Morning all
Wedding anniversary today - 40 years.
Whodathunkit!
We lived together for 3 years before getting married. Not doing anything particularly to celebrate, but we're off out for lunch at a posh Thai restaurant.
We haven't done pressies and cards for anything between us for a good while now. It all seemed a bit ridiculous - I buy something she doesn't want as a surprise and she reciprocates. I did suggest that I might get her a nice card and flowers, but she told me not to waste my money. She's just an old romantic at heart. LOL.
We now just treat ourselves as we go along. Seems to work well for us.
On our wedding day, I took a half day off work (I was working as a self employed electrician) as I had a job to finish in the morning.
The wedding cost us about £6 for the licence and parents stumped up about £50 for nibbles and drinks afterwards.
We only had close family attending. I think there were about 10 of us altogether. We honeymooned at the Isle of Man TT races, which we went to every year anyway.
When I look at youngsters spending £20 - 30,000+ on their fairytale weddings and exotic honeymoons, only to hear of them divorcing a couple of years later, I despair.