We Celebrated our Second Marriage….To Each Other
Nancy and Terry, together again
January 4, 2012
by Nancy Chamberlain-Fox
He was my high-school sweetheart, my first husband for only five years and now, almost three decades later, my groom once again. After 27 long years apart, we were taking our first cruise together, a second-chance honeymoon. We were in our 50s, celebrating a renewed commitment to each other.
Terry and I boarded Star Princess bound for the Eastern Caribbean, excited, this time, to truly start our lives together. On the first night we arrived at our assigned table for dinner, a little apprehensive about who we were about to meet.
We found already seated there an older couple in their 70s along with a much younger one in their 20s. I wondered about the age range and our compatibility, as one couple could have been our parents and the other our children. After chatting for just a few minutes, we were startled to discover that we all shared the wedding date of October 18th. The older couple was on a 50th anniversary cruise and the younger couple, like us, had just gotten married. We felt like three generations of the same family, so the stories started to flow easily and comfortably. Terry and I didn’t hesitate to share our story of first love followed by our tale of love the second time around.
We were so young when we first married in 1963. I was only 18 and he was 20. Within a few years Terry was called to service in Vietnam and after two tours of duty, only months apart, he returned feeling the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Back then, we didn’t know what it was or how to treat it, and the era of marriage therapy wouldn’t come until later in the 1970s. So without the skills, we parted ways and decided that I should raise our daughter, Janean.
Over the years, as Terry worked to overcome the effects of PTSD, he chose to not be a part of our lives. But ironically, we were living parallel lives, remarrying, having children, divorcing and living alone for roughly the same periods of time. It took Janean making us grandparents to put us in the same room and in one another’s lives again.
And what joy! Within months we were engaged and we decided to marry on the same day as our first marriage, October 18th, 1996 – both times falling on a Friday.
Our story enthralled our tablemates and brought the “you should be on “Oprah” comments we later got used to hearing. We felt it was almost too personal for so many eyes. But with our tablemates and newfound friends, with whom we shared such a special date, our story came tumbling out.
How we came to be seated together, I’ll never know. But I suspect that the Princess ”table-assignment fairy” had taken note and placed us together. Now, 14 cruises later we are still celebrating love the second time around, marking each passing anniversary with a Princess cruise.
Nancy resides in Trabuco Canyon, Calif. and has enjoyed 14 Princess cruises with Terry.
Nancy, thank you for sharing your reason to cruise. What a great story and certainly inspirational!
What a great story. It gave me goose bumps… that is a good thing! Beautiful, now you can share that beautiful grandchild! Children bond us together for life!
Yes, Valarie, our grandson is now 16 years old, and we remind him often of how special he is because God used him to bring us together again. = )
Thank you for sharing your story….it truly has a beautiful ending….or beginning would be a better choice of words. You inspired me to write our story as well which began in our late teens. Enjoy each others company everyday.
Thank you Lily, and I am so glad you are now writing your story also. Seeing it on paper also gives one a new appreciation for what we have been given. Every day we have together is a blessing, and we will both remember that always.
Great, inspirational story. Dorothy and I will be going on the Crown Princess Jan. 14. It will be our 20th cruise on your line. Always had a great time on your class line. (It rhymes!) Plan to include the entire family on our 60th anniversary in 2013 (just like we did in 2003).
what an absolute beautiful story… It gave me goosebumps
… good luck to you both, and many more happy years sailing together ..x
This is a beautiful story. One I hope will also happen to me. Love never dies and hope and prayers can move mountains.
thanking you for sharing a great story, soul mates forever
Beautiful – I can only hope that our son and his wife who are in the process of divorcing can reconcile some time in the future and find the true happiness and contentment you have achieved
I LOVE your story! When we are young and say our vows, we don’t know what they really mean. I love that you found each other again, and are living up to your vows, a good example to your grandchildren…
Thank you Terry & Nancy for sharing your lovely story……My husband & I have just had our 1st cruise with Princess and loved every second of it.We are off on our 2nd cruise in February and cant wait.We love cruising and meeting so many wonderful people.
The Passengers Services Act of 1886 is commonly known as the Jones Act. It is an anqeiuattd law that should be repealed for the benefit of U.S cruisers and the cruise industry.I have traveled several times on repositioning cruises where a ship relocates across the Atlantic or Pacific. These are my favorite types of cruises as they include several days at sea, giving me time to enjoy the ship itself. And, they are usually 2 for 1′s.
Thank you for sharing. It’s wonderful that you found each other again. We also got married on Oct. 18 but in 1969. Funny huh?
Valerie, Your story made me believe in love again…with so much stress in our everyday life, we forget the simple pleasure of loving someone and having that love in return is the greatest gift of all. My question is to Terry……how can I convince my husband Bob that there are things for ‘blokes’ to do on a cruise please? I think it would help us to rekindle a lot of what we have lost but he always says>>>’There’s nothing for blokes to do!”
Oh my gosh, there is so much to do. Has he ever looked at a Princess Patter for any day of any cruise. There is just no way a person could begin to do everything the enjoy. Also, the shore excursions are wonderful! Check on a 7 day cruise and see how many ports you will visit and all the things that are offered in shore excursions. For us, cruises provide a change for new sights and new adventures, and on the days at sea if we not take part in one of the many activities it gives us a time to relax, read a book, go to the movies, play some bingo, gamble in the casino (I love the penny slots…and they pay really well), go to great lectures, get a massage, and of course, partake of the amazing food in the Horizon Court. I cannot imagine he would not enjoy himself. He really needs to give it a try.
It is also great for rekindling a relationship. When we are on a cruise, we are both continually smiling, so that tells you something about how much enjoyment it brings to both of us.
Wow…very inspirnational. God bless us all.
It is good to see Love no matter who it happens. I love to read the real love stories. My husband and I wanted to spend our 20th on a cruise. Unfortunate I had a stroke the year before (My 42nd birthday.) No matter…We are still here so we are doing it this year for our 22nd Anniversary!
What a wonderful story!!! We have been on two Princess cruises—one to Alaska, and one to the Caribbean. My husband is not a big traveller and he likes the fact, that you fly to your destination, get on the ship and stay there—no car travelling from place to place, packing and unpacking all the time at hotels. Of course you have the option of seeing the destinations you dock at or just enjoy the cruise experience. Great way to get him to travel!!!
Kathy Dowsett
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Cruising is without a doubt the best way to travel. Everything in one place, and such luxury! Terry and I love that during the cruise we never have to really think about what to do. There is so much available at any hour of the day (or night) and the best part is that we paid for almost all of it in advance. So nice not to have BIG bills waiting for us when we get home. If you like Hawaii, and being on the ocean, The 14-day Hawaii cruise is marvelous! We usually go over Thanksgiving or right before or after Christmas, and the fares are amazing at that time of year. The most relaxing thing I have ever done. Give it a try. = )
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Hi that cruise sounds wonderful can you give me more details.
