V-Day/ Anniversary Question

[biscotto]

Um no. We're having our civil wedding ceremony on February 7. My 30 birthday is Feb 21. Valentine's Day isn't a big deal here anyway. Hopefully we'll just hang out at home and make a nice dinner and enjoy probably one of our last weekends as non-parents and our first full weekend of being married!

[meowkitten]

We don't normally do much for Valentine's Day so we will probably just hang out at home and cook a nice dinner. DH's birthday is the 8th so we always go out and do something fun for that!

[stepherly]

We don't normally do much for V-day. We try to have a date night around that date but not usually on it. We'll either go out to dinner the weekend before or after V-day. We decided we need Indian food!

[mango]

Nothing -- we are going to a hockey game on the 20th & have gift cards for 2 dinners out before baby cones -- we'll probably avoid V-day due to the crowds. Oh & the fact that my H is almost always working.

ETA lovely typo - I think I'll leave it. Maybe it's foreshadowing a vaginal birth.

[ac123185]

I work at a restaurant, so I'll probably end up working that day and every day that weekend. Normally we try and make dinner plans, but I don't foresee that happening this year.

[ladysnowblood]

Pre-kids, we would usually go for dinner and a movie. After DS was born, we didn't really do anything for V-day. This year, V-day falls on a long weekend for me and I figured, why not do something. We're about to have 2 kiddos, we should do something for ourselves before the 2nd one gets here. DS will spend the night with my mom and we are going to the Melting Pot and then a movie.

[zebraleg4lunch]

So ours is kinda lame but we always goto the zoo on Valentines day. We've been doing it since we started dating in high school and it just sort of stuck. I'd imagine this year won't be much different zoo for the day then out for a nice dinner.

[luvsponies]

Sometimes we make a big deal out of v-day, sometimes not. If it falls on a weekday, we usually just exchange cards, get in some sexy time and call it a day. Since it's on a weekend this year, AND it's our last one alone, I think we're going to get a hotel for the weekend. I have 2 free Hyatt nights I need to use or will lose them, so we're thinking about staying in DC. Hoping to still feel good enough by then.

As far as our anny, it's 6/21, so we'll have a 3 mo old and I'll be back to work. We usually do something big every few years, but in this case we're saving up for a big 10 year anny trip, so will keep it low key with dinner (if we can bribe someone to babysit!). I would say if you think you'll be feeling ok, go for it. A nice dinner out sounds fun .

[winningcolors]

My MIL is throwing us a baby shower/brunch on V-Day so we'll have that to start off the day. Later on, we are going to a basketball game at our alma mater. I'm not a big fan of V-Day, so I'm happy with our plans.

Our anniversary is nine days after my EDD, so I doubt we will be doing much this year. Our LO will be our gift!

[kcbizme]

We are going to a marriage seminar that day.

I usually don't celebrate Valentine's Day simply because it's so commercialized and I feel like there are 364 other days each year to show your loved one how you feel about them.

Also, my birthday is the 19th and I'd much rather celebrate that day.

[wamom]

Normally we do something small. We haven't even discussed it this year.

[Koda]

We usually go out to dinner for V-day, but not on actual Vakentines day. All the restaurants around here seem to have set menus for that evening, they charge more, and they're crowded. We'll probably postpone dinner to the weekend.

As for anniversaries, ours was last month. We kept it low key and went out to Chinese food.

[maddisonrose]

We normally do something low key, and this year the plan is just to go to a nice market out on the ocean, walk around to see what kind of fresh foods appeal to us that day and come home to make them for dinner. It's also a random tradition that we get yummy macarons for dessert and just cuddle up on the couch.

[luckystarz]

jennypm our 1st anniversary falls on Easter this year, I think we should do anniversary stuff and not Easter dinner.

[riversong]

We usually go out for a really nice dinner on Valentine's Day. We're doing the same this year, since we figure it's the last time we'll be able to do so without paying premium for a babysitter.

[pearsforpoops]

Valentine's Day gets 100% ignored in our house. Lame.

[kelane104]

Last year was our first V-Day together and we just went to dinner, but it wasn't on Valentine's Day. Neither of us were really that into V-Day to wait to get into a restaurant.

