DIANNE Price remembers the day she married her husband Greg as if it were yesterday.
“I can actually close my eyes and remember the whole day,” Mrs Price said.
“Everytime we have been to a wedding since, in my head I’m reciting our wedding vows as well.”
The couple wed 50 years ago at St Agatha’s Church, Clayfield and their golden wedding anniversary is this weekend.
They will join many other couples honouring the occasion at the Golden Wedding Anniversary Mass at St Stephen’s Cathedral on Saturday, September 28.
Mrs Price remembered how she and Greg just could not wait to get married.
“I remember we went to the practice on the Thursday night and I said to the priest, ‘can we just do it now and forget about Saturday?’” she said.
She said the feeling was mutual, and that on the wedding day as she walked into St Agatha’s she found out Greg had arrived an hour early in anticipation.
Mrs Price said the wedding was full of family and friends, with some aunties and uncles she had not seen for a while.
“When we were actually pronounced husband and wife, I turned around to face everybody and the whole church was crying,” she said.
“I had to sort of suck it up for a couple of seconds because it was really moving, it is something that really sticks with you.”
She said that through 50 years of marriage there would always be good and bad times.
“But when the bad times come, that is when you hold on tight and you go for the ride and eventually it all comes good again,” she said.
“And you will look back, and the good always outweighs any difficulties.”
The couple have two children and three grandchildren, who she says are “the icing on the cake”.
“You won’t expect the feeling that you get, holding that child for the very first time and just looking at them,” she said.
The two now reside on the Sunshine Coast and are excited to mark the occasion at St Stephen’s Cathedral.
Mrs Price’s younger brother is Cathedral Dean Fr Anthony Mellor, something she says makes the celebration so special.
Fr Mellor was only seven when the two were married, and would eventually become parish priest at St Agatha’s, something his older sister said makes her wedding day just that extra bit more memorable.
