Can anyone suggest how we can celebrate our ninth wedding anniversary?
October 2, 2012 6:55 AM Subscribe
Our ninth wedding anniversary is this Thursday (4th October) and unless he's planning a surprise without telling me, we have made no preparations. Can anyone suggest something we can do to celebrate?
Difficulty:
Difficulty:
- We are based in Cambridge, UK
- It would be just us, so no throwing parties or worrying about inviting friends at the last minute
- No kids, so there are no worries about any babysitters or child-friendly activities
- We like Eddie Izzard, Hayseed Dixie, Green Day, P!nk, and Paloma Faith. We like wandering round ruined castles and art galleries, and eating icecream on the seafront while on holiday. We enjoy long rambling conversations about putting the world to rights, armchair philosophy and anthropomorphising our cats.
- In years past, we've tended to book into a hotel somewhere a couple of hours drive away to stay for one or two nights, and spend the day of our anniversary visiting castles, stately homes or otter sanctuaries followed by a meal out in the evening at any random pub or restaurant that looks friendly when walking past
- My husband has to go to work on Thursday, and again on Friday morning, so whatever we do has to be fairly local, and not involve staying up much past midnight
- We planned to go to the cinema followed by a meal out last week, but were unable to find anything we wanted to watch. We ended up just going for the meal anyways. I suspect a week isn't long enough for that situation to change
- I get nervous in noisy crowds, although things like cinema crowds or the interval at a concert is usually fine. Nightclubs are definitely out.
- We don't do anniversary gifts, so no need to plan anything on that front
Don't over-think it. Go out for a nice dinner and talk about the things that made you fall in love with each other. Discuss your wedding, how silly that was, talk about your plans for retirement, how you envision growing old together.
I think that as a society we place too much of a value on making much of birthdays and anniversaries. Who needs hoopla?
If it makes the most sense just to eat out, and then go home to snuggle, why do more?
posted by Ruthless Bunny at 7:32 AM on October 2, 2012 [2 favorites]
I think that as a society we place too much of a value on making much of birthdays and anniversaries. Who needs hoopla?
If it makes the most sense just to eat out, and then go home to snuggle, why do more?
posted by Ruthless Bunny at 7:32 AM on October 2, 2012 [2 favorites]
The easy and always enjoyable answer is: Naked fun time! Celebrate the fact that you get to sleep with the best person in the world by sleeping with that person a whole lot!
posted by thanotopsis at 7:52 AM on October 2, 2012
posted by thanotopsis at 7:52 AM on October 2, 2012
We remembered our tenth wedding anniversary last week only two days before it happened.
We spent the SFW part of it buying the ingredients for a bunch of cocktails, and then sitting in the back garden talking about our lives and experimenting with different drinks. It was super low-key, but totally awesome.
posted by lollusc at 5:27 PM on October 2, 2012
We spent the SFW part of it buying the ingredients for a bunch of cocktails, and then sitting in the back garden talking about our lives and experimenting with different drinks. It was super low-key, but totally awesome.
posted by lollusc at 5:27 PM on October 2, 2012
Oh, and then we watched bad movies while drunk enough to appreciate them.
posted by lollusc at 5:27 PM on October 2, 2012
posted by lollusc at 5:27 PM on October 2, 2012
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(I'm Canadian - I wish it were so easy for my husband and I to visit a castle on our anniversary! That would be awesome.)
posted by fullerenedream at 7:14 AM on October 2, 2012