Melvyn was diagnosed with Alzheimer's three years ago. For his wife, Doris, it's been hard to watch. But she says something happened recently to remind her that the man she fell in love with is still here, reports Steve Hartman.
On April 12 Honey and John Myers celebrated their 70th anniversary with family members who gave them a big surprise: 600 cards were sent thanks to Facebook and a plea for strangers to send well wishes.
Some marriage proposals are elaborately staged affairs, but for one Rhode Island couple, a simple and spontaneous engagement in the rain, on a New York City sidewalk, will always be remembered, thanks to the priceless photos by a stranger.
Harold Krueger's wife was planning a 90th birthday party for her husband on February 21, but passed away a month before the big day. The World War II veteran, who lives in the tiny town of Wishek, North Dakota, was having a hard time with the loss because the couple's relationship of 63 years had been so close. Now, hundreds of strangers from around the country are providing happy relief and a new activity, since Harold's daughter asked her friends on Facebook to send birthday cards.
Dreams really do come true: especially for this homeless couple that went from living in a tent to being officially married and living in a new apartment.
In a possibly emasculating move, Renee decided not only to cease following her husband's practices, but transform them as well.
It's impossible to maintain dry eyes while watching these love birds get lifted off the streets.
They both have terminal cancer but Kathleen Rinard has only days to live and wanted to give her husband one final gift. He always wanted to ride in a Cobra convertible sports car, so Kathleen called an auto club for help. Instead of a single convertible rolling up to their Arizona hospice, 29 Cobras arrived revving their engines in a neat row outside.
A bereaved husband painstakingly planted a tribute to his late wife, Janet using 6,000 oak trees to imprint a giant heart-shaped meadow in the middle of his 112-acre farm in South Gloucestershire, England. In a sudden flash of inspiration to mark her legacy, Winston Howe hired a gardener and spent weeks planning and setting out each oak, carefully creating an acre-long heart, which points in the direction of Janet's childhood hometown.
A California couple who found a wedding ring in the used car they recently purchased, spent weeks trying to track down the owner. Now a 79 year-old has been reunited with the ring that belonged to her late husband.
A Hurst, Texas couple is getting married after meeting while waiting in a Black Friday line. They were looking for a lot of things while sitting in the rain outside of a SuperTarget three years ago. But the one thing they weren't expecting to find was each other.
Two decades ago, a wedding photographer battled breast cancer. Now, she is giving back by making wedding dreams come true for couples like Melissa and Jeff whose budding romance was struck early by the same harsh diagnosis. A dream $30,000 wedding was donated with the help of 30 different Colorado vendors.
These groomsmen weren't planning on taking home anything but fond memories following their bachelor party getaway – until they found Annie and her pups.
Cystic fibrosis almost claimed this young woman's life, but a health tip from her wedding photographer ended up saving her life.
An 87-year-old man built a wooden cathedral to remind his ailing wife of their time together in Europe.
They found each other on a dating site that matches volunteers - now they're getting married on Valentine's Day
Disrespected as lower class, this worker has proven that all you need is determination to accomplish the impossible.
74-year-old Bill Bresnan has written a love letter to his wife Kirsten every day for nearly 40 years.
Brittney Husbyn had already practiced walking down the aisle with her fiancé Briggs Fussy, but it was 20 years earlier. They got married this weekend decades after serving as ring bearer and flower girl at a wedding in 1995 as 3-year-olds.
German lawmakers voted in favor of same-sex marriage 393 to 226 – and the community is rejoicing.
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