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I'm not married yet, but I plan to celebrate our wedding anniversary. When we are asked how long we've been together, I'll go by how long ago we first started dating. People will ask how long you've been married at times though.
We'll probably do a nice dinner or something on our dating anniversary, and then really celebrate our wedding anniversary (this year we're going back to our honeymoon location!). When people ask, I tell them how long we've been together total!
We just celebrated our 5 year dating anniversary and my super amazing husband bought me a pug puppy! We already have a 4 year old pug and I have been begging him for a sister for her forever. After this dating anniversary we plan on only celebrating our wedding anniversary, possibly doing a dinner or something for the dating anniversary.
We just celebrated our 6th dating anniversary on June 3rd. We celebrated this milestone with a fancy dinner...probably just for an excuse to go out and do something nice for ourselves ;) I think we'll always remember June 3rd as our dating anniversary, but probably won't continue to celebrate anymore.
Our 2 month wedding anniversary was on June 8th. When people ask how long we've been together, we say we've been together for 6 years and married for around 2 months or whatever it's been. It seems too weird to just say that we've been married for 2 months.
That always seemed weird to me, so we wanted to have our wedding on our dating anniversary. The date didn't work out with a place we were trying to book, though, so we chose the weekend after. We'll probably only celebrate our wedding anniversary, but it's close enough that it'll basically be the same thing.
Our dating anniversary and wedding anniversary are the same, just three years apart, so we get to kill two birds with one stone, lol. And when people ask how long we've been together, we always use the entire length of our relationship, not just married time.
@Tswife4ever: We got married on our dating anniversary, so we celebrate it all as one. I got really lucky that way with October 10th falling on a Saturday in 2009.
I think we'll celebrate both. Our dating anniversary is in late June so it's nice to have an anniversary where we can do outdoor things to celebrate.
As our wedding anniversary will be in November we'll probably celebrate it by doing dinner but it'll be too cold out to bike to the river, hang out in parks, etc... usual things we like to do for our anniversary.
We only celebrate our wedding anniversary (we have never done much for our "dating" anniversary anyway, even before being married).
If people ask how long we've been together though, I give since when we started dating. Although I bet once we're our parents' ages, we'll just reply with how long we've been married. But now it seems silly to answer that question with "oh, about 11 months".
We plan to celebrate the day we had our wedding. We actually got legally married before our DW, so it was even more confusing to decide. In the end we picked the wedding date because that is when everyone celebrated with us :)
We will celebrate both! We have traditions for our dating anniversary that we look forward to every year and its something that I would like to continue but its not like we go all out with presents or anything fancy. I would imagine when we do get married, we will make a bigger deal out of our wedding anniversary but I still want to acknowledge our dating anniversary since it has been special for so long.
@linguo42: Ours are 5 years apart! What's funny is that we were introduced by his friends and a friend of mine during a wedding weekend. He met me Thursday night at a club, had Friday to recover from the drinking, then wedding on Saturday, got a ride home from there, and first date on Sunday. The couple who married that weekend have been together 7 years in October (as long as I've known my husband) and their kid just celebrated its second birthday, born a few months before we got married. So crazy connections and timelines. I always give them a shoutout when I mention our anniversary because their wedding was the catalyst for my husband and I meeting.
We have two that we'll celebrate. On on Christmas Eve and the other will be our wedding anniversary. And Dec. 24th has NOTHING to do with when we first started dating or the day he asked me to marry him :P It's more personal *wink wink nudge nudge*
We acknowledge how long we've been together on our dating anniversary but dont really celebrate it. This year we sort of did because our 5 year anniversary was 1 month before our 6 month wedding anniversary, which was also right after Valentines Day. So we combined all 3 into one celebration and went out for a very nice dinner. In the future we may just use our dating anniversary as an excuse to treat ourselves to something!
We celebrate everything! (engagementiversary, housiversary, first dativersary, first meetiversary). But the BIG celebration will be the wedding anniversary.
Our dating anniversary is today. :D It's also his birthday. So I think we will simply be reminded how long we've been together while celebrating his birthday once we are married. (For example, we'll have been together for 10 years on his 30th birthday, but we'll only have been married for about 6). We won't do cards or anything like that except on our wedding anniversary though. We already do two birthday cards in June. Lol
I think we'll only acknowledge our dating anniversary one more time...as it'll be our one-month wedding anniversary.
We'll only celebrate our wedding anniversary! We never really celebrated our dating anniversary anyways, acknowledge yes, celebrate no. But if people ask how long we've been together, I would definitely include the dating period!
