......we exchanged vows, and time has passed by fast.
We were married in a blizzard of such proportion that the State Police were shutting down the main roads, I had to be picked up in an old four wheel drive by one of Gary's office workers to make it to the Base, and then we had to find the Chaplain and drag the poor man out into the snow....all in the middle of the worst winter storm we'd seen in years.
I would insert a smart remark here but I think it was somehow appropriate!
Neither of our families could attend, it was just us, the office and a Methodist minister! (shades of denominations to come...)
The chapel where we were married is still standing but with the sale of most of the acreage when the Active Duty left, I am not sure if it is used or just languishing in disrepair.
26 years....
Too fast, it passes......
Happy Anniversary my dear hubby; I hope you can tolerate me another 26!!!
Love....
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AAAAAWWWWWWWWWW!!! I SAW THIS ON FB. CONGRATULATIONS. MANY MORE HAPPY YEARS TOGETHER FOR YOU ABD GARY!
Okay. (Sorry, caps lock). TSUP!
Ces, LOL!!!
Hey, it's an *all caps* kinda day.
It is pretty much like the day we married, except there isn't 4 feet of snow! (thank God...)
TSUP!!!
Anne
Congratulations!! Great story, and the pic is fantastic!!!! Youse guys have a great day!
Thanks Linda!
I think I'm taking the day off from everything as soon as I finish on the computer... ;-)
XXOO~~♥
Anne
Well, congratulations, Anne and Gary!! 26 years is quite an accomplishment - my hat is off to you!!! What a difference to our wedding - we were married in Germany on the hottest day on record. The only place cool was the old, old, church with the thick walls. No air conditioning anywhere... They still talk about how at our wedding as much water was drunk as beer - unheard of!! LOL! TSUP!!! Silke
Oh, totally forgot to say that I love the card you made...
LOL!!!
Yes, that sounds like the Polar Opposite of our day! And I'm laughing at the water/beer ratio....living over in Germany, yep. I get that one!
I need to photograph the card....I was too lazy or tired to do that too. Busy day yesterday.
Off for a good day today!
TSUP!
Anne
♫♪ Happy Happy Anniversary ♫♪
Married in a blizzard!?! Time has passed by quickly...I remember your anniversary LAST year! Hey! That makes it OUR anniversary too! Oh happy day. **kisses** Deb
Oh yes Deb....it was a HUM-DINGER. I still say our getting married cause some sort of Cosmic Commotion...LOL!!!
IS this your anniversary????
XXOO~~♥
Anne
Oh Anne Sweetie...
Happy Anniversary to you and Gary. A beautiful photo of the two of you. I love it.
Sounds like you had the perfect wedding sweet one. Ones that start out in hectic always survive. You have already weathered the storm.
Have a beautiful day sweetie. Many hugs and much love, Sherry
Hey Sherry!
Yes, we have weathered enough storms; the military life seems to throw them at you! We just hang tight and off we go!
I remember at 16 years I was ordering food from a small company in New Orleans and the lady said that was amazing for folks now to stay married that long.....wonder what she'd think at this point!
XXOO~~♥
Anne
Happy anniversary! I hope the blizzard doesn't repeat for today!
Oh Janet!!!
Me too! What is here is enough. I think it is just supposed to be COLD...nothing more.
I'm afraid to check the weather these days...LOL!!!
XXOO~~♥
Anne
happy anniversary! hope mr migraine leaves you alone so you can have a proper celebration!
Happy Anniversary, Anne and Gary! I am wishing you many more eventful (haha) and wonderful years together. xox!!
Hey marianne,
ME TOO.
>:-)
Something with a nice Moscato....
XXOO~~♥
Anne
Hey Pam,
EVERYTHING around here seems to be eventful, but not always the way I am planning...hahahaha!!!
Gary said he's going to live to be at least 100 so he can draw his pension a long time! LOL!
That's my man!!!
XXOO~~♥
Anne
Congratulations! 26 years! Another year and you'll have been married as long as I've been alive (since I stopped aging at 27 - ha!). There's something so nice about being together a long time -- comfortable love, I call it. Best wishes for another 26.
My grandmother (who was married for nearly 60 years) always said that the first hundred years together are the hardest.
Hey Karen!
