• life and love are sometimes compared to a garden: you have to keep working at them or the weeds begin to crowd out the flowers. "(52)
• Anything worth doing required planning and effort and a bit of determination. (6)
• but if you are living together, no matter what you call it you are married. you are just not as married as if you were formally married, that's all. (18)

"when the honeymoon is over, life becomes real".

50th wedding anniversary

1978 Ledora & William Smaller
50th Wedding Anniversary
William Smaller died about Jan 1980

John Kennedy and Mary Richards
on their 50th wedding anniversary

June 1965 Wesley Clay Halbert and Cora Ethel Clark 

50th Wedding Anniversary 

1917-1967

in my head we are already married

old love

"Even when we’re all old and wrinkly with hair growing in the strangest places, I’d still flirt with you, calling you ‘gorgeous’ and ‘babe’. And I hope you’d be okay with that." 

http://tomyfuturebride.tumblr.com/post/1109863508/even-when-were-all-old-and-wrinkly-with-hair

I secretly believe that our relationship is better than everyone elses