I think our wedding anniversary is three days after our dating anniversary. I know it sounds silly, but neither of us can remember the exact date; we've always just celebrated some weekend around when we know it is. So we'll just celebrate our wedding anniversary.
As to how long we've been together, unless I'm specifically asked how long we've been married, I give the total time period, including dating.
Our dating anniversary is exactly one week before our wedding anniversary, so it won't make much of a difference. We'll probably acknowledge it, like "oh we started dating 7 years ago today," but save the big celebration for the wedding anniversary.
Wedding anniversary. We're not married yet, but we've been engaged for three years, so we're celebrating -1 years soon.
We celebrate both! I've only been married for 6 months on the 30th but we just celebrated our 4yrs together not to long ago and plan to celebrate our 6th lunar-versary together at the end of the month. We are the only ones that celebrate it, and it doesn't matter to us if we've been married all this time. But I think we will eventually stop celebrating both when we have been married longer.
We don't really have a dating anniversary so we've never celebrated it. We didn't have a "ok now we are dating" moment.
i think for a while we will celebrate both. i cant just forget our dating one after 5 years! however, i chose our AHR to be as close as possible, so this year it will be wedding/dating all at once. but in coming years i imagine we will make a bigger deal for wedding but probably acknowledge the dating? i really have no idea!
I was determined to continue celebrating our couple anniversary, which also is the date we moved into our home. I wrote it in my calendar and thought about it a week before the date. Then all the sudden DH comes home with some pastries, and says we've been in our house for a year. I was like, no it's in a few days ... are you sure ... already?
Yeh, I completely forgot. He remembered the day we moved in but forgot it was our anni. There goes that!
After that, we really have to celebrate our first wedding anniversary. There was some really cheapo deals to Paris 777 kronor roundtrip, but aside from the flight, there's a train, and the hotel, and the food, etc and after adding it all up, it's just too much for an overnight stay. Sigh.
This past year we did celebrate our dating anniversary because it was our Ten Year Anniversary. I think in the years to come it probably won't happen all the time. I'm sure we will somehow acknowledge it but not to the point of an actual celebration. But wedding anniversary will be the big celebration.
I think I will always say we've been together for X years married for X.
It drives me crazy when people think their relationship is so much more than ours just because they've been married for 7 but only together for 8 and we've barely been married for 1. We've been a unit for way longer than since marriage.
This year in our anniversary card I got from etsy I'm writing "Happy 1 (+10.75!) Year Anniversary!"
We both refuse to drop the 10 years of dating for the one year of wedding anniversary! :PP
We were thinking of setting our wedding date to our dating anni, but we couldn't wait "that long" lol. Our dating anni is coming up this weekend! We're gonna celebrate it.
When people ask, we'll probably say married date. Unless they ask more detailed q's.
Our dating & wedding anniversaries are 1 month & 1 day apart, so something in the middle?
I kid. I think we'll just go for a nice dinner around our wedding anniversary...and if anyone asked how long we'd been married, I'd qualify the statement with "married for x, together for x"
We will probably celebrate both, and when people ask how long we have been together will state dating X number of years and married X number (at least until we have a few married years under the belt).
Our wedding date will be the same day we met :)
lol My hubby already has to celebrate 2 wedding anniversaries (our official one in April and the anniversary of our family/religious ceremony in October), so while we'll probably note the day of our dating anniversary with a comment similar to "hey! It's been x years since our first date!" I doubt we'll do anything real special for it. :)
We were going to go out for dinner on our dating anniversary, but I was sick so that got cancelled. We'll probably only celebrate our wedding anniversary. But who knows...I am a romantic, so he might have to take me out for dinner on our dating anniversary any way.
I don't think anyone has ever asked me how long we've been together... In fact, I'm sure no one has. I guess it will depend on whether they ask how long we've been together or how long we've been married. Eventually, I'll probably stop keeping track of how long we've been together.
@Mrs.Anchors: We thought about having our wedding date on the anniversary of our first date... However, that is right around the time of the Final Four, and I knew if any of the games ever landed on our anniversary that the Final Four would be part of our anniversary celebration--now how romantic would that be????
Our dating anniversary is 3 days after our wedding anniversary so we'll probably just celebrate them together (on the wedding anniversary). When asked, I'll say the total amount of time together.
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Now that you are married, do you celebrate only your wedding anniversary or do you celebrate your "dating" anniversary? When people ask how long you have been together, do you state how long you have been married or how long you have been together as a whole?