Wedding Week II: Anniversary Traditions
One unfortunate fact about our wedding is that it flew by so fast that we barely touched our food. Which means we never really got to stop and enjoy the DIY grub (perhaps our most daring feat was completely nixing the idea of a caterer in favor of taking on the entire wedding menu ourselves… well it was either daring or just plain crazy, you decide).
So when our one year anniversary approached last July, we initially thought we’d get dressed up and go out to a nice dinner (maybe I’d even wear my dyed wedding dress). Until my sweet hubs tossed out the lets-recreate-our-backyard-wedding-and-finally-enjoy-the-food-at-home idea. It seemed fitting since we got married in our backyard that we’d throw some food on the grill and pick up a few side dishes to recreate that special night a year later (we’re lucky to own our wedding venue, so it’s easier to relive the fun). First we snapped this corny little photo under the arch where we said our vows (which we moved from the middle of the yard to the entrance to the back woods after the big day):
Then we got to work enjoying a dinner that very closely resembled the one our guests enjoyed in that very spot exactly a year ago. Of the three entrees that we offered up, we chose the blue cheese angus burgers with parmesan caesar dressing and added some other wedding-day fare (lemon pepper potato chips and rotini salad) to round things out:
But what about a fitting drink to accompany our marital meal? Leading up to the wedding we saved up a bunch of wine and beverage bottles. Instead of big plastic pitchers, we wanted the chic look of glass so we asked a local wine retailer to save old bottles for us (leftover from their weekly wine tastings and totally f-r-e-e). Once at home we made sure they were squeaky clean and hand labeled ‘em with a sharpie (which never rubbed off or faded in case you’re wondering). We used all the green bottles to hold water, brown bottles for sweet tea and clear ones for homemade mint lemonade (fresh mint + lemonade= yum). Of course we also had many bottles of red and white wine on hand along with some of those cute vintage glass bottles of coca-cola. We really think making the effort to avoid cans and plastic kept things looking clean and classic…
…but in our anniversary recreation we took a shortcut and enjoyed a refreshing can of Fresca instead:
If this picture doesn’t aptly demonstrate how deeelicious it was, I don’t know what will:
And you may notice the lemon-&-lime-riddled napkin that I’m using to delicately dab my lips. Well, a year later we still had leftover napkins laying around, so that part of the recreation was easy (here they are in place on the tables 365 days earlier):
Then it was time to enjoy our wedding cupcakes. The night of our nuptials, we placed two of them in wax paper and then slipped them into a tupperware container which we stored in the freezer for the following year. And just like enjoying wedding cake on your first anniversary, those cupcakes were just as good (really, they took really well to bring frozen!).
And our one-year anniversary night wouldn’t have been complete without taking a ride to a nearby diner to recreate our wedding night photobooth experience in their booth for $3 (we like to snag a photostrip to commemorate lots of special days and store them in a cup on our open shelves in the dining room):
So that’s our little first year anniversary tradition- but what did we do to celebrate our second one on Tuesday? Well, we considered making the at-home BBQ recreation an annual tradition, but then my sweet hubby suggested that we enjoy a tasty meal at Brio, the deeelicious Italian restaurant where we had a lovely little rehearsal dinner the night before our wedding.
Here’s we are stuffed to the gills after our delicious anniversary meal:
Of course before we left we remembered to snap a few photos in the backyard (this time we posed in front of the hedges where our family portraits took place):
Then after dinner we capped things off with another photobooth pic at that diner downtown:
So that’s how we spent our last two anniversaries. What about you guys? Do you do anything fun each year when it comes to celebrating yours?
To learn more about how we DIYed our wedding food for an upscale backyard experience, check out the details in our wedding album.
p.s. We have a HUUUUUUUUGE ANNOUNCEMENT coming in just a few days so stay tuned!
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I was thinking the obvious….baby….but I’m going to go with unveiling your basement redo. Either way, can’t wait!
I love how you spend your anniversaries!
Lol I don’t even know you but my first guess was a baby too. Looking forward to the announcement!
Hehe, love your anniversary traditions. My hubs and I go back to the place where we got married every year and do a photoshoot, we’ve gotten some cute pics each year. We also go to the same Italian restaurant once a year around our anniversary, we love us some Italian!
My guess, you’re published in an even bigger mag this time!
excited for the huge announcement!
