Wednesday, August 30, 2006 11:48 AM
Anniversary Pressure
by Kathleen
I just celebrated my first anniversary. It was amazing, but the weeks leading up were a bit strained. OK, I have to confess, I was a complete stress case. I put so much pressure on both of us about making it perfect and starting a new tradition that neither of us were looking forward to the actual day.
I constantly brought it up: what are we going to do? are we going to go the traditional gift route? should we just get one present for the home? set a price limit? should we have a party? take a romantic getaway? I was driving myself and my DH mad. I finally blew up and said, I don't care what we do as long as you plan it. Why am I always the one who plans everything? blah blah blah
So he listened. He emailed my friends asking for recommendations for romantic restaurant ideas, daytrips, etc. He came up with a great plan, but the whole situation just didn't feel right to me. I knew he just wanted to go back to where we got married (near my parents' house at the Jersey shore) and bring our wedding party down to celebrate. An idea I originally balked at cause I thought it wasn't romantic enough. So I caved. And you know what? We had the perfect impromptu anniversary party. It was so much fun...I would do it again next year. Could be a good tradition after all.
What did you do for your anniversary? Do you have any good gift-giving ideas? We're not doing the traditional paper/wood/cotton route, but want to figure out how to set this present apart from a birthday or christmas gift.
In the same boat? These anniversary gifts definitely inpsired me: http://thenest.com/articles/article_love.aspx?articleid=A60612175105