I have shared before about the importance of continuing to date your spouse. We recently had a fun date that I would love to share with you. It was a double date. It was all about fondue. And it was frugal.
A few years ago, we celebrated my birthday by experiencing a fondue night at a fondue specialty restaurant. And I really do mean that fondue is an experience! The fun thing about fondue is that you HAVE to take your time at the dinner table. You are making your own appetizers and dessert, and you are cooking your own meat. That takes time. And when you sit down for fondue with spouse, friends, or family, that’s a great time to catch up and get to know one another better.
When we had our first fondue experience, the cost per couple was around $70, not including drinks or tip. Now, if you can afford those kind of date nights, be my guest and continue to stimulate the economy! However, we are on a limited budget while Hubby finishes graduate school, so that price for a date was not possible.
We could have done a fondue night at home by ourselves, but we turned it into a double date. We have another couple that we enjoy spending time with. We all get along! If you have a friend but your husbands don’t get along, they might not be the best candidates for a double date with you. We are very fortunate to have another couple with whom we can do these types of things!
The wives got together and planned the menu. Then we went shopping together and split the bill. The total per couple: $30! (And we had tons of food leftover!)
Depending on your family situation, you can do this a couple of ways. We are the only couple with kids, so we had the double date at our house, eating the appetizer course and main course and including our toddler. After the toddler went to bed, we had our chocolate course.
If both couples have kids, you can let all the kids have a big slumber party at one house, with trusted baby-sitters of course, while you have your date night at the other. There are lots of possible scenarios!
It was such a fun night! My husband has declared that we need to have a monthly fondue double date.
Have you been on a double date with another couple since you’ve been married? I recommend it highly!
photo credits: Jay Neill, stock image
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We started a dinner group. There are 5 couples, and we rotate hosting the meal each month. We take off June and December. Our spending limit is $20/couple – gives us $100 to come up with a smashing meal, but we rarely spend that much. It's fabulous!
Wow, sound like a great group! Thanks for sharing, LeonaBea!
One of my really good girlfriends and I have birthdays 2 days apart. Our birthdays also fall just a couple of weeks after Christmas, so birthdays have always been kind of an "afterthought" for us. A few years ago, we decided to start celebrating our birthdays together by going out to dinner together (with our husbands). It's been become a highlight of the year! We always go somewhere different. We don't always go right at our birthday (and one year it just plumb didn't work out) but we always have fun and enjoy our celebration whenever it happens! We really like spending time with this couple. There's a good balance of things we have in common and ways that we are different that really helps keep the conversations and good times flowing.