Engagement Anniversary Ideas: Marking a Year Since You Said Yes

Engagement anniversary ideas are easy to overlook. Once the ring is on, attention often jumps straight to wedding plans, and the day you said yes slips quietly past. It deserves a little more than that.

I'm Leon, an accredited celebrant and proposal photographer based in Llandudno. Here are simple ways to mark a year since your proposal, and how a guided proposal keeps that date in mind for you.

Go Back to Where You Asked

Return to the exact spot, whether that was the sand at Red Wharf Bay, the path above Llyn Crafnant or your own garden. Stand in the same place and talk about what you remember. Bring the dog, if they were part of the day.

Couple sitting together on a grassy clifftop looking out to sea

Read Your Love Letter Again

With a Guided Proposal Ceremony, your Love Letter goes home with you, complete with your handwritten words and Polaroids inside. Reading it aloud a year on can be even more moving than the first time.

Look Through Your First Chapter

Your proposal photographs become the first chapter of your Love Story Album. Sit down together, choose your favourites and add your own pictures from the year since.

Let the Registry Remember

Every guided proposal includes one year's complimentary membership to the Love Story Registry. On your anniversary, a handcrafted commemorative letter arrives with imagery from your album and seasonal flowers, delivered to your door on the very same day.

Talk About the Next Chapter

A year on is a natural moment to talk about the wedding. Your proposal brings 10% off an elopement with Elope with Leon, and how soon after engagement to get married may help you decide on timing.

Wherever It Happened

North Wales is home, but you can choose anywhere for your proposal: your home or garden, a favourite place elsewhere in the UK, or abroad. The anniversary can follow you there.

A year since the question is worth a pause, a walk and a few honest words. The Guided Proposal Ceremony is £695.00 on the services page, so start a conversation with me whenever you are ready to ask.

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