Hello!
How are you guys doing? Hopefully you enjoyed a fun and relaxing weekend.
Our weekend started off with sushi on Friday night, followed by me throwing up in the bathroom for two hours. I felt 100 percent better the next morning, so I’m blaming the sushi. We called my little episode our “anniversary tradition” because I’ve actually been sick with food poisoning two other times on our anniversary! What are the odds!?
On Saturday we celebrated our 10 year dating anniversary with a date to a local restaurant and wine bar.
Ryan and I seem to be the fastest eaters on the planet and are usually in and out of a restaurant in under 45 minutes, but on Saturday night we did a great job of expanding our evening and had a fantastic two-plus hour meal at Cuvee.
We began with wine and two appetizers and our waiter didn’t even ask for our entrée order until he cleared our cheddar gratin and scallops away. We were quite grateful to him for this because we never felt rushed and had a blast while we enjoyed a longer-than-usual dinner date!
Plus, sampling various types of wine was a lot of fun!
(Yes, Merri, I totally copied your coworker’s outfit for our date night and wore the drawstring pants I bought a mere 15 minutes after I saw her wearing them back in December.)
Ryan and I both agreed that our favorite wine of the night was the Enamore, a blend of Malbec, Syrah, Bonarda and Cabernet Franc.
For my main course, I ordered the eggplant parmesan.
Oh heeey goat cheese!
Over dinner we had fun reminiscing about the last 10 years together and got on the topic of our best dates which naturally turned into discussing our worst date. We’ve been fortunate not to endure any serious dating disasters together, but our worst date memory occurred back in college when we went to dinner at a local Mexican restaurant.
After we sat down in the tiny restaurant, a mariachi band came and played next to us throughout the entire date. Yes, they were talented, but we couldn’t hear one word the other person was saying during our date! We ended up laughing throughout the evening and felt grateful we weren’t there on our first date. As fun as it is to watch Ryan eat his dinner to jammin’ live music, I’d rather talk to him, too!
Once we were finished with our entrees, our waiter surprised us with dessert!
Quite the incredible presentation for a chocolate soufflé, huh!?
When our waiter asked us if we were celebrating something special, we didn’t expect him to do anything fancy for us at all, so it was quite a treat when he surprised us with a fabulous soufflé.
We had no trouble polishing that baby off!
It was the perfect way to celebrate 10 years with Ryan. He is quite a catch and I can’t wait to see what the next decade has in store for us!
Question of the Morning
- What is one of your worst date experiences?
- For the married folks: Do you celebrate your dating anniversary?
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Man, bummer about the sushi fiasco! Getting food poisoning on your anniversary sounds like a really miserable tradition haha. At least you felt better the next morning! Congrats on 10 years 🙂
I love wine bars! We have a similar type of restaurant/bar in town called POUR. It’s a fun experience, but I love it even more since you don’t have to wait on the bartender.
Happy 10 year dating anniversary! That is so sweet that you guys go out to celebrate it 🙂 The chocolate soufflé looks bomb too!
congrats on ten years! That sounds like such a nice evening, and the souffle looks amazing.
One of my worst dating experience involved a Bruins game and my date asking me, while in the beer line, to “give me those lips”. I could barely get through the game after that (although from what I’ve gathered, he’s happily married at this point).
lol!!! it’s always the weirdo ones seem to have no problems getting married. i don’t get that.
(I might be your oldest reader…..my husband and I will be married 25 years in August. We celebrate EVERYTHING! We met at a super bowl party in 1989 so most years we get to celebrate on the actual date ( January 31) and whatever Sunday superbowl happens to fall on that year.
Congratulations on 10 happy years…and many more!
My husband and I sort of celebrate our dating anniversary. We got married 2 days after our dating anniversary, so it is all kind of one big anniversary for us. We are one year behind you guys….celebrating 9 years together in May!
Happy 10 years of dating! That is such an awesome milestone! You all have the cutest relationship!
Congratulations on 10 years! Bummer about the food poisoning though. I’ve only had food poisoning once, and it was one of the worst nights of my life (obviously?), so I’m impressed that you rallied for the rest of the weekend!
Thats adorable that you guys have been together for so long and take the time to celebrate every moment. I’ve definitely had some iffy dates.
One time in college this kid took me to Uno’s Chicago Grill because he knew I was from Chicago, nice in theory but seriously who wants bad fake Chicago food especially when they grew up with the real thing? He ordered a deep dish pizza (nothing like real chicago deep dish) and forced me to try it after I politely declined and it was so awkward!
Happy ten years!
Congrats on 10 years! 🙂 I’m getting married in a year but definitely want to keep celebrating our dating anniversary!
