Today is Nanna Jane & Granddad Al’s Silver Wedding Anniversary, 25 years of being married. Anyone with only a few years of married bliss, will find it hard to understand, how anyone could be together for so long & even longer.
We’ve actually been a couple living together for over 31 years, it just took us a while to get around to getting married, or rather it took me a while to say yes. We had only known each other 6 months when we found out I was expecting, what a shock it was too, I was on the pill!
So although we had children I wasn’t ready to commit, but when the time was right we sorted it out & was married in just over two weeks.
We was married at Chorley Registry Office at 3pm. Sadly my father had passed away in 1978 when I was just 15, so my brother Ian gave me away. We didn’t have money for a fancy car so we all went together to the registry office in our VW Campervan, which should have been orange & white, but was in fact orange, white, blue & grey as we was in the process of doing her up.
Our honeymoon was two nights in the Lake District camping. We stayed at High Wray Farm near Ambleside & the next day we traveled over to Haverigg & stayed in a more commercial site there, I spent lots on the phone to make sure my little ones was ok, remember this is pre-mobile telephones, but, of course, they were being well & truly spoiled.
We came home on the Sunday teatime & collected out family before heading home to start the next chapter, being married.
My biggest regret about the day is the photographs, I wished we had hired a proper photographer, as we only have a few snaps of people with no head or half a head. My brother offered to do them & like I said that is my one regret.
What is the secret to a long married life, talk, give & take & be prepared to compromise.
Life hasn’t turned out as we expected, me being now disabled was not in any of the plans we had talk about, but that is what I mean about compromise. Al is now my full time carer, even though he doesn’t get any money for doing so, I appreciate every thing he has done & does for me.
We’ve decided to run a competition to celebrate our special day, so if you would like to win these two pairs of lovely Murano glass inspired earrings then head over to our giveaway page now.
Nanna Jane
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Hope I make it to 25 years as I got married in my 40’s. Love hearing the story of yours compared to your grandparents. Thanks for sharing.