Who were that skinny couple, of yes I remember it was me and Mr FF tying the knot at the registry office in Middlesbrough 20 June 1970. I thought it was really romantic that we got married beside the college where Mr FF was an engineering student.
My parents were at the time totally against Mr FF and I being together, especially as I had moved up to Middlesbrough to be with him so we only told a few friends and family what was happening and just got married. It took my family 6 months to come round but they eventually accepted what we had done and we were back to normal.
We didn't have a photographer but friends who had taken snaps gave us copies, which I lovingly keep in an old photo sleeve and constantly mislay. My wedding ring cost £7 and my dress about the same, I still have the former though the pattern is all worn away, I have no idea what happened to the dress but I am certain I couldn't get into it now, I weighed 8 stone 3 lbs and I was 21.
I don't regret any of it, a wedding arranged in 3 weeks and over in a flash, a marriage that seems to be lasting forever.
Congratulations to you both, this post is a wonderful tribute to your marriage.
ReplyDeleteI hope you are having a special celebration here in Italy today.
Congratulations to both of you.
ReplyDeleteThose pictures are so similar to my parents (41 years today) - Mum was a tiny little thing in a minidress and Dad looked like a 5th Beatle!!
Congratulations, what a great occasion. You both look fantastic!
ReplyDeleteThese are truly amazing pictures!!
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful tribute to a lasting marriage!!
Love your mini dress, you'd be right in fashion today! :)
Look at those legs! you made a very handsome couple on the day. Congratulations and it is so nice to see a marriage that has lasted 40 years. I love the photo of you with the bus driving ast in the background!
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Oh you have made me leak, what a wonderful story - much like my own.
ReplyDeleteI love your photographs, you look absolutely wonderful, your dress is absolutely beautiful and suits you to a T. (I have never had that sort of figure)
Our wedding was arranged in six weeks, when we went around to tell Mum and Dad that we were engaged, my dad kept on reading the newspaper and wouldn't look at us and my mum said the immortal words "I'll believe it when I see it" Well just over six weeks on they did!!!
We are only just over half way through your forty years, but I know we will make it.
Congratulations to the both of you, I hope you have had a lovely day together and may there be many, many more years celebrating your wonderful marriage together.
Oh what a lovely post! Congratulations to you. That's the best way to go about it, I think. Hope you are enjoying your holiday! Ros
ReplyDeleteMany congratulations to you and Mr FF, Jenny! Hope you have had a lovely day, and wishing you many more happy years together. Wonderful photos - what a great dress!! Hope you are having a good time in Italy. xx
ReplyDeleteYou haven't changed a bit - well, not all that much. Hope you're having a good time and that today was extra special fun, with no time spent fitting boilers etc.
ReplyDeleteSunshine here - market went well, but not as many people, which was quite a relief.
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CONGRATULATIONS, Jenny & Mr FF! 40 Years is a terrific milestone. Just LOVE all there photos--thank you for sharing. LOVE your minidress! Dear Husband's parents have their 50th anniversary party this weekend. Hubby and I had a very small wedding, no fuss, but lovely honeymoon trip to London--it was wonderful! Hope you are having lovely days in Italy! I'm sorry not to have been around much... my Dad has been unwell recently, and I've not been online as much--some tough days just now. Happy Summer ((HUGS))
ReplyDeleteHow young do you look!!! and what stunning legs! I love weddings like yours. I hate big flashy doo's. Heres to the next 40 years!! xxxxx
ReplyDeletecongratulations!!! Not many marriages last that long these days. Yowza! I'll bet you ladies had to be careful bending over in those short dresses, lest everyone got a shot of your lady-bits.
ReplyDeleteHappy anniversary!!!! Your wedding sounds a lot like ours, even down to the venue (though when we got married it had moved to a new building). The mister here went to that same college, too.
ReplyDeleteAuguri! 40 years...that is just so wonderful to read about. You both look so precious in the photos!!! (and I'm glad the parents came 'round!)
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! And I love that mini dress!
ReplyDeleteWe got married in 1960 - and those fashions weren't even a twinkle in the designers eyes! We both look very conventional! (Though I did wear a red dress to the Register Office ;)
How wonderful - 40 years! And you haven't really changed that much at all. What wonderful photos and a lovely post.
ReplyDeleteI hope you both enjoy your Italian celebrations and have many more happy years together.
With much love,
Little Miss Sunshine xx
Happy Anniversary.
ReplyDeleteI loved looking at ur special memories, you looked so young, and Happy.
Hope ur enjoying ur holiday.
Tracey
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. Congratulations! I did exactly the same thing in 1974! Also arranged my wedding in three weeks against my parents' wishes. My marriage didn't last as long as yours, but looking back I would NOT change a thing. It's all part of life's rich tapestry....
ReplyDeleteOMG, congratulations so much to the both of you, you look so lovely and so blissfully happy in the photos!
ReplyDeleteI was out yesterday celebrating my one month anniversary with my new boyfriend.. I look at those photos and it gives me hope that the feeling that some things are forever are not just a flash in the pan.
I wish you another 40 years of being together :DDD
What wonderful photos! Glad the family came round in the end. Hope the next 40 are worth blogging about too! Hope you're having a smashing time in Italy with suitable flip flop wearing weather too, it's been 35C here in Michigan and I'm looking a little crispy around the edges after a four day camping weekend over American Independence Day. Looking forward to reading the details of your travels (or travails perhaps?!) when you get back.
ReplyDeleteThe first time I've stopped by your blog...and I felt like I was looking at my own family album! Too funny, with so much world between us. I guess even back then we were all more connected than we thought. I was married in 1972, and the "fashion faux pas" that was my wedding is something I just wrote about in todays post on my blog! Goodness, how time flies!
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