Hi Stephanie,
The cruise leaves out of Los Angeles. Your sail round trip…5 days on the ocean then one port per day for 5 days then 4 days on the ocean into Ensenada, MX for a partial day, and you arrive in LA the next morning. On the days at sea, they plan so many great things to do on the ship, and at that time of year the weather has always been conducive to spending time on deck also. I would love to do this cruise EVERY year! Have done it in mid October, over Thanksgiving, and right after Christmas over New Years. Wonderful every time!
That was a God thing. Congrats!
I totally agree
I too agree that only God makes things happen.
Congrats Great Story Hope All Your Crusies Continue To Be This Grand
Absolutely! How great:)
Congrats! We sail this coming Sunday on the Island Princess for our 50th wedding anniversary celebration to the Caribbean and the Panama Canal. Our second cruise……I alway feel like a princess on the Princess.
Linda
What an amazing story!!!! My ex husband and I have recently been remarried after 10 years apart and will be celebrating our 1st anniversary on the Ruby Princess on February 14th, I cannot wait to have some quality time with him!
Angie, congratulations to you, and we look forward to welcoming you aboard for your anniversary next month!
My husband and I congratulate you Nancy, and you Angie! We celebrated on Princess with our first cruise for our 25th Anniversary and had the time of our lives. Since then we celebrated our 30th on Princess and will be bringing 10 family members with us on our next amazing cruise this January. Princess most definitely makes incredible memory moments!!!
my husband and i celebrate our twenty five on the princess this was our first cruise and we decided to spend with my little brother and his wife we went to the eastern caribbean and we had such a great time we are booking another cruise the staff was awesome and the scenery was beautiful It will always be one of the best times of my life thanks princess and my brother waddell and sister in law joy
My Husband and I celebrated our 40th Anniversary on the Golden Princess (our first cruise ) to the Caribean what a wonderful time we had .Now seven years later we are going to Med on our 6th cruise with Princess.What wonderful times we have had
Congratulations, Angie! From our personal experience, we have found that love is much better the second time around. Have a wonderful, exciting, relaxing, and love-filled cruise in this Valentine’s Day.
Angie, congrats! My husband and I will be on that same cruise! We will celebrate our 18th Anniv on march 5th. How ironic you and your husband will be on the
Same ship! We haven’t cruised in years! We are from ohio.
Hope to talk to u. Email is neisty1@gmail.com.
Denise W.
We are married after my husband pasted and he went though a divorce.
We never had children butt adopted3 after being married 1 1/2 yrs of being married. We are now starting together again as thechildren are all out of the house! We have been blessed blessed with our first grandson!! He is a joy! He is 19 months.
for me i was never marrying again! But, love has been sweeter the second time around. Weare in our mid 50′s!
What a beautiful story
Dear Nancy and Terry, Congratulations, I guess you both were meant to be together. What an amaging story and I’m sure you will share it with the generations to come.
What a beautiful story. Thank you so much for sharing.
Lovely story – My wife and I still try to celebrate our happy union with an annual Honeymoon to keep the spice flowing.
All the best,
That should read “annual Honeymoon cruise” – balcony is prefered!!
Congratulations Nancy and Terry. What a GREAT story!! Our best wishes for a great life together, that includes cruising!! Having been on Princess cruises 20 times ourselves, we can tell you that it has become an important part of what we enjoy together. Hopefully, we’ll have the honor of your company on some future Princess cruise.
Rich and Linda, It would be wonderful to meet you on some future cruise. Thanks for your kind words, and we both agree that cruising is a very important part of our lives. I hope we will be doing it as long as we are alive.
Lovely story! Congratulatins, and best wishes for a long and Happy marriage!
Love lost and LOVE found again; love does conquer all!
Thank you, for your service to this county!
What a lovely story, I was married on 18th October also, however will not be getting remarried to that one. My second husband and I celebrated my 50th birthday on a Princess cruise 2 years ago and had a wonderful time. So congratulations and I am glad that the 18th October has been lucky for some.
Your story is so touching, Nancy! I hope to meet you and Terry aboard a Princess cruise one day!
I hope we are able to do that also. The people we have met on cruises seem to be the best people anywhere.
our story has the same happy ending, however, we didn’t marry way back in 1968 like we wanted. something traumatic happened which separated us, and after 37 years apart, we found each other through divine guidance in 2005, having never stopped loving one another. we too get the we should be on opra thing, and we love cruising
Steve, Congratulations to you and your wife also. Amazing what God can do, and how wonderful it is to be together again. As if those years in between had never taken place at all.
Nancy: Wonderful Life to You Two! My husband and I remarried also and we are very happy this go around. It’s been 12 years, I always tell people, “he needed to grow up” but the truth be told, we both did. We love to Princess Cruise, we have sailed 6 times and we look forward to a Eurpean Cruise someday, he says, “when his boat comes in”! Happy Anniversary! Happy 2012
Congratulations I’m glad you found each other.
Congratulations on your reuniting also. Many are not so fortunate. Hoping you are able to take that European cruise sometime very soon. = )
Congrats !!! That is a heart felt story. We celebrate our Anniversay on a cruise as well. It is a nice way to get away and have a week to celebrate each other. We will be going on our cruise in Feburary.
I just booked a cruise for the california coastal on May 5th 2012 onboard the sapphire princess. This cruise will serve for many occasions for my wife and I. When we got married on June 26, 2011 we never got to go on a honeymoon as we had to pay for the wedding all ourselves and couldn’t afford it. We are going on this cruise for our honeymoon. Also we are going to be onboard for my 29th birthday. May 5th is my birthday and that is the day that the cruise leaves. Also we are going to be counting this as our one year anniversary seeing as how it is so close. The only thing that I wish I could of gotten is a better room then an Interior room to celebrate the occasion. So I am hoping that this will be the lucky time that we get upgraded. I want everything to be perfect for us. This is my 6th cruise and 6 is my lucky number so im hoping that all the stars will align and this cruise will be amazing. This will also be our first vacation together just the two of us. So it should be a trip to remember. Also I have heard that the Sapphire Princess will be going through a drydock renovation. Maybe one of the new suites has our name on it. (wishful thinking)
Beautiful story!!!… Thanks for sharing!
Matthew, my husband and I will be on that same cruise. I retired at the end of September 2011 and got a “parting bonus” from my employer…which covered the cost of the entire cruise and air fare too ! I will be turning 65 in June, so we are celebrating both “momentus” events ! I hope you get your upgrade ! But even if you don’t, it will be wonderful.
