Saturday, May 4, 2019

A silver anniversary

Our wedding, May 5, 1994
Tomorrow will be our twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, after having gotten married in freefall a quarter of a century ago! I met my guy through skydiving, so it's not all that unusual to think of marrying each other in freefall, not to me at least.

We declared on our marriage certificate that we would be married on 5/5 when we passed through 5,000 feet above Loveland, Colorado. Our Best Man was the videographer. This is the exact moment. We had already passed the Baton of Commitment back and forth to each other (in his left hand). I was wearing my brand-new jumpsuit with rainbow grippers for the first time. It ended up being worn many, many more times. After I had become an instructor, it would be the suit I would use for small female students, so it got a lot of use. Sometimes another instructor would ask if he could borrow "the wedding dress" for a student, as well.

Anyway, something worked: we are happier together today than we were when we took the leap. Since we were both in our fifties when we married, we are not likely to make it to gold, and we have no regrets, with many happy years behind us, and hopefully many more ahead.
:-)

25 comments:

  1. Happy anniversary. You have much to celebrate and cherish.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Happy anniversary you two. What a wonderful way to tie the knot or pass the baton! So representative of you both. Love it. Have a great day!

    ReplyDelete
  3. A very happy anniversary to you both. And heres to many more love filled years.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Happy Anniversary to a wonderful couple!

    ReplyDelete
  5. Happy Anniversary!! Sending much love your way.

    ReplyDelete
  6. Happy anniversary to an awesome couple! (I'm now trying to do a comment on my laptop instead of my ipad. Let's see if this works.)

    ReplyDelete
  7. Aha! So it was doing the comment on my ipad that was somehow causing a problem. Sigh...

    ReplyDelete
  8. Happy Anniversary, that's a wonderful story.

    ReplyDelete
  9. Congratulations and happy anniversary! You two have a wonderful story.

    ReplyDelete
  10. Hi DJan, Wow, this is so cool. Happy Anniversary to you and Smart Guy! Like Linda said above, you two have a wonderful story! Take care! John

    ReplyDelete
  11. Wonderful wedding story. That's probably the most unique one I've ever heard. Best wishes for many more years together.

    ReplyDelete
  12. Happy anniversary! You can look forward to many more anniversaries.

    ReplyDelete
  13. Now that's what I call a quickie wedding ... congrats!

    ReplyDelete
  14. Happy Anniversary and many many more happy years together! :)

    ReplyDelete
  15. What a great wedding story! Happy anniversary!

    ReplyDelete
  16. Congratulations, DJan. I read your other blog and thank you for it, too.

    ReplyDelete
  17. LOVE this!
    Happy anniversary and may you have many more happy years together! :)

    ReplyDelete
  18. What a wonderful pic! Love it! Happy 25th Anniversary!

    ReplyDelete
  19. A very different way of getting married!

    ReplyDelete
  20. Wow! A truly Sagittarius way to get married!

    ReplyDelete
  21. congratulations! (and p.s., I'm back to blogging at my old blogger site: https://agentlebreeeze.blogspot.com/ )

    ReplyDelete
  22. Love the photo....Happy Anniversary and many more!
    Phyllis

    ReplyDelete
  23. This is a beautiful story with a happily ever after! A leap of love & faith in marriage. I like that a lot. AND I know Loveland like the back of my hand!

    Congrats you two!

    ReplyDelete
  24. Our anniversary is tomorrow. We certainly can't top your high flying feat! You and your guy and are one of a kind. Happy Anniversary! Thanks for being such a great blogging friend.

    ReplyDelete

I really appreciate your comments! If you see a word verification box here, just ignore it. I don't use the darn thing and Blogger is trying to get us to use it, I guess. Ignore it and your comment will still appear.