When couples celebrate each month they have been together because they have not been together long enough to celebrate a real anniversary. A ritual annoying to some.
"Happy 3 month moniversary, Joe! Only nine more months until our one year anniversary."
"Uh, gee, thanks. Was I supposed to get you a card or something?"
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)