Pat.. what are the odds.. maybe we will bump into you on the ship somewhere.. what a way to retire on a cruise. Happy early birthday as well. See you onboard!
Wishing a wonderful “Delayed Honeymoon” for the two of you. Of all of the cruises we have taken, we have most often booked an inside cabin. The money we have saved by doing so has let us enjoy more cruises, and have more money to spend while on the cruise. Also, we find we are so seldom in the room that the inside cabin works just as well for us. Hoping also those stars will align for you and your bride, and that this cruise is one you will remember always.
Thank you Nancy. I don’t mind the inside cabin at all but just would be nice with these special occasions to have a better room is all. I can hope for one but if we end up in an inside cabin we will enjoy it all the same. Just being together is what I’m looking forward to the most.
Don’t expect an upgrade. Our friends that we are traveling with got one. We did not. Boo hoo on princess.
What a reminder that “Love Will Find A Way” (Lionel Richie’s beautiful song)
Terry,
Congratulations on running off, what I have always called, “The Devil Dogs”.. Two Vietnam tours only months apart was pretty heavy duty… Glad to see that you came through it….. P.S., Make sure you take advantage off ALL of the programs the VA has available for you. You have definitely earned them! Nancy, congratulations on finding a “very good man” all over again… May the two of you have many happy cruises and many happy years together!
Thank you Mike for your comments. How lucky I was to have found a “good man” when I was only 15 years old and we started dating, but how blessed I was to find that same amazing man so many years later. God is so good.
What a great story. Wonderful! Wishing you many more happy years & sailing
what a lovely story. i was very moved by that story, but i try not to cry at work
thanks for sharing!
My wife an I share a similar story. We went together in hIgh school and college in the 50′s and early 60′s and planned to get married but when I finished school the job moved me to another part of the country. In the 1960′s we didn’t have the communications mediums we have today so we drifted apart and went our seperate ways although I never stopped loving her or often wondering about her. Eighteen years later I was talking to a friend and found out she was divorced. I called her and we were married 6 months later. We have now been happily married for 29 years. If we had been married so many years ago it may not have lasted but life’s experiences gave us a greater appreciation for each other and she is the best thing that ever happened to me. We will be going on our 11th Princess cruise in April and I am so glad I have been able to experience my life with her.
I agree with you as far as the maturity that takes place and makes it even better at a little older age. Congratulations on your happy marriage.
a lovely story much like ours, we had our first trip together 20 years ago on TheRegal Princess the best cruise of all we married, ages 89 and88 it made the newspapers we cruise every year to Alaska and the caribbean and enjoy each trip we have done, looking forward to more
Nancy & Terry~ What a beautiful, heartwarming story. It’s makes me believe in love again and there is a chance for everyone to find true love. Wishing you many more years of love & happiness.
Great story Nancy and best wishes for a great life together. Terry, WELCOME HOME BROTHER!! You should know that Princess offers disabled vets an onboard credit and the amount depends oon the length of your cruise. If you have suffered with PTSD (me too) then I assume you get your disability compensation from the VA too. Just email or call Princess and inquire about the disableed veteran program. The CEO of Princess is also a Nam vet. I hope your demons have been put to rest. Thanks for your service!
John & I will be married 7 years in March. We each were married 52 years and we lost our mates. We are so lucky to fine each other and try to get away often
Nancy & Terry — what a lovely story — thanks for sharing it with us! I wish my husband Mike and I were on your cruise and at your table, as we just celebrated our 25th anniversary on October 18th! Unfortunately we were not on a Princess Cruise — but plan to be on another Princess Cruise very soon!
My husband and I celebrated our 25 th anniversary on a Princess Cruise to Alaska. It was FaNtastic! Because he had heart surgery the day before we left. And now my heart aches for my ex. Maybe we will get back together for that second honeymoon too.
My first marriage was also on October 18th and it also lasted only 5 years. Weird huh. But I’m glad that date turned out to be a happy one for you – what a wonderful story!
Fortunately, I haven’t seen my first husband for over 30 years, but with my new love, I will be enjoying my 9th cruise in February – and my 60th Birthday!
Thank you for sharing your story and many more happy years of sailing!
Cathy:says….January 4/,7:01 p.m/. 2012 Iam so happy for you two,Nancy & Terry,Love is truly a splendid thing!
You both were brought, together,by the Lord. May you,both have many happy years,
together,cruising & loving one another. My husband & I will be married this September,
for 29 years, and my 60th birthday is in March, this year! So maybe somewhere in, there
we can have our cruise! thanks for your beautiful, LOVE STORY. Cathy
What a wonderful story. My husband and I went to high school, but did not talk again until 30 years later on a website. On our first date, we knew we were soulmates and were married six months later. The honeymoon was still not over 4 1/2 years later when we boarded Princess for our very first cruise. My husband almost backed out because he had not wanted to go on the cruise, but in the end he went. It was the greatest time we ever had together and he wanted me to book another cruise before we got off the ship. I am sorry to report that four months later, he passed away suddenly from a heart attack. I am so thankful to Princess cruises for making it the best time of our lives and would not take anything for the wonderful memories of that 7-day trip. I thank God that we got to take this cruise before he passed away
A Great story, You picked the best on Princess. My wife and I had done 16 cruises, before I lost her to a heart attack. But life goes on and my new lady and I have been on Princess cruise twice and plan an eastern Carribean cruise over her 70th birthday on Feb 22, 2013. The best of luck, and health to you two.
A beautiful story. Thanks for sharing
What a lovely story. It wasn’t the “table-assignment fairy” that put you together, it was God. I love to hear how He works in such wonderful ways. Thank you for sharing your story, and thank you to Terry for your service to our country!
Awesome heart-felt story. Best wishes to you both. My fiance and I cruised on Golden Princess to Alaska in late September, and we had a great time. We are thinking of taking the same cruise again in 2012. Great memories and couple time for sure. Thank you Princess!
Diana that is a amazing cruise. My family and I went in the beginning of may in 09 .. it was amazing but we were the first cruise after it had been in drydock so there were some things closed off and not fully completed yet. There was construction going on still. That was my wifes first cruise and it was a bad first experience for her to say the least.
LOVE IS WONDERFUL, THE SECOND TIME YOU FALL.
GOD LOVE YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE TO THIS COUNTRY,WE HAVE PROPLEMS,
BUT IT’S STILL THE BEST IN THE WORLD.
Thanks for sharing your story. War can take its toll on relationships. We are glad your daughter helped get you back to each other! God Bless your future together!
