Start something you will repeat every year under a glowing sunset.
Short summer reads…
Anniversary traditions for couples do not need to be expensive or elaborate. The best ones are small rituals you repeat every year, until they become part of who you are together.
I'm Leon of Twilight Ceremonies, an accredited celebrant and photographer based in Llandudno. These are the traditions I would love more couples to start, beginning with your very first year.
Walk the Same Path Every Year
Pick a walk that matters, perhaps the Llandudno promenade, a lap of Llyn Padarn or the coast path at Prestatyn, and walk it on your anniversary each year. It becomes a way of measuring how far you have come.
Photo: Tanya Dedyukhina, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Write Each Other a Letter
Each year, write a letter about the year just gone and keep them together. How to write an anniversary letter has a simple way to start. Reading back through them after a decade is extraordinary.
Take the Same Photograph
Stand in the same spot and take the same photograph every year. If you would like someone else to take it, a couples sunset shoot starts at £95.00 and includes ten Polaroids and sixty digital photographs.
Watch the Sun Go Down Together
Make one summer evening a year about nothing but the two of you and the sky. A beach, a headland, a bench with a view. Summer anniversary ideas has plenty of places to try.
Renew When It Feels Right
Some couples make a ceremony part of the tradition every few years. Why wait till your 30th when you can celebrate your first or second?
Let Someone Else Remember Too
Couples in the Love Story Registry receive a handcrafted letter, photographs from their album and flowers on their anniversary, so the day is marked even in a busy year.
Anywhere You Like
Your tradition can live in North Wales or anywhere else: home, your garden, a special place elsewhere in the UK or abroad.
The ritual matters more than the setting. When you want a summer evening to anchor yours, book a sunset wedding anniversary and start the tradition this year.
Small rituals, repeated with love, become your story.