How do you celebrate your anniversary?

We have gone away for recent anniversaries on short breaks. No presents or families involved, bliss!

Same as Pittcity although we have just gone out for a meal just us two.

45 years coming up in May, so will have a party when we are staying at Rutland Water with the family, and also a party here in the mountains... normally we don't make a fuss- but we did go to South Africa for our 25th, with sil and bil.

Its our 37th this month. We are going to Stratford on Avon to see a play (Love for Love Congreve) a matinee so tickets on £12 each then a special offer hotel stay with breakfast £87 for 2 (Booking.com) and we don't buy presents or cards or involve anyone else.

We don't always do the same thing. Sometimes we go away and other times we go out for a meal but we always do celebrate and do something special for the big ones.

Next month my cousin and her husband will be staying with us on the day so we are all going to the theatre together and maybe a meal too.

Most of them are good celebrations but twice Mr N has booked surprises and managed to get it wrong. The most boring flat part of France with nothing to do and Gibraltar where I think there is only one really good hotel and we were not in it! I would much prefer a country hotel in UK in February!

We usually just have a meal out somewhere, or if we're feeling lazy, a good takeaway.

Generally we don't celebrate and until I read this I had forgotten it is our 40th this year. Maybe we should try and think of doing something special, but what?

We don't do much, either, even for big ones. Usually just a meal out for the two of us, same with birthdays, except I did have a family party on my 70th. Neither of us like being the centre of attention, so we tend to keep quiet about it!

We have a treat of some kind, an outing or a meal out, a trip to the theatre or a film. Even a couple of days away on occasion. BTW, my DS and DDiLs tell me although they try to manage a meal out to mark the occasion, people generally don't recognise other people's anniversaries these days, unless they've been invited to a party or something. Is this general?

I think it is, Lilygran. Wedding anniversaries are really just for the couple concerned, I suppose. Especially as we get older and people like bridesmaids or best men, who might have sent a card, have died off. My parents used to send us a card but since they went we only get a couple. I don't think our children even know the date we got married, after all they weren't there!

We normally just go out for a meal, the two of us, but on our 25th and 40th we went away. This year is our 50th and, God willing, we will have some sort of little bash on the day. We are not party people and don't have lots of friends, so it will probably be a barbecue for wider family and the friends that we do have. Then in August we are taking DD, DS and their partners and our grandson away on holiday for a week to celebrate. It will either be wonderful or we will all fall out and come home early!

Not much to be honest.

After the first 10 years or so I think we even really stopped sending cards although sometimes we go out for a meal or DH buys me flowers.

I don't buy him anything because he has me

It is our 40th though this year and I'd love a surprise trip to Florida for some winter sun but think it's unlikely as we're going for 6 weeks in May !

Afternoon tea out somewhere nice, or a meal, either on our own or with friends.

Apart from the landmark ones, we usually forget.

Conversation usually goes, 'Isn't it our wedding anniversary soon?'

And after a bit of working out on our fingers.....'Oh dear. It was yesterday!'

"Celebrate" and "anniversary" are words that do not co-relate in our house. Glue adhering OH's bottom to his chair is of the super variety! We did celebrate our 25th and our 40th.

Our wedding anniversary falls 4 days after Valentines Day, so he can never forget it will all the hype in shops! But we usually try to fit in a few days away for our anniversary. For the last few years we have been to Hawaii (on a cruise) on 3 occasions and a Nile cruise too. This year we celebrate 41 years, but have a trip away planned for April instead as our anniversary will fall during half-term. We prefer to go away without all the family!

LuckyGirl ?

It's our anniversary on Christmas Eve so we are usually peeling sprouts or cleaning the house. We do usually go away for a couple
of nights to a nice hotel after all the celebrations. Somehow we ( I ) haven't got round to booking anything this year yet.

We don't celebrate ordinary years and this year H didn't remember and that will be the case from now on, but 25th was celebrated with a party and a week in the
Lake District for just us. 30th was a dinner party for 14/16 I think and 40th we took both DC who were both first time expectant parents,so very exciting for a celebratory meal.
50th we took 14 friends out for a meal and then took the family to Nerja for 2 weeks in a villa,just wonderful.
Two and a half years to 60th if we make it!!!

We usually try and do something. This year was our 40th but we did not get the big holiday we'd hoped for due to the delays and uncertainty of house moving. The planned long weekend had to be cancelled when DH got the flu. We ended up with a Chinese takeaway and a bottle of cider. Better than 30th though which we spent in a hospital room with a can of coke and a packet of chocolate digestives - DH recovering from bypass.

It was our 40th last year and we had a weekend away luckily it fell on a Sunday so away the actual day.
We do buy each other cards and DH will buy me flowers for an ordinary anniversary. I don't give him a present he gets that the next day. His birthday.

Our anniversary is mid June so it might coincide with a holiday but wherever we are we have a nice meal out. We never share it with family - it was just the two of us at our wedding breakfast so we've kept it going - and we always exchange cards. OH is a softie about cards, less soppy about presents though...

It was pur 40th this week and we spent 4 days in Iceland - cold, dark and snowy but great fun!
In the past on special anniversaries we have been to New York, Hawaii, Venice on the orient express, Barbados, and on a cruise to name a few. My husband plans all these trips and enjoys doing the research and booking and often I know nothing about it until a few days before which makes planning and packing a nightmare! However the breaks themselves are normally very enjoyable and different!!

A small gift each and a day out with a nice lunch. Mind you our 50th is coming up in a couple of years and I am determined to have a party of some sort for that. Think I've earned it?