Poll: Anniversaries and Travel

[mdgirl]

Just for fun and top break in the new board a little!

How often do you travel for your anniversary?

What was your favorite anniversary trip?

What do you have planned for a BIG number (5, 10, etc.)?

Any plans on doing a vow renewal for an anniversary trip? Are you inviting people along?*

Post a picture of a place you want to go on an anniversary.

*I was just going to make this a poll about vow renewals because I'm really curious what people think about them, but decided to make it broader. Feel free to write a novel for this question because I'll read it even if nobody else does.

[mdgirl]

How often do you travel for your anniversary?
Our anniversary is in May, which is often crazy busy for us so we don't consistently travel for our anniversary. Maybe once every 3 years.

What was your favorite anniversary trip?
Italy for our 2nd.

What do you have planned for a BIG number (5, 10, etc.)?
We're doing New Zealand next year for our 10th (we honeymooned in NZ and Oz).

Any plans on doing a vow renewal for an anniversary trip? Are you inviting people along?*
I keep telling my husband I want to do a vow renewal someday just so I can buy another dress and order a fancy cake, but I don't know that we'll ever do one.

Post a picture of a place you want to go on an anniversary.
The Milford Track in NZ

[emilyinchile]

How often do you travel for your anniversary? We've only been married a little over 2 years, but we've traveled for both anniversaries and hope to continue to do so.

What was your favorite anniversary trip? For our first anniversary, we went to Oahu for 5 days, and it was AMAZING. Not that a weekend in northern Chile this year wasn't fun, but it wasn't exactly Hawaii.

What do you have planned for a BIG number (5, 10, etc.)? Nothing specific, although I imagine we'll make those into bigger trips than 3 and 4.

Any plans on doing a vow renewal for an anniversary trip? Are you inviting people along?* Nope. I just don't think a vow renewal would be that meaningful to us (personal opinion, not making a judgment on what others do). Maybe 10 years from now I'll change my mind, but for now it's not in the plans.

Post a picture of a place you want to go on an anniversary.
That's the Cayo area of Belize, where we almost went instead of Hawaii. I'd love to go in the future!

[marytini]

How often do you travel for your anniversary? We don't go on an anniversary trip persay. We tend to take our "summer" vacations sometime in Sept, which is when we were married. It hasn't been on our aniversary ever, but it sort of doubles as summer vacation/anniversary trip. At least I can't convinve my husband otherwise

What was your favorite anniversary trip? Montana and Yellowstone.

What do you have planned for a BIG number (5, 10, etc.)? Haven't thought about it yet. This year will be #4.

Any plans on doing a vow renewal for an anniversary trip? Are you inviting people along?* Nope. I'm not really in to that.


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[GilliC]

How often do you travel for your anniversary?
Never intentionally

What was your favorite anniversary trip?
ExH and I took a 16-night East Asian cruise that happened to coincide with our anniversary one year. Except that I ended up being seasick for the first and only time in my life on the night of our actual anniversary.

What do you have planned for a BIG number (5, 10, etc.)?
8 - Finalizing our divorce

Any plans on doing a vow renewal for an anniversary trip? Are you inviting people along?*
Not really!

Post a picture of a place you want to go on an anniversary.
Greenland! But it doesn't have to be for an anniversary. It's just the top place on my wishlist. ...that doesn't involve an area of armed conflict

[Deleted]

We go away every year on our anniversary for a 4 day trip. I have off the same 4 day weekend each Nov. we stay in the states for this one, all others are outside of the US.
We did NOLA last year and I think we are doing Charleston this year. With all the other trips being 7-14 days and outside the country I really look forward to our anniversary trip each year.

No vow renewal in our future.

[mrsilovekeith]

How often do you travel for your anniversary?

What was your favorite anniversary trip? Grand Cayman Anniversary 3

What do you have planned for a BIG number (5, 10, etc.)? Last year for 5, we went back to the villa we got married at in riviera maya, mx. Not sure about 10

Any plans on doing a vow renewal for an anniversary trip? Are you inviting people along?* Not sure.



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[mrsd2006]

How often do you travel for your anniversary? Just about every year, except this year. Our anny is late April, we usually go somewhere in May

What was your favorite anniversary trip? All of them!

What do you have planned for a BIG number (5, 10, etc.)?

Any plans on doing a vow renewal for an anniversary trip? Are you inviting people along?* No plans yet, maybe if we make it to 10 lol

Post a picture of a place you want to go on an anniversary.

French Polynesia

(I can't insert a pic, I need I need to read the directions first!!)

[thatgirlang]

How often do you travel for your anniversary?

Our first anniversary trip was at 5 years. We also had one for 6 and have a late one planned this year for 7 so I hope we've started a tradition!

