Today is Sophie and my 40th wedding anniversary. I made my mind up when I was ten that I was going to marry her and did when I was twenty. That gal deserves a medal!
I'm sure to her, that forty years has gone by like ten minutes...
...under water!
Posted by Susan Banasky (Member # 1164) on :
Congrats David to you and Sophie. What brand of snorkel does she use? (ha ha)
Posted by David Harding (Member # 108) on :
The Long Suffering brand.
Posted by Sam Staffan (Member # 4552) on :
Congrats David to you both and best wishes for many more to follow.
Posted by Jean Shimp (Member # 198) on :
Congratulations.
Posted by Dave Grundy (Member # 103) on :
LOL David...Shirl uses the same brand of snorkel!!
Congratulations...I am sure that your sense of humor keeps Sophie from breathing deeply underwater though!!!
Posted by Duncan Wilkie (Member # 132) on :
Wow, nice work David!
Posted by Si Allen (Member # 420) on :
The Italian's Secret to a Long Marriage
At St. Peter's Catholic Church in Toronto , they have weekly husband's marriage seminars.
At the session last week, the priest asked Giuseppe, who said he was approaching his 50th wedding anniversary, to take a few minutes and share some insight into how he had managed to stay married to the same woman all these years.
Giuseppe replied to the assembled husbands, 'Wella, I'va tried to treat her nicea, spenda da money on her, but besta of all is, I tooka her to Italy for the 25th anniversary!'
The priest responded, 'Giuseppe, you are an amazing inspiration to all the husbands here! Please tell us what you are planning for your wife for your 50th anniversary?'
Giuseppe proudly replied, " I gonna go pick her up."
Posted by Catharine C. Kennedy (Member # 4459) on :
Terriffic!
Posted by Don Hulsey (Member # 128) on :
Congratulations David and Sophie!!!
You got headstart on us. Dora and I will be 40 next June.
Posted by Raymond Chapman (Member # 361) on :
Great news! Congratulations. In today's culture you show what it means to love.
Posted by Rick Sacks (Member # 379) on :
Congratulations! Someday there might be something like a letterhead meet for those of us that have been with the same partner celebrating forty or more years married and in the sign business. Glad you have a tough lady.
Posted by Raymond Chapman (Member # 361) on :
Rick, that would be a unique group, for sure. Wives of sign guys have to be a tough class of folks, and I guess, very loving.
The same is true for the husbands of those gals that chose this profession.
Posted by David Harding (Member # 108) on :
I've heard that a successful marriage is the union of two good forgivers. My older sister, who just had her 39th anniversary, said in any marriage, there's always a little "hanging in there" time on both sides. One of the reasons marriages fail is that they don't try to hang in there through the stressful times--they just give up. I guess being married to someone in the sign business gives plenty of "hanging in there" practice...
[ October 05, 2012, 11:17 AM: Message edited by: David Harding ]
Posted by Bob Kaschak (Member # 3146) on :
Congratulations Dave!
Posted by Jay Allen (Member # 195) on :
David . . . my most sincere congratulations on your anniversary!!
I picked poorly the first time around I got married . . . but I sure got it right the second time. I'll just be 80 years old when I hit my 40th!!
Yikes!!
Posted by Sean G. Starr (Member # 1549) on :
Congrats Dave, that is awesome...
Posted by Bob Peach (Member # 2620) on :
Congratulations Dave & Sophie!!!
Posted by bill riedel (Member # 607) on :
Keep up the good work.
Posted by Deri Russell (Member # 119) on :
Congratulations!
Posted by James Donahue (Member # 3624) on :
Rick Sacks: "Congratulations! Someday there might be something like a letterhead meet for those of us that have been with the same partner celebrating forty or more years married and in the sign business. Glad you have a tough lady." ____________________________
Ouch, but true. Congratulations.
Posted by Kelly Thorson (Member # 2958) on :
Congratulations Dave and Sofie. Well done!
Posted by Rusty Bradley (Member # 6938) on :
Being married to David I'm sure she has laughed alot over the forty years...I know I have laughed alot at his clever and humorous remarks here in Letterville...and a sense of humor can be a tremendous asset in a relationship...Congratulations.
Posted by Raymond Chapman (Member # 361) on :
Rusty - not all wives have a sense of humor. Sometime, I will tell you how I know that.
Posted by Rick Beisiegel (Member # 3723) on :
Congratulations to David & Sophie!
Keep up the good work. You are an inspiration to us "young folks"
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