Tis’ 50 years since we tied the knot.
Today would have been our Golden Wedding….and we would have celebrated in style – what a day, week or month it would have been!
Alas, poor darling, it was not to be and you were so cruelly taken from us and this life far too soon and left an enormous vacuum behind because you were someone whom we loved so very deeply and none of us could replace.
I remember so vividly that hot July day in 1966 when we stood and then knelt side by side at the altar while the vicar blessed our marriage and said “Those who God has joined together let no man put asunder”. We were so very young and I felt then that our marriage was going to last forever but no one could have foreseen what was going to happen in July 2014.
I walked you so proudly down the aisle this day fifty years ago – you looked so radiant and happy – and I felt the luckiest man alive to have you as my wife. We had a happy, contented, good and loving marriage; we had four wonderful children together and then seven lovely grandchildren including little Agnes who you have never seen and Amelia, who you knew only very, very briefly. You made me so, so, happy and you were my best friend always from the day we became sweethearts in 1963.
I miss you so much, my darling, and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for allowing me to share your life. My love for you is, and has always been, undying and I shall be with you in spirit forever. Perhaps, we will meet again, who knows, but you were such a kind, soft and special person for me and our family that I sincerely hope it will be so.
Your ever-loving husband
Ron
xxxxxx
This candle was first lit on the 2nd of July 2016 and will burn for 92 years 1 month and 13 days.