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I Took Pictures Of Couples That Have Been Married For 30 Years And More 20 Pics

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Community member Publish Not your original work? Add source For over three years, I have been working on a personal project that comes from my heart.

While photographing 102 couples - all married between 34 and 72 years - I asked them to share their wisdom and their secrets to a long-lasting marriage. They honored me with honest, funny, heart-warming responses. Photos of these amazing couples, accompanied by their meaningful words, are inspiring for anyone searching for direction on how to navigate life or who simply wants to appreciate the many faces of love.

My hope is to honor these couples and all couples who put in the hard work to maintain a lasting marriage. Without exception, every couple told me it was not easy, but worth the effort to sustain a lifelong love story.

It was such a gift and an honor to spend time with these couples while I captured their portraits and learned about their lives and marriages. I hope that you too will feel the love captured in these portraits. Having been married for 28 years myself, I know it's not easy, but spending time with each of these couples renewed my faith in marriage and helped me remember that love is worth the hard work.

My wish is that looking through these photographs will help you remember that too! I'm sharing 20 photos from my coffee table album featuring 102 couples and their wisdom. The link to my Kickstarter campaign can be found on my website.

More info: jodiswarephotography.com Facebook Instagram This post may include affiliate links. #1

Married 53 Years

Report Final score: 47points Jodi Sware POST Petra, princess of Brigid Petra, princess of Brigid Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago They look so happy!

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Married 49 Years

Report Final score: 43points Jodi Sware POST Jodi Sware (Submission author) Jodi Sware Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Sadly, this beautiful lady recently passed away, really making these photos extra special! 2 2points reply View more comments #3

Married 64 Years

Report Final score: 41points Jodi Sware POST Dawn Turner Dawn Turner Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago There is so much love in those eyes 1 1point reply #4

Married 65 Years And Still Dancing

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Married 56 Years

Report Final score: 40points Jodi Sware POST Marjolein Gorter Marjolein Gorter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago She feels so safe with him! 5 5points reply #6

Married 66 Years

Report Final score: 37points Jodi Sware POST Marjolein Gorter Marjolein Gorter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago And still having fun together! 5 5points reply #7

Married 40 Years

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Married 51 Years

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Married 55 Years

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Married 43 Years

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Married 65 Years

Report Final score: 30points Jodi Sware POST Robin Roper Robin Roper Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago (edited) I lost my mom a few months ago. Three months before she passed, she and our dad celebrated their 70th.

I'm on my 38th year. Long live real love.

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Married 50 Years

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Married 46 Years

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Married 54 Years

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Married 42 Years

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Married 41 Years

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Title Update Jodi Sware Follow Unfollow Jodi Sware Author, Community member Jodi loves capturing people in portraits that can be treasured for generations to come.

She has a particular interest in photographing experienced faces that have lived through many decades, combining their photos with their words to create lasting legacies that inform and inspire. Much of her work catalogues life in rural northern Alberta, where she lives with her family on their third-generation farm in High Prairie.

A photographer for over 20 years, Jodi is inspired by nature, beautiful skies, the changing seasons, and people who love each other. Read more » Gabrielė Malukaitė Gabrielė Malukaitė Moderator, BoredPanda staff Gabrielė, or, as other people like to call her, Gab, Gabi, Gabert or Gabe, is a community manager at Bored Panda. Despite all the names above you can also call her a Viking since she has acquired a BA in Scandinavian Studies (feel free to send her a message in Norwegian).

After the bachelor, this Viking wanted to conquer more lands—that is why she flew to Belgium and finished a MA in Cultural Studies. Gabrielė is a true culture enthusiast. Besides work, she is learning how to play a guitar and enjoys going to movies, art exhibitions and concerts.

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So if you’re celebrating a legal marriage, this is what it looks like. I have friends who married each other four times; their first wedding is the one they celebrate as their anniversary.

The first wedding was a home-made affair where each of them incorporated special rituals from their backgrounds (European Jewish/Mexican-American), the second was when then-Mayor Gavin Newsome made gay marriage legal in California and they were married in city hall—I was given permission by my (gay) supervisor to leave work and go stand up for them as one of their witnesses; then the California courts ruled that a city/county (SF is both) cannot supersede State law, which was a reflection of the National law. (Continued below) 3 3points reply Load More Replies...

Mary Rose Kent Mary Rose Kent Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago And then, in 2015 in a series of briefs President Obama asked the Supreme Court to strike down homosexuality laws, which it did. At that point, Great Britain had already paved the way, and as America’s strongest ally, that made it all the easier to follow suit. I hope this answered your question.

1 1point reply NYSTXPHILIA NYSTXPHILIA Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago marys right, just wait 50 more years tho.... 1 1point reply VeninTheNonBinaryRogue VeninTheNonBinaryRogue Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago I thought so too 0 0points reply Helen Haley Helen Haley Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Length of marriage is not proof of love. 3 3points reply Caro Caro Caro Caro Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago (edited) The word tenacious just popped in my head.

The photos are great though. 4 4points reply Load More Replies... Caro Caro Caro Caro Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Hey, who downvoted Helen?

0 0points reply Chris Zaydel Chris Zaydel Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Thats the opposite of what this little piece is about. I agree. 2 2points reply Load More Comments POST Ellie Ellie Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago My heart hurt for all the people with many years of marriage out there who's significant other has passed 4 4points reply mx stefffffffff mx stefffffffff Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Why are there only white straight couples 3 3points reply Mary Rose Kent Mary Rose Kent Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Because that many years ago the laws were different—homosexuality was not only against the law, it was heavily persecuted; people of different colors weren’t allowed to marry (check out LOVING with Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton).

So if you’re celebrating a legal marriage, this is what it looks like. I have friends who married each other four times; their first wedding is the one they celebrate as their anniversary.

The first wedding was a home-made affair where each of them incorporated special rituals from their backgrounds (European Jewish/Mexican-American), the second was when then-Mayor Gavin Newsome made gay marriage legal in California and they were married in city hall—I was given permission by my (gay) supervisor to leave work and go stand up for them as one of their witnesses; then the California courts ruled that a city/county (SF is both) cannot supersede State law, which was a reflection of the National law. (Continued below) 3 3points reply Load More Replies... Mary Rose Kent Mary Rose Kent Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago And then, in 2015 in a series of briefs President Obama asked the Supreme Court to strike down homosexuality laws, which it did.

At that point, Great Britain had already paved the way, and as America’s strongest ally, that made it all the easier to follow suit. I hope this answered your question. 1 1point reply NYSTXPHILIA NYSTXPHILIA Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago marys right, just wait 50 more years tho....

1 1point reply VeninTheNonBinaryRogue VeninTheNonBinaryRogue Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago I thought so too 0 0points reply Helen Haley Helen Haley Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Length of marriage is not proof of love. 3 3points reply Caro Caro Caro Caro Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago (edited) The word tenacious just popped in my head. The photos are great though.

4 4points reply Load More Replies... Caro Caro Caro Caro Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Hey, who downvoted Helen?

0 0points reply Chris Zaydel Chris Zaydel Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Thats the opposite of what this little piece is about. I agree.

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