Congrats Nancy & Terry
Yo have an truly amazing story. My wife, Vivian and I also got married in 1963, November 23rd to be exact. After planning on only serving 4 years, I received an extention of service witn only 91 days left on my enlistment, an left for Vietnam in July of 1966. After a double tour in Nam and a total of 22 years 2 months and 14 days in the US Air Force, we have celabrated 48 years of marriage, and are looking forward to our next Princess Cruise, sometime this year. May you enjoy many more years with each other and many more Princess Cruises
We can top that…my husband and I met and began dating when I was 18 and he was 20. We got married three years later and have been together ever since. And it hasn’t been easy staying together through one son with ADHD and the other son with Down’s Syndrome. But we made it to our 40th anniversary last July and we are still best friends….that is a MIRACLE FOR OPRAH!!!
And, as far as I am concerned we both deserve combat medals for all we have been through together….at least a free cruise from our favorite cruiseline…Princess.
My husband and I celebrated our honeymoon with Princess aboard the Crown Princess. We loved it so much, a year and a half later, we cruised again! We are hoping to come aboard again very soon!
Thank you for sharing your amazing love story, and thank you Princess Cruise Line for the precious memories you have given and to the many more I hope to have!
Loved your story and the happy ending of being together once again.
Wishing you good health and happy years together. Many blessings!
My wife Anna Winston and I made 2 wonderful Princess cruises 1 To Alaska and 1 to Mexico,and we planned on making our 50th anniversary on a Princess cruise however the love
of my life passed away on1 April 2011 she dearly loved the Princess line and talked about it
all the time thank you for the joy you showed her while she lived
Please accept my sincerest sympathy for your loss. Your wife was so blessed to have you loving her, just as you must have felt blessed to have Anna. I wish the best for your future.
What a wonderful story!!! My husband and I are doing our first cruise in February to celebrate his retirement. We have travelled alot over the years but always on land…we are looking forward to the cruise experience.
congratulations Nancy and Angie, and your spouses! My late husband and I took 104 cruises together, each one a special memory! But the last one, in November 2007, we celebrated 35 years together, and made precious memories. Who knew, just eight short months later, he would be leaving me, going to Heaven. Ironically, the nurse/counselor, who was in the room with us, as he took his last breath in my arms, had talked to me about his taking a “final” cruise, and likened his leaving me to sailing away from the pier, as I stood there crying, begging him not to go. The analigy was heartwarming, and I have envisioned that many times, taking comfort in knowing that when he left me, it was via a cruise, to Heaven and his family, knowing that he would be, and I should be accepting of that final cruise and destination….. Go make your memories, enjoy every precious moment of your cruises, and know that someday, one of you will have those memories in your minds and hearts, to sustain you! Nothing makes me smile more than thinking about my handsome husband, all dressed up in tux or formal wear, strutting his stuffor his loving approval of how his wife looked and dressed on our trips……God bless you all……
Oh my gosh,, I started to cry half way threw,, and am now in full blown tears down my cheeks!!!
This is a great love story, I want to wish you all the love and happiness in the world. My husband and I started taking cruises after our only son passed away, we needed to do something different going on vacation was very depressing for us, but we have been able to enjoy cruising on Princess. Good luck and congratulations on becoming grandparents.
My husband and I have been on more than 16 cruises. We began with a New Year’s Cruise and have loved every cruise since the first one. Most of our cruises have been with Princess. We have taken our daughters on cruises when they were young and also when they were teenagers. We’ve cruised for brthdays, anniversaries, and holidays; however, we cruise because we love cruising. The itineraries are important to us, but we’ll cruise even if
the ports are those we’ve previously visited. Who doesn’t love to be pampered, to be treated like royalty, to be presented with exemplary service, to be wined and dined with a flair, to be offered great entertainent, and to be set ashore in exotic ports and foreign countries? We cruise because the cruise itself is the ultimate travel destination.
Congratutions to both of you Nancy and Terry Love will find you if look in the right place, which I did Barbara and I (Pete)just did the Alaksa cruse in Aug. 11 on the Princess we been married eight years . It took me five marriges to this wonderfull woman but it was the best I,ll ever do. She is 49 and I am 73 but we were meant for each other and we will be the Princess agin in June for our Anniversay no. 9 see there Pete&Barbara
Great story.. did princess personal have anything to do with all anniversary’s falling on same date!! what a coincidence if not. such a great story and chance meetings of sharing with people from the three stages of life… young, middle, and “matured”..a great adventure. I have only traveled with Princess twice and I think it is my favourite ship line.. with R.C. second place.. cruising to me is how I would spend my whole life if I could… ship hopping. It gets to be addictive… I really love it so much to be able to do everything that is planned and found for you to do, all you have to do is show up… The food and entertainment is lovely that is my goal….. to sell everything up and ship hopping…. what a beautiful way to spend the last years.
What a wonderful story. My husband & I will be celebrating ou 71st wedding anniversary goinh on a Hawaii cruise with two wonderful friends who will be celebrating their 51at anniversary on the Sappphire on March 10th.
You will love it. We celebrated our 46th on the Sapphire on the 11/16-12/10 Hawaiian cruise and couldn’t have asked for a better time. Your cruise director Dave is an absolute wealth of knowledge of everything Hawaiian and will make your cruise all that much more fun. Enjoy and congratulations on 71 years together. Bon Voyage!
Ada, wow! I only hope my hubby and I will be able to celebrate a 71st wedding anniversary. We are coming up on 43 years now. As an aside, both my grandmothers were named Ada (just thought I’d throw that in there). Have a wonderful, wonderful time on your cruise and I hope you have more!
That was an amazing story that I relate to quite well. Be proud of how your love survived so long!
What a beautiful story. Thank you Nancy for sharing it with us.
My husband and I got engaged on a cruise on April 29, 2006, went on a cruise for our honeymoon (Ruby Princess to Eastern Carribean) with a group of wonderful friends and are going to the Hawaiian Islands this coming April on the Golden Princess. This trip will bring some very dear friends back to Hawaii for the first time since their honeymoon there 41 years ago (we are travelling with a group of friends again who will celebrate with them of course). We will also celebrate 6 years since our engagement on the ship and my husband will celebrate his 55th birthday on the day we set sail. Needless to say romance will be in the air and lots of celebrating as we cruise for the 14 days.
We wish you much happiness in your future and who knows, someday we may be the ones sharing a table together. We plan to cruise for many more years to come.
Beautiful story, It could be made into a movie with Princess as the focal point that you end up on to remarry. (Change the ending from yours a bit).
