about celebrating dating anniversaries I guess.
I guess we're going to ignore it...it wasn't until I read this that I realized we skipped it and didn't even notice. Oops! It's fine with me...we never could agree on exactly what day it was anyway.
We only acknowledged our dating anniversary even before we got married. It was just never a big deal to us. So it's pretty much being ignored now that we are married. The wedding anniversary is the only date that holds importance to us.
We didn't celebrate our anniversary. We don't celebrate Valentine's Day, either. I told him I prefer we celebrate our wedding anniversary on milestones like 5th year, 10th year, etc.
The other days in between are what I care about...and I much prefer getting flowers out of the blue ;)
We met in July of 2008, got engaged in July of 2009, and got married in July 2010. I don't think we celebrated our one year "dating" anniversary, and we were too busy with the wedding to celebrate our second year dating anniversary, or our one year engagement anniversary. At this point it seems silly to celebrate anything other than our actual wedding anniversary.
We acknowledge it, but it's near Valentine's Day and DH's birthday, so it kind of coincides with all that. We don't really celebrate Valentine's day, either. I just do a bunch of things for him for his birthday and he takes me out to dinner of my choosing somewhere near our dating anniversary and Valentine's day.
Neither one of us knows exactly when our dating anniversary is... we just know it was sometime in March. 
Our wedding was a little more than a month before our dating "anniversary." With Christmas, new years, our wedding anniversary, valentines, 3 days later our dating anniversary and a month later(ish) BOTH our birthdays... we usually lump the anniversary in with Valentines. It's a hectic couple of months, and I wish it was more spread out. :-/
Although my fiance and I disagreed at first about the date of our first official date, I caved in and went with his interpretation when he proposed on the 2nd anniversary of (what he claimed was) our first date. :) It's a special day, but I doubt we will celebrate. We're getting married a week before my birthday, and three weeks before our dating anniversary, so we will be too pooped to party any more. ;)
Although we dated for 12 years before getting married, we never celebrated our dating anniversary...it was a whirlwind romance when we met, so I'm not even sure what day it was. But we got married this past June & celebrated our HALF anniversary...December 25th. Since we're also pregnant with our first kid & I was 6 mo pregnant at the time (my mom didn't want me travelling home to Hawaii even in the 2nd trimester because all her pregnancies - me the only surviving child - were difficult), it was our first (& last!) Christmas with "just us", so we made it a little special. Now we've decided, no matter where we are for Christmas, part of that day will be for "just us" on our Half-Anniversary.
Looking forward to a year of firsts this year - first kid in March, first Mother's day in May, first Father's day & first wedding anniversary in June, & Kid's first Christmas (and our 1 1/2 anniversary) in December!
Well our dating anniversary is My husband and my daughter's birthday so i know that we will be celebrating!
@ms.pascal: I am also due in March! what day are you due?
@Blueshoes2:Not married yet, so I didn't respond to the poll. We've only had 1 dating anniversary ever, and we'll be married before our second one. Although we did go out to celebrate it this year, we will just stick with celebrating our wedding anniversary after we get married.
We've never celebrated any dating anniversary. Nothing has changed.
We acknowledge it with a card or I'll pick up a fun dessert. Our wedding anniversary is the one we celebrate now!
I pretty much just remember it, smile, and think "3 years, wow :)". But that's about it. I mean...our dating anniversary and our wedding anniversary are pretty close together so I'd much rather celebrate our wedding anniversary :). But even though we don't celebrate our "dating" anniversary, I will ALWAYS remember it because that's how long you've been with the person you eventually married!
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