Anniversary Ideas
March 26, 2021 5:42 AM Subscribe
Next week will be our 25th wedding anniversary and our 2nd Covid anniversary. We didn't do anything last March, expecting that we could celebrate later in the summer or fall. Yet, here we are.
Normally, we would go out to dinner at the least and perhaps take a trip. We don't typically exchange anniversary presents. We will be home, mid-week, with our two teenagers.
Any ideas?
Normally, we would go out to dinner at the least and perhaps take a trip. We don't typically exchange anniversary presents. We will be home, mid-week, with our two teenagers.
Any ideas?
Wow! Happy 25 years! What an exciting milestone.
I assume you are asking this because you are conscious of social distancing, and are reluctant to go to a dinner because of the spread of the coronavirus.
I think that's admirable. However, I also assume you are asking because you are looking for suggestions that minimize your covid exposure, while also feeling celebratory.
Here's a list of ideas that involves you leaving the house:
1. Go to a restaurant anyway. Find one that is sufficiently protected against covid, and go anyway. There's outdoor restaurants, there's restaurants with bar service only, and using microcovid.org - you can divise a situation where you are safe.
2. Get a hotel or airbnb. I've used plenty of nearby airbnbs to get away from it all, and I ask for nobody to be inside two hours before or after my stay. I don't see how this would cause any more spread than normal!
3. Get a fancy hotel or airbnb, like a penthouse, and order pizza delivery and buy some nice wine.
Can your kids watch themselves? If not, do you have a babysitter who's covid precautions you are comfortable with?
If you are staying home:
1. Hire a chef, or get catering from food you both really like.
2. Get some exciting new entertainment to celebrate with your family. Cake, Fireworks, a new jackbox game, a tv and a blu ray player and a (proven) good movie, something exciting!
Buy tickets to a resort this fall. By fall, we'll be vaccinated, we'll be through things, it just has to be true. I mean, get them refundable. But by buying the tickets and making the plans, it gives you something to look forward and takes the pressure off next week! I recommend the excellence riviera cancun.
posted by bbqturtle at 6:17 AM on March 26, 2021 [4 favorites]
I assume you are asking this because you are conscious of social distancing, and are reluctant to go to a dinner because of the spread of the coronavirus.
I think that's admirable. However, I also assume you are asking because you are looking for suggestions that minimize your covid exposure, while also feeling celebratory.
Here's a list of ideas that involves you leaving the house:
1. Go to a restaurant anyway. Find one that is sufficiently protected against covid, and go anyway. There's outdoor restaurants, there's restaurants with bar service only, and using microcovid.org - you can divise a situation where you are safe.
2. Get a hotel or airbnb. I've used plenty of nearby airbnbs to get away from it all, and I ask for nobody to be inside two hours before or after my stay. I don't see how this would cause any more spread than normal!
3. Get a fancy hotel or airbnb, like a penthouse, and order pizza delivery and buy some nice wine.
Can your kids watch themselves? If not, do you have a babysitter who's covid precautions you are comfortable with?
If you are staying home:
1. Hire a chef, or get catering from food you both really like.
2. Get some exciting new entertainment to celebrate with your family. Cake, Fireworks, a new jackbox game, a tv and a blu ray player and a (proven) good movie, something exciting!
Buy tickets to a resort this fall. By fall, we'll be vaccinated, we'll be through things, it just has to be true. I mean, get them refundable. But by buying the tickets and making the plans, it gives you something to look forward and takes the pressure off next week! I recommend the excellence riviera cancun.
posted by bbqturtle at 6:17 AM on March 26, 2021 [4 favorites]
Our 25th was in October. My husband surprised me by setting up a "restaurant" in a spare room of our place, with twinkle lights and music and flowers and elegant linens, etc. He made filet mignon, and as a gift bought a bottle of the same (now super expensive) bottle of champagne that we'd used for our first wedding toast. I'd been feeling sorry for myself and it was a complete surprise, and fun. Also, even if you don't usually give gifts, a sterling silver present at 25 feels like a shiny prize for endurance. I got him a set of forks. They went over well because shiny.
posted by shadygrove at 6:22 AM on March 26, 2021 [5 favorites]
posted by shadygrove at 6:22 AM on March 26, 2021 [5 favorites]
We've been ordering the occasional high-end meal from restaurants in our city. They come refrigerated, with pretty easy reheat instructions, and are pretty darn good. The restaurants will also supply wine and/or cocktails if that is your jam. The reheat instructions would be relatively easy for a teenager to follow. Would your kids be into serving Mom&Dad their anniversary dinner?
posted by TORunner at 6:39 AM on March 26, 2021 [3 favorites]
posted by TORunner at 6:39 AM on March 26, 2021 [3 favorites]
When we've wanted a special meal, which a 25th anniversary celebration certainly demands, we've ordered through Dwell Social (which is Chicago-centric, but other cities may have similar services) or Goldbelly to order meals we don't otherwise have access to, even in the Before Times. If you are new to these services, I will pass along advice to either choose meal kits (where you do the last bits of preparation in your own kitchen) or consider carefully how a fully-prepared meal will taste when it is reheated after being shipped.
posted by DrGail at 6:56 AM on March 26, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by DrGail at 6:56 AM on March 26, 2021 [1 favorite]
If you have a backyard and camping gear and the weather isn't horrible, you could set up a tent "glamping" style and have fairy lights, mood music, and drinks. The teenagers can set it all up for you (if they're willing) and stay in the house while you enjoy some private time.
Yes to having ridiculously fancy food and gifts delivered! In my area, there's a local high-end florist and chocolate shop that collaborate to do a beautiful truffles and flowers thing. There's also amazing charcuterie boards. Hopefully your area has something similar.
posted by RobinofFrocksley at 7:27 AM on March 26, 2021 [3 favorites]
Yes to having ridiculously fancy food and gifts delivered! In my area, there's a local high-end florist and chocolate shop that collaborate to do a beautiful truffles and flowers thing. There's also amazing charcuterie boards. Hopefully your area has something similar.
posted by RobinofFrocksley at 7:27 AM on March 26, 2021 [3 favorites]
Came here to say Goldbelly for something fancy like Wagyu that you might not normally have!
posted by Medieval Maven at 8:31 AM on March 26, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by Medieval Maven at 8:31 AM on March 26, 2021 [1 favorite]
We had our 30th in April (so 31 is coming up!), and we are both very much of the "stay home stay safe" faction. I did a quick masked jaunt to a Mediterranean grocery store and found us a bunch of delicious food that we used for a picnic in the living room. It was special and fun because it was something different, and we froze some leftovers for a few weeks to give us something else to look forward to. For 31, we will both have had our second shot, but I suspect we will do something similar, because I'm still not ready to take unnecessary risks (my definition of unnecessary may be irrational at this point).
posted by blurker at 7:51 PM on March 26, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by blurker at 7:51 PM on March 26, 2021 [1 favorite]
Response by poster: @mpark our second wedding anniversary that happened during covid
posted by RoadScholar at 10:55 AM on March 27, 2021
posted by RoadScholar at 10:55 AM on March 27, 2021
Ah, thanks! I was misinterpreting. Congrats!
posted by mpark at 11:20 PM on March 28, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by mpark at 11:20 PM on March 28, 2021 [1 favorite]
What are you going to go for? I'd love an update after the fact!
posted by bbqturtle at 7:37 PM on March 30, 2021
posted by bbqturtle at 7:37 PM on March 30, 2021
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