Our anniversary tradition is that after dinner, we toast with a bottle of champagne in our flutes we toasted with on our wedding day. (We always buy the same brand that was served at the wedding for extra cuteness.) Then, we dance to our first dance song.
The hubby also gives me one long-stemmed red rose for each year of our marriage. We always joke that several years down the road, it’ll become a rather expensive tradition!
How cute! What a sweet week of wedding posts. I love how willing ya’ll are to have your pictures taken and that you post them. I’m way too camera shy for that. Thanks so much by stopping by and leaving a comment – it made me smile! Keep the wedding week coming, it’s great!
You two are just too cute! I love the idea of some how reliving your wedding day whether it’s revisiting the rehearsal location or having dinner based on the wedding menu. I am getting married (in less than 30 days) and I’m definitely going to keep these ideas in mind for the future.
You two are a match made in heaven! I love it!
Did you have the guests bring the chairs over from the vow exchange location to the dining location? And did you just suggest they sit where they’d like? Just curious! Sorry if you’ve already explained those details.
Cheers,
Bon
my husband and I tried to do the whole eat out at the same place tradition, but we can never remember our anniversary!!!! hahaha. we’re so bad at that!
OMG you guys are just too cute! Love your traditions. We go to the same Italian restaurant, where we had our first date on our “dating anniversary”. But our wedding anniversary we have just gone somewhere for dinner. Not that exciting I know. lol! Can’t wait to see what the big news is.
I’m probably one of your older readers, been married 27 years. One of our celebrations is to go back to our honeymoon location every 5 years. It is amazing to see how much things have changed over these years with the location as well as with us. A friend of mine recently catered her daughters reception herself – there were 750 in attendance! Love your traditions and am looking forward to your huge announcement. Maybe a brother or sister for Burger???
(I apologize for sounding like an illiterate cave-woman in my previous post. 3 2-word sentences in a row= WOW)
You two are so sweet together! Krispy Kreme has played a big role in my relationship with my husband. He took me there on our first date, he even wanted to pop the question there but I spoiled it by being too full from dinner (too full for Krispy Kreme – what was I thinking?), and we even had a Krispy Kreme wedding cake. We like to pop in for some hot glazed to celebrate our wedding anniversary and the anniversary of our first date. If anyone is curious about what a Krispy Kreme cake looks like, I blogged about it on our two year anniversary http://littleredroost.blogspot.com/2009/06/two-years.html
All I can say is cute, cute, cute!! We do a similar thing. We make a Jamaican meal (usually grilled lobster with rice) since we were married in Jamaica. Our goal is to be able to go back to where we were married eventually. Didn’t go back the 1st year, but maybe this year. Can’t wait to hear your announcement!
I think a baby is too obvious so I’m going with your revealing what you did in the basement or you’re going to reno the full bathroom. I can’t wait to see what it is!
My guess is the basement, but I’d love to see the added affect of a Baby Petersik!
Too cute!! For our second anniversary last month my hubby surprised me with a night at a totally fab boutique hotel downtown – the pool there is jawdropping amazing: http://itsgreattobehome.net/?s=joule&x=0&y=0
Hmm, the big announcement…with all of your (well-deserved) success, I’m guessing a TV show! Maybe not, but that would be awesome!
Hey Focipresley,
We actually had little place cards on each guest’s spot (we stamped cardstock with monogram initials of each guest and held them down with river rocks) so after the ceremony a few of the “usher” type family members migrated all the chairs from the ceremony to the nearby reception while our guests milled around with some appetizers and drinks (although some DIY family members insisted on carrying their own chairs so that really speed up the transition). You can see more pics of the place cards by clicking our wedding album tab (under the header). Hope it helps!
xo,
s
Can’t wait for the HUGE announcement! Just wanted to take a moment to tell you how much I love the blog and look forward to it daily. You’ve given me such awesome inspiration and really affirmed that I can do my own home upgrades that make a huge difference. Thanks again, you guys are awesome! And happy 2nd anniversary!
omg you guys are just too cute! i loooove wedding week! p.s. the teaser on the huuuuuge announcement!?!? so not cool. please announce asap.
I hope the announcement is the basement unveil – since D of G&D announced she’s expecting, I don’t think I can take much more.
Our first anniversary is still a few months away but our cake baker provides anniversary cakes for $15 for those that used them for their wedding. We’re so excited! The cake was our big splurge and we didn’t have any left to freeze.
