[Margaret Pilkington]

Himself has asked me many times over the years, to get married in church...the big flash do that we didn't have at the time.
Each time I have refused. I have told him it just isn't my thing.....I never wanted the big event, the fancy meringue frock and flowers.....I just wanted to get hitched to my man.

A big flash do doesn't ensure that you stay together, or that you will be happier....and I have always been able to think of so many thing that I could do with the money it would cost....so not really a romantic...but a realist.
If we both survive(I take nothing for granted) until October next year we will have been married for half a century.