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We plan to just celebrate yearly wedding anniversaries.
We never really did anything for dating anniversaries before marriage so why start now and engage-aversaries really don't hold any appeal for me either. I'm sure in a couple of weeks on the 17th we'll comment that "Yay - we've been married for 6 months!" but we won't do anything special until July.
We will celebrate our wedding anniversary, though we acknowledge other anniversaries -- the anniversary of our first date and the anniversary of our engagement. We don't make a big fuss about these, but we do acknowledge that it is the anniversary of a special day.
We celebrated the following:
1st month Dating
3rd month dating
6th month dating
1 year dating and every year after that.
Sometimes we celebrate mini anniversary on monthly basis.
I know, I'm an anniversary whore. 
@cutexkitty: Its ok to be an anniversary whore! Its a reason to celebrate or an excuse to go out to a nice dinner or date!
@Mrs.KMM: We never celebrated our engage-aversary but I know people that do. I think that we never celebrated because we were already married by the time we had been engaged for one year!
@Neva: Were the same way - we dont usually celebrate monthly anniversaries (even 6 months) but since we will have just been together 5 years and since it is right after V-day I thought it would be a good time! I also dont want to be out on Valentines day this year because thats everyones day whereas Feb 21 will be more of "our" day
@PitBulLover: Yeah - we were the same way. Just over a 10 month engagement!
we celebrate our dating/engaged anniversary because it is the same day =)
We celebrate the day of our first date. We were boyfriend and girlfriend for 2 years and at the first year we celebrated our 3, 6 and 9 months of dating. After the first year though, we tapered off and only celebrated the actual date of our first date. When we get married though, I'm going to make sure we celebrate our wedding anniversary every 6 months.
Our engage-aversary, dating anniversary and wedding anniversary will all fall during the same week. So I plan on instituting a yearly "anniversary week" that culminates in our wedding anniversary. Anything to drag it out and celebrate for longer!
We celebrate monthly dating anniversaries with nice dates or much-needed "couple time" on the 24th every month. We don't go all out, but its nice to have an excuse to leave work at work and go home to play :)
For our 1st year anniversary, we celebrated by taking a month-long trip all over the US, with stops in San Diego, San Francisco, Chicago, New Jersey, and New York.
For our 2nd year anniversary, we recreated our first date, and then toasted our move together to Brooklyn!
For our 3rd year anniversary, we are planning a short trip to Hawaii. And for our 4th, well, that's our wedding day :)
We've been thinking of throwing ourselves an engagement party for our one year "engage-a-versary." We'll see!
His family has seen a lot of divorce and is generally pretty negative about relationships, so we like to make a point of celebrating the fact that we found sanity in each other as often as possible!
This is sad, but--we don't have an anniversary! We don't really know how long we've been dating. I could give you specific dates--such as we met March 16, 2008. But he didn't ask me out (nor did we communicate but once) until February the next year. Our first date was February 7th, 2009. But then we only saw each other for a month-ish. Then started up back in September, going on a date here and there, but I don't remember that date. Then we REALLY started seeing each other in January. So about a year, give or take. But I'm kinda sad to not have anniversary. SO said: "Well, that's what other anniversaries are for!" Cute.
Well that was a long rant about nothing, haha.
@teamboddye: Its wonderful to celebrate your own milestones! Your celebrations sound awesome!! Its cute you are getting married on your anniversary!
@Miss OBG: LOVE the idea of anniversary week!
We pretty much just celebrate yearly wedding anniversaries. I don't even remember really celebrating yearly dating anniversaries! We probably went out to eat but they weren't fancy dinners or anything.
We celebrate wedding anniversaries and usually just go out to dinner for dating anniversaries. Once we hit a big one, like 10 years, then we'll probably do something more special for that.
@PitBulLover: Thanks! It was so funny, literally RIGHT AFTER he proposed, a friend who was there asked when the date was. We both answered, without even looking at each other, "June 24," because its so special to us. And, its a Sunday, so we are getting a steal on venue costs!
I like doing dating annv. and Wedding anv but once a year for each. I like to say "hey, we should go to dinner and have a few drinks. We have liked eachother enough to stay together for 8 years and get married." but we will only be married for 9 months.
I think now that we are married we will only officially (presents and all) celebrate wedding anniversary. But we will acknowledge dating and engaged anniversary. This past year we celebrated our dating even after we were married because it was our 10 year dating anniversary! Had to celebrate that! 
Last year on our engage-aversary we went back to the same cabin we got engaged at. We have plans to go back every year around the same time. We'll see. Life takes you in different roads.
I know he wishes I would be less into anniversaries! I think he thinks that I’m expecting some huge affair/gift, but for most of them I just want acknowledgment. The only one I really want to have an event and gift involved is our wedding anniversary. I’d like to do something nice on our dating anniversary (which is our 2nd first date). The other days (engagement, etc) are just days to say, “hey guess what happened 1 year (or x months) ago” then hug and kiss.
I'd like to make our wedding yearly anniversary the big, special one. Our dating, engagement, wedding anniversary's all fall on the same day of the month (the 2nd) - so we reserve that day as 'our' day to do something special... even if it's just stay in and cook a nice meal together. I didn't realize how nice it would be to have all those events on the same 'day' of the month, but it really works well for us!
