A Ritual For Celebrating Your Anniversary
Your anniversary is more than just an annual reminder to celebrate your relationship - it’s an opportunity to reflect on your past year together and set collective intentions for the year ahead.
So we spent the day enjoying each other’s company, drinking wine and eating cheese and having great conversations as we collaged our shared memories, remixing them into something new, beautiful, and so much bigger than the sum of its parts.
A metaphor for what it means to be in a relationship? Perhaps.
A new annual tradition? Definitely.
P.S. We got distracted and ended up working on these on and off for about 3 days, so no shame in taking your time aka extending the celebration.
The process of working on these together is even more important than what you end up making; taking intentional time to remember, reminisce, and reflect
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Part of what makes this so meaningful is learning what moments from the last year stood out for your partner and why. Scroll through your camera rolls and pick your top 10-20 (at least), then print them.
Pro Tips
Pics of you looking cute are great, but inside jokes, meals, beautiful places you visited, etc. will turn out to be super useful too, trust me
Throw in a couple weird wildcards just for fun
2. Assemble
Printed pics
Cutting mat
Cardstock
Glue stick or rubber cement
Scalpel or precision scissors
Optional but recommended
Symbols, memories, mementos, and ephemera (i.e notes or cards you wrote to each other, wrapping paper from gifts, receipts from date nights, tickets from shows, etc.)
A few cool magazines or old calendars
3. Create
Put on a great playlist, pour some drinks, make a cute snack plate, and settle in.
Enjoy quiet creative time with your partner, or use the time together as permission to ask the deep and vulnerable questions that have been on your mind.
Pro Tip: Use the collages as your cards by writing letters to each other on the back before exchanging.
