How long have you been married? Do you still have clothing, invitations, other souvenirs?

[pedro47]

We just celebrated 47 years on 3/23. Love that man more than ever. No souvenirs that I can think of. But we didn't have a big wedding, just a few people. We were very young, and a lot of people didn't approve of two 18-year-olds getting married.

Wishing you a belated Happy Anniversary.

 

[presley]

Going on 29 years. I still have wedding dress, most of the china, a couple of the regular dinner plates, a few of the utensils (they are still my favorite) there's a box of pictures somewhere, and I have some silver plated cordial shot drinking glasses (?) (they aren't glass, they are silver). I'm not sure if there's anything else anywhere. I just used one of my china coffee cups this week. It's been at least a couple decades since I've used any of them.

 

[HitchHiker71]

Going on 26 years married in late May this year, and 30 years together in the fall. Hard to believe how fast the time has gone by really. I'm sure my wife has some things in storage but we haven't gotten to the point where we're going through boxes in the basement as part of any major cleanup effort yet - I suspect we will do this when we move at some point within the next ten years if our plans stay intact. We have lots of old photos as well, and are going to digitize them this year most likely - just so we have them more easily accessible and to preserve them for the future. Apart from that we're really I'm not sentimental types of people, and I don't place much importance on societal norms like birthdays and anniversaries and so forth - so we don't have tons of family pictures on the walls of our home for example - I suppose we're minimalist in most respects like this.

 

[jonmaiman]

We have been married 21 years. We still have our wedding album and my wife's wedding dress. Probably some other stuff to but we would have to dig it out. The china and crystal that was very important to us at the time we were getting married, we hardly ever use. It would have been better to use that money for something else. Developing wisdom seems to come with age. It has been a good ride so far...

--Jon

 

[WalnutBaron]

DW and I celebrated our 40th anniversary about one month ago. It was not the celebration we had planned, as COVID-19 intervened and kept us from enjoying the kind of big trip and celebratory dinner with friends and family, so we enjoyed a quiet spring day with a bike ride and flowers from my rose garden. We have our wedding album on a table in our bedroom and occasionally look back and smile at that happy day when we joined our lives together. She not only still has her wedding dress in her closet, but it still fits--and she's just as beautiful and radiant as the day I put her ring on her finger. Speaking of rings, she wears the small diamond I could afford back then as a pendant around her neck and a larger diamond on her finger now. I am truly grateful to be married to such a classy, kind, and gracious woman--the love of my life.

 

[#1 Cowboys Fan]

38 years for us November 2020.

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38 in November for us too!!!

Wast it the 13th for you (or 6th, 20th, 27th?)

 

[AnnaS]

November 27th - You?

 

[Quilter]

45 years for us last July 4. 7/4/74. Independence Day.

Still have my dress which I made. DH took it to the cleaners to have it cleaned and boxed when our DD was born 13 years after the wedding. She and I opened it when she was planning her wedding and both of us put it on. It didn’t fit either of us but it was fun. She had a piece of the lace sewed to the inside of her dress. She used the veil fabric for her veil.

At around 25 years we started looking for a new diamond ring. I change my mind so often I was afraid of getting one and then being bored with it. I found one and went back to the store for over a year to keep trying it on to see if I still liked it. Then my MIL offered me her mother’s ring. She admitted the setting was old fashioned. I asked if I could have the diamond reset. She consented and we had it set in the ring I had been looking at. I’ve never gotten bored with it.

We had the original diamond mounted on a heart pendant necklace. The wedding band was cut down to a pinky ring but sadly I lost it. I think it slipped off my finger after washing my hands at a rest stop.


Our cake topper was a sweet pair of white doves mounted with heart and lace over a champagne glass. That has lived under a glass dome.

Our unity candle was made by the mother of one of our church friends. It’s still on display somewhere around the house.

Another wedding gift was a standing, hand painted China dish. It sits by the tub for soap.

We still have a box of mementos from the wedding.

 

[Timeshare Von]

hang on to him, may become a valuable antique.

LOL . . . he's actually younger than me, so I will probably make "antique status" before he does.

 

[#1 Cowboys Fan]

November 27th - You?

It was the 13th for us---so we have 2 weeks on YOU!! haha