A Canadian couple, both at the age of 83, married each other 75 years after their first kiss last weekend.
According to CBC News, George Raynes and Carol Harris have known each other since first grade in 1936, and they starred together in their third grade play, Sleeping Beauty. Harris played the role of Sleeping Beauty, while Raynes played the prince.
Raynes surprised Harris with an unscripted kiss during the play. "The rascal that I was, I laid a big wet one on her. And she jumped up like a startled deer, you know," he said. "And actually, so she's the first girl I ever kissed."
For years, it seemed that that was the end of their love story. Raynes moved to Ontario after his high school graduation, got married and raised a family. However, he stayed in touch with Harris, who never married, through the years, and when his wife of 61 years passed away, he paid a visit to Saint John to have dinner with his third grade princess.
Soon after, Raynes proposed at a restaurant in Ontario. "He suggested that we had had a great time and we had always been good friends and why don't we spend the rest of our lives together," Harris recalled. And she, of course, said yes.
Harris had almost given up hope, but said of her new husband, "I can't help but think … that my prince from Grade 3 has finally come home to stay. And I think it's just marvelous."
For a couple that started out with a fairy tale, it appears that they will be ending with one as well. "It's getting rarer that two people decide to spend the rest of their lives together," Harris told People. "But it was kind of like a fairy tale for us."
The couple shared a romantic wedding ceremony at the Lancaster Baptist Church in Saint John on Saturday.
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