Final post

Final Golden Wedding blog post.


Back in 2020 Bill started this blog for his and Val’s Golden Wedding. They planned to do, and document, fifty things to celebrate throughout 2020. Although COVID was on the horizon at the beginning of that year they did manage a few thing at the start but then celebrations came to a halt. They managed to get their family and a few friends into their garden on the day but all the other celebrations, such as the Florida trip, didn’t happen. Like many they just had to soldier on. 2020 came and went and so much never happened. Val and Bill felt that it was still their 50th anniversary until it became their 51st so they decided that as 4th July 2121 was their 51st then if they arranged to have a small reception on the 3rd July they were still in their Golden Wedding year which was extended to eighteen months. Even with the extension a get together was touch and go but it happened. 

Many of the trips they’d planned are still booked and hopefully they’ll take them albeit not until 2022. Sure they’ll be just as fantastic but somehow it won’t be the same.

Photographed are Bill and Val with their family on Witney‘s Church Green and the flowers they received for their 50 years 364 day anniversary.







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