> > > Remembering your beloved's birthday and your anniversary isn't so much romantic as it is a stay of execution, for surely you'll forget someday, and when you do, you'll find out how not romantic cold shoulders and tears are. Your safest bet is to find someone whose birthday is on Christmas, then marry her on New Year's Day, because nobody forgets those days.
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> > That would explain Sam's stolid suggestion to get born on Christmas or New Year's, or somewhere between the two. It makes things easier to remember all around. Then make sure to get married on the Fourth of July.
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> Guilty as charged.

Uh-oh. I did not mean to rub the wrong way. For what it's worth, Dave and I also took a leaf out of the same book; we got married on his best friend's (the best man)'s birthday. And since he's known Doug since they were yay-high to a grasshopper, remembering our anniversary is thus a piece of cake. Remembering my birthday, however, still poses something of a challenge sometimes :-)