Weddingbee boards

Or which one would you? My hubs and I originally planned a wedding for May 13th but decided 3 days before our trip to Vegas to sign contracts and pay deposits that we should just get married while we are there and be done with it so we did. It was an absolute blast and the reception dinner was so touching and intimate as there were only 10 ppl sitting around the table. But in doing so we actually hurt a lot of ppls feelings by not letting them know as they wanted to be there and share that time with us. Another thing about it that bothered me was my daughter wasnt there and she made the comment the other day that it hurt her feeling that she wasnt there, she is 6. Well DH and I thought that we could do a small renewal type thing in Oregon so all of my dad's family could be there and my daughter could be involved. So my question is which one do we consider our anniversary: The elopement date (08/21/2010) or the renewal date (05/13/2011)

I threw a pic in just because I like to show them =)

Thats true, I never thought about it that way 

We had a civil ceremony in February and a religious ceremony in September. We're celebrating both (the more reasons to celebrate, the better!!) But in terms of "How long have you been married"? we're using our civil ceremony date because we've been together for 8 years and I don't want to be cheated out of another 8 months when people ask me.

The funniest thing is that we planned our Honeymoon in February because we want it to be freezing in Michigan when we go on vacation, but it's actually during our civil ceremony week, so we're calling it our Honeymoon/First Anniversary cruise!