Skins24 Posted June 1, 2005 Share Posted June 1, 2005 25th anniversary is silver 50th is gold What is your 80th? http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050601/ap_on_fe_st/britain_record_marriage_1 U.K. Couple Marks 80th Wedding Anniversary LONDON - A British husband and wife revealed the secrets of the longest marriage of any living couple on Wednesday as they celebrated their 80th wedding anniversary — don't sleep on an argument, always share a kiss and hold hands before going to bed. Percy Arrowsmith, 105, and his 100-year-old wife Florence, were married on June 1, 1925, after meeting at their local church in Hereford, western England, where he sang in the choir and she was a Sunday school teacher. Queen Elizabeth II sent her congratulations to the Arrowsmiths, who celebrated their anniversary Wednesday with coffee and nibbles at home with family and friends. "What a splendid achievement. I send you my warm congratulations and best wishes for your 80th wedding anniversary," the Queen wrote in a card to the couple. The Arrowsmiths, who have three children, six grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren, claim the key to their long marriage is not to go to sleep on an argument. They say they always kiss each other and hold hands each night before going to bed. "He can't settle down if I'm not holding his hand," Mrs. Arrowsmith was quoted as saying last month. The couple's daughter Jane Woolley said her parents were both "very perky." "She (Mrs. Arrowsmith) says she can't dance any longer but it feels good to have been married for 80 years. She says she can still have a drink," Woolley said. Guinness World Records said the pair held records for the longest marriage for a living couple and the oldest aggregate age of a married couple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halter91 Posted June 1, 2005 Share Posted June 1, 2005 damn, that is a long time. Christ, most people don't even live to 80 years old. Also, a real nice gesture by the Queen. Nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoony Posted June 1, 2005 Share Posted June 1, 2005 Wow... they even had a rock band named after them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiveStrongSkins Posted June 1, 2005 Share Posted June 1, 2005 Originally posted by zoony Wow... they even had a rock band named after them. Priceless :rotflmao: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonsofwashington Posted June 1, 2005 Share Posted June 1, 2005 Cmon, they fudged the documents. It's sooooooooooooooo obvious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMac Posted June 1, 2005 Share Posted June 1, 2005 Hopefully I will never in my life get divorced but am afraid that if I live that long my wife may kill me before we ever get close to 80 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TD_washingtonredskins Posted June 1, 2005 Share Posted June 1, 2005 Too bad their name is spelled wrong! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dchogs Posted June 1, 2005 Share Posted June 1, 2005 if my wife and i live to be 102, we'll get em by a year. we're gunnin for steven tyler and joe perry now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Washington Posted June 1, 2005 Share Posted June 1, 2005 i wonder if she still ask him to divulge his feeling on mundane subjects :doh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prophet Posted June 1, 2005 Share Posted June 1, 2005 Originally posted by dchogs if my wife and i live to be 102, we'll get em by a year. we're gunnin for steven tyler and joe perry now! my wife will be 97, and i'll be 100 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Punani2 Posted June 2, 2005 Share Posted June 2, 2005 The couple's daughter Jane Woolley said her parents were both "very perky." you know what that means...:puke: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted June 2, 2005 Share Posted June 2, 2005 Originally posted by Skins24 25th anniversary is silver 50th is gold What is your 80th? Well all the lists I found only go up to 60th and say that 60th is diamond (I always thought 75th was diamond). Anyway, I'm guessing 80th is a granite headstone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrangeSkin Posted June 2, 2005 Share Posted June 2, 2005 My wife and I are planning to be the first couple to make it to our 100 year anniversary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riggo-toni Posted June 2, 2005 Share Posted June 2, 2005 My grandparents had a 70th before they passed away. When my grandmother died, she already had 100 descendants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dchogs Posted June 2, 2005 Share Posted June 2, 2005 Originally posted by prophet my wife will be 97, and i'll be 100 show off. btw...congrats on your 10th. only 70 more to go to tie the record. :doh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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