What was your favorite anniversary trip?

Jamaica- Couples Ocho Rios

What do you have planned for a BIG number (5, 10, etc.)?

I would love to go to Venice at 10 years.

Any plans on doing a vow renewal for an anniversary trip? Are you inviting people along?*

I do think I will try to do a vow renewal! We've gone through a lot and feel that it's warranted. We had a small destination wedding with 10 people and loved how intimate it was. I want something very much like it again only just the 2 of us. SN: I am thrilled about the chance to get another dress lol but a short one this time!

Post a picture of a place you want to go on an anniversary.

[catsarecute]

May 15, 2012 21:00:53 GMT -5 thatgirlang said:

How often do you travel for your anniversary?
Our 4th anniversary will be this June and we've only travelled once on our actual anniversary. We went to Disneyland for our 1st. My husband had never been there.

Last year we went to NY and DC a month after our anniversary but considered that our anni present since my husband was working during our actually anni.

What was your favorite anniversary trip?
NY-DC for sure

What do you have planned for a BIG number (5, 10, etc.)?

I'd like to go somewhere in Europe for 10. Depends on our child situation.


Any plans on doing a vow renewal for an anniversary trip? Are you inviting people along?*

No plans for that.

Post a picture of a place you want to go on an anniversary.

[Nonny]

How often do you travel for your anniversary?
We've done a trip most years, it's my favorite thing to do!

What was your favorite anniversary trip?
NOLA last year for our 8th anniversary... OMG the food!! It was awesome.

What do you have planned for a BIG number (5, 10, etc.)?
We did Tahiti/Moorea for our five year. It was pretty amazing, but my H was pouting a lot about the heat/humidity, which is why NOLA wins as overall favorite because we both had a ton of fun and there was minimal pouting. Also we got into a stupid fight in Tahiti and didn't do that in NOLA.

I'm hoping that next year four our ten year we can do a cruise through the Panama Canal.


Any plans on doing a vow renewal for an anniversary trip? Are you inviting people along?*
No, but I kind of wanted to in Tahiti (just the two of us) but it was super expensive. I also kind of have fantasies of a big group trip to Las Vegas for an ultra cheesy Elvis wedding, but that would be more for an excuse to have fun/party than actual vow renewal. I would also be open to a big group of our friends (but not family) tagging along on the Panama cruise. (But the cruise won't be for vow renewal.)

Post a picture of a place you want to go on an anniversary.
Antarctica

[dorothyinAus]

How often do you travel for your anniversary? -- we've only had 2 anniversaries, but we have taken a trip for both of them

What was your favorite anniversary trip? -- 1st Anniversary, DH came from Australia and we did a whirlwind cross-country trip to visit my family before I moved to Australia

What do you have planned for a BIG number (5, 10, etc.)? -- no plans yet, but I would love to take DH on a Baltic cruise for one anniversary (and use it as our actual Honeymoon)

Any plans on doing a vow renewal for an anniversary trip? -- We are planning a second wedding. I know the Knot girls say you can't get married twice. I don't care; I'm doing it. We were married in a civil ceremony in the US for my visa application. We are planning a church wedding here in Australia. We are planning a trip to Perth after the church service.

Are you inviting people along? -- no.

Post a picture of a place you want to go on an anniversary. -- Oslo

[mesjms]

How often do you travel for your anniversary? We went to Niagara Falls for our 1st but didn't do anything for our 5th because we bought a house

What was your favorite anniversary trip? See above

What do you have planned for a BIG number (5, 10, etc.)? Paris next year for 10 years!

Any plans on doing a vow renewal for an anniversary trip? Are you inviting people along?*We were going to go back to Hawaii and renew but decided on Paris instead. Not going to renew.

Post a picture of a place you want to go on an anniversary. Don't know how to do that

[Hues]

We often travel for our anniversary--but never together. We have only been together on our 1st. On our second he was in St. Kitts, the third he was in Brazil, the 4th I was in Tbilisi and it's looking increasingly likely that I'll be in Yemen for our 5th.

Clearly we don't love each other

[osumelissa]

Our anniversary is in May and it's the best time of year for both of us to take extended time off work to travel. I think of the six years we have been married, we have done anniversary trips three times.

Favorite anniversary trip is a tie - Spain last year for our 5 year anniversary. We absolutely loved it there and just had a great 12 days exploring different cities.

Next big anniversary is 10 in four years - not sure what we will do, but it will definitely be a big trip. Australia and New Zealand is the top choice right now, but it could change in a few years!

We are not into vow renewals.

