Although I don't look it...I just passed the 30 years of marriage threshold! Yesterday was 30 years since my wife and I got hitched...hitched being a Dodge City yokel way of saying we's married!
The longest marriage recorded (although not officially recognized) is a granite wedding anniversary (90 years) between Karam and Kartari Chand, who both lived in the United Kingdom, but were married in India. Karam and Kartari Chand married in 1925 and died in 2016 and 2019 respectively.
The most people married at one time was when some 35,000 couples was hitched (more Dodge City talk) by Sun Myung Moon in the Olympic Stadium in Seoul, South Korea on 25th of August, 1995.
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The most expensive wedding ever was Sheikha Hind Bint bin Maktoum to Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, which cost 137 million dollars. Most of the money was spent on the oversized invitations required for their long names.
I reckon we's gonna try for that golden anniversary...50 years of wedded bliss. How she puts up with me I will never know. Love you lady!
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I remember the ceremony. I believe WannaskaWriter was there as well.
It was a cold day. The sun went down early.
The new dining hall had not been built yet so we all flocked to the basement for hot dish and wedding cake.
Steady as she goes and you'll make 50.
Easily, as WW would say.
Oh yeah, I remember your shotgun wedding now… How could I forget the food alone, eh? The church parking lot was loaded with rusted 1970s-vintage pickups with their license plates wired on; sticks of pulpwood, 100# propane tanks, animal traps, frozen furs, deer hides, and fish. There were lots of wild long-haired red-blonde kids running up and down the church basement steps from the hockey rink with their sticks and skates all wearing raggedy Canadian Blue Bomber hockey jerseys, CN Rail, Tim Horton, and Canadian Tire hoodies; no hats, gloves or socks. Down in the church basement there bursts of laughter from both sides: Francophones on one side and Anglophones on the other. The tables were loaded with exotic Canadian hot dishes like Poutine, Crunchy Bars, Kinder Chocolate Eggs, Beaver Tails, Butter Tarts, Sugar on Snow, tourtière, and milk punch. Hooyah. Quite the event for Wannaska. Oh yeah, I was there.
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