Given that coincidence, we thought it would be a shame not to do it on the same day
- Stuart Minchin
Three couples in one family will celebrate wedding anniversaries, and significant ones at that, on Saturday, marking a quirk of chance discovered a quarter of a century ago.
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Stuart Minchin and Justine Murrell, now based in Canberra, were married in Wodonga’s Sumsion Gardens on January 20, 1993, with a reception on the PS Cumberoona.
They chose that date after learning both sets of parents, Wodonga’s Noel and Ursula Murrell and Tony and June Minchin, now of Geelong, had married then 25 years earlier.
“Given that coincidence, we thought it would be a shame not to do it on the same day, so we got married on a Wednesday, which was an unusual one,” Mr Minchin said.
The Border Mail in 1993 reported the older couples’ wedding day in 1968 – one ceremony in Kew and one in Latrobe Valley – was remembered as the day the drought broke in Melbourne.
The two golden anniversaries and one silver will be honoured at an afternoon tea in Geelong.
“All three couples will be there to pat each other on the back for the past 25 years’ good work,” Mr Minchin said with a smile.
“We’re not big on yearly anniversaries, but 25 is a pretty big one so we thought it was worth celebrating.”