How so totally cute are you guys? You should have a rock with the year painted on it in each shot so anyone can easily tell which anniversary it is. Also in your photo strip I can’t tell what you are doing with your hands Sherry….third pic??
Did I ever tell you that I suck at patience? Big time.
I am going to guess it’s the basement. But please don’t make us wait too long!
Hey Jill,
I’m actually holding up my hand with my wedding ring. And for some reason I’m making a very strange face. Weird poses happen in the photobooth that are beyond our explanation.
xo,
s
YAY!! I love it! I just got married a few weeks ago and today I have officially changed my name!!! I am excited to do something special for our 1st anniversary next year! I’m excited to hear about your BIG news :)
Cheers!
Totally unrelated to anniversaries, but I was just sitting here reading your post and my two-in-less-than-a-month year old climbed into my lap and looked at the pictures with me. I was at the one of you, Sherry, wiping your mouth with the funny expression on your face, and she laughed out loud! Then she spotted Burger in the bottom of the previous picture and shouted, “Puppy dog!” We scrolled back and forth for a minute looking at the two pictures. I just wanted to say a quick, “Thank you!” for the fun you provide! This week really has been extra great. Thanks!
Your traditions are adorable. We always eat at the delicious Indian restaurant that did our wedding food on our anniversary. And a very shortlived tradition was to put on our wedding garb each year to make sure it still fit. That one has um, fallen by the wayside. : )
WHAT IS THE HUUUUUUUUUGE ANNOUNCEMENT?
Oh, I DO hope your huge announcement has something to do with turning your third bedroom into a nursery!
I think Fanta is caffeine free, isn’t it? And it’s obviously alcohol free, so, I’m joining the baby guessing camp!
Well we just got married so we haven’t had any wedding anniversaries yet… but for our dating anniversaries we have done weekend cabin getaways. That’s just our favorite thing to do! Also the first year, Ian made me a video slideshow of our whole first year together. It was my gift. I said last year for our 2nd that I would love if that was a tradition, so we started making a 2nd year one together. However, it’s still not finished 6 months later :( Hopefully we will finish it as well as make one for this year, since getting married and going to Alaska are a big deal!! :)
I know its going to sound odd, but the hubs and I celebrate at Ihop every year. The night of our first date he was so nervous he completely forgot to consider where we would go to eat. So when he came to pick me up, and I asked where we were going, he was completely empty on ideas. He asked what I wanted and I couldnt thing of anything that sounded better then pancakes. So we went to ihop and spent 3 hours talking. Exactly 3 years later, after our anniversary dinner at Ihop, he proposed :]
I am really hoping the news is either a little one on the way or the basement redo!
you are two are so cute! :o) I’m guessing the announcement is… you are getting your own magazine or you are going to be on HGTV design stars?!
Huge announcement? I’m gonna go against the flow and say it’s definitely not a baby announcement. You knew that’s what everyone would think when you posted that, and I don’t think you’d want to give it away like that. So I say it’s house related – I hope it’s got to do with the basement!
And even if it is a baby announcement…then that means we’re due around the same time and I’ll definitely enjoy seeing you pull a nursery together!
So cute! And we had our rehearsal dinner at a place called Bravo which is owned by the same company that owns Brio. Exact same menu. It’s my fave restaurant.
OOOh can’t wait for your big announcement.
Who makes the lemon pepper chips? They sound tasty!
You two are the cutest! And I am craving one of your burgers now!! Is it just ground beef with a squirt of chunky blue cheese dressing??
Hey Kelly, it’s actually chunky blue cheese dressing worked into the patty and marinated a while before tossing it on the grill. Deeelish!
And Lindsay, those lemon pepper chips were Archer Farms brand at Target.
xo,
s
Huge Announcement…hm!!!….Are you guys going to host any TV show or give guest appearance in home decor channels? or pick my home to give free decor ideas :)
Seeing all your wedding week recaps have me hoping I can move back to Richmond (from DC) so I can afford to buy a home before getting married. I love the DIY backyard wedding, especially when you have such a great space! I’ve passed this on to friends who just bought in Richmond and they’re inspired to do their own next spring too! Thanks!
we recently went to a wedding and the food was incredible. as we sat and ate the amazing spread, i looked at my husband and said – “it’s a shame the bride and groom won’t be eating any of this!” we both recalled not touching any of the food we had at our reception. everyone told us it was delicious. i do remember, however, eating a huge slice of our wedding cheesecake, (neither one of us is too keen on regular cake, so we had 1/2 sheet cheese cakes made with fresh fruit all over the top.) it was amazingly delicious!
