Jul 18, 2012
25th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
Yes, it is true…..today we have been married 25 years! Rather amazing if I have to say so myself.
Who knew we would tie the knot? Who knew it would last this long?
We started to date during Expo 86 in Vancouver. Colin was the official photographer for both the British and the Canadian Pavilions. I like to tell the story that I only dated him to get to the front of all the lines to the various pavilions using his press pass. Actually I really kinda liked the guy. We married one year later.
We got married outside in a private garden, it was melting hot that day.
Obviously huge glasses were in fashion 25 years ago.
Officially married and signing the legal documents.
What does one do for a 25th wedding anniversary celebration? What did you do??
We have been told over and over how very special today is, a landmark achieved!! What to do to celebrate?
We have been so very busy with the new house ( actually the perfect gift to us in itself in my opinion) that we haven't had any time to decide what to do. If we were not building the house, we would have booked a flight to New York City and spent a very romantic week there, theatre, music, etc. We could have done a cruise or gone to Hawaii as we did for our honeymoon but really NYC is our very very favorite in the world…..hmmmm…let's do that next year, okay sweetie??
So what will we to today? Well first off after five must do errands starting at 7AM we just might go to a Hallmark store and each find the perfect 25th anniversary card which we will chose and then meet in the middle of the store and read aloud to each other…sob a bit…give each other a smooch and promptly return the card to the rack where we will walk out the store arm in arm and head home to crack a bottle of champagne, and just enjoy the rest of the day together.
Would you like a piece of cake?
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Happy Anniversary! Keep up the good work!
Congratulations you two! What a gorgeous dress Contessa! Thanks for the photos. We so enjoy reading about the progress of your new home and thanks for the salmon barbecue recipe. We haven’t found the cedar planks yet, but you will be the first to know if we succeeded to produce a good meal.
Loved the photo of the little black mink. We used to see it once in a while at our site 239 heading towards your place. Never did see two together. So relieved you spotted the beaver – it could have died in the flooding waters. I do miss the assortment of wild life found at the water’s edge at Holiday Park.
Our cruise to The Baltic was wonderful but we found Europe and the cruise line terribly expensive. We made sure we were back on board for meals. Great seeing the family in England.
Hilde is doing well, will write more in an e-mail later. Love to you both on this special day! Margot & Ken
What a lovely couple… then and now.
Congratulations on your Silver milestone.
Love from us.
Jessie and Gary
Congrats! Those are some lovely pictures. And neither of you has changed much in all that time. And it is a gorgeous dress-very timeless!
Happy Anniversary you guys. We celebrated our 25th last year by going out to dinner in a small town in southern Utah. It was wonderful.
What a lovely couple… then, and now.
Congratulations on your Silver milestone.
All the best from us.
Happy Anniversary !! Loved the photos !! It is such fun to see how we have changed over the years.
Chuckled out loud about your Hallmark idea … LOL
Hopefully when things slow down, you can do something memorable for your 25th
Take care … TnT
Congratulation,s!! Love the huge glasse,s but love the picture,s , we do change with the time,s!! We also did the same thing with one of our anniversary,s in a store, tooo funny !! You’ll enjoy something special when your settled in your new home.. Next year is our 50th (can’t believe it) we are planning a Alaska Cruise in August!!!
CHEERS!!!!
Happy Anniversary you two! Just seems like yesterday that you got married. I remember that you took the glass lenses out of your glasses so they would not glare in the photos. Enjoy your day.
J and C
Congratulations to both of you! Paul and I will toast to you this evening and we send you our best wishes for another 25.
How sweet it is!
Colin
Gracias mi amore!!
Congratulations on the big 25. Great pics…where’d you get the glasses (well frames)? Eek…we have a couple of pairs like that too. Here’s a toast to you and to your next 25!
Congratulations on your 25th. Love the pictures, I remember having those huge glasses.
Congratulations on your 25th anniversary. We will have to have a
drink when we arrive to celebrate.
Happy Anniversary!
Sincere Congratulations to you both! 25 years – where did the time go? Well, you two are really 2 peas in a pod. I’m really happy for you. By the way, great photographer on your wedding day!
I still think you ought to go to New York perhaps in the fall when its more comfortable! Sometime I’d like to hear about the magic you have found there. My first and only 4 day visit left me wanting more.
I’d like to be here for your 5oth anniversary. All the best!
Cheers,
Hugh
Happy, Happy Anniversary – wishing you many, many more – the photos are just too cute!!!
B&C
Thinking of you and wishing you a most
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY
Enjoy your day and many more happy ones to come .
( thanks for posting your wedding pictures , you both look great , lovely , lovely )
Much love , Louie & Katie
Great pics and great dress c..happy silver anniversary…we had ours a few yrs bak wow where does the time go xoU2
Congratulations, A busy day today and a great way to celebrate. enjoy!
Dearest C&C
Wishing you both a very
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY.
We will celebrate all the missed milestones of this summer when we return in the fall with Champagne toasts.
Miss You
Hugs to the girls. P.
Have been out of town and disconnected all week so am sending you belated anniversary wishes, although such an anniversary should be celebrated for several days at least. Cheers to many more happy years!
Ena
Congratulations!!! 25 years!! and what great pictures, we all love the glasses and we can all relate to those years.
How Don and I enjoy reading your blog, it is like a newspaper, every morning we check in to see what you guys are up to!!! and most days it is pretty darn interesting.
Your house sounds and looks wonderful and so enjoy reading the progress on it.
Keep those blogs coming. Don and Barb
Oh man. Late to the party.
Happy Anniversary!
I like that idea of reading a card to each other in the store, and then putting them both back on the rack. Really speaks to the “el cheapo” in me. Not sure if my wife would go along.
We’ve only put in 23, but have been under the same roof for 33. Lived in sin! *gah* Actually, it was more like, we couldn’t afford a wedding, so it took a few years.
We met in ’78. Seems hardly possible.
The years do fly by when you’re having fun, don’t they?
Enjoy your day.
Happy Anniversary. Love your Hallmark idea! Maybe you should have snuck in a photo of the two of you holding the cards for the “memory”.
Belated Anniversary Greetings.
Wishing you another happy 25!
Hugs,
Bob & Marjorie
Better late than than none…We want to add our wishes to your celebration.
It is said that the first 20 years are difficult after that you get used to it…
Happy Anniversary.
You both look great together today as at your wedding.
Happy Belated Anniversary!