That is a perfect quote from your grandmother...LOL!! Yeah, after that I suppose you don't know who you're sitting next to, so it's not a big deal!
It is nice to be completely comfortable with your spouse...it comes with time and I think a lot of folks now don't work through the early years to see what is ahead is the best. :-)
XXOO~~♥
Anne
Happy Anniversary to both of you and may you have another 26 years. Congratulations! We will be having our 29th year together on Feb 14. Yes, we got married on that day. Tee Hee. Enjoy the day with your life partner. Take care.
Oh Gloria--that's ROMANTIC! (and easy to remember too!)
29, wow---it is good to have the big numbers on these, yes???
XXOO~~♥
Anne
Congrats on a not-so-easy landmark! I say that for even the best of marriages. We just hit 23 years and sometimes I wonder how!
I love the picture above. Nice!
Here's to 26 more ;)
~♥Lolo♥~
I had a young married person ask me once how we stayed married so long; I told them marriage was a job, you work at it every day if you want it to last. They seemed surprised but thought it was *cool* someone had been married as long as us.
The time goes fast..... ;-)
XXOO~~♥
Anne
Congratulations on a lovely long journey together. May the path continue for you both.
Thanks Marie!
I am awaiting the next half of the journey!
XXOO~~♥
Anne
oh what a wonderful photo of two love birds!!!!
Happy Anniversary Anne!!!! I hope you have a wonderful celebration!!!!
Here's to many many more wonderful years!!!!!
Hugs
Diana
Congrats on 26 years. Bad weather at the wedding is supposed to be good luck so you are living proof.
David and I got married outside in a thunderstorm.... have a happy at least another 26 and more...xox Corrine
Thanks Diana!
I think we have finally begun to *look like each other*.....that means we have to stay together! LOL!!! :-D
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Anne
OMGosh Corrine!
I think I'll take the blizzard over the thunderstorm!
Yes, I guess if we survive natures temper tantrums, it's all easier after that! (or at least you have a clue what to expect...hahaha!)
XXOO~~♥
Anne
blessings for many happy, healthy years together more! Happy anniversary Anne!!! ❤ K
Thanks Karin!
I'm hoping we both hold up till 50 yrs, but DANG!
I'll be old and have lost my girlish figure by then...hahahaha! (and my memory.....)
XXOO~~♥
Anne
Well congrats, you newly weds!!! LOL 26 years years...wonderful...you've broken all sorts of records and stats in this country as far as wedded bliss...or just wedded! LOl
Congratulations again, to you and Gary...you're a great couple and yes, I'm sure he'll put up with you another 26, as you will put up with him!!
Love ya,
G
Ah-hahahaha!!!!
Georgina, I knew you would find just the *right words* to say!
I am sure we have broken records. I'm not sure which ones...LOL!!!
Thanks!
It's a good day!
XXOO~~♥
Anne
Happy Anniversary! What a way to have a wedding though!
Ohhhhh, what a fabulous photo! And on Bourbon St!
Happy, happy, happy anniversary, dear Anne and Gary! I was just telling my kids that blooper weddings are the best, because you have the most colorful stories to tell years on down the road. No one really talks about the picture perfect weddings. Yours was definitely one to remember!
Hi Anne, I saw your comment on Gloria's blog and thought as a fellow hoosier I would stop and check yours out. We were in Fort W. for a while and I thought perhaps with the topic you were up around that direction. Love the music. Nice touch.
Robin
Hey Girls,
Yeah, everything Gary and I do seems to involve an *adventure*---bought my wedding dress two days before the date, he had to buy a suit as I recall, did not even have a bouquet because the florist couldn't get flowers! LOL!
And I wouldn't change a thing....I can't understand the massive amounts of money spent on weddings when they could go to important things...like ART SUPPLIES!!!! LOL!!
XXOO~~♥
Anne
Hi Robin!
Thanks for dropping by.
I am about 2 hours from Ft. Wayne; actually that is where my Ortho is. Love going up and having someplace to shop when I get a chance~~plenty of good bookstores with the schools up there.
I am smack-dab in the middle of NOWHERE...LOL!!! (sometimes that's good, sometimes not) We're in the country; Kokomo and Logansport are the closest cities.
Glad you commented--take care!