So fun! We do something big every five years. 5: a baby, 10: another baby, 15: diamond bracelet (more $$$ than “having” a baby, but less upkeep ;-), 20: diamond pendant (see 15), 25: grown-up bedroom furniture (bye-bye Early Graduate School junk!), 30: hmmm, that will be this Sept, but having hip replacement surgery 3 weeks prior – so…don’t know. But it will be a great week with 30th anniversary and 25th & 20th birthdays all in the same week.
Voting with the majority here: 1st thought:baby. Too obvious. Something super blog related.
Sara
We just started the photo booth picture tradition because of one of your previous posts! it so fun!
I think the huge annoucnement is maybe you got your own tv show!!!!??!!
or maybe you have another magazine deal that you are writing for…
or maybe you are doing a bathroom makeover!!
either way cant wait to see what it is!!!!!!!
Hi Sherry,
My husband and I just went to Brio for the first time last weekend and LOVED it!
I was wondering which downtown diner has the photo booth? We usually go to Galaxy Diner, but if I remember right it isn’t there (or we would have jumped in!).
Thanks!! Looking forward to your announcement. :)
Amy
Your traditions sound awesome – I’m a little jealous! Our 2nd anniversary is coming up in October, and for the 2nd one in a row – we’re going to someone else’s wedding! So I guess you could say our tradition is celebrating with friends for their own wedding… but I have to say, I think it’d be nice to just celebrate calmly (or not) at home instead with just the two of us. :)
Hey Amy,
We always snag the photostrips at the New York Deli in Carytown. Love it!
xo,
s
My guess is that you are joining the ranks of pregnant bloggers.
Or it’s the basement.
Or your meeting Martha Stewart or something. lol
Ooh! I don’t think it’s a reno project, because then you would have said “an unveiling” rather than “an announcement.”
My guess is a baby or a TV show — either one would be super-exciting, haha, but I hope it’s a baby!
How funny is it that I just earlier today posted on my blog about our second anniversary?
We just went to the beach, sat, had dinner and talked about these two years together. Nothing fancy, but really special!
Gracia we’re like sisters on different continents. Happy anniversary girl!
xo,
s (& j)
My husband just joined the army and will be gone for our very first wedding anniversary this September. So to make it up to me, he surprised me with an early anniversary the night before he left! I came home to champagne in the same flutes we used at our wedding along with a very special gift: his vows re-written on a beautiful card that was placed in an old, vintage flowered frame. It was so wonderful and thoughtful and the perfect way to celebrate our first anniversary (even if it was 3 months early).
Happy Anniversary, you two!
Oh my gosh I hope that your BIG ANNOUNCEMENT is not that you’re getting a reality show – everyone who does that ends up divorced!!!! I hope it’s a baby….or another dog (= furbaby).
I too can’t wait to hear the “announcement”, but I bet you’re in stitches laughing at all the guesses and enjoying having everyone on pins and needles. :=)
when is the big announcement going to be made?! i need to make sure i check in. my guess is either appearing on a show, such as oprah. or the obvious…b-a-b-y :)
Fun traditions. I have the same glasses that you store your pics in – love them.
My initial guess would have been baby but that seems too obvious. I’m going to go with you have a regular column in another magazine or are appearing on a tv show.
I’m guessing you are going to make Burger a big brother by getting a puppy!
Or you’re having a Youngster-Baby.
But I think you’re really going to be announcing another very cool blog-related venture, like being on HGTV or some such coolness.
Great week of wedding/anniversary posts; love the ideas you guys come up with!
Happy Anniversary :)
I can hardly wait to hear about your HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!!! I was also going to say you must be having lots of fun reading everyone’s guesses as to what the news are! Please don’t make us wait tooo long!! ;)
Another thought (besides a sharpie) is doing glass etching (maybe of your initials?). I love the Trader Joe’s sparkling lemonade bottles, so I’ve started hoarding in hopes of having a big party and personalizing them somehow.
Also, we use sharpies all the time in lab (I’m a grad student in bioengineering) and the way we remove the marks is 70% ethanol…so I’m pretty sure you could scrub it off with vodka if you really wanted to change the saying or drink type.
“p.s. We have a HUUUUUUUUGE ANNOUNCEMENT coming in just a few days so stay tuned!”
Oh how you tempt us!!
