<p>We just celebrated the 35th yr of the night we met- but we both forgot our wedding anniversary a few years ago & didn’t remember until several months later!.
( June is just a busy month)</p>
<p>Boy did this thread make me feel better! We just glided right past our 25th. My mother called and sent a card more than a week early–had the date wrong. Lately she has been getting her children’s names and phone numbers confused too. I reflected on how frail my parents are getting. But then, to my chagrin, when the real day of our anniversary arrived, I totally forgot! My husband has forgetten before, but I haven’t and it was terrible. </p>
<p>We have had a lot of expenses, namely year 6 of college tuition payments, orthodontics and contact lenses for child #3, etc. so DH took me out for a buffet lunch (with a coupon no less) to the local Chinese restaurant. There wouldn’t have been an exotic island vacation for us regardless, but that “celebration” was a little embarrassing. I’m just glad no one asked me yet what we did for our 25th!</p>
<p>happydad and I rarely remember our anniversary. One year happykid reminded us. This year I think all three of us forgot because I sure don’t remember anyone mentioning it at all!</p>
<p>Happy Anniversary Mantori! It’s not a problem if you both forget :)</p>
<p>I’d love to join the conversation about planning for a 25th anniversary. DH & I will be at 23 years next month and our 25th anniversary will hit about a month after D2 leaves for college; it’s also the year that I turn 50! We don’t usually celebrate anniversaries, but depending on how finances go with college, I think I’d like to plan something really extravagant. We’ve never traveled without the kids, and we didn’t do much before they were born because we were broke 
We’ve been blessed to be able to take trips to Mexico & Jamaica in the past couple of years, but DH has never been to Europe & there’s some things he’d like to see (well, me too!)</p>
<p>I’d love some travel tips from those of you who’ve traveled in the fall.</p>
<p>Our anniversary is Dec. 22nd. My birthday falls in the same week. What was I thinking?!?!?!</p>
<p>mathmom, I used to live not far from Saarbrucken! We went to the zoo for field trips when I was a kid.</p>
<p>We did three weeks in Australia for four people on a LOT less than $1k/day.</p>
<p>Fall trips: Greece, Italy, Paris, Budapest/Prague/Vienna. Personally, I’d go to places that are too hot in the summer for me to do a lot of walking. A coworker went to the Amalfi Coast in late September a few years ago and LOVED it.</p>
<p>We rarely celebrate anniversaries. For our 25th, my parents planned a party at a restaurant and invited about 30 people, which included immediate family members and our maid of honor and best man and their families. It was really nice. They even brought in a small wedding cake for dessert.</p>
<p>The only sad part was we had to dis-invite my MIL. Remember that
H1N1 scare a few years ago? She had been exposed to it the week before, so we told her she couldn’t come. I don’t think she’s forgiven us.</p>
<p>For our 25th, we stayed at a small B&B in Virginia for the weekend and ate way too much fabulous French food.</p>
<p>countingdown, I made the same mistake…anniv. June 26-birthday July3. I had to call my Mom while on our honeymoon so she could wish me a happy b-day. I turned 20 on my birthday and am sure she was sad thinking her baby was too young to be on a honeymoon.</p>
<p>H and I didn’t forget our 25th anniversary last month, but we never got around to making any plans. Plus it was in the summer when the kids were home, we didn’t want to go away while they’re here (since they’re gone most of the time). So we just went out to dinner. All we had done for our 20th was a nice dinner, too. </p>
<p>My kids have done study abroad, traveled in Europe… and we had gone nowhere. </p>
<p>SO we just booked ourselves a Caribbean cruise for January. It’s a combination 25th anniversary (5 months late) and both of our 50th birthdays (7 and 8 months early). We’re really excited! :D</p>
<p>CountingDown the reason we were in Saarbrucken was to go to a free rock concert to see one of S2’s favorite Finnish groups that has yet to tour in the US. (We were already in Europe for a conference and vacation.) It was a nice town, though seriously off the regular tourist path. (We did go drive along the Rhine the next day.)</p>
<p>DH and I are celebrating our 35th anniversary in early December. We are thinking of either a weekend runaway to Paris or just a really special dinner. We happened to be in Scottsdale on a business trip for my husband and vacation days for me on our 30th and had a really fine dinner at a well-known place in Paradise Valley as well as a nice dinner the previous night at the Phonecian.For all the other anniversaries while we always did something nice, dinner and Broadway show perhpas… too busy with being parents or caring for aging parents and whatever to really plan a big getaway.</p>
<p>Mantori, So, are you sure she really forgot? For your sake, I hope so! :eek:</p>
<p>Happy belated anniversary.</p>
<p>Our anniversary is September 11th. We don’t have a problem remembering it : (</p>
<p>Our anniversary is my birthday. We got married on the 1 yr anniversary of our first day. Then we dropped the month old kid off at parents to celebrate 1st wedding anniversary. Way too much so quick, but it worked–kinda had to. Last year we spent a week at Pebble Beach for 25th :). I never feel guilty having an expensive dinner for birthday/anniversary, I figure it’s a 2 for 1 celebration.
Congratulations to OP.</p>
<p>We flew to Alaska and did an Inside Passage cruise for our 25th. Wonderful –</p>
<p>Our anniversary always falls over memorial day weekend. For our 25th we were going postpone any celebrations but decided instead to forgo any gifts to each other and splurge on a weekend away at an all inclusive Hotel Spa in the Caribbean. Expensive due to the holiday weekend yes. But we needed to get away. It has been a stressful couple of years. Wished we could have stayed longer. </p>
<p>I have learned to take advantage of doing the things you want to do while you can still do them.</p>
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<p>Ain’t that the truth. In the space of 2 days, I had both kids leave for college, and DH leave for a nursing home. Glad we all got to do some fun things together while we could (either all of us or in different groupings/pairings).</p>
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<p>{{hugs}}to you, axw.</p>
<p>Thanks for the anniversary wishes, everyone, and for sharing your stories!</p>
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<p>Um, actually, I’m not sure. She claims she remembered the next day, but it’s entirely possible that she was just waiting to see if I remembered.</p>
<p>Anyway, we ended up going out for Indian, our favorite. :)</p>
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<p>A big hug for you. Be sure to stay involved so you don’t feel isolated. This must be a tough time.</p>