This year, DH has planned a trip to Gatlinburg for us since we didn't take a honeymoon when we got married in October. So it's kind of a combo V-Day/honeymoon/babymoon trip. Gatlinburg is about 4-5 hours from us, so I'm a little nervous.

[huggabugga11]

I don't think we have any kind of plans at all for V-Day currently.... We have been together for 7 years now, and every year we do less and less. Although, since I've been KU, DH has done a LOT more in the way of romantic gestures. I'm pretty sure it's because he realizes it will be a lot more difficult to get people to watch 2 kids then just one... We shall see though. I will probably get him a nice card and a small gift. As for our anniversary, it's in Sept, so we usually try to get away to the ocean since it's off season. Or we take a drive somewhere. We love going on long road trips with no real end in sight.

[sunset30]

We probably won't go out and do anything but I may make a nice dinner at home, like steaks or something.

There are two holidays I hate going out for dinner: Valentines Day and New Years, since both are so crowded, its hard to get a reservation, and a lot of restaurants do fixed menus or odd seatings. Often we'll celebrate the weekend after and go for a dinner, but as of now we have no plans. I feel like this year, Valentines Day is one of our last few weekends as a couple without worrying about a babysitter, so maybe we'll do a nice fancy dinner in late February to commemorate our last days as a family of two instead of going out for Valentines Day.

[luckystarz]

I made reservations at our favorite sushi restaurant, I'm eating ALL the sushi. So excited.

[huggabugga11]

I wish I could bring myself to eat sushi while pregnant. I want it SOOOOO bad. I miss it.

[drudolph11]

V-day is our anniversary as well, I mean we are not married or anything but we still consider it our anniversary lol and I have absolutely no freaking clue what we are going to do. Hopefully we will go out to eat or something. Since getting pregnant and planning and saving for the baby, going out to eat is one thing we have completely cut out of our budget. We have gone out to eat, to an actual sit down restaurant, a total of 2 times since getting pregnant and both times were because we had a gift card haha and it was to the same place, my mom has a thing for Olive Garden because she doesn't have one where she lives and considers it a treat to go there when she comes to visit lol and so therefore always gets me a gift card there. Anyway, I think we can prob splurge for the occasion. We would both be content on just getting off work and coming home and making dinner but as this will be our first/last kid free vday and because we have not gone out at all in 8 months I really REALLY want to go out lol Im sure we will do cards I guess but I would really like to get him something small/inexpensive, im thinking maybe something "dad" related. Any idea would be appreciated Thanks!!

eta: I just realized that V-day is on a Saturday and with both of us working at a restaurant that may cause some issues in our plans, we might have to do a belated V-day, ugh but we might be able to get some sexy time in that night lol

[jacqueleen]

We have reservations at the same restaurant we go to every year on V-Day. They serve a 3 course meal on special occasions, however it wont quite be the same without the loads of wine we usually drink with it. It is french restaurant and wine bar. I did make a request to husband that we make the earliest reservation possible because I don't see myself wanting to be out for dinner in the city late at night when I am 38 weeks pregnant.

[biscotto]

I'd go out to dinner. I'll be 38 weeks pregnant on my 30th birthday, I'm planning to enjoy a nice dinner with will be then H.

As far as V-day, I don't think we'll do anything. We're getting married next Saturday, even though its just the civil wedding we're having lunch with friends and then the following Saturday (21) is my birthday.

[biscotto]

Jan 21, 2015 11:27:52 GMT -5 kcbizme said:

We are going to a marriage seminar that day.

I usually don't celebrate Valentine's Day simply because it's so commercialized and I feel like there are 364 other days each year to show your loved one how you feel about them.

Also, my birthday is the 19th and I'd much rather celebrate that day.

We are almost birthday twins! I'm the 21st.

[lisap0924]

Our "dating" anniversary and VDAY are days apart. We have always celebrated them as one.
We just got married in May, so we obviously won't be celebrating our dating anniversary anymore.

We have SS Valentine's Day weekend, plus I am on bedrest so we won't be doing anything special.

The weekend after that we won't have SS, but we will perhaps have a LO if I end up being induced at 37 weeks.

Maybe H could cook something fancy next weekend and we could live it up with our Netflix. Living large!