[kirnat848]

How often do you travel for your anniversary?
We try to go somewhere every year

What was your favorite anniversary trip?
This past year we did a Med cruise with a couple days in Barcelona

What do you have planned for a BIG number (5, 10, etc.)?
For 10 I really want to go to bora bora/moorea but I dont know thats only 3 years away

Any plans on doing a vow renewal for an anniversary trip? Are you inviting people along?*
nope no plans

[SJ]

How often do you travel for your anniversary? We plan to take a trip every year to celebrate our anniversary. If/when we have kids, these will be kid-free trips.

What was your favorite anniversary trip? We have only had 2. 1st anniversary we went to Door County, WI. 2nd anniversary we went to Saugatuck, MI. 3rd anniversary (coming up!) we are going on a cruise

What do you have planned for a BIG number (5, 10, etc.)? We do big trips throughout the year, and haven't talked about any big trips specifically for milestone anniversaries

Any plans on doing a vow renewal for an anniversary trip? Are you inviting people along?* Doing a vow renewal has NEVER occured to me.

Post a picture of a place you want to go on an anniversary.

[Deleted]

How often do you travel for your anniversary? For our first anniversary we rented a cabin up in the mountains for a week, nothing last year, this year (3rd) we are probably taking a trip to a big city somewhere (haven't planned it yet!)

What was your favorite anniversary trip? The first one LOL

What do you have planned for a BIG number (5, 10, etc.)? For our 5th Anniversary we are going to go back to Vermont where we honeymooned.

Any plans on doing a vow renewal for an anniversary trip? Haven't thought about it.....

[shorty20]

How often do you travel for your anniversary? - every year up until this one (we'll be married 6 years this month)

What was your favorite anniversary trip? - we always go back to the spot of our wedding (we had a DW)

What do you have planned for a BIG number (5, 10, etc.)? - I think for 10 we're going back to Hawaii (we went there on our honeymoon)

Any plans on doing a vow renewal for an anniversary trip? Are you inviting people along?* - no

Post a picture of a place you want to go on an anniversary. - don't know how yet on here, but I'd love to go to Italy

[travelingturtle]

How often do you travel for your anniversary?
We travel every anniversary, but opted out of it this past year (6) because I had just found out I was pregnant and was not feeling well. We were planning to go to Budapest, though.

What was your favorite anniversary trip?
Hmmm... We went to Puerto Rico one year and that was a great trip. I love Puerto Rican food, though, so that's what really made the trip great.

What do you have planned for a BIG number (5, 10, etc.)?
For our 5th we were in Salzburg. Our plan was to go back to Scotland (where we had our honeymoon), but that didn't work out. We ended up going to Scotland a month before our 6th anniversary.

Any plans on doing a vow renewal for an anniversary trip? Are you inviting people along?

At this point, no plans. If we ever did do a vow renewal (they don't really appeal to me) it would be for a 25th anniversary or something.

[alithebride]

May 15, 2012 16:39:31 GMT -5 mdgirl said:

Just for fun and top break in the new board a little!

How often do you travel for your anniversary? i guess every other year or so. this november will be 7 years so every other is about right.

What was your favorite anniversary trip? 5th. 19 nights in italy.

What do you have planned for a BIG number (5, 10, etc.)?
see above.

Any plans on doing a vow renewal for an anniversary trip? Are you inviting people along?* we've acually discussed doing this on our 10th just him and I because we wanted a DW but then opted for a local one because too many people that we wanted to go wouldn't have been able to afford the DW trip. were happy that we did a local wedding because we're both huge family people, but we were also sad that we didn't get to get married on a beach.

Post a picture of a place you want to go on an anniversary.

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*I was just going to make this a poll about vow renewals because I'm really curious what people think about them, but decided to make it broader. Feel free to write a novel for this question because I'll read it even if nobody else does.

[shellfish26]

How often do you travel for your anniversary?
Every year, but it's never specifically for our anniversary. See, H and I plan surprise birthday trips for one another ever year. And our anniversary happens to be 5 days before his b'day. So, we are often traveling on our anniversary and end up doing something special to celebrate.

What was your favorite anniversary trip?
Last year, we were visiting Anna Maria Island, and we had a great dinner on the beach, watched the sunset and did every other stereotypically romantic thing we could find. ; )

What do you have planned for a BIG number (5, 10, etc.)?
Probably more of the same. This year, we will be in Charleston for our 5 year.

Any plans on doing a vow renewal for an anniversary trip? Are you inviting people along?*
I really would like to do a vow renewal. See, our officiant...well, lets just say he isn't the best role model these days and I really feel like I want a do-over. Sounds weird, I know. But no, we wouldn't invite anyone along. Our wedding was 225 guests- as much as I loved that, I just want to share a quiet vow.

