minimariah Posted August 20, 2015 Posted August 20, 2015 do you have any cute & sweet traditions as a couple...? something you always do on a special day or any other special time, your favourite movie you maybe always watch, the way you always traditionally spend holidays...? tell me about it.
Got it Posted August 20, 2015 Posted August 20, 2015 We were secretly married prior to our official wedding that no one knows about (except the pastor who "married" us the second time as we had to explain why we couldn't sign the paperwork. ) . So we celebrate that day each year at the same restaurant/B&B we went to after we tied the knot. 1
jen1447 Posted August 20, 2015 Posted August 20, 2015 My BF gets his 'traditional' Christmas present every Christmas, which started two years ago with a bang lol. It involves a present given in front of everyone that contains a picture he has to try to hide which carries an implication he can't stop himself from getting outwardly excited about, which he then also has to try to hide. First year was the best bc it was completely unexpected. Tease-tease-tease .... 4
Author minimariah Posted August 20, 2015 Author Posted August 20, 2015 We were secretly married prior to our official wedding that no one knows about (except the pastor who "married" us the second time as we had to explain why we couldn't sign the paperwork. ) . So we celebrate that day each year at the same restaurant/B&B we went to after we tied the knot. ^^ i love this! this is the way i want to do it if i ever tie the knot for the 2nd time - one ceremony for us, just us & then the official wedding! can i ask - was that something you guys planned or was it more like a spontaneous "marry me right now" thing? My BF gets his 'traditional' Christmas present every Christmas, which started two years ago with a bang lol. It involves a present given in front of everyone that contains a picture he has to try to hide which carries an implication he can't stop himself from getting outwardly excited about, which he then also has to try to hide. First year was the best bc it was completely unexpected. Tease-tease-tease .... this is VERY creative, Jen.
candie13 Posted August 20, 2015 Posted August 20, 2015 when I get a bit sad, there's this amazing icecream place I like to go to... so like once ever 2 months, I occasionally buy myself one... does that count ? 2
Got it Posted August 20, 2015 Posted August 20, 2015 ^^ i love this! this is the way i want to do it if i ever tie the knot for the 2nd time - one ceremony for us, just us & then the official wedding! can i ask - was that something you guys planned or was it more like a spontaneous "marry me right now" thing? this is VERY creative, Jen. Thank you! We did it at our favorite winery, just us and our dog was the flower girl. Picked up a bouquet and a head piece for her, nothing too fancy. And had a very simple ceremony. We have the dried flowers in the nursery now and will keep them as long as we can. The white dress I wore, I reworn at the rehearsal dinner/cocktail party the night before our wedding. We also gave bottles of wine in our thank you packages to everyone from said winery. They have a wine that shares my name so that is the main one we drink. So just little reminders/moments that only we share. It was something we planned but not with a lot of notice. We wanted to do it for a multitude of reasons, thought about having the kids there and just being a family moment but then decided that it was just going to be an "us" moment. We were doing a destination wedding that was going over a holiday weekend, so a lot of events, and we wanted something quiet to be a moment of reflection of where we had come and where we were going. Plus it's nice to have little secrets. 2
Author minimariah Posted August 20, 2015 Author Posted August 20, 2015 ^^ wow, that sounds super romantic. & congrats on the baby.
