How do you celebrate your anniversary?

Thank you so much for starting this thread PippaG, you reminded me it is our 40th and we have just booked a show and overnight hotel!

It's our 50th in March and we still haven't decided what to do to celebrate it . The children want us to have a party but I 'm not sure I'd like that so we'll probably end up going out for a meal and then treat ourselves to a nice holiday later in the

My first anniversary will be in 4 weeks.
lol It's second time round for both of us, so any ideas on how to celebrate it will be appreciated.

We had our 45th last year and went to the pantomime and TGI Fridays with DD and family. We eat, just the two of us, every day! DH always buys me flowers and I get him a small gift.
Went to a 5 star hotel for our 40th in Tenerife and caught Norovirus. Spent anniversary with a bowl of soup and a cup of tea. The trauma of pouring a flat bottle of Moët down the sink stays with me ?

We usually forget ours as it's just before Christmas (we're we mad?!). But in 2019 it will be 50 years. If we are both still here I think we will take best friends out for dinner and then family away for Christmas.

Mine is a second marriage and we have been married for 20 months ...
I expect we will always mark our wedding anniversary in some way. However, over the six years we have known each other, I have learned that my husband is not a 'wordy' person and would be the last person to make a big romantic gesture. This used to disappoint me, but I now know better ... Since we have married I broke my ankle and was very incapacitated for several weeks. He looked after me brilliantly without a murmur of complaint, even though I know it must have been stressful for him. Now, with his support, I am about to step down from a very demanding teaching role. We will have to economise, but he keeps telling me my health and happiness are far more important to him. I once accused him of not being romantic - he shows me in so many little ways that I made the right choice in marrying him.
Of course I will always want to mark the anniversary in some special way - but the daily gestures are what is important... consciously remembering to do something quietly loving. He will never be someone to lavish me with surprise trips, or flowers, or fancy meals out, but he makes me feel very loved.

A small gift each and a day out with a nice lunch. Mind you our 50th is coming up in a couple of years and I am determined to have a party of some sort for that. Think I've earned it?

It was pur 40th this week and we spent 4 days in Iceland - cold, dark and snowy but great fun!
In the past on special anniversaries we have been to New York, Hawaii, Venice on the orient express, Barbados, and on a cruise to name a few. My husband plans all these trips and enjoys doing the research and booking and often I know nothing about it until a few days before which makes planning and packing a nightmare! However the breaks themselves are normally very enjoyable and different!!

Our anniversary is mid June so it might coincide with a holiday but wherever we are we have a nice meal out. We never share it with family - it was just the two of us at our wedding breakfast so we've kept it going - and we always exchange cards. OH is a softie about cards, less soppy about presents though...

It was our 40th last year and we had a weekend away luckily it fell on a Sunday so away the actual day.
We do buy each other cards and DH will buy me flowers for an ordinary anniversary. I don't give him a present he gets that the next day. His birthday.

We usually try and do something. This year was our 40th but we did not get the big holiday we'd hoped for due to the delays and uncertainty of house moving. The planned long weekend had to be cancelled when DH got the flu. We ended up with a Chinese takeaway and a bottle of cider. Better than 30th though which we spent in a hospital room with a can of coke and a packet of chocolate digestives - DH recovering from bypass.

We don't celebrate ordinary years and this year H didn't remember and that will be the case from now on, but 25th was celebrated with a party and a week in the
Lake District for just us. 30th was a dinner party for 14/16 I think and 40th we took both DC who were both first time expectant parents,so very exciting for a celebratory meal.
50th we took 14 friends out for a meal and then took the family to Nerja for 2 weeks in a villa,just wonderful.
Two and a half years to 60th if we make it!!!

It's our anniversary on Christmas Eve so we are usually peeling sprouts or cleaning the house. We do usually go away for a couple
of nights to a nice hotel after all the celebrations. Somehow we ( I ) haven't got round to booking anything this year yet.

LuckyGirl ?

Our wedding anniversary falls 4 days after Valentines Day, so he can never forget it will all the hype in shops! But we usually try to fit in a few days away for our anniversary. For the last few years we have been to Hawaii (on a cruise) on 3 occasions and a Nile cruise too. This year we celebrate 41 years, but have a trip away planned for April instead as our anniversary will fall during half-term. We prefer to go away without all the family!

"Celebrate" and "anniversary" are words that do not co-relate in our house. Glue adhering OH's bottom to his chair is of the super variety! We did celebrate our 25th and our 40th.

Apart from the landmark ones, we usually forget.

Conversation usually goes, 'Isn't it our wedding anniversary soon?'

And after a bit of working out on our fingers.....'Oh dear. It was yesterday!'

Afternoon tea out somewhere nice, or a meal, either on our own or with friends.

Not much to be honest.

After the first 10 years or so I think we even really stopped sending cards although sometimes we go out for a meal or DH buys me flowers.

I don't buy him anything because he has me

It is our 40th though this year and I'd love a surprise trip to Florida for some winter sun but think it's unlikely as we're going for 6 weeks in May !

We normally just go out for a meal, the two of us, but on our 25th and 40th we went away. This year is our 50th and, God willing, we will have some sort of little bash on the day. We are not party people and don't have lots of friends, so it will probably be a barbecue for wider family and the friends that we do have. Then in August we are taking DD, DS and their partners and our grandson away on holiday for a week to celebrate. It will either be wonderful or we will all fall out and come home early!

I think it is, Lilygran. Wedding anniversaries are really just for the couple concerned, I suppose. Especially as we get older and people like bridesmaids or best men, who might have sent a card, have died off. My parents used to send us a card but since they went we only get a couple. I don't think our children even know the date we got married, after all they weren't there!

We have a treat of some kind, an outing or a meal out, a trip to the theatre or a film. Even a couple of days away on occasion. BTW, my DS and DDiLs tell me although they try to manage a meal out to mark the occasion, people generally don't recognise other people's anniversaries these days, unless they've been invited to a party or something. Is this general?

We don't do much, either, even for big ones. Usually just a meal out for the two of us, same with birthdays, except I did have a family party on my 70th. Neither of us like being the centre of attention, so we tend to keep quiet about it!

Generally we don't celebrate and until I read this I had forgotten it is our 40th this year. Maybe we should try and think of doing something special, but what?

We usually just have a meal out somewhere, or if we're feeling lazy, a good takeaway.