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Loved the story. My husband and I are going on our first cruise, along with two other couples. Although we will be with friends, we are also hoping to meet new couples with life stories to share.
what a story. My late husband and I were married 62 1/2 years and we both appearerd on the Oprah Show in 1989. We met, were separated by WWII and reunited in 1945 and finally in 1946 were married.
We have taken nuimerous cruises, our first on a Princess Cruise to Alaska. I am now 91 and am planning to take my fifth Alaska cruise but this time with my new companion who has never been to Alaska.
On my last cruise to Alaska I won the second runner up on the Karaoke contest and even did comedy on stage. I hope to go on stage again this next summer with my new
companion by my side.
Wow what a story and am happy that you found love for each other again. Congratulations you guys deserve a wonderful life together.
What a wonderful story, my husband and I celebrated our 50th anniversary last year with a cruise on the Golden Princess to Hawaii. Many, many more happy years together for you two.
What a beautiful love story. It’s amazing how the universe has a way of bringing love into our lives…thank you!
What a beautiful story! My husband and I fell in love in 1986, but it was not meant to be at that time in our lives. I found him again in 2009 on Facebook and we haven’t been separated since. We married a year ago and hope to enjoy our first cruise soon. My husband is also a proud Vietnam veteran. Good luck to you both!
Beautiful story. We spent our 25th anniversary on a cruise to the Mediterranean …so romantic !
Nothing tops your story.. Amazing. We wish you many, many more anniversaries and cruises.
What a beautiful Story!.. Love does have second chances! Thank you for the tears of joy for the both of you!!!
Congrats to all you lovebirds out there! We had our 1st cruise on the original Star Princess to celeb rate our 10th Anniversary. Since then we have been on 14 Princess cruises. I now have a second job at a cruise agency. I will be taking 16 couples on the Emerald Princess in April. I hope they all will find romance renewed while on vacaction. There is nothing like a Princess cruise to help relight your fires. They call them the Love Boats for a reason! We are at 33 years and going strong.Enjoy your cruises everyone.
Congratulations to you both. Your story brought tears to my eyes. My husband and I celebrated our 40th, 45th, 50th and now our 55th this May all on Princess Cruise lines. We both love this way of travel. I call our upcoming cruise up the Pacific Coast a “Road Trip without having to Drive. Or our Friends and Family trip. I have encouraged 8 others to join us.
I am always amazed at God’s timing and how He weaves our lives together at just the right time. Nancy and Terry – yours is a true love story. My husband was a 27 year old divorcee and I was a 21 year old widow when we met in 1970. God put him in my life at just the right time to mend my broken heart. We married two years later and will celebrate our 40th anniversary on April Fool’s Day aboard the Emerald Princess! We started cruising on our 25th anniversary. This will be our 4th cruise, all with Princess Cruise Lines.
What a happy ending to such a great story. July 2010 my husband along with our beautiful Daughter took our first cruise a-board the Carribean Princess , 9 days of paradise, we just loved it. This past summer we sailed on the same ship to New England and Canada, it was awesome. In May 2013 we will celebrate our 20th anniversary, and I plan a surprise cruise to Hawaii. I was in Hawaii in 2006 on a business trip, and have wanted to take my husband to Hawaii ever since . He will be very surprised… He is the love of my life, and I look forward to another 20 years together ! Nancy and Terry congratulations, wishing you many happy years …
Terry,
You have you done your country proud.
Nancy,
God knows how to award good people.
Thanks for sharing your heart-warming story. I am reading this right I go to bed and am having lovely thoughts of love finding a way.
Congratulations on finding love the second time around…with each other again! We’re celebrating our 21st Anniversary with a 20 day Panama Canal cruise in April and enjoy all Princess has to offer. This will be our second Princess Cruise. We’ve cruised other cruise lines (total cruises to date=14) but rate Princess at the top of our list. Thanks for sharing your love story and Terry, thanks for your service!!!
Very lovely story. My husband and i have been married for 31 years and our first cruise was on Princess in 1980 for our honeymoon. With all the ups and downs that we have had in our marriage we have cruised with Princess every year just to reconnect with one another. We wish you many happy years together.
That is just such a heart warming story.. Good karma.. you guys ..were meant to be together, and can only imagine your daughter’s joy when you remarried….
What an inspiring story that love will always find a way if it’s meant to be. What wonderful way to celebrate an anniversary aboard a cruise ship. We just celebrated our 30th anniversary and wished that we could have gone on a Carribean cruise aboard Princess but due to family obligations to a handicapped son and being so close to Christmas (Dec.23rd) it’s almost impossible for us to celebrate our anniversary period. Maybe one day, my wish will come true.
We know you Captain Anthony! We’ve been on your ship, “Grand Princess” twice; on our 1st anniversary, and on our 7th anniversary. And what was so special about the 2nd cruise is that we took our daughter and her husband with us because it was their honeymoon! What fun we all had!! My other daughter also cruised for her honeymoon. We are about to take our 24th cruise this year sometime, when both daughters and all 5 grandchildren can go! Nothing like them!
My husband is disabled and has very limited mobility so we get the best bang for our buck cruising. I can push him around the ship and there is no where we can’t go. We always enjoy the entertainmemt and his favourite place to eat is Sabatini’s. We can get off the ship and take a tour of any island and the Princess staff is always most accomodating to us. Cruising enables us to see and do things that we ordinarily couldn’t do. We most enjoy seeing parts of the world we other wise could not see. The salt air and the wind thro our hair is the greatest. When we cruise we celebrate “Happy Everything”
This is a truly beautiful Love Story! Thank you for being you.
What a beautiful love story! It brought tears to my eyes.I wish my story had such a happy ending.Perhaps some day,I’ll write mine. “Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our heart and we are never the same.”
“A friend is someone who reaches for your hand,but touches your heart”
What a great story, Terry. My husband and I have shared many a happy moment together on Princess cruises. In fact, we are looking forward to making a few more as we’re heading out on the Grand Princess on Saturday for a week’s cruise in the Caribbean. We love balcony rooms but friends are traveling with us and all they could swing is an Oceanview so we chose that so we could travel together. We’ve never had an upgrade but can always dream. We chose this time because it is very close to my birthday so celebrating it.
Nancy & Terry,
What a wonderful story! I totally believe in fate and ‘if it’s meant to be, it will be’. I am now with my first boyfriend (also Terry). We met a couple of months before our 16th birthdays (we share the same birthday and were actually born on the same night, in the same city, within hours of each other). He was my first love and we were originally together about a year and a half but broke up when we were 18. We each went on with our lives, he married and had a son; and I didn’t marry but spent 17 years with someone. Then, 27 years after we had first met, we were both single and he reconnected with me one day (completely out of the blue)! We are now very happy and living together. In March 2010, we sailed on the Emerald Princess to the Easter Caribbean (first cruise for both of us) and we definately plan to sail on Princess again. We have now been back together for 3 1/2 years and it was meant to be!
