Seeking Ideas for New Year’s Eve

Newlyweds seeking advice for first new year’s eve as married couple. That’s what the ad would read, but since we’re bloggers, that’s what will show up on my Twitter and hopefully we’ll get some good ideas.

This time last year, we were ‘tweeners – between Terry’s romantic proposal on December 15, 2007 beside the Christmas Tree at Lincoln Center in NY following the opera War and Peace and my acceptance, which didn’t come until January 1, 2008. While we were together last year on New Year’s Eve, we didn’t really do anything special that we can carry over as a New Year’s Eve tradition.

So here we are a year later and happily married, but stumped for good ideas for New Year’s Eve. We know that we don’t want to go out, but I hope we get to dance in the garden room to our favorite playlists. We don’t want to eat extravagantly, but we do like experimenting with interesting foods. We love movies, but it seems like it would have to be something special.

It’s almost too much pressure to come up with just the right agenda!

So we’re asking for your advice. What are some of your favorite romantic traditions for New Year’s Eve? What is our favorite New Year’s Eve tradition? @bradrourke, @dswedlow, @johncr8on, and others with children, how would you make the it special if you DIDN’T have the kids for the evening?