Marriage Goals: English Couple Celebrate 70 Year Wedding Anniversary

English couple, Dolly, 89 and Stan Izatt, 91 grew up living opposite each other. The neighbours kicked of their romance very young and  eventually tied the knot at 19 and 21 years respectively.

Dolly, admits that while their love story might seem like a fairy tale, it wasn’t the case. She said:

“When I first met Stan, I fancied his friend. I didn’t fancy him at all, but within a couple of weeks he was telling everybody he was going to marry me, don’t ask me why.

I mean then I was fifteen, straight hair, never wore makeup, but everywhere I went he followed me, on his bike. I’ve gone in a shop and bought something to avoid him but there we are, he persevered and wore me down”

Dolly’s favourite flowers are red carnations, which she had in her wedding bouquet, and each significant anniversary Stan, makes sure she receives another bouquet with one carnation for every year.

Now 89 and 91 years old they have looked back on a memorable seven decades of marriage, blessed with 3 children, five grandchildren and 8 great grand children.

They couple were also proud and delighted to receive a card from Her Majesty the Queen, who congratulated them on their impressively long marriage.

Regarding how they manage to stay married for so long, Dolly said:

“When our grandson got married in May, Stan decided he would give him the benefit of his advice. He said to him in marriage you need love, you need trust and you need a lot of bleeding patience. And for once I agree with him and that doesn’t happen very often.”

Photo Credit: Greg Martin