What a wonderful story. Thank you so much for sharing. God has a way of putting people together when they belong together. It’s great to know that your parting ways was only to work on yourselves so you could come back together again. Love is always better when it comes with so much wisdom. Cruises are a great way to help keep the romance in your relationship. I love cruising with my husband of 27 years. We’ve had some rough times but have fallen in love again and have become best friends as well. Keep sailing.
What a wonderful way to renew your love.I’m so glad the two of you were able to find the love you shared before and were able to celebrate that love with a cruise.
what a lovely story! My husband and I went on the Panama Canal cruise last April. We went with some friends that we had met on a Nile Cruise some 20 years previously who were on their honeymoon (they are from Scotland, we are from England!) and we have been meeting up with them for weekends and holidays ever since so decided to go on a special cruise in 2011 to celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary and our 40th! We had a great time and the Junior Suites are wonderful.
so pleased to hear of your happiness we to were married on the 18th oct 1959 and still cruising diamond princess and the grand princess both great ships good luck we have been married 52 yearsand still very happy and great mates
Wow. What popped out immediately to me, was the date Oct. 18. I married my wonderful wife on Oct. 18 as well (over 30 years ago). We have booked our first Princess cruise, sailing in the near future.
Thank you for sharing your amazing story!! We will be celebrating our 45th anniversary on our first cruise in January. We met in junior high school so I know how life takes its twists and turns. Your grandchild was such an extra special blessing!!!
to start a cruise you learn how to wear a life jacket and as i read comments about different reasons everyone can recall various trips to any location alot of fond memorys but remember it all started with the life jacket i look forward to my next trip and my next life jacket.
Feb 1st, 2012 my wife and I are taking the Golden Princess from LA to Hawaii. I am so looking forward to it as is my wife. Fourteen days of relaxation and fun, hope to see you all there! This will be our first trip with Princess and I hope it is memorable.
That is an amzing story. It just goes to show that what’s meant to be will be. Congrats & good luck to you both.
Truely the “Love Boat” conection!!!!
We are going on our 3rd Princess cruise next January and can’t wait…
Have a great Trip….
We have been on 1 cruise with Princess and 2 other cruises with Royal Caribbean. I love the luxury of being waited on and also the fact that you get on the ship and that’s where you stay. No unpacking or driving every day. Hope to take a cruise next year again. We’ve been to the Caribbean 3 times and still have not seen all the islands.
Congratultions and what a wonderful story and very romantic it was meant to be that you two got back together.My hausband and I renewed our wedding vowels for our 25th on board the Golden princess to Alaska two years ago and that was very moving and romantic,we love cruising with princess fleet
What a great story! It truly is heartwarming to know that love can bloom again. Love knows no season, and indeed, someone definitely had a hand in bringing you together and seating you with the right people for dinner. We are both widowed seniors and are going on our 5th cruise–third on Princess. Best of luck and happiness to you both!
What a lovely romantic story, despite all that you endured,managed to find each other again, thank you for sharing
Karen from Canada
My husband and I were married on Oct. 10, 1998 and were not able to go on the honeymoon we wanted too. It’s been a tough couple of years for us both and we are so looking forward to our cruise to the Carribean on the 14th of January. Neither one of us has been on a cruise in over 30 + years. Looking forward to just relaxing, spending time together and just getting away! It’s going to be the honeymoon we never had!
So enjoyed reading your story of love and rediscovery of each other after many years lived apart. Your second-chance honeymoon story is truly inspirational! Thabk you for deciding to share it and keep enjoying those wonderful Princess cruises together!
What a wonderful story, Nancy and Terry.
We will be sailing on princess…again….This February to Panama Canal in observance of our 65th wedding anniversary………
God is indeed good. Kermit recently had triple bypass surgery at 86 years of age…
He is doing great.
We look forward to more cruises in the winter on Princess Lines. Our first cruise on Princess was in 1976 to the Carrribean.great memories.Since then we cruise every winter.
rayoma and kermit andrews…..Arkansas residents
We too are going on a panama cruise in feb. sure hope it is the same one that rayoma & kermit andrews are on. feb 27-mar8 out of ft lauderdale.
What everybody else said plus….. WOW.
Beatiful story,thanks for sharing. You both are meant to be together and deserve happiness. My husband and I love cruisig aswell, it is so relaxed and you make your own fun. It is our 30th Wedding Anniversary this year, we probably do another one. All the best to you.
We have gotten to know table mates on cruises better than friends we have for years. Sharing the cruise experience is special. We look forward to our next cruise and new friendships. You are fortunate to find each other again. What a great couple!
Thank you for sharing your story Nancy and congratulations! I too, am married to a Vietnam Veteran and can relate how difficult it must have been for you all those years ago. How special that you have found each other once again and what a wonderful way to share your holidays “cruising.” We are a few weeks away from our second cruise with Princess and looking forward to it very much as we had such a great time on the last one.
I married my guy 3 times! Mel was 19 1/2 and I was 17 1/2 with one year of high school to finish when we got married in 1956. I did graduate, 2 years later had our son, 2 years later our daughter and 7 years later twin girls. Celebrated our 25th anniversary with repeating our vows, and again on our 50th. Went on a Princess cruise to Alaska for our 53rd and in April we will sail from our hometown San Francisco to Hawaii to celebrate our 56th. Princess is the only way to go! Not sure yet where we will go for our 60th, God willing. Secret to our long marrage is, Mel always has the last words which are “yes, dear” and has shared this information with our 12 grandchildren. Anyone else going to Hawaii on the Star in April?
Thats a fantastic story , it bought tears to my eyes! I am so glad you found each other again! Oct 18th is also my wedding anniversary – we have been married for 3 years and we even got engaaged on a cruise and then after we married we also spent our honeymoon on a cruise and after 6 cruises we intend to do alot more!!
And everyone thinks we are so special because we were married, had two beautiful children and divorced 8 years later. We both remarried but my second husband died and Frank later got divorced. Sixteen years after our divorce we met again through our son and that “Old feeling” was still there. Have now been remarried for 33years but still celebrate our first anniversary date. We have made over 25 cruises with Princess and every year it has become a family tradition to take the Mexican Riviera cruise also. In this case, our distination is the ship, not the ports. We have done this for 7 years in order to celebrate the holidays together.