For the first year or so we did monthly celebrations for our dating anniversary, then after hit 1 year, we casually marked the 18th (although I kept track with little "happy 14 months!" but we didn't actually *do* anything for them). And then we celebrated are 2 year anniversary. I don't know if we'll celebrate our engagement anniversary. We might go to dinner, but I don't think we'll do presents or anything.
Once we're married, I only plan on officially marking the wedding anniversary. We might casually mark the dating anniversary, but I don't know.
Honestly, none so far! We've been dating 6 years, I can't remember us ever celebrating a dating anniversary or anything.
Once we're married, we'll celebrate our marriage anniversary of course!
We never did anything for dating anniversaries. Today is actually our five-year, but I just walked in the door and he's still at work (an early night for me, a late night for him!), so we're not doing anything special. I doubt we'll ever do much more for our wedding anniversaries than an acknowledgment and maybe a nice dinner. I'm not a big anniversary person, I guess. :)
We mention anniversaries whenever we realize like "hey, today is our one year anniversary of our engagement!". We only really celebrate (like, specifically going out, or exchanging a card or gift... but even that's kind of spotty) the yearly anniversary of our first date, and now will probably replace that with our wedding anniversary.
However, Sunday is our 6 month anniversary of our wedding... maybe I'll crack a bottle of wine or something.
Now that we're married we celebrate the wedding anniversary only but still make a verbal acknowledgment of our first date, and the date we got engaged.
We acknowledged the 1st and 6th month of dating, but celebrated the annual dating anniversaries until we got married. This year we acknowledged the engagement day and went out to eat at a casual restaurant with a gift card for our dating anniversary, but we don't plan to celebrate anything but the wedding anniversary from this point forward.
We celebrated our 6 month anniversary when we were first dating, then our one year and all the years after that. I was wondering this myself though now that we are engaged...once you get married do you just celebrate that? I think that I want to celebrate dating and marriage anniversaries, because each year of dating is a huge milestone to me, as the wedding will be. It just sounds sad to start all over at 1 year anniversaries you know lol? I want to say, we've been married a year BUT dating for 6!
We will most definitely celebrate our dating anniversary every single year (New Years!) Today we celebrated the anniversary of me texting DH for the first time (easy enough to remember, the day after Christmas), and our wedding anniversary!!
We'll be just celebrating our dating anniversary on June 11 and our wedding anniversary, which will be June 2.
We celebrate our dating anniversary, which occurs on Feb. 16th, so we usually combine that with Valentines Day.
We celebrate our engagement date, which occurs on May 15th, which is my DH's birthday.
We celebrate our wedding anniversary, which is July 3rd, a very festive time of the year anyways.
Any excuse to celebrate our love is good fine with me! 
We will only do our wedding aniversary on the year mark. We got married a few days after Valentines Day. We never celebrated it anyway so this gives us a reason to do something that month now. Our dating aniversary was Christmas day. It has been 4 years since we first started going out but all we did was normal Christamas stuff. We don't have the money to go out often so we figure once a year is good so why not save it and do something special to celebrate everything at once?
I guess you could say we celebrate our dating anniversary because it's the same day as our wedding anniversary. If it wasn't, we'd probably still celebrate it.
We usually make note of the 2nd every month just jokingly saying its our x month anniversary (which will probably get old eventually). But we like to go out to dinner on our 6 month just to break up the year type thing because we don't go out to dinner often.
My parents have been married for 23 years and celebrate their dating anniversary every year, always have.
Today is our dating 6 year anniversary, so we'll go out to a nice dinner. After this, though, it'll just be our wedding anniversary-- because they're so close together.
Not married yet, but I plan on celebrating our yearly wedding anniversary the typical way (nice dinner at a restaurant, special date night, etc). We will probably continue to celebrate our yearly dating anniversary too, but in a more low-key way (I will probably make us a nice dinner rather than go to a restaurant).
I still like to be goofy every now and then and make note of our monthly dating anniversaries, so I will probably starting doing that with our monthly wedding ones too.
I really like celebrating anniversaries cuz they are special. Perhaps, a little more than my Husband, but he's a guy so I try to give him a break. These days, I tend to communicate when I expect to do something special on an anniversary ahead of time to my Husband so he'll understand it means a lot to me cuz in the past we have had misunderstandings about that.
Today is actually our 3 month wedding anniversary and we're going to go out to eat in celebration which is mostly what we try to do for monthly anniversaries (whenever we feel like it). Really I don't care as much about monthly anniversaries, but I really would be disappointed if we didn't celebrate a yearly anniversary since I feel it's a major milestone to celebrate (especially in our marriage). We also plan to still celebrate our dating anniversary cuz it is very special to us since it's also the day we met. We will always celebrate our engageaversary cuz it's Valentine's Day, but that is a reason it will be even more special to us.
We celebrate our first date and the day we moved in together. We have two wedding dates as well as had a traditional African wedding in October and the white one is in April. I like celebrating. Any reason for a party for 2 is good enough for me!
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3 months? 6 months? 1 year? Dating anniversary? Engage-aversary? Which ones do you celebrate or do something special or different for?
This month will be our 5 year dating anniversary on the same day we will be married for 5 months - I dont think well celebrate though because we plan to celebrate our 6 month anniversary in February instead of doing Valentines Day....
Just curious to see what other married bees are doing (and trying to get more action on the Newlyweds boards!!)