well my uncle is coming up on the ten year mark next month, so what they are gonna do is renew their vowels (2nd wedding kinda thing) and later take a trip to puerto rico.

 

That's exactly what I'll be doing. I mean... I can't stand seeing married couple with a separate account and it seems like the wife can only spends what she earns and same to the husband. Apparently no trust or anything is there.

 

I hate to be the grammar and spelling police, but..."vowels?"

I think it's renew their vows

The "A" you get for effort is a vowel

 

lol

my bad.

my fingers just typed that and i didnt rechecked what i typed.

 

I wish my wife would gladly except such a gift. Normally, she gladly accepts it.

 

For our 10th wedding anniversary I planned a second honeymoon as a surprise for my wife.

I made arrangements to have the kids watched for two weeks: grandma, aunts, friends, babysitters, the whole schedule.

I made all the reservations: 2 nights at the Beverly Hills Hotel, 2 nights at the Ahwahnee (Yosemite), then down the California coast: two nights each in Carmel, Cambria, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Solvang. We stopped in Santa Maria to visit the woman who had baked our wedding cake: she made us a small anniversary cake.

I bought presents and shipped them to all the places we stayed, so every place we arrived there was another present waiting for my wife.

Use whatever you want from this. The anniversary cake - matching your wedding cake - is an inexpensive, sentimental idea.

 

Seperate accounts. It's the only way to go. It has nothing to do with trust.

 

I was still drinking my coffee.....thanks tho i'll correct it

 

[QUOTE=magician,Feb 28 2008, 02:47 PM] Use whatever you want from this.

 

When a woman tells you to not waste money on something as important as a 10y anniversary, they're lying. Woman are like that.

But it doesn't necessarily have to be expensive and end up ruining you, if you want to 'treat' them. Taking the time to make a good dinner, giving them a massage, offering some flowers, cleaning up etc, all those things combined can make it a special moment. You could include a trip without the kids, a nice hotel with an extra special 'spa' setting for the weekend can do wonders.

A $10k bit of jewelry might make 'em happy right away, but a $100 spa session with massages, facials (no, not that kind) and so on over a long period of time can be appreciated just as much.

Think of it like this. Imagine a X/Y curve. X is for time, Y is for their 'happiness' (or whatever). Giving a ring will will immediately spike their happiness to 100%, but over the course of a few days, this gradually at a constant pace, will go back down to their normal level (be it 10, 30 or 50% or whatever... depends on the woman and if they've got PMS or not).

Then try the spa session. Their happiness will go up maybe to 70%, but as the spa last 2-3 days with different bodily carings, this happiness will stay at 70% and will only decline at a constant speed once the whole ordeal is over...

Overall, it's the same thing, they get the same bang, just not for the same buck. Diamonds might be for ever, but from my experience this is not strictly true