XXOO~~♥
Anne
Congratulations, Gary and Anne!! Sending best wishes, hugs, and kisses to you two lovebirds!! Best wishes and I hope you have another 26 years filled with one adventure after another!!
CHEERS!!
♥♥♥ audrey
PS Love the photo!!
Thanks Audrey!
I'm all tarted up in a skin-tight red dress, ready to hit the road for dinner! (I think there's more of me than the dress can handle....ah-hahaha!!!!)
XXOO~~♥
Anne
Happy Anniversary Anne and Gary!!! Love the photo! How wonderful to be together for 26 years! Wishing you many more years of good health, happiness, and much love!! :)
congrats!!! now you need to fill in the details of how you met, yada, yada! You look like the coolest couple and I'm sure you are!! Again, Happy Anniversary!
Congratulations Anne and Gary. It is always good to know folks who have hung together through thick and then. Blessings
QMM
26 years! WOW! Oh so cool! Congrats dear Anne and Gary. The best wishes for continued happiness.
HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY 25 to two sweethearts! Stay warm and safe..another snow storm is moving into our area in the next day or so! YIKES! Imagine and Live in Peace, Mary Helen Fernandez Stewart
Hey all~~
Thanks so much!
We had a lovely evening; dinner out, a bit of shopping and then home to watch a movie.
Today is back to the grind day....
Work in the studio, house, mail to get bundled, etc.
I have a list! LOL! Now if I don't lose it....or give out before it's done! :-D
XXOO~~♥
Anne
were we separated at birth? I had a similar wedding -just my husband and i who traveled through a snowstorm in flagstaff to get to sedona and get married on some cosmic rock...just us and the preacherman.
I loved your comment about the languid south waiting for a reason to change. brilliant!!! i was jealous i hadnt written that myself.
Luck man that married you 26 years ago. COngratulations!
Hey chickory,
LOL!!! I think, as I blog more, we of the same spirit sort of gravitate towards each other! Your wedding sounds more exciting though!!!
You know, parts of me miss the South, and I think it is mostly the land and definitely the FOOD....there are things I don't miss. (those things have moved right up to Indiana...)
I always think of it as a rich, layered memory that stays the same. Everything lush and green and a slow pace of life.
Ahhhhhh....... ;-)
XXOO~~♥
Anne
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. Congratulations!!!!
ABSOLUTELY!
I think that's the part folks forget....it's an ongoing type of love~~♥
XXOO~~♥
Anne
QUEEN PUNK ANNE, IM SOOOO HAPPY FOR YOUUUUU, HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, I LOVE THE PIC OF YOU TWO! ♥ ♥ ♥
I READ YOUR MAIL, HAHAHA :D THANK YOU VERY MUCH! IM SOOO OLD xD
KISSESSSSS
HUGSSSSS
LOL!!!
No Mita, I am the one that is sooooo old! (at least I feel that way this morning! haha!)
Many hugs~~~hope you had a wonderful day!
That photo is our favorite too; I printed a few out and got one framed up for the house. I never print my photos....hmmmmmm...
XXOO~~♥
Anne
Happy, HAPPY, Happy Anniversary!!! This is wonderful! Oh but you give me hope. This is wonderful and you look fabulous. Thanks so much for stopping by to see me. Your comments mean everything.
Hey Vanessa,
TRUST ME!
If we could make it to 26 and not have caused bodily harm, anyone can! Ah-hahahahaha!!!!
Thank you~~it's been a good trip, through thick and thin and the ups and downs.
Life is good.
XXOO~~♥
Anne
~your heart above is beautiful...i love the vibrant rich colors you have used and the background texture...i want to touch it...quite fascinating is your art!!!
aaahhh...to love and be loved...the truly is nothing greater...seems as if nothing was going to stand in yoru way of saying i do...hehehe...wishing you many many more years together sharing such beauty...may the days ahead be filled with only blissful bright moments...may you continue to create memories you long to savor and fill your heart with only joy...happy belated anniversary to you and yours...much love light and blessings shining brightly upon you~
Here I am, late to the party again but still want to wish the happiest of belated anniversary wishes to you both!! Obviously a marriage that had such an interesting start is one that is bound to last.
happy belated anniversary..what a marvellous story...we got married in Vegas then drove across the USA to SF then had a rock n roll wedding reception back home in the UK a week later when we told everyone we had got hitched
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