August 14, 1975.....

[Dana Grant]

My first date with Bert.......

He remembered it yesterday -- and brought home 14 beautiful roses.

Now, ain't that sweet?

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[Cecil Wallace]

That was very neato.
Now, if I could just remember the exact date of our first date....
Hmmmm.. I'm not into ancient history.:basic05
My first date with Bert.......
He remember it yesterday -- and brought home 14 beautiful roses.
Now, ain't that sweet?

[Dana Grant]

That was very neato.
Now, if I could just remember the exact date of our first date....
Hmmmm.. I'm not into ancient history.:basic05

We've always remembered it every year, so it has become sort of a tradition. We don't always "celebrate" the date, but we always mention it. This was a sweet surprise, though.

[Hans Deventer]

My first date with Bert.......

He remember it yesterday -- and brought home 14 beautiful roses.

Now, ain't that sweet?


Very sweet indeed! We don't have a "first date", it's quite story. But I should be able to figure out on what day in June 1978 I first met Hannie. I do remember the place!

[Doris Grant]

Awwwww, why didn't his brother inherit that romantic gene? Bert is one of a kind.

Doris

[Anne and Dwayne Hood]

That was so sweet. Isn't it nice to have a romantic minded husband?
Dwayne and I met July 2, 1958.

[Joel Merrill]

I don't remember the exact date of our first date. Of course I didn't know I was going to marry her then. But it was in the summer of 1975 that I took her on a picnic at a local lake. We weren't very serious at first and we dated other people too. Then it was July 4th 1976, 30 years ago, that I took her to meet my folks. The following Christmas I asked her to marry me and we got married March 20, 1977.

Joel :fav18

[Dana Grant]

I don't remember the exact date of our first date. Of course I didn't know I was going to marry her then. But it was in the summer of 1975 that I took her on a picnic at a local lake. We weren't very serious at first and we dated other people too. Then it was July 4th 1976, 30 years ago, that I took her to meet my folks. The following Christmas I asked her to marry me and we got married March 20, 1977.

Joel :fav18

Yes, seems like several of us got "hitched" in 1977 -- it must have been a romantic year!!

When we became engaged, we wanted to get married on a Saturday, so we took the calendar for 1977 and found the first month where the 14th landed on a Saturday -- that's how we chose May 14th. Since our first date was August 14, we wanted to get married on the 14th.

Nice memories.

[Hans Deventer]

When we became engaged, we wanted to get married on a Saturday

We wanted to marry on a Thursday. I have to admit, the reason was that on a Friday or Saturday, people would hang around at the reception much longer. On a Thursday, they'd have to work the next day. :basic05

And indeed, by 10:45pm, we were able to go home, and we were tired enough as it was.

I'm not sure why we didn't choose another week day, but I think Thursday was as close to the weekend as possible, if you exclude the Friday. Of course we had the Friday off.

Come to think of it, when we got home, I somehow got something in my eye and it would not go. I can still see Hannie trying to pour some boiled and then cooled down water in my eye, still wearing her wedding gown! I think it took us more than half an hour before it finally left my eye. So much for romantic moments!

[Dana Grant]

We wanted to marry on a Thursday. I have to admit, the reason was that on a Friday or Saturday, people would hang around at the reception much longer. On a Thursday, they'd have to work the next day. :basic05

And indeed, by 10:45pm, we were able to go home, and we were tired enough as it was.

I'm not sure why we didn't choose another week day, but I think Thursday was as close to the weekend as possible, if you exclude the Friday. Of course we had the Friday off.

Come to think of it, when we got home, I somehow got something in my eye and it would not go. I can still see Hannie trying to pour some boiled and then cooled down water in my eye, still wearing her wedding gown! I think it took us more than half an hour before it finally left my eye. So much for romantic moments!

My funniest memory still makes me chuckle after all these years. I had an aunt who was about 300 pounds and about 5 feet tall. Well, it just so happened that one of her suitcases was exactly the same as mine. So, when someone packed our car for us to go on our honeymoon, they packed HER suitcase instead of mine.........

Well, imagine my horror when the first thing I pulled out of her suitcase was a 5-foot wide GIRDLE!!! (OK maybe it wasn't 5 feet wide, but it sure seemed like it at the time!!) HA HA HA HA HA Bert & I just laughed and laughed.....so we had to make a trip back to my parents' house the next day to switch suitcases.

[Jim Franklin]

Wife, Esther, and I met over a ping pong table while I was playing with Rich Benner, classmate and son of the late General Superintendent, Dr. Hugh Benner at the Student Union game room at NNC February 25, 1960. Our wedding was July 28, 1962. On the day you are referring to we were unpacking from our move from Bethany, OK to Luther, MT in a remote area near Red Lodge, MT just north of Yellowstone Park and most picturesque as we could look out of our front window at Granite Peak the highest point in the state. So as a resident of Luther for a year I was a "Lutheran/" but actually attended the Wesleyan Church in Joliet, MT which was only 35 miles away and about half as far as the church in Billings.

[Gina Stevenson]

Well, we had a reeeally long first date ... it started in one year and ran way over into the next year ..................... how's that for a looong date!? HA!

Actually, it probably wasn't any longer than a lot of first dates ... it's just that it spanned two years' time because it began 31 December 92 ................... :p

So, that date was an easily one to remember ... ;)

[Ann Smith]

We were married on May 14, 1960. I don't remember the date of our first date, but I remember where it was. It was at teen camp NWIL District on a Thursday night the summer between our Junior and Senior year in High School. It seems like it was in June of 1956. My daddy was pastoring Frankford, IN Southside.
I had gone back to Canton, IL to visit and the girls at church were leaving for camp the next day. They begged me to go with them. I called Daddy and he sent the money to Warren's pastor, who was camp director.
Ann