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The 10 Year Surprise: How I Planned an Anniversary My Wife Didn't See Coming

My wife and I have never been big on grand gestures. For nine years we celebrated our anniversary the same way: dinner at the hawker centre near our flat, a short walk afterwards, and a card I usually bought on the way home from work. She never complained, and I never questioned it. But when the tenth anniversary started creeping closer on the calendar, something in me decided that this year had to be different. What follows is the story of how I planned it, where I nearly got it wrong, and why a handful of flowers ended up carrying more of the day than I ever expected. The Moment I Realised I Had Nothing Planned It was a Tuesday night, three weeks before the date. I was folding laundry while my wife was on a video call with her sister, and I overheard her say, quite casually, that she could not believe it had been ten years. She laughed when she said it, but there was a softness in her voice that made me stop folding. I realised then that I had no plan at all. No reservation, ...