Anniversary

[jacey]

In other news, tomorrow is our 45th wedding anniversary. Forty five! You do understand that I was a child bride, I hope. If they hadn't lowered the voting age I wouldn't even have been able to vote, yet I could get married and jointly own a mortgaged house!

BB says 45 is our Sapphire anniversary and so a couple of days ago he took me into Huddersfield and we came back with a sapphire and diamond eternity ring - narrow and very delicate. I look forward to seeing if it still fits tomorrow!

We didn't have a proper photographer (too expensive) so we ended up with a series of snaps. Brian and I are pretty obviously 'bride and groom' but the others are, left to right: Brian's Mum, Evelyn Bedford (Brian's dad was there as well but got chopped off by the photo-snapper), Best Man, John Louth, just peeping up from the back between me and Brian is my maternal grandpa, Tommy Bennett, then my dad, Tony Lockyer, my mum, Joan Lockyer, wearing a lampshade on her head, and my grandma, Annie Bennett. We lost touch with John when he emigrated to South Africa many years ago, and of the rest, only my mum is left, so this holds a lot of memories.

Comments

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Happy anniversary!

You look so young! And I recognize the styles . . .

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I wanted a simple wedding dress. I tried on one of those white 'meringues' and looked a bit silly in it, so I went for cream with a braid border in pinks and greens. I still have the dress.

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

Happy anniversary! I hope you have many more. You do look like a child bride in that photo. We just had our fruit-and-flowers anniversary.

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

I hadn't even looked up which anniversary it was. It was Brian who discovered it was sapphire. I'm now wearing my eternity ring. I don't usually go in for 'shiny' but this is so delicate. I love it.

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

Happy anniversary!

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Congratulations both!

We only manage ten so far although we've been together for nearly twenty five! :o)

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

We got together in the days when living together was still looked on a little askance. Though come to think of it we did get our mortgage paperwork signed sealed and delivered before the wedding, so it obviously didn't matter to the building society that we were taking out a joint mortgage in to single names.