Sunday will be November 9th. Renee and I met on that date last year at a wedding reception. We didnot start our relationship until later.
My question is this, should we celebrate this date?
My next question (if you think we should) what should I do for her?
I left everything open because I have never been I any type of relationship this long, and I really have no idea what to do...
Please give me your ideas...
In general we don't make a big deal out of anniversaries (or birthdays or holidays or...anything). So it really depends on the two of you and what your love languages are.
For years and years I would use the the same four digit number anytime I needed a four digit pin...just last week I asked MrS if he remembered (or ever knew) the significance of it. He admitted ignorance (which didn't surprise me). It's the date (month/day) that I asked him if he "Cared for me at all?" (story in my blog) - he answered "Yes".
Dude and I made up an anniversary date when we happened to attend an event that occurs on the same day every year and realized that we had been together for about 2 years.
We all took Lotus to the same restaurant we went to the night that we met all her. We didn't call it an anniversary but named the day after the concert we went to that night (and I don't remember the day but can look up the concert schedule for the band and figure it out...ahh, the internet.)
I, myself, am touched by the little things the boys do for me just because they care, not because it is a certain day. When Dude wakes me up and says, "Hey, don't you have an early meeting this morning? I made you coffee." or "Sweetie, it's supposed to snow this weekend, I put the snow tires on your car." When I get home and find that MrS had put my favorite beer in the fridge and stocked my snack cupboard with my comfort foods because he was thinking of me while out shopping or calls me from a used book store to see if I have a certain book in hardcover. But MY "love language" is "Acts of Service"...
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If it were me? Since you remember it, I think it would be sweet to acknowledge it...but in a way that doesn't demand that you make a tradition out of it. For instance, if there is a particular food or drink at the reception that stood out - you could make a variation of it and, while serving, say something along the lines of "I remember seeing you at so-and-so's wedding a year ago, you were drinking/eating x and laughing, I thought to myself that you were someone I wanted to meet - a little later we spoke and some time later we connected. I'm so glad we had the opportunity to meet that day!" (or whatever scenario fits the bill)
Or you could wear the same outfit, and say "I was wearing this the first time we met - was it something about it that caught your eye? Did you wonder what was under it?"...or just cuddle up to her and play "Do you remember?" and share your first impressions of each other.