2nd Anniversary... Part 2

In my last post I mentioned that since it is Mark and I's 2 year wedding anniversary we are celebrating 2 times. Mark was in charge of last Tuesday, which was our actual anniversary. It was a wonderful date to Eddie V's. Today was my day of planning. 

I gave him his present on Tuesday which was a date each month for a whole year. The first one he opened was April, that is when he found out what we were doing for today. 

As I was doing some research trying to figure out what to do for our date I ran across some interesting information. The traditional gift for your 2nd anniversary is cotton, where the modern take is a gift of china. So keeping with the theme of 2 I decided to embrace both. 

For cotton we went and got a massage. I know it isn't a literal meaning, but I was thinking cotton/something cozy. I thought a massage would be nice and relaxing. So we went to Massage Envy. It was a nice place and we both came out feeling relaxed. Definitely some place we will go back to.

For china I decided to go a touch more literal. The website I was looking at suggested buying another place setting to our wedding china. While I am not apposed to that idea, I thought that wasn't very fun. So I needed to find something else. Now Mark and I LOVE food. All kinds from a dive to fine dining, we love to try everything. So I decided on a chinese restaurant. I searched on open table and came up with Yao Fuzi Cuisine. The food was delicious, it really brought up your traditional chinese food. We both really enjoyed ourselves and our meals. I just have to say that has some SERIOUSLY delicious curry calamari. 

So thus ends the celebration of our 2nd wedding anniversary. It was a great time and we both really enjoyed planning our separate date and surprising each other.

2 Year Anniversary... Part 1

Today Mark and I have been married for a wonderful 2 years. It is surprising to me that it has been that long. It honestly feels like just yesterday. It has been a great 2 years.  We decided that since it has been 2 years we would celebrate 2 times. So Mark was in charge of tonight, our actually anniversary.

First I received these beautiful flowers at my office.

Then we exchanged gifts. He got me a really pretty light pink pearl necklace. I gave him 12 months of dates. 

I thought this would be a fun gift, and something different. I feel like even though our lives aren't super busy right now, we sometimes forget to have romantic or fun dates. We go out to eat, or we go to a movie, but it normally is about the same. I think this is going to be a year full of fun. Plus he has something to open every month. The gift that keeps on giving.

Then Mark took me to Eddie V's! Mark and I first went there last August for Restaurant week. We love fine dining and like to take that chance to find nice places that we really like. We enjoyed it so much and knew we wanted to go back. It was a nice surprise. 

We had a great waiter and everyone was very nice, coming over to wish us a happy anniversary. They even gave us a wonderful dessert. We had Banana Foster Cake. It was amazing.

When we came home we lit our wedding candle.

My parents got us this candle for our wedding. It is a family tradition to get your wedding invitation turned into a candle. My parents have one as well and light their wedding candle every year on their anniversary. We hope to keep up the tradition.

Keep the spark alive! ;)

That concludes part 1 of our 2 year wedding anniversary. Come back this weekend to see part 2.

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