MemberMy Fiance and I will be getting married on October 27th this year which is our 4th year anniversary. The timing was perfect because we live in Phoenix and that’s about the time when it starts to cool down from the 100+ degree weather. Next year should we celebrate our 5th year anniversary or would it be our one year anniversary? So confused! Help!
MemberWe got married in the same month as our anniversary, and a year after we got married, we’ll be celebrating our one year wedding anniversary, but 5 years of being together total.
MemberI used to want to celebrate my dating anniversary, but now that I’m married, the wedding anniversary is much, much more important.
But you can celebrate whatever you want!
MemberYou should celebrate however you like! You can celebrate your 68-month dating anniversary if you want. 🙂 The wedding anniversary date is more of a public type thing, and if your family/friends are the type to send cards or write on your Facebook for special occasions, they’ll probably be counting from your wedding date.
MemberCelebrate however you want! We will be celebrating our 6 year dating anniversary at the end of this month. Our wedding anniversary is in August. We like to celebrate both because both are extremely important dates in our lives 🙂
MemberWe’ll celebrate seven years together just 10 days before our first wedding anniversary. We like to recognize both.
A friend got married on her dating anniversary, and they called their next annversary their “8/1” anniversary (eight years together, one year married).
MemberWe got married on our three year anniversary, but we’re calling this February 27th our “first” anniversary. And if anyone asks, we’ll say we’ve been together for four years but married for one.
MemberDH and I will be celebrating our 10 year anniversay and 1 year wedding anniversay in March. We usually say we’ve been together for 10 and married for 1 but either way, 10 years together and 1 year married are both big anniversaries 🙂
MemberCelebrate both! My husband & I gotmarried 4 days before our 4 year anniversary. This year one our one year wedding anniversary we celebrated that, then on our 5 year dating anniversary 4 days later we wished one another a happy anniversary but didn’t do anything big.
MemberYou can celebrate however you want, but when you tell people it’s your anniversary and they ask how many years, I’d go with how many years you’ve actually been married as that’s what most people are referring to. If you want, you can add in that you’ve been together for 5 years but you’re celebrating your first wedding anniversary.
This is just my opinion, but I think once you get married, the dating anniversaries become less important. You can obviously still celebrate them as a couple but I don’t think anyone else really cares that it’s the anniversary of your first date.
MemberDH and I got married on our 4th dating anniversary and we “started over” so to speak. However, if asked how long we’ve been together we expand.
MemberI think people generally celebrate the anniversary of their wedding date… but do whatever you want there’s no right answer!
MemberOur dating anniversary was in June. We got married in December. We’ve been together since 2005, and always celebrated the June anniversary. It was weird when we skipped it in 2011 because we had the wedding coming up.
And you’re right–it is hard to have to re-set the relationship clock. We were together for over half a decade before we got married!
MemberThank you so much for your input ladies! We will celebrate it as our first wedding anniversary next year. But ofcourse if anyones asks it will be our 5th year together.
MemberI definitely think you should do whatever you want! I agree that the wedding date feels more important, but I definitely didn’t want to lose all those years and go back down to zero. The way we see it, now we have two times each year to celebrate us! I’m down with that. 🙂
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