You’re preggers! I know it! I can’t wait to see your take on the functional, stylish nursery. You’ve got to check out the nursery Heather at Dooce put together. So amazing. Plus it uses wall flowers!
If your not preggers this better be big guys! Actually, I might even be more excited if it’s a basement makeover….
So I’m hoping there is a nursery in your furture because I was just thinking it’d be pretty sweet if you had someone request a nursery mood board…
Anyhow, my husband and I also had a backyard wedding and reception- although we were really in the front yard of my parent’s farm- overlooking the pastoral view of prairies and farmland. It was awesome. During our ceremony we planted a tree instead of doing the unity candle thing. The tree was planted a few days before the wedding and during the wedding we just added dirt from my husband’s family home (1000 miles away) and water from my family’s home- it was symbolic to us. We try to continue the tradition by planting another tree each year of our marriage- so far we’re on 4. And we do the same thing with a birth of each of our children. We know that someday we will be buying the farm from my parents and living there ourselves, so I like knowing we will see those trees for the rest of our lives. It’s amazing how big our wedding tree has grown!
Interestingly- the house we currently live at (a 100 yr old farm) has a row of locust trees and one day an older woman who grew up there stopped to say hello and see how the house had changed. She pointed at the trees and said “my mother planted those trees as each of her children and grandchildren were born”. We thought it was so cool they had a similar tradition and now everytime I walk under them I think of her family.
Our 9th anniversary was yesterday (July 8), and we celebrated by going out to dinner WITH the kids (ages 6, 4 and 19 months). We don’t really have a tradition–some years have just been too crazed to even remember the day. But it seemed right to celebrate the day our family started with the whole crew. Then we came home, put everyone to bed, and promptly fell asleep in front of the 10 o’clock news. Just something for you youngsters to look forward to!
Wow, I feel like we have kind of boring traditions compared to a lot of others!
Every year we order a small cake from the bakery who made our wedding cake, and sometimes go out to a nice restaurant. I try to keep an “anniversary journal” that has a picture of us at each anniversary and what we’ve been up to for the past year, but I think it’s been a couple of years since I’ve updated it (oops). I had a good excuse though (a baby!).
This year it will be our 11th anniversary! :-)
I am in stitches waiting to hear your “HUGGGGGGGGGE ANNOUNCEMENT! What could it be?? I’m thinking it’s an “addition” of some sorts:) Animal, Human, or Room?
Preggers is too obvious…my bets are on something else. A new home project or business venture?!?
I think your anniversaries sound lovely, we are celebrating our 12th anniversary this Sunday and might just have to have a backyard burger they looked great! Very little chance of going out with 2 small children so we will be having fun at home.
Here’s to lots more Happy Anniversaries for you both.
HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT?? The kind that reveals itself in nine months?? I hope so :)
We’re coming up on our two year anniversary too. Happy Anniversary, young ones!
Happy anniversary!
Every year on our anniversary we go out for a picnic lunch and use the wicker picnic basket that still is one of our favorite wedding gifts. I love this tradition because now our two children can join us on our picnics.
Brad and I celebrated our second anniversary at the same resort we did last year… That beach has now become our a destination when celebrating anniversaries!
I am coming up on my one year anniversary, so no traditions yet. I am thinking of having the hubby drive us out to our wedding site to take a polaroid photo since we didn’t take one at the wedding (we used a polaroid camera to create a photo guestbook at our wedding). I’d really like to make our tradition a trip to France since that is where we honeymooned, but I don’t think that will happen.
We are actually driving up to Mammouth in California, so maybe our tradition will be going someplace new each year.
I hope your announcement is maybe being featured on HGTV. That would be pretty awesome.
You guys are so cute. I love when couples carry traditions. Ours involves the Red Sox. I bought him tickets last year for his wedding present, this year I got them for our first anniversary. It’s fitting because we were watching a game the first time he told me he loved me. We plan to go to a game every year to celebrate our anniversary now.
The suspense is killing us….come up…..what is the big announcement? You haven’t been responding to the BABY guesses so I think we are on the right track possibly?!?!
Man, I wish I knew about that photobooth when I lived in Richmond. I LOVE them.
My husband and I celebrated our second anniversary two weeks before you guys. One thing I’m learned as we approached this big day, EVERYONE wants to know when the baby is coming, so unless it’s really true do NOT mention any kind of surprise unless you want to be disappointed with everyone’s reaction.
I’ll be excited to hear about it, whatever it is!
