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Just Said Yes May 2018

Two Anniversaries?

Rachel, on November 22, 2017 at 2:32 PM

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Okay so by the time my fiancé and I get married we will have been dating for 9 years! So, is it okay to celebrate your dating anniversary and your wedding anniversary? If we hadn't been together so long before getting married I probably wouldn't care about our dating anniversary but that's a long...

Okay so by the time my fiancé and I get married we will have been dating for 9 years! So, is it okay to celebrate your dating anniversary and your wedding anniversary? If we hadn't been together so long before getting married I probably wouldn't care about our dating anniversary but that's a long time together! Lol. I know it's really up to the couple to decide but I guess I'm just wondering do other people do this?

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  • K squared
    Super October 2017
    K squared ·
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    Yes. My parents celebrate their wedding anniversary and the anniversary of their first ever date. Celebrate whatever anniversary you want and however many you want. My husband and I were friends forever and can't actually agree on the date we went from friends to more so I call all of August our dating anniversary month. (Because it was sometime in August....or July)

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  • Kristin
    Dedicated July 2018
    Kristin ·
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    Our dating anniversary is 2 days after my birthday so we always celebrated them together. I'm actually looking forward to a different anniversary that's not near any other event or holiday

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  • Alforev
    VIP August 2018
    Alforev ·
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    We're probably still going to celebrate our dating anniversary. We will be together 11 years by the time we get married. My parents actually still celebrate there's but in subtle ways, like they write out cards to each other on their dating anniversary, so that's something we intend to do.

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  • Alicia
    Expert August 2017
    Alicia ·
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    Our dating anniversary is January and our married is august, so we decided we would probably do something small for the dating one just to mark it.

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  • Nancy Taussig
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    DH proposed on the 1 year anniversary of us meeting (at the same place). Fortunately, that date is 7 months before our wedding anniversary. So, for our dating anniversary we usually go to that restaurant. We usually make a bigger deal out of our wedding anniversary.

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  • Nancy Taussig
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    DH proposed on the 1 year anniversary of us meeting (at the same place). Fortunately, that date is 7 months before our wedding anniversary. So, for our dating anniversary we usually go to that restaurant. We usually make a bigger deal out of our wedding anniversary.

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  • Nancy Taussig
    Nancy Taussig ·
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    DH proposed on the 1 year anniversary of us meeting (at the same place). Fortunately, that date is 7 months before our wedding anniversary. So, for our dating anniversary we usually go to that restaurant. We usually make a bigger deal out of our wedding anniversary.

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  • Nancy Taussig
    Nancy Taussig ·
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    DH proposed on the 1 year anniversary of us meeting (at the same place). Fortunately, that date is 7 months before our wedding anniversary. So, for our dating anniversary we usually go to that restaurant. We usually make a bigger deal out of our wedding anniversary.

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  • Futur3MrzBanks
    Beginner August 2018
    Futur3MrzBanks ·
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    We are getting married 4 days after our 10 Year Anniversary which is my actual bday but I def am celebrating the fact that we made 10 years together on my wedding day.

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  • Oceankissed
    Super November 2017
    Oceankissed ·
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    We got married the day before thre 19-year anniversary of our first date (we didn't want a Sunday evening wedding) .... we still plan to celebrate our anniversary on our first date "date."

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  • Future Mrs. Coleman
    VIP September 2017
    Future Mrs. Coleman ·
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    We got married after being together 9.5 years. I fully intend on celebrating our dating engagement of 10 years as well as our wedding anniversary.

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  • Vanessasaurus
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    Vanessasaurus ·
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    Are they somewhat close together? Our wedding date is very close to the date we met, and a bit before our "dating anniversary", so I'd imagine we'd celebrate a year married/7 years together the first year and so on.

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  • Jessi
    VIP December 2017
    Jessi ·
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    We will always celebrate our "dating anniversary" because that is the day we met each other, and changed each other's lives, and we haven't been anything but a couple since that day.

    The day we got engaged is also a very important day to us, so that will be celebrated too.

    And of course, from the wedding day on, we will stay at the same hotel and go to the same restaurant for dinner every year on our wedding anniversary.

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  • Allie_W
    Dedicated June 2018
    Allie_W ·
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    I think it's completely up to you. My FH and I will still celebrate our dating anniversary because we want to. So we will do a small dinner for our dating and something bigger for our wedding anniversary every year.

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  • Melissa
    Master March 2018
    Melissa ·
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    We're getting married 2 days after our 6 year anniversary. Just worked out that way and we love it

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    Just Said Yes August 2018
    Andrea ·
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    I tried to get a venue for our Tenth anniversary, but fell short. So to compromise, we're getting married 3 days prior to that and I am happy that we'll be married BY our tenth anniversary. #validation

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