Marriage Makes You Live Longer
The secret to a long healthy life is marriage.
According to new figures, men who lose their lifelong partner often die soon afterwards.
The figures reveal that widowers over 85 have the highest rate of death per 1000 (191.6), while married men in the same age group have a death rate of only 140.3 per 1000.
It seems longevity and marriage are directly linked and that marriage is good for your health.
The figures suggested that married people have lower death rates and live longer because they are more likely to look out for each other’s health, serve as role models to children and engage in less risky behaviour.
Couple Have A Flying Start To Married Life
A daring couple held their wedding on top of the wings of three aircraft flying at 1,000ft.
The groom, Darren McWalters, 24, stood on the top wing of a plane while his bride, Katie Hodgson, 23, flew alongside on the wing of an identical aircraft in her bridal gown.
The Rev George Bringham flew ahead on the wing of a third aircraft and performed the wedding ceremony over an airborne communications system.
The ceremony was played through loudspeakers throughout RFC Rendcomb airfield Gloucestershire, to the congregation on the ground below.
Chinese Couples Hope For A lucky Wedding
Thousands of Chinese couples plan to get married on the opening day of the Beijing Olympics.
August 8 is an auspicious date on the Chinese calendar.
At least 15,000 couples will get married in the Olympic city on Friday, which coincides with the opening ceremony of the Games.
Wang Zhemeng and his fiance have booked their marriage for the date and he says in Chinese culture the number ‘eight’ is very significant.
In the past, the number eight wasn’t popular, but now it means luck.
From the 1980s, it began to represent becoming rich and now the number 8 is very popular.
Thousands of pregnant Chinese women are also hoping to give birth on August 8, to bring luck to their child.
Marriage Proposal Couple Rescued
Two lovers were rescued as they drifted out to sea following a romantic marriage proposal in a dinghy.
Colin Howell, 35, enjoyed a champagne picnic with his girlfriend, Miriam Light, 26, before setting out from Cromer in Norfolk to pop the question.
The alarm was raised on Friday night after onlookers from Cromer Pier saw the boat more than a mile from the beach in windy conditions.
The couple, dressed in full evening wear, were rescued by a fishing boat.
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Ex Robs Couple During Wedding
Julie and Neil Lewis were celebrating their wedding day at the New House Country Hotel in Cardiff when their daughter’s ex boyfriend who was at one time expected to be one of the top-table guests, broke in to their house
Hours earlier he had sent Julie, 36, a cheeky text wishing her the best.
Julie and Neil had to abandon their honeymoon and leave 30 overnight wedding guests behind at their hotel when they heard the home they share with their three year old son Alexander and Julie’s two daughters, Jodie, 19, and Bridy, 16, had been trashed and their savings, valuables and a precious charm bracelet taken.
The second shock came when they discovered the person responsible was Robbins of Cardiff, who was Jodie’s ex boyfriend.
At Cardiff Crown Court Robbins, 22, admitted stealing £14,000 from their home with accomplices.
He was jailed on Friday for two years .
But the sentence will be served alongside a four year term he was given a few weeks ago for a drug offence, meaning he will serve no extra time behind bars.
Brides Losses Cancer Battle Nineteen Days After Her Wedding
TRIBUTES have been paid to a bride who died 19 days after she got married in the chapel at Winchester hospital.
Abby Gresham-Burchell, 43, wed her partner of seven years, Thomas John, at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital on July 8.
She Past away last Sunday following a four year fight with cancer.
The couple, who have a five year old daughter had planned to marry at her parish church near Alton, but the ceremony was cancelled because Abby was too ill.
When her condition deteriorated, NHS staff joined together with family and friends to organise a whirlwind wedding so the couple could fulfil their wish to wed before cancer claimed her life.
It was the first wedding ever held in the hospital chapel.
Before her death, Abby told of how her Christian faith had given her strength to cope with her illness.
She was also confirmed in the hospital chapel on her wedding day by the Bishop of Basingstoke, the Rt Rev Trevor Willmott.
Abby requested any donations be sent to the Royal Hampshire County Hospital.
Our thought and prayers are with Abby’s family.
Couples Rush To Marry On 08/08/08
Many Brunei couples are battling against time to tie the knot on the auspicious Aug 8th 2008, less than two weeks from today the much awaited date reads 08.08.08. This is the so called luckiest day of the century.
Lots of young couples have been waiting for the triple eight date that supposedly reads prosperity in numeric language.
Some members of public believe that the day symbolised luck and prosperity and it was important since it was hundred years ago that such date last occurred.
A groom-to-be said “What better day to have a wedding? The date is special and the day is easy to remember,” he said. “We,ve planned our big day for this date about a year ago after being engaged for several years”.
Groom Stabbed At Wedding Reception
A groom who was stabbed along with his best man at a wedding party in the garden of an East Sussex home has said knife crime is “not just in London”.
Joe Pattenden Hunt spoke after being attacked on Saturday evening at the reception in Crowborough held a month after his wedding to his lovely bride Laura in June.
The pair were attacked after a group of gatecrashers disrupted the party.
A 23 year old man has been charged with two counts of GBH.
Mr Pattenden Hunt said I’ve lived here in this lovely country location for 27 years and always felt very lucky and fortunate for being here and then something like this happens.
Police said the incident was rare.
Ninety Year Old Finally Gets A White Wedding
NINETY YEAR OLD Mamerta Cabale finally got to walk down the aisle in a flowing white wedding gown and veil yesterday after 75 years of marriage to her 102year old husband, Sabas Cabale.
The couple were married in a civil ceremony in the Philippines in 1933 after Mamerta a then 14 year old convent school girl eloped with Sabas a dashing chauffeur.
The couple has 10 children and went to live in Australia 25 years ago where their daughter cares for them.
Mamerta said she had always wanted to be married in a church and it has been a wonderful day.
Heaviest Man Vows To Walk Down Aisle
THE world’s heaviest man is hoping to slim down enough to walk his bride down the aisle.
Manuel Uribe, who lives in Mexico, once weighed a half tonne but has dropped to about 320kg.
From his bed, where he has lived for six years, Mr Uribe said more than two years of steady dieting had helped him drop about 250kg from his Guinness record weight of 560kg.
He was waiting to hear whether The Guinness book of records will confirm his second title the world’s greatest weight loss.