I’m guessing it’s a baby, but that seems pretty predictable, so my next guess is that you’re going to be a regular feature on some magazine or TV show. :-)
You just said “HUUUUUUUUGE ANNOUNCEMENT” that way to make us think its a baby! Sneaky sneaky. I can’t wait to see what it is.
Just love to get your newsletter everyday! Your photos always make me smile. I hope the big surprise is that you’ve got your own cable TV show. All the best…
I love your photobooth tradition! I have a total obsession with photobooths – and I am totally jealous that you had one at your wedding. I wanted one VERY badly but could not afford it (I shamefully wasn’t as thrifty as you guys). So instead my photographer made a “traveling photo studio” which was still pretty cool.
But whenever I can I drag my husband into a photobooth (see our latest from this weekend here http://trickponies.wordpress.com/2009/07/10/from-beach-to-barn/ )
I’m even so obsessed to the point that I’ve figured out how to create my own from photos. I made an entire series of farm animals. And I’m working on one with my dachshund, Ammo!
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So I think you guys might have to sneak Burger into that diner! It would make my day :-)
On our anniversary every year we go to The Piper – a restaurant near our house that’s a little more spendy. And we always get martini’s. We try a new one every year. Every couple years we watch our wedding movie and look at our album – which is a huge hit with our daughter now. She’s very into the wedding/princess thing. We got married outside at a game club under this beautiful tree in the middle of a field – we went back this summer to look around and they cut our tree down. Not happy. But we have amazing memories of that day. 364 days after my wedding my dad died of cancer. My wedding and his walking me down the aisle is one of the most precious memories I’ll always have.
I am hoping it’s baby news! I’m redecorating a nursery for baby #3 – the first time I’m really going ga-ga over nursery decor. Anyways, I’m sure whatever the news is it will be great! Love everything about you guys!!!
You are getting your own show on HGTV, or the stork will make a stop by your house next winter.
So cute! i love you guys!
what brand are your jeans in the pic by the hedges.. so dang cute!
So I swung by the grocery section of my local Target while grabbing a few things this weekend, and no sign of the lemon pepper chips anywhere! I wonder if they’re a regional thing. I love anything with a hint of lemon or lime so I was dying to try some!
Yeah I looked there! I saw all of the other yummy flavors (and picked up some of the Maple BBQ) but no sign of those delicious sounding lemon pepper ones.
I’ll keep looking around :) thanks!
Congrats on your anniversary! For our first anniversary we excitedly took our cake top out of the freezer…opened the lid…and saw that our caterer never took the flowers off the top…blech. It was disgusting. We both took the tiniest bite and threw the rest away.
For our second I ordered a white cake white frosting cake (my hubster’s choice for our wedding cake) from the bakery he thought we were going with originally (I had to sneak in a new baker so I could give him a train cake for his groom’s cake). The second-year anniversary cake made up for the year before :)
WoW! What a dream wedding!
I had 2 weddings, a private ceremony at a waterfall and a big traditional mom wedding. Both were awesome. We celebrate our anniversary by spending a nice summer day at the waterfall with our dog. Our dog, Blue, was the ring bearer for both of our weddings! What’s your surprise??? Are you getting a puppy???
You are so talented. Love all the ideas on this website. I’m borrowing your IKEA wardrobe master bedroom idea!
Hey Erica,
You can read about the big reveal right here: http://www.younghouselove.com/2009/07/the-end-of-this-young-house/
It threw us for quite a loop but we’re happy to say that we made it out alive!
xo,
s
I know this post is a little old :) … But couldn’t help myself… I wanted to share how my hubby and I celebrate our anniversary each year. We write each other a letter. This come about when our first anniversary was coming up and knowing we didn’t have the extra money to buy gifts we were trying to come up with something special but CHEAP…
Then I had an idea…We lived in different states for two years while dating and wrote letters to each other almost everyday..no joke..I really got a letter every other day in the mail :) So I suggested letters to each other. That was 15 anniversaries ago, and I have a beautiful box of letters and what a gift they are each year. They make me laugh ,cry and feel special, beautiful and most of all loved!! I’d say thats a pretty darn good gift and it’s FREE!! I’m looking forward to reading my next one in October!
You guys are GREAT and what a BEAUTIFUL family you have :!!
you guys are toooooooooooo cute!!! I love it:)
Is the HUUUUUUUUGE ANNOUNCEMENT a BABY??????