Would you count your legal wedding as your anniversary date or your destination wedding date?
April 23rd, 2010 by admin | Filed under Destination Wedding.
We are doing the paperwork before we go down to our destination wedding. It is a lot less complicated that way.
It will be in October and our DW in December.
Which date would you consider to be your wedding anniversary date?
The day you exchange rings, say your vows, wear your dress and have your symbolic ceremony or the day you sign the papers?
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I would probably consider the actual wedding date, the one in December. But it’s up to you.
The date in october will always be legal though. Just think about that.
i would count the day you sign your papers. the other stuff is just symbolic.
I’d say the date of the ceremony (the destination wedding). That’s going to be the most memorable event.
It’s up to you. Personally I would say the day you have the actual ceremony. It’s more meaningful and something you will want to remember and celebrate.
Whichever day is more important to you. The legal wedding date is when you legally become married, but when you say your vows is when you spiritually become wedding. I would pick the legal date since I am not religious, but its up to you!
The day that means the most to you… I would say the day you actually say your vowes
The day we exchange rings/vows do the whole ceremony is what I would choose to be my anniversary date. Signing the papers is a legal formality
The day you take your vows and exchange rings, whether it’s in front of a judge or a large party.
the day you exchange rings say your vows and wear your dress. It will probably be more romantic and you will remember it forever.
Legally you’ll have to use the date you signed papers as your marriage date so don’t leave that date out of your mind.
But you’re fully free to practice your first anniversary on the date you had your big ceremony.
Who’s it going to hurt?
Why not treat yourself and have two! Ideally a marriage lisence is signed at the ceremony but why not have two? Have the legal anniversary where you two do nice little gestures for eachother throughout the day, then on the real wedding day go all out and celebrate the bigger one.
I count the day my husband and I exchanged rings and said our vows. We didn’t sign our papers until 6 days after the wedding.
It’s really up to you. But I would say for legal purposes you should obviously use the day you signed papers but for celebrating purposes, I would say the day you had you symbolic ceremony.
I don’t know what the formal rule for this is, but I would personally choose to consider my destination wedding date as my anniversary date. Even though you’ll technically be legally married a few months earlier, it seems to me that the more meaningful day will be the day on which you exchange rings, say your vows, etc. That’s the day that I would want to celebrate every year, so I would call that my anniversary.
Congratulations!
whichever one YOU choose. doesn’t really matter either way, you’ll still be married.
The day you “officially” get married which means signing the legal documents is your official wedding date. However, you are lucky as you get to celebrate both days!
Technically, it’s the day the paperwork is completed and is official. The wedding is just the celebration. The marriage is what makes it legal. But why not celebrate both in your own special way?
Do others know you will already be married at your wedding? If not, it could be your own little secret between you and your husband. If everyone already knows, It’s really up to you to decide. If your wedding date means much more to you than the official date, then celebrate the more meaningful occassion as your anniversary.
I would count the day you were legally married as your anniversary date. Remember that your destination wedding is not an actual marriage ceremony as you are already married – it is a vow renewal ceremony and may use different wording than an actual marriage ceremy since the two of you are already married. I would personally exchange wedding rings on the actual marriage day and not bother doing that part for the destination ceremony. Are you just not bothering to wear your wedding rings for the two months between your actual wedding day and the destination ceremony??
I would count the day that the ceremony took place at the destination. That day would mean more to me than the day that I just signed some papers.
The day you say your vows in front of your officiate & he/she pronounces you man & wife…that date will be on your certificate of marriage and that date is your wedding anniversary date.
My fiancee and I are doing the same thing, maybe. If you are getting married at the courthouse so you don’t have to worry about paperwork, that is your legal aniversary. However, you are free to celebrate the date of the cermony.
It’s your wedding date. The date of the ceremony, the date you get married legally.