Forty-nine years ago today, I got married in Philadelphia. The reception was held at Sunken Gardens, which disappeared soon after that after half a century of existence. The nice thing about SG was that they had an in-house band so you didn't have to hire one. Not a day has passed when I didn't thank my lucky stars that I married Phil.
Sorry not to have a pic of Phil and me but I can't put my hands on it right now. Thanks for 49 good years, Phil.
Congratulations to both of you!
ReplyDeleteHappy anniversary!
ReplyDeleteHappy Anniversary and many more. So you were just 19? Well, that has certainly worked out!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! I feel like such a piker--my husband and I will be celebrating our 27th next month. Meanwhile, in June, we'll be celebrating my parents' 60th anniversary.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on both, Deb. My in-laws made it 56 years. My parents had a 65th Anniversary party three months before my mother died. We're at 45 and counting.
ReplyDeleteHappy Anniversary, Patti and Phil! Here's to Golden Jubilee and more!
ReplyDeleteMany congrats!! Sounds like a great wedding and even better marriage, which is how it should be.
ReplyDeleteCongrats to you both. Hope your day is special.
ReplyDeleteHappy anniversary. Nearly 50 years, how wonderful. I am sure I said this last year, but my wedding anniversary was January 19th and it has been 36 years (2nd marriage, and I am glad this one is going so well).
ReplyDeleteHappy Anniversary!
ReplyDeleteThanks all. And glad for your great marriages too.
ReplyDeleteWow, we'll have to do something Special for next year's 50th Anniversary! Congratulations to you and Phil!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! Your post almost makes me wish I had married Phil too! (But then, I'm very happy with the girl I maarried.)
ReplyDeleteBTW, I checked on the internet. Evidently the 49th anniversary calls for "luxury gifts." (I would have thought Ben-Gay.)
and as I am doing the edits on novel 2, i could really use it. Does it work?
ReplyDeleteCongratulations, Patti. You are both very lucky people.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Ed. And don't I know it.
ReplyDeleteCongrats!
ReplyDeleteCongrats, you crazy kids.
ReplyDeleteFurther congratulations! How important was having the wedding in the church to you at the time, or to your parents?
ReplyDeleteAlice and my father are both recommenders of Ben-Gay...I've tended, with usually lesser pain, to plump for Icy Hot. This year, for that matter, marks twenty almost continuous years of cohab with Alice.
I've just picked up Otto Friedrich's DECLINE AND FALL, to harken to another, far lesser milestone for you back about when, your first gig in a messily drowning mega-corp. Did you ever read it?
Mazel tov!
ReplyDeleteIt never occurred to us not to get married in a church. I grew up in a church and proceeded to never belong to one again.
ReplyDeleteI loved his CITY OF NETS.
20 years of living together. Kind of amazing.
Belated congratulations Patti (and Phil). Planning anything big for next year?
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