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Jackie Bledsoe, Jr. | January 13, 2014 | 11 Comments

Is Your Wedding Anniversary Just “A Day in Marriage?”

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Is Your Wedding Anniversary Just A Day in Marriage by Jackie Bledsoe, Jr. via ASmithBlog.com

 

For our 10th anniversary I had all these grand plans dreams for how we would celebrate. I mean we made it a decade with one another and we still want to be married, while most marriages don’t make it four years.

An anniversary to remember or forget

It was going to be an epic anniversary and celebration. Vow renewal, a great gift, a trip to an island, all accompanied by the family and friends who have meant so much to us throughout our marriage. Unfortunately, it didn’t happen that way. In fact, I can’t even remember what we did on our 10th wedding anniversary.

Ultimately, we “postponed” our grand anniversary plans to anniversary #11. When it didn’t happen that year, we just left it as “we’ll do it one day.”  Sometimes the more anniversaries that you “celebrate” the less extravagant and more mundane it happens to be. It becomes just another day in marriage.

An anniversary just like every other day

Huffington Post contributor Brittany Gibbons showed us this with her video titled, “A Day in Marriage,” which chronicled her 9th anniversary via her iPhone. The ironic thing about it is both her and her husband forgot their anniversary, until the night before. Upon which they both thought it was their 10th anniversary! LOL

Check out their anniversary video, “A Day in Marriage.”

 

A Day in Marriage

What are some creative ways to make each anniversary more than a day in marriage?

 

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  1. Hal Baird says

    January 13, 2014 at 6:06 am

    We will be married 38 years in May. Generally we do nothing “special” on the day. I like to think we do special things throughout the year just because. On our 30th anniversary we renewed our vows. One really nice thing we do each year is to give each other a happy anniversary card on the date of our first date. That’s sort of an anniversary, too.

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    • Jackie Bledsoe, Jr. says

      January 13, 2014 at 6:16 am

      I like that idea, Hal. I wish we knew the date of our first date. One of the biggest “anniversary” type dates that I remember is the day I proposed, which was on my wife’s birthday.

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  2. Adam Smith says

    January 13, 2014 at 7:49 am

    Love this post, Jackie. It wasn’t for an anniversary, but I did a scavenger hunt for Jasmine to find her gift one time. She still remembers that as her best gift ever, just because I put the extra effort into doing that.

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    • Jackie Bledsoe, Jr. says

      January 13, 2014 at 8:29 am

      That sounds fun! Great idea!

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  3. Stephana Bledsoe says

    January 13, 2014 at 8:38 am

    One way I believe making our anniversary more than an average day in marriage is having a plan ahead of time…like even a month or more ahead of time. By studying our spouse and not just the world around us we can typically figure out what makes them happy. They are just the second most important person in our lives right? 😉 ♥ u & nice post, Babe.

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    • Jackie Bledsoe, Jr. says

      January 20, 2014 at 5:09 pm

      Thanks for stopping by and commenting, babe! 🙂

      Reply
  4. Susannah says

    January 13, 2014 at 9:11 pm

    We plan our anniversaries together – for the whole year before it happens. We also mark other dates – when we met, when we got engaged, when our daughters were born – with special events. Sometimes a night out, sometimes an outdoor activity, sometimes a concert etc.

    Both my husband and I enjoy the discussion around how we’ll celebrate the next anniversary, and over the year, we spend an evening or two a month considering what we want to do. Currently, we’re on a “dip our feet in as many oceans as possible” phase, so we try to incorporate that goal if possible. We rarely exchange gifts, but we do exchange cards, mostly because of the year that I bought a card for him that I really liked, only to discover when he opened it that it was a birthday card, not an anniversary card! The next year, I got a Happy Bat Mitzvah card on our anniversary. 🙂

    ‘Mundane’ only happens when there’s no purposeful investment in expressing gratitude for the “We” of marriage. After 34 years, there’s no ‘mundane’ happening here.

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    • Jackie Bledsoe, Jr. says

      January 13, 2014 at 9:49 pm

      I like it, Susannah! A lot! Thanks for sharing.

      Reply
  5. Leo J. Lampinen says

    January 20, 2014 at 2:17 pm

    A good reminder here. Both of us never really put a lot of thought into our anniversary but we ought to be more intentional. I would like to come up with some ideas to make it extra special next time around.

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    • Jackie Bledsoe, Jr. says

      January 20, 2014 at 5:09 pm

      I think that is the key word, Leo. Intentional.

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    • Jackie Bledsoe, Jr. says

      January 20, 2014 at 5:10 pm

      Intentional…yes, that is the key.

      Reply

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