Creative Ways to Celebrate Your Anniversary

Anniversary ideas

It’s usual to celebrate your anniversary with the usual dinner and a movie. But if you’re looking to do something different this year, here are some creative ways to honor the occasion:-

• Do something your partner loves and you don’t:-

Make a real sacrifice, do something your partner is crazy about—be it a golf tournament, musical or baseball game.

The strategy will only work only if you maintain a good attitude throughout the experience, just enjoy the happiness it brings your significant other.

Or, support your partner in something he or she has always wanted to try (sky-diving, learning an instrument even horseback riding).

• For your anniversary gift:-

If you are going to follow the past strategy, pay for any necessary lessons or materials. Join in the fun or at least cheer your partner on from the sidelines.

Or Give a Personal Gift
Instead of a store-bought present, give your partner something truly unique, like a digital collection of songs that make you think of him/her, or keep the dying art of handwriting alive by penning an old fashioned love letter.

If you are a creative type, craft an original song, poem, or painting. It doesn’t have to be fine art; it just needs to come from the heart.

• Take Your Dream Vacation

Particularly if you are celebrating a major anniversary milestone, use the excuse to take that trip you’ve always wanted.

Or if you’re feeling especially adventurous, take a road trip … without a road map. Pack everything you might need, pick a general direction and then hit the open road.

Or make a Hometown Tour
Visit your respective hometowns. Swing by the homes you grew up in and the schools you attended.

Share important childhood memories—both good and bad. Then take your partner on a date to your favorite local restaurant, ice cream shop, or coffee house.

The adventure will help you and your partner better understand the places, people and experiences that helped define you.

• Start a Couple’s Journal

Purchase a journal and commemorate each year together by writing down what you are grateful for; try to fill an entire page.

The things you appreciate don’t have to strictly be about each other. (Although you should definitely throw a few of those in!)

But focusing on the positives in your life—including your partner—will help you keep perspective.

• Movie Marathon

Pick your two or three favorite movies and have your partner do the same. Then spend your anniversary weekend relaxing together.

Between films, discuss what you love about the movie and why; this reveals something about your respective beliefs, personality, sense of humor, etc.

Having your partner’s favorite movie munchies on hand adds a nice, thoughtful touch.

WHATEVER you choose to celebrate your anniversary, keep the focus on honoring your partner and revisiting the commitment you have made to him or her.