THE STORY

I was sitting in my Motueka office, with my head down planning an event, when a man called Dave, bounded into my office, with a bike helmet lost among his head of hair, soon after followed by Jane, looking all puffed out and bedraggled. In a very loud broad playmouthian voice Dave said “Ere, I hear that you can marry us?” we sat over a cup of hot tea as they started to unravel their back story full of nooks and crannies, trials and tribulation, when several coincidences started to emerge. Firstly we all discovered we had a history on Dartmoor National Park in Devon and more precisiely Plymouth in the South West of England and it tied us in an unbreakable bond from that moment. The next significant sinergy was when they announced the date they planned to be married was on the 23rd April 2014 the same day they first met in 1954, exactly 60 year after they first met as five year olds, it also happened to be my wedding anniversary too. (I had married my husband Jim in 1994 on Dartmoor where they first met and Dave and Jane were now, to get married in 2014 in Motueka, New Zealand where we had all settled.

They are a wonderfully colourful couple, full of great insight and they have lived their time together to make up for all the lost time there we’re not.

Jane wrote a lovely poem in reccognition of the day and Dave kindly read it out on my local radio show, please follow the links to the radio show or continue reading

Photo credits: Wingitnz

Terri