My husband was in the Royal Navy for 26 years so wasn’t interested in going to sea again,but after years of persuasion I finally got him aboard a Princess cruise to Mexico and we haven’t stopped cruising since. We have celebrated many special Birthdays and Anniversaries on board and hope to make it to our 60th Wedding Anniversary celebration with Princess. In February we take our longest cruise yet a month sailing around S.America.Unfortunately the ship was already full when we booked so we will be in an ‘inside’ cabin,but never mind we don’t spend much time in the cabin anyway. Thanks to Princess for making our vacations so easy and so much fun.
Great story Nancy.Every -one seems to be moved by it, and so was I. Glad you were’nt upset to find an old couple on your table. I’m well into my seventies, so I must remember not to be upset if I have to share a table with an old couple!! Only completed 4 cruises with Princess( They have all been on the Sun). A total of 289 days and they have all been great, but it would be good if a modern Princess could sail from Australia.
Seventies is NOT old, and the conversations we had with the couple in their 70′s was full of wonderful experiences and life’s adventures. It was a treasure to have met both of the other couples we were paired with, and I would love to find all four of them at our table the next time we cruise.
Really enjoyed reading your story and wish you a lifetime of love happiness and adventure.
What a good looking couple you are, the happiness shines out of you both. I can see God’s work here. Good luck to both of you and this time, hold on tight to each other.
Dear Nancy and Terry: Thank you soooo much for that wonderful story!! There really is a “Princess Table-Assignment Fairy” and a “Princess-Cupid Fairy” !! My Husband, Stephen and I first met on a cruise to the Caribbean in 1969, both with our Parents. I lived in Fresno, CA and Stephen lived in Encino, CA. I asked Stephen to be my escort at my “Debutante Ball” then, and he came to spend a very beautiful and platonic weekend with my Parents and me and was a perfect, handsome escort! But we did not stay in touch with each other after that. I went to college at UCSB and then moved to Sao Paulo, Brazil. When I returned to the States, about twenty-three years later, I found Stephen in the phone book and called him up in 1991. We have been married almost nineteen years now (and have never had a fight!!) Our honeymoon to Alaska was on the “Dawn Princess” and we have taken several (always Princess lines!!) cruises since then, but never heard your story. You two are to be congratulated, for sure!! Maybe we should start a club!:)
Toni….That would be a very special club indeed! Also, it is so nice to hear your story. We have also gone on the Dawn Princess to Alaska, and we loved it, and I am ready to go back there sometime in the near future. It has been much too long for my liking. = )
How lovely. My parents were also married on Friday, 18th October in 1963. They have both passed now, but they were always madly in love and totally devoted to one another!
What a lovely touching story – congratulations to you both. I found my soul mate and married for the first time at age 49. Our honeymoon cruise was memorable for all the wrong reasons with my new husband bumping his leg on a chair & getting a serious infection from day 5 of our cruise, However, we love the cruising experience and have just booked another as we want to celebrate our 1st anniversary in March onboard a Princess. Hopefully we’ll be able to follow your traditon and spend many more anniveraries at sea.
Sending best wishes for a wonderful 1st anniversary cruise… with only the best of experiences in every way. Darned those chairs anyway! Amazing how occasionally they just jump out there and can get you!
Nancy, thank you for sharing your story…it struck a chord with me I must admit!
My husband and I are about to embark on our very first cruise from Sydney to New Zealand (we live in Australia) on the Sea Princess. I’m so excited I can hardly sleep!
The darling man booked the cruise as a surprise to for our 25th Wedding Anniversary which we celebrated on October 18 last year! Yes! October 18, the same as you and your fellow dinner friends! That, and the fact that my name is Janine (I know, spelt a little differently) made me sit up and take notice of your lovely story!
All the very best for your future happiness together!
So many similarities…..I would love for our paths to cross one day. Sending the very best of wishes for your upcoming cruise. I must say, I am a wee bit envious.
Joy&I recently returned from travel on the Pacific Jewel to Tonga, on a 17 day cruise which was fantastic.Now we are to begin life on the princess line,the “sun princess” to NewZealand on the 22nd January 2012, for 14 beautiful days departing form Brisbane, and we just can wait to go.
Heartwarming story. God works in mysterious ways. True love finds a way.
A truly remarkable sort.. Congratulations.. blessings to you both..
My husband and I have been married for 27 years (March 16) childhood sweethearts, we plan on more cruises when we can(only 2 very memorable ones)
Thank you Nancy and Terrry for sharing such a beautiful story. We will celebrate My Husband Richard’s 60th Birthday and our 30th Wedding Anniversary on a 75 Day cruise around the Pacific on board the Dawn Princess starting in July. This will be our 5th Cruise with Princess cruises. We also celebrated our 26th Wedding Anniversary on a cruise. We love cruising in that you only have to unpack once.
A very inspiring love story….. love is more sweeter the second ime around…… Princess is really a Love Boat…..
awwww….. such a nice story…..
My husband and I have taken many cruises, both on Princess and other cruise lines. I have reached my elite status (more than 150 days) on Princess Cruise Lines. We are very impressed with the entire Princess experience starting with booking our cruise, boarding, our wonderful time on board (the crew, servers, activities, tours, entertainment, accommadations, etc,). The attitude of the crew is “thank you” for joining us and how can we help you. The Captain and crew have ALWAYS STRESSED SAFETY. We have ALWAYS HAD A SAFETY DRILL prior to leaving shore. There have also been many drills for the crew throughout our cruises. We are now planning our next Princess Cruise. We can’t say enough wonderful things about our experiences on Princess Cruises. Thank you for all our cherished memories.
I cannot say enough about the safety of the ship and the passengers on Princess Lines. I have never felt anything but happiness and pure joy while cruising and if we have ever had a need of any kind, there was always someone there to take care of it for us. Thee is just no way you can go wrong with PRINCESS!
What a wonderful story and how great it is to have a princess fairy. I bet the princess fairy is smiling while reading all the comments. Enjoy the rest of your together, thanks for sharing your story.
For those frist timers that are painnlng a cruise for what ever line you choose. I guarante you’ll have a ball and a Blast fun time. I’m a five time Cruiser on Carnival and never had any problems what so ever. Have a safe fun time when you go.
This was so delightful to read. What a special story of great love.
What a fantastic story. My husband & I were married on the 18th October 1980 which is also my husbands birthday, and cruised with Princess to celebrate our 30th Anniversary and are heading off tocruise Canada/ Alaska to celebrate my 60th birthday. Happy cruising we love it.
So glad to know we share the same anniversary. What a beautiful time of year to be married…and a belated Happy Birthday to your husband also. Enjoy your upcoming cruise.
