What would you call the initial/first event of an annual event?

Someone told me "1st Annual" is not the appropriate term for the first time a new annual event is held. I thought 1st annual sounded fine.What would you call the initial/first event of an annual event?
1st annual is as accurate as you can get if it's the 1st event of what is now an annual event/occurrence



the only other term to use would be inaugural blah blah event
Well I guess you would say, "First Ever (town charity...blah blah" and the second year it would be "Second Annual" because "annual" does imply that it has happened more than once so you can't have 1st annualWhat would you call the initial/first event of an annual event?
An anniversary. But please do not precede it with the word FIRST , i.e. FIRST ANNIVERSARY because that is grammatically incorrect. Anniversary will do just fine.



Or ANNUAL. You just precede it with the word SECOND and the likes if the event is well into its second year already. Otherwise, on the first year, you just say annual or anniversary.
inaugural is the word you wantWhat would you call the initial/first event of an annual event?
maybe premier
1st Annual sounds fine to me, but maybe if people are uptight about it you could just put Annual on this one and then go from there.



You can only please some of the people some of the time.



Good Luck!
inaugural was right.

You could call it the "maiden voyage"

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