Summary:
Marriage is a new beginning, and the perfect time to make family traditions your own. This article offers suggestions for Friends and Family traditions, Anniversary traditions, After Children traditions and Travel traditions.

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FRIENDS AND FAMILY:
1. Begin a guestbook for your home and new life together. Keep a spiral bound book close to your front door. Ask visiting guests, young and old, to sign and date the book. A good time for signing is as drinks are mixed and appetizers served, or try passing the book around the room after dinner.

Shop for beautiful notebooks and pens. As each book is completed, store the pen with the book, and begin new memories with a new spiral and it’s own pen. Consider a new, small spiral each year to keep each book fresh. As your spirals grow, stack them for display on a bookshelf.

After the first signatures of family and friends, ask them to sign again only on special occasions, such as Mom’s birthday or Grandma and Grandpa’s anniversary.

2. When you are no longer asking for signatures from your frequent guests, take a few minutes to enter some details of the evening yourself. Include those dates spent at the home of family members and friends. When you celebrate your nephew’s birthday at your brother’s house, jot down a few of the highlights.

Your book will be a cherished memory for you and your family, for all the years to come. Think about seeing Aunt Beth’s lilting signature or Grandpa’s loving scrawl, long after they are gone.

ANNIVERSARIES:
3. Each year on your wedding anniversary, put together the highlights and important events that have transpired over the past twelve months. Seal it in an envelope or small box. Place the memoir in a larger envelope or box that will eventually contain twenty-five years of annual memoirs. Open and share with your family on your twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.

4. For the first year, celebrate a monthly wedding anniversary. If your wedding day was the 25th, then devote the 25th of each month to you both. Don’t be deterred. Pick a dessert that you both love, and promise to have that dessert on the 25th. Plan an occasion so that you can use your wedding knife, or always serve your favorite Champagne or sparkling wine on the 25th. No matter how small or how elaborate you make the occasion, make it a tradition.

5. After the first anniversary, celebrate your wedding day at the six-month mark and continue to do so throughout your life together. It need only be a small celebration but it will remind you that you are halfway through another good year.

AFTER CHILDREN:
6. Begin a guestbook for each of your children when they are born. Consider entering all the information yourself until your child reaches ten years old – with the exception of family members who will want to use their own hand to write a memory for your child.

7. Designate an annual Family Anniversary Day near your wedding anniversary date. Tell the story of your wedding day again. Add all the little details leading up to your big day: the day you chose the wedding ring, the day you told your best friend about the proposal, the day you asked Grandpa to marry his daughter, what the Best Man said as a toast, who caught the bridal bouquet.

Give your children an opportunity to ask questions about how you met, how much in love you were, where you lived, where you worked. Set them on a path to awareness of the love and closeness shared in their own family.

8. After the birth of a child, plant a new tree. Each year, take a photograph of your child in front of the tree. Watch them grow-up together. …(continues)

Consider donating a tree in your child’s name to a nearby library or the child’s school, rather than planting at home. You may be living elsewhere, but library and school grounds are open to the public, so access to your tree is always available.

TRAVEL TRADITIONS:
9. Beginning with your honeymoon, record every trip – even a day “trip”- in a travel journal. If “journaling” is not something you love to do, …

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Memories are made for a lifetime. Sadly, sad memories are a part of everyone’s life, but even our saddest memories define us, and our character – they are our foundation. Share the good and the sad with each other, and pass them on to your loved ones.

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