Need a little help with ideas for anniversary..

Re: Need a little help with ideas for anniversary..

• sck601 member

  July 2015

  DH and I haven't celebrated an anniversary yet (Married on May 8) but I love the idea of a fun/romantic dinner.  Are there any fondue places near you? We love going out to fondue! We always look on Groupon to see if they have any specials

  

  

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• vvitchhazel member

  July 2015

  Your August sounds like mine! We have our anniversary, anatomy scan, SO's birthday, and our lease ends as well!

  

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• JandJ62914 member

  July 2015

  Happy [almost] Anniversary! We celebrated our first wedding anniversary in June.

  
  

  We toasted (with sparkling cider) in the flutes we drank from at our wedding and read anniversary letters we wrote to each other before the wedding and put into an anniversary box at our ceremony.  Then we went to dinner.  We went to a really nice dinner though, somewhere we had never been before.  We went somewhere we wouldn't go on an average day. 

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• vvitchhazel member

  July 2015

  Too eager, posted before I finished... I should also say that I'm struggling to come up with a good plan for our anniversary as well. Money is tight with the move, but I want to make sure we enjoy it since I've been a bit of a wet blanket lately with the pregnancy. I'm also struggling to come up with a great anniversary gift. I did get him a book with the Batman logo/Bat signal carved out of it, but I was planning on doing that for his birthday.

  

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• mstefanovic member

  July 2015

  The first one is so special! Do a little stay-cation at a bed and breakfast outside your town. My hubby and I did that instead of giving gifts, and I have such fond memories of it. It was like a little honeymoon. You can go to dinner somewhere new, sit by a pool or in a fancy hotel lounge afterward, and have brunch somewhere in the morning. Go on Groupon or Living Social to get a good deal on one or all three.
  

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• arose3eb member

  July 2015

  DH and I have our crazy month in June, both of our birthdays plus our anniversary. Money was pretty tight for us also this year. We've always been pretty active, so we went on a (not strenuous) hike with our German Shepherd for a few hours and then went to a nice dinner as a splurge. Part of the reason we chose to go on the hike was because it was time consuming and free

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• jencro member

  July 2015

  I second @mstefanovic suggestion. Our 1 year anniversary is Sept. 6 and our anatomy scan is Sept 1. so we might go away for the weekend to celebrate and open an envelope with the sex of the baby in it. We're in San Diego so I'm thinking somewhere near L.A. would be nice.

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• mommaSimpkin member

  July 2015

  Id love to be able to stay at a hotel over the weekend, and treat ourselves that way. But money's tight with moving out of the apartment, to a new place.
  Let me tell ya. Cost of living in Texas is not cheap!
  I called today on a place and for a 520 sqft 1 bedroom, 1 bath apartment they wanted 1,000$ total before we moved in.. @-)
  
  So with that being an issue.. We're real tight on money.
  We've talked about doing dinner and maybe if we can afford it, going to sea world over the weekend since it's only a 2 hour drive.
  I would love to go pet the sting rays again! I haven't done it since I was 14.

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• SummerOH member

  July 2015 edited July 2015

  You can have a great time on a small budget!  Can you recreate your first date or aspects of it?  Or do something cheesy and fun, like watch your favorite movies from when you were a kid.  Or just have movie night complete with popcorn, nachos, candy, etc.  A couples massage is awesome, but it can be kind of pricey.  I also once did a scavenger hunt for MH with all sorts of clues hidden around the house.  My friend even did one at the local mall for her husband.

  DD 12/20/99, DS 12/14/12, M/C 9/2014, M/C 1/2015

  
  

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• UptownPearl member

  July 2015

  I can totally relate. My birthday, DH's birthday, and our anniversary is in August so it's a crazy time. We decided this year to celebrate by going out of town on Labor Day weekend and sort of make it a babymoon too.
  
  Last year we got massages and went out for fondue and it was awesome! You should check out some discount sites like living social in your area to see if there are some good deals on restaurants, spas, or other fun activities you both enjoy.

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• ChipMonster member

  July 2015

  I told DH that I wanted to go somewhere I've never been before every year for our anniversary. For our first we stayed in a little hotel by a lake. DS was 3 months old at the time. This year we went to a beach I had never been to. For a gift, since the traditional 1 year gift is paper, I ordered him a vintage map of Italy off of etsy and put little beads on the places we visited on our honeymoon. For our second anniversary, traditional gift is cotton, so I bought new sheets and pillows for the bed.

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• MelissaA225 member

  July 2015

  We always go to Olive Garden on our anniversary (it's where we went for our first date) and then we come home to watch our wedding DVD together. I also bake a cake the same flavor (or as close as I can get it!) as our wedding cake. We keep it pretty low-key, but we enjoy spending a quiet night together

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• fragglemom member

  July 2015

  My husband's favorite thing to do is "nothing". We'll order in our meals and just watch TV and take naps. No errands, no chores, no plans. I could kill myself making all kinds of cool plans but nothing makes him as happy or content like being a guilt free bum for a day.

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• MrsB915 member

  July 2015

  For our first anniversary we went to Maine and stayed at a friends vacation cabin. It's in September so we caught the end of the fall foliage. We went for a couple early hikes by the waterfalls, had a nice anniversary dinner and the rest of the weekend was low key, watching movies and talking about our new baby (I was about 3 mos pregnant).

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• mommaSimpkin member

  July 2015

  All of you ladies make your anniversaries seem so wonderful and movie like. Full of adventure and fun, so romantic. (Even if it's doing nothing at home)
  
  So.. Here's what we have so far. If he can get the day off, we're gonna travel to San Antonio and spend the day at Sea World. ( we have free tickets ).
  Then when we're done there, we'll grab dinner some where nice but not too fancy.
  
  If he can't get the day off, we'll go out to dinner at a real nice place, some where we haven't been. Grab a rental movie, some snacks and come back home. Probably grab a nice romantic Bath together (ooh la la ) then watch our movie and spend quality time together.
  
  
  I absolutely LOVE all the great ideas from everyone.
  I swear, I love the feedback/support I get from the ladies on the bump..
  I can tell or ask anything and I get nothing but love.
  
  With all the negative things going around lately, I thought you could all stand to hear that you're a bunch of pretty awesome ladies. So glad to be apart of the group!

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• CaraBoonie member

  July 2015

  We did a weekend away (somewhere within driving distance) for our 1st wedding anniversary. Other than that, we typically just do nice dinners out for anniversaries and birthdays...that said, our anniversary is over MLK weekend, so we always have a day off work for the weekend of our anniversary, which is nice...you can just do a nice dinner and something fun together the day of and maybe save a bigger celebration for another day when you have more time...people do honeymoons sometimes years after their weddings, who says you have to celebrate an anniversary ON your anniversary!

  
  

  I'd also maybe recommend a couple's massage (with a prenatal massage for you, of course). I always find them both relaxing and romantic, and it's something that only takes a couple of hours but makes the day feel special

  
  

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