Last night my husband and I celebrated our 24th wedding anniversary. We are expecting very many more anniversaries after this one.
We try to do something special for our anniversary every year. Some years we go away for the weekend, and I seem to think they are in the majority. They are probably just more memorable. Most years we just go out somewhere and have a good dinner and drink champagne and eat too much, like last night.
What we didn’t do is take a picture of ourselves having dinner. Wouldn’t it be lovely to have a series of photos of us celebrating our anniversary through the years? Not just when we spend the weekend in the Blue Mountains or Port Stephens or Palm Beach or the Snowy Mountains, but every year, no matter what we do.
If only we had thought of it sooner.
Even last night I was watching two women at another table. Their fruity cocktails arrived and one of them pulled out a phone to take a photo of themselves with their brightly coloured drinks. Even then it didn’t occur to me to take a photo of us with my phone.
Not any more. I am determined to have photos of us celebrating our wedding anniversary every year, starting with our 25th anniversary next year. I will also go back through the years and collect photos from past anniversaries. I’ll start a digital photo album to record our anniversaries and the continuing happiness and strength of our marriage.
It will be a lovely record for us to look back on, and for our families to reflect on how happy we were after we’ve gone.
Yes and it is also a great gift for family (while you are still with them!)
I have friends who have done a weekly photo of each of their children and those photos are made up into a photo-book for the grand-parents as a regular Christmas present each year.
Helen