Dating Anniversary vs. Wedding Anniversary

Our dating anniversary is New Years Eve. We have always gotten dressed up, gone out to eat, grabbed a few drinks, exchanged gifts, etc. It's a way of celebrating everything that happened in the past year, and setting goals for the future. Plus we usually celebrate with some of our closest friends/family, so it's always great to hear stories they tell about us throughout the year. I kinda wish we had gotten married on our dating anniversary, but I wanted a September wedding due to weather concerns, honeymoon plans, etc. Our first anniversary was last year, and it was like any other day other than we ate year old wedding cake. Which we were together for 4, going on 5 years when we got married so we celebrated our five year anniversary shortly after being married.

Our dating anniversary is 2 days before when we're planning to get married. So I figure we'll probably really just celebrate our wedding anniversary, but they're close enough that we can acknowledge both. Or maybe we'll just spend 3 days celebrating every year.

Yes ma'am. Most of the time once you get married, you celebrate your wedding anniversary instead of your dating anniversary. Of course some celebrate both days. We were together for 7 years before we got married on our 8th anniversary and didn't want to feel like we had to throw all those years away and not celebrate that day anymore since that was always our day.

We will probably celebrate our wedding anniversary more than our dating one now, since we starting dating on 12/24/13 most of our anniversaries have been spent with family celebrating Christmas. Throughout the 6 years we've been together we've really only spent 1 anniversary by ourselves together. So I'm sure it will be a lot easier celebrate 9/20/2020.

It doesn't really matter, you don't have to celebrate one over the other, both are important. You also don't have to do anything extravagant for one or the other. My husband's birthday falls a few days before the day we met in February and my birthday falls a day after our wedding in august and they're about 6 months apart so we kind of celebrate them altogether. It depends on the couple and what they consider important.

Definitely personal preference! My husband and I will probably celebrate both - or at least acknowledge our dating anniversary on a smaller scale.

We celebrate both... It works out that our dating anniversary and wedding anniversary are almost exactly 6 months apart.