Our story with Princess Cruises didn’t turn out so nice. We were taking our whole family to Alaska last summer, but my husband ended up in a hospital in Seattle with a massive bleeding colon. The rest of our family, kids and all, went on without us. The not so nice of Princess Cruise Lines, was that instead of giving our cabin, completely paid for of course, to someone in our family, they gave it away to someone else on board the ship! We got no reimbursement whatsoever! Not a nice experience at all.
I am so sorry to hear of your unfortunate situation. I hope your husband is doing well and that he will not have to deal with anything like that again. I was wondering if you called Princess and talked to them about the situation before your family boarded the cruise. I also agree that the cabin should have been given to one of your family since you were not able to continue on with the cruise. If you have not talked with them since that time, I would suggest you talk to them now, or even again if you were not properly heard the first time. At least ask that someone listen to had sad you were about the situation, and how badly it made you feel. Our experiences with Princess have always been so positive, and hopefully something can be done to help you feel more positively about Princess once again. Again, so sorry for your unfortunate experience.
Thank you Nancy. Yes we talked to everyone practically, even the president of the line. What made it so bad, they did know about it immediately and one of the supervisors even told our family that they could have the room and a few hours later reneged on it. We had been on several trips with them before and had good experiences, but this really turned our family and friends off Princess Cruises.
Absolutely love your story as it is very similar to mine and my husbands. We also got married at a very young age (I was 16, he 19) and divorced after almost 4 yrs. We each married other people and after not seeing or speaking to each other for 13 yrs, our lives were brought back together! We even planned on getting married on the same day as our first wedding (July 17) … BUT I was too impatient, we went on a cruise and on the second day out (April 13) we remarried each other in St. Lucia. We will be celebrating our 13 yr anniversary in April … on a cruise! We are so thankful for God’s blessings in our lives and that he allowed us to have another chance. But I always share the fact that we didn’t pick up where we left off 13 yrs prior, because that would have only ended in a disaster again. We instead did counseling together and have learned to build on our relationship by respecting, communicating and honoring one another. Thank you for sharing your story – beautiful!
When our lives came together once again, after 27 years, it was as if no time had passed at all. Being so much older, maturity had played a tremendous part in forgetting anything unpleasant from the past and only remembering the good that had once caused us to fall in love originally. We both knew immediately we were where we belonged and where we should have been all along. What a blessing for both you and your husband and for Terry and me, as well. <3
Hey there Nancy,
Your story brought joy to my heart. May you and Terry share a long, happy and healthy life together…. you both deserve it!
All the ‘Reasons to Cruise’ are from Americans. Not interested. What about the Aussies, after all , Carnival is sending this out to Aussie subscribers, not American !!
Thanks for sharing such a beautiful and heartwarming story! I hope you continue to “honeymoon” on many more anniversary cruises! My husband and I (childhood sweethearts) are leaving in a few days on the Crown to celebrate our 40th! We started cruising with Princess when we were celebrating our 30th with an Alaskan cruise and have done several more with Princess. This time our grown children, spouse and sister and brother-in-law — first time cruisers — will be joining us and we are so looking forward to sharing the wonderful Princess experience with them!
I love happy endings and that couple Nancy and Terry made me cry with joy of course good luck to both of you and may you have many more happy married years together.
Praise God he is forever good, this is my heart for restoration of my marriage, my 4 children have gone thru so much, now with 2 grand children, my heart would be a restored marriage and show them marriage and christian grandparents. Thank you God for you restoration to give added hope to us standing. My 1st H left 23 years ago got married, 2nd H left for OW both of them did, and I am standing, waiting for God to send my beloved Husband home, I just leap with joy as to hear restorations. PRAISE GOD for the testings he has turn into a testimony for Jesus.
Sounds like a lot of fun!!!
What an amazing story, my former wife and I celebrated our honeymoon on the Star princess as well, and it was in October of 2004, we did the western Carribean and loved every minute of it, and to top things off, we got to see our Beloved Boston Red Sox win their first world series in 89 years in our mini suite, I still have very fond memories of us hugging and crying that our team had won and I later found out my Niece Laura gave birth to her daughter Kailley that same night, so my memories of the Star Princess are to many to list here, the next time we saw “our” ship, they had a tragic fire on board in Ocho Rios and then we saw her in person in St. Marteen in 2007, and we both just looked at her in awe and reminisced about what we had experianced on that great ship, I hope someday that my former wife and I could remarry again someday and I would not hesitate to go back on “our” ship
This is an awesome story of love!! We are going on our 30th anniversary cruise on Sunday! I hope we have a similar great experience. May you enjoy many more years of love!!
What wonderful comments.
My husband and I were married for 10 yrs. We had a daughter together.
He left for another women that he was married to for 38 yrs.
My husband accepted the Lord into his life in 1973 and was in full
time ministry as a Pastor/Missionary.
I got remarried, which ended in divorse.
I accepted the Lord into my life in 1995.
In Aug. 2008, my father, whom I had lived with and taken care of
for 11 yrs., went home to be with the Lord.
At the time of my father’s wake, my husband’s wife had
an anuerysm and was in a coma and died Feb. of 1909.
To make a long story short, Arnie and I reunited in marriage
after 38 yrs. apart. Our daughter stood up for me and is
thrilled that her parents are back together. We were married
on Valentines Day of 2009.
Blessings,
Becky Smith
Margot & Gerhard Bachmann June 1/2012
Have the most we had the most ui
Cruising is the best holiday you ever can have I feel like a Queen when I am on any Princess
Ship,we never sailed on any other Ship but Princess!
No cooking,no cleaning, no laundry.We will never travel any other way the staff is very friendly !When we come back from Breakfast the beds are made the Bathroom shines ,what
else can you expect.
M&G.
Bev & Arthur Mitchell February 14, 2012
We renewed our weddings vows on Valentines Day, on the Sea Princess.
A great night was had by all the couples who renewed their vows that night.
I wish and pray that this inspirational story also happens to me.
what a great story..
What a wonderful story Nancy. Well today 21st Feb my beloved and I were to be onboard the Sea Princess and we were going to renew our vows on 23rd For the third time We were both so very excited and were counting down the weeks.ten days ago my husband was called for his much needed spinal surgery,he was so sure he’d still be able to go on the cruise but unfortunately he isnt able. So today I got a call from the Princess cruises asking if we were coming onboard, and I said I wish I was and told her the story. My husband,Bob has cancer and was given 1-5 years to live and he passed that date in July last year. He is such a romantic and asked if Id renew our vows on a cruise again as we’d done in 2009 on the Dawn Princess.Only two weeks ago we shopped for a “wedding” dress for me. As I write this the Sea Princess will be heading out under the Harbour Bridge in Sydney!!! Never mind we will do this again as soon as he is recovered.