Keeping it Simple
This type of celebrating doesn't have to involve a lot of money or going out on a date together. In fact, the more simple you keep it, the more often you will celebrate, and your relationship will be richer for it.It is important to not make this into a competition or test to see who can out celebrate the other. When you've truly celebrated your marriage, you will feel stronger and closer as a couple.
Mini Celebrations for Couples
- Make positive comments about the way each other looks, or how a project turned out, or an interaction with one of the kids, etc. Brag about each other! Let one another know they are appreciated.
- Watch an old movie that you watched together and enjoyed years ago. Reminisce about that time in your life.
- Together, tell stories from your courting days to your kids.
- Listen to songs that bring back happy memories and talk about them.
- Once a year, write a letter to one another that is a recommitment to your marriage. Keep them in an album to look back on years from now.
- Take advantage of church invitations to have your vows renewed.
- Do make time for just the two of you. Walk around the block, dance in the living room after the kids are in bed, go out on a date. Don't let the romance die.
- Pull out old pictures and look at them together.
- At meal times, have a toast to one another for one good thing that happened in your relationship that day.
- Tell one another what you appreciate the most about being married to one another.
- Begin using the tool of daily dialogue.
- Meet somewhere for lunch now and then.
As you continue creating special rituals and meaningful experiences together, your sense of celebration of your love for one another will grow and deepen.
