When to stop the dating anniversary

Haha, I think that's very much a personal thing. I know plenty of people who recognise both their dating anniversary, as well as their married one, even though they've been married years. Other people probably don't really celebrate either. I mean, we were to have been married on the 18th of September but had to postpone due to covid. We definitely intend to celebrate that date, plus our dating anniversary this year, but we won't celebrate that date every year - we'll celebrate whatever date we are able to finally get married on, plus our dating anniversary, probably. For us though, those two dates are pretty far apart rather than bunched all together, which makes it more appealing to celebrate both. Plus, we only ever get each other a card and go out for dinner, so it wouldn't be too onerous.

We will always celebrate our original anniversary. It's a special time for us and we celebrate all month doing different things. That being said, I think the more celebration the merrier. 2 days instead of 1 why not? Any reason to breakout the fun and romance is good in my book.

Had this conversation with my husband while we were engaged and we absolutely want to still recognize and celebrate our dating anniversary. It’s been apart of our relationship for 8 years and it’s basically us celebrating the day we agreed to be together which ultimately led to us saying I Do down the line. We wouldn’t have our wedding anniversary without our dating anniversary. So it’s very special to us. But also a personal choice between couples. We have room for both dates. They are each very special dates in our lives and in our commitment to one another.

Hmmm not sure. We got married around our dating anniversary so we can celebrate both together. I have a good friend & her husband who still both dates. It really is a personal choice.

My FH and I are getting married on our dating anniversary.... so I can't really answer that. I agree with others its a personal choice.

I think it’s fine to recognize it. Like hey we’ve been together for 9 years now, wow! Maybe have a nice dinner or make an effort to do something together. But celebrate in a big way, trip, gifts, flowers, no I don’t think that’s necessary. But your relationship is different than any one else’s so it’s really up to you. My parents have been married 36 years and my mom will still mention it when it’s their dating anniversary. As far as I know they don’t do anything though.

We stopped celebrating our dating anniversary after we got married. We kind of made up our dating anniversary though, as we knew each other in school and then reconnected years later, so when we officially started "dating" after we reconnected is not a clear, set date. The relationship just kind of grew as we spent more and more time together and talking. So our dating anniversary didn't really mean much for us anyway.

I’m celebrating both met 5/26/19 getting married 4/23/22

My husband and I always celebrate our anniversary every year. We ended up dating, got engaged, and got married on the same date so now we have one date across the board. But even if we had a separate marriage date, we planned to always celebrate.

We're getting married just 2 days after our dating anniversary which is St. Patrick's day. My fiance is be relieved to not have 2 dates to remember haha. He really pushed for it too.

Entirely personal.

We don't celebrate our dating anniversary, and we stopped as soon as we got married (dating anniversary in February, wedding anniversary in July).

Sometimes on big numbers, we acknowledge it - like "hey this is 20 years together today" - but we don't celebrate with dinner or anything. (That said, our dating anniversary is very close to Valentine's Day, so doing any "couples" activities is nearly impossible, very expensive, or just a plain out pain in the a...)

We have never celebrated our dating anniversary. We did celebrate our engage-iversary in between engagement and wedding

We don't even know when our dating anniversary is, so we just celebrate our wedding anniversary. It's much easier. In your situation, maybe you could have a farewell to "just" dating/being engaged celebration next year?

I've been having this debate with my FH too! We are getting married pretty close to our dating anniversary, so I think this was the last year of celebrating it. After we're married we will just celebrate that date.

Not sure what we will do. Our dating anniversary is 8/17 and wedding date is 9/17. So exactly a month apart. We will definitely celebrate next year though since it will be our 10th. We don’t do a whole lot as it is- we usually get a nice dinner then see a movie. If I were you guys, I would definitely celebrate next year 3 mos out from the wedding. It will be a nice night to connect and look forward to and celebrate the years you put in dating to get to the point of nearly being married!

Our dating anniversary is my birthday, so its always kind of taken a backseat to that anyway. I think it will probably get forgotten after marriage.

We don’t remember the actual date, but I’m *pretty* sure it was Thanksgiving week because my kids were with their dad so I had some freedom LOL


So on the weekend after T day we get nostalgic. We didn’t see each other again till Jan so when I am counting years together I count Jan 2012.
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We will continue to celebrate our dating anniversary even after we get married. Maybe we won't make it as big of a celebration as the marriage anniversary but we will still celebrate some way.

My parents will be married 61 years next month. My father, who is not an emotional or romantic person STILL celebrates their dating anniversary! Except for one year when he was in the hospital on that date but he told everyone he ran into that it was their dating anniversary. Why not always celebrate the day you met the love of your life?