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Happy 10 years!!! I can definitely see my boyfriend and I continuing our “Dating anniversary” after we get married. All those dates count!! 🙂
My husband & I are super fast eaters too, so I’m impressed that you we’re able to draw the dinner out that long 🙂
And your food looks like it was delicious!
Oooohh happy 10 years, you guys! And Cuvee seems to have so much delicious food~
Our worst dating experience was on a new years eve about 3 years ago. We didn’t realize (and always forgot) how crowded and overpriced everything would be!!!!! We wanted to go to downtown Disney and see the fireworks and enjoy some nice dinner, etc. Only to find out that we were stuck in Disney and new years traffic and got nowhere! 😛
Thankfully all the dates I’ve had with my husband have been great, but I had some iffy dates before that. On one first date I showed up only to realize we were having dinner with his parents (we were both in our early twenties). On another first date we were on our way to a movie when my date suggested we pull off the road to do some spontaneous off-roading in his big truck. We got stuck in the mud, missed the movie, and waited in the mud for HOURS before some of his friends could come pull us out.
Everything looks so delicious! Glad you guys had such a fun celebratory night! 🙂
My boyfriend and I are fast eaters too, so I love when waiters slow down dinners by spacing out when they take appetizer and entree orders!
Aw at least you were feeling better by the time Saturday rolled around! You don’t think the Sushi could be what your allergic too, do you? I know the doctor’s said they weren’t sure what it was, but didn’t know if the time you went to the ER was also after eating Sushi…? Anyways, so glad you had an incredible 10 yr Anniversary date night 🙂
So this wasn’t actually a bad date for Gary & I, but during the first year of dating, we went out to dinner and the couple next to us was on their first date. I’m also pretty sure it was their LAST. The guy was on his cell phone almost the whole time, talking business. Then in between calls, he would brag about how successful he was. I still think he had friends call him just so he could brag. That poor girl looked so bored….I hope she ditched him after that date!
Happy Dating Anniversary! We celebrate our first date anniversary by going to the same restaurant we had our first date at every year. I think my husband looks forward to it more than our wedding anniversary because we go to his favorite restaurant – a burger bar! But no matter our schedules on April 18th, we always have lunch at the same burger bar. Hopefully it never goes out of business!
Wine samples by pushing a button? That looks AWESOME! Wish there was something like that over here on the east coast of FL!
My husband and I had the same mariachi band thing happen to us when we went out to eat with his mom and sister one of the first times I met them. It was hard to get to know them with the maracas and horns blaring out near us!
I’m so glad to read that other couples are in/out of restaurants in under an hour….I was starting to think something was wrong with me & my boyfriend and our speedy dinners! 🙂
Worst date experience: I met up with a dude from e-Harmony. We clicked online and via text and had great rapport – until we actually met. We were at a sushi place in Santa Monica and he started by order a large Asahi for himself. That’s fine. I had a cocktail. Then, he insisted that we do sushi shooters (the best way I can describe it is raw fish and broth in a tall shot glass). Ummm…okay, I’m game. Then, he kept saying to me, “How come you’re not nearly as witty as you are when we’re not in person?” (thanks, jerk! how come you’re a d-bag in person?) He orders a 2nd large Asahi and the conversation continues to be flat. After we’re done eating, he declares, “I need to go pee-pee”. What 28-year old dude says to a female on their first date “Pee-Pee”?? Really. The check could not get there fast enough! He walked me to my car and looked surprised when I gave him an “ass-out hug”. Needless to say, we were not a match.
You met when you were 18???????????????????????????????????
adorable 🙂
Yep! We met the second semester of my freshman year in college. 🙂
I love that you celebrate all your years together! My sweet husband always remembers what we call our “date-iversary” in some fun way. We started dating when we were 15 in high school and just celebrated our 27th date-iversary in December! Congrats on 10 years!
You guys are too cute, congrats!
Please tell me the mariachi band restaurant was El Cerro?? 🙂
We actually don’t remember when our first date was, oops! But we celebrate our 2nd date because it’s easy to remember – Valentine’s Day. This year we’ll be celebrating 15 years since that 2nd date. (We’ve been married about 6.5 years) I’m impressed and happy we’ve made it this far. 🙂
Yes we celebrated our dating anniversary in March (will be 9 years!) and our wedding anniversary in June. They both hold a really special place in my heart! 🙂 Congrats!
So funny- I actually bought those pants within 15 minutes of seeing them featured on YOUR blog! 🙂
Love this, and love your drawstring pants (from what I can see!)
The wine sampling reminds me of Wine Room in Winter Park, my favorite place 😀
My husband and I celebrated our 10 years of dating anniversary back in December. We don’t usually celebrate our dating anniversary but we thought being together for 10 years was a pretty big deal so we went out to a nice dinner to celebrate. It looks like you had a fabulous date and that dessert looks amazing!
So sweet! Happy Anniversary!