Got it Posted August 20, 2015 Posted August 20, 2015 ^^ wow, that sounds super romantic. & congrats on the baby. Thank you. Baby is still a project in development and will get to meet her right around Christmas. 1
DKT3 Posted August 20, 2015 Posted August 20, 2015 Corny....but here goes. The anniversary of the first time we had sex is March 25. So every March 25 we each write down ten sexual things we want to try down then in a hat and draw out three. After 26 years you start to run out of things you haven't tried. Its still fun. 2
Quiet Storm Posted August 21, 2015 Posted August 21, 2015 Some of these make us sound corny, but I guess because we fell in love so young. When we go out to eat, we both get the same thing on the menu. This tradition started in high school because we rarely went to restaurants. When we did, it was special and we wanted it to be like a romantic home cooked meal, where you both eat the same dinner. 24 years later we still do it. We either take turns or decide together what we want to eat, and we both order it. We have exceptions sometimes- like if it's something I really want but he hates, or vice versa. We slow dance to our song on our anniversary, even if it's just around the living room and our kids laugh at us. We'll sing 80s/90s love songs to each other- our favorites are Method Man/Mary J "All I need to get by" and INXS "Never Tear Us Apart" but there are hundreds of songs that we love. We put little love notes in each other's Christmas stockings. We call each 58 and 33, our pager codes from 1991. He buys me a thank you card on our kids birthdays. 2
Author minimariah Posted August 21, 2015 Author Posted August 21, 2015 ^^ not corny at all, guys. it's actually really cute and wonderful reading stuff like this. 1
DKT3 Posted August 21, 2015 Posted August 21, 2015 Some of these make us sound corny, but I guess because we fell in love so young. When we go out to eat, we both get the same thing on the menu. This tradition started in high school because we rarely went to restaurants. When we did, it was special and we wanted it to be like a romantic home cooked meal, where you both eat the same dinner. 24 years later we still do it. We either take turns or decide together what we want to eat, and we both order it. We have exceptions sometimes- like if it's something I really want but he hates, or vice versa. We slow dance to our song on our anniversary, even if it's just around the living room and our kids laugh at us. We'll sing 80s/90s love songs to each other- our favorites are Method Man/Mary J "All I need to get by" and INXS "Never Tear Us Apart" but there are hundreds of songs that we love. We put little love notes in each other's Christmas stockings. We call each 58 and 33, our pager codes from 1991. He buys me a thank you card on our kids birthdays. Pager codes....there is a blast from the past. Speaking of songs, we have two that hold special meaning More Than Words*by Extreme, we were dancing at our prom and it was the first time we exchanged ILU. Kiss from a rose by Seal, I was listening to that song when it became clear I had to marry her. This part carried meaning because I lived in the grey parts of the world and she made me want to do better You became the light on the dark side of me. Love remained a drug that's the high and not the pill. My best friend song it at our wedding. I never cared for either song but you know, hearing either gives me a funny feeling. 2
truncated Posted August 21, 2015 Posted August 21, 2015 Traditions can really bind a couple togtehr, perhaps even more so when it's something that would make someone else ask " what on earth are you doing that for?". It give you a secret just between the two of you. When we first got married we were right out of university and dirt poor. We had to move far away to a base out in the middle of nowhere where I didn't know anyone, into a house neither of us really liked at all and not long after that, we found out that we were expecting, followed closely by my husband finding out that he was being sent away for a few months for triaging. The day he left I was miserable. There was knock at the door, and one of the guys he worked with said he had something that my husband had aksed him to drop off for me. It was one of the same types of flowers I'd used in my wedding bouquet. That made me smile and helped me to get out of bad feelings I was stuck in. Whenever he goes away now, he sends me a single one of those flowers the day he leaves, to arrive after he has gone. We have other traditions too, but I don't like to talk about them. 2
Got it Posted August 22, 2015 Posted August 22, 2015 Traditions can really bind a couple togtehr, perhaps even more so when it's something that would make someone else ask " what on earth are you doing that for?". It give you a secret just between the two of you. When we first got married we were right out of university and dirt poor. We had to move far away to a base out in the middle of nowhere where I didn't know anyone, into a house neither of us really liked at all and not long after that, we found out that we were expecting, followed closely by my husband finding out that he was being sent away for a few months for triaging. The day he left I was miserable. There was knock at the door, and one of the guys he worked with said he had something that my husband had aksed him to drop off for me. It was one of the same types of flowers I'd used in my wedding bouquet. That made me smile and helped me to get out of bad feelings I was stuck in. Whenever he goes away now, he sends me a single one of those flowers the day he leaves, to arrive after he has gone. We have other traditions too, but I don't like to talk about them. Hmmm . . . . R E A L L Y???? Really don't feel like sharing? Hubba hubba 1
cocorico Posted August 24, 2015 Posted August 24, 2015 We repeat our honeymoon once every couple of years. Every other year, we try to do something different on our anniversary. When either of us goes away without the other, we leave little love notes for the other, hidden away so that they will be discovered during the course of the trip. Some of them are innocent, some a little raunchier, so there is sometimes an element of risk involved - if one is giving a presentation and stick a hand in a pocket to pull out a laser pointer and out pops a naughty note.... We also have a ritual of kissing at kissing gates (we live in the wilds, so there are loads of those around) as well as every time we pass a bench, we have to sit and snog on it. 2
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