[jem6]

How often do you travel for your anniversary?
We haven't had an anniversary (wedding) yet, but I'd like to do something every few years if we can. We are going to Roatan for our first anniversary, although we'll be going in September due to our actual anniversary (11/5) being the rainy season there. We'll probably do a local weekend trip for our actual anniversary.

What was your favorite anniversary trip?
N/a

What do you have planned for a BIG number (5, 10, etc.)?
We'd like to do Bora Bora for 5 or 10 years. We wanted to go for our HM, but since we paid for our own wedding, it was just too much to do at the time.

Any plans on doing a vow renewal for an anniversary trip? Are you inviting people along?
We got engaged in Hawaii, and considered getting married there, but since several of our 'VIP' guests wouldn't have been able to make the trip, we've considered maybe doing a vow renewal there for a major anniversary with our future children.

[mdgirl]

H and I plan surprise birthday trips for one another ever year.

I like this idea! I may have to steal it.

[h]

How often do you travel for your anniversary?

We have done anniversary trips for 5 of our 10 anniversaries -- we traveled for years 1, 2, 3, 5, then missed 6 and 7 after having our first son, traveled for 8, then missed 9 and 10 after having our second son.

What was your favorite anniversary trip?

For our fifth anniversary, we flew to Athens and took a cruise from there to a couple Greek islands, Croatia, and Venice, then spent a long weekend in Venice.

What do you have planned for a BIG number (5, 10, etc.)?

We missed our 10th since we didn't feel comfortable leaving our youngest child for an extended period yet, so we are planning to do something fun for our 11th in August. We are not sure where we are going yet. Current contenders include Belize, Scrub Island, BVI, and Hawaii. We have also considered delaying the trip until the fall and doing Rome.

Any plans on doing a vow renewal for an anniversary trip? Are you inviting people along?*

Nope.

[shauni27]

I mostly lurk over here but I post questions occasionally.

How often do you travel for your anniversary?
We are only coming up on our second wedding anniversary, which is labor day weekend. It is a good time for us to take our big yearly vacation with my husbands schedule, so so far for two years we have or will be traveling for our anniversary

What was your favorite anniversary trip?
So far we have only done one, which was to key west for 10 days, but this year we are doing Paris and I cannot WAIT!

What do you have planned for a BIG number (5, 10, etc.)?
For 5 I would love to do either Hawaii or Alaska.

Any plans on doing a vow renewal for an anniversary trip? Are you inviting people along?*
No interest in this what so ever

Post a picture of a place you want to go on an anniversary.
I cannot figure out how to post pictures yet, but I would love Hawaii, anywhere in the Caribbean, anywhere in Europe, the Mediterranean, Alaska, or Australia and New Zealand.

[Deleted]

We never have. Our anniversary falls around the time when we're both super-busy at work

I'd love to go to Spain and Italy for a big anniversary (because weather will be nice) but it's not going to happen.

[basilosaurus]

Despite having 2 anniversaries, this year, our 5th, was the first time we were together for both. We're usually lucky to get 1 each year.

For our 5th we lucked into a 4 day weekend that allowed us to go to Maui which was actually where we got married. It was nice.

Our 4th I hauled my ass to Korea where H was living. It was nice to spend the week together, but I wouldn't call it a vacation exactly. It also coincided with my 30th birthday. Nov in rural Korea is underwhelming, to be charitable.

I don't know that we'll ever plan an anniversary trip. We take our vacations when the opportunities present, whenever they may be.

[Rachael070707]

How often do you travel for your anniversary? Not often. This will be the first I believe.

What was your favorite anniversary trip? n/a

What do you have planned for a BIG number (5, 10, etc.)? This is number 5 for us! We are going on a 9 day road trip from Wisconsin to Texas & New Mexico and then back to Chicago. We're visiting my grandparents for 5 of those days. Originally we wanted to go on our honeymoon-we-never-took over out anny but we're going to do that in the winter.

Any plans on doing a vow renewal for an anniversary trip? Are you inviting people along? Yes and Yes. Our dream wedding was barefoot on a beach and due to multiple reasons, that didn't happen. So for our "official" honeymoon next winter, we will re-do our wedding. My mom and stepdad will most likely be going. I can't wait.

[katieh]

We travel sometimes for our anniversary, but it depends on how well it fits into the overall schedule. This year, it's our 5th anniversary, so we decided to travel specifically for it to do our vow renewal.

We were planning on two weeks in France, but life got in the way (but move, both us us changed jobs) and so we are doing a week in Napa and going more luxury than we normally do.

We're doing the typical vow renewal though. No cake, no photographer, no minister, no friends or family present. We're just dressing up and walking out into the vineyard at the hotel were staying at, we'll "renew" our vows privately, toast with some wine, and then go out to a fancy dinner. We might do something bigger for our 10 year, but we wanted this to be low key and private.