Alright, need some advice from the married guys out there. Monday is my 2nd wedding anniversary, and I'd like to do something special. Last year we were broke, so we just had a nice dinner at home and rented a movie. That was nice, but I'd like to do something she'll really like this year. Any tips? I'm not much of a cook, so any ideas involving that will have to be fairly easy. I'm still on a budget here, so I'd like to keep the cost of the night including gift to under $250.00. Thanks.
A personal check (on one of those cute / mushy themed checks of baby ducks or cupids) for $249.99 should do the trick.
I think a nice 46" plasma screen should do the trick. Nothing says I love you like a new kick ass TV.
Sorry, but I have to share a Christmas story now. When I was seven, I saved up my allowance money for a good long while so that I could buy my Dad a dustbuster for his wood shop. It seemed perfect to little ol me when I saw it on the commercial. Then one night in late December, as the B-Bob family was watching television and the newly wrapped dustbuster sat under the Christmas tree, that commercial came on again. Dad had enjoyed a couple of Miller High Lifes, and he started making fun of the dustbuster. "Imagine all the chumps that are going to get one of those! Bwah-ha-ha! I've never seen anything so dumb in all my life." You should have seen his face when we opened present Christmas morning. I think the fact that I kind of enjoyed that moment was an early sign that young B-Bob was completely warped from the go get.
Drive to Brenham on Saturday. Go to the Antique Rose Emporium and buy her a special rosebush. Spend the night in a romantic B&B. See some other stuff on Sunday... be spontaneous. Spend leftover money on a nice (doesn't have to be fancy) meal on Monday.
Now there is a good suggestion. I don't know about Brenham and an Antique place....she's only 23, so I'm not sure if that is really her style.
a good cheap gift which you might be able to do is re-editing your wedding tape or other recorded moments and putting your favorite songs in the background, making it kind of your own personalized movie. if you have access to the right computer and software, it shouldnt be too difficult or expensive, but it will take a little time.
Buy a erasable marker and write, " I love you" on her front windshield of her car. Or write her a very romantic love letter and hand it to her and say: "I've written this letter to someone very special in my life, could you do me a favour and proof read it for me for any misspelled words before I mail it out?" Or stick post its with lovely sayings on them around the house. Trust me, this will be worth more to you than any material gift you can buy her. You'll be in BJ heaven.
The traditional second anniversary gift is cotton. The modern second anniversary gift is China. The answer is clearly a Yao jersey.
The Antique Rose Emporium is really a nursery. They go around to abandoned homesteads and ranches and graft off of rosebushes that have been there since the days of the Revolution or before, though most come from the late 1800s. Some really gorgeous roses that you can't find anywhere else... it's literally a big rose garden.
have you been to The Aquarium? That might be nice, my friend took his girlfriend there for their 6-month. Dunno how pricey it is though....
The Aquarium is pretty glitzy, like a Vegas psuedo attraction. One thing I have learned in thirty years of marital bliss...you can't go wrong with jewelry. Two diamond earings might symbolize two years of marriage. The wife says Victoria's Secret is an inexpensive winner but.... You have to know THE right size. Too big or too small, either way can be an insult. Also, flowers. preferably delivered to her workplace. Making her co-worker's say awww how sweet is priceless. A romantic dinner at a small, dark restaurant is obligatory and should be combined with one of the above. $75 for flowers at work, dinner should be under $100 unless you go for expensive wine, Victoria's Secret presented wrapped after dinner will run around $60; your under budget and a hero!
Here's what I did for our tenth wedding aniversary this year: I sent our kids to her parents for the weekend. When I came home, I bought a bouquet of roses, a bottle of Dom and got a few roses individually. I filled the house with the scent of sweet incense. I pulled the pedals off the individual roses, making a little trail with little post-its with romantic sayings on them as trail markers. There I was in the dining room with a great dinner and the bottle of Dom in an ice bucket with her bouquet and her gift, a new braclet. She loved it. Then we ate and..........a gentleman never tells. We went down to ATL for a great weekend, stayed in a nice hotel and had a great time. So just surprise her and be creative, but don't overdo it.
