{"id":12253,"date":"2014-11-03T04:59:26","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T17:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/uk\/articles\/secret-perfect-marriage-couple-married-80-years\/"},"modified":"2021-11-11T13:56:24","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T02:56:24","slug":"secret-perfect-marriage-couple-married-80-years","status":"publish","type":"uk-article","link":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/articles\/secret-perfect-marriage-couple-married-80-years\/","title":{"rendered":"The secret of a perfect marriage &#8211; from a couple married 80 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-Original_1200 wp-image-32469\" alt=\"The secrets of an 80 year marriage\" src=\"http:\/\/easyweddings-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2014\/11\/The-secrets-of-an-80-year-marriage-1200x622.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"285\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"lead\">Maurice Kaye is 102 years old and his wife Helen is 101 years old. They&#8217;ve been married for 80 years and they&#8217;re still very much in love.<\/p>\n<p>In the BBC video below, between their jokes and loving bickering, the British couple share their secrets of a long-lasting and happy marriage, and answer the age-old question: What is the secret to a happy marriage?<\/p>\n<p>Maurice and Helen met in London in a shop owned by Helen&#8217;s mother. Both were in their early 20s and they courted for four years before marrying on August 27, 1934 &#8211; against the wishes of Helen&#8217;s mother who didn&#8217;t believe the marriage would last!<\/p>\n<p>Kay says her fondest memory of her wedding day was that &#8220;it was a lovely wedding&#8221; that &#8220;went on forever.&#8221; Maurice, on the other hand, says his clearest memory of his big day was that, &#8220;basically, it was a question of standing around doing what I was told!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and yes, they still love each other &#8211; very much!<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JIHqKgatED0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12255,"parent":0,"template":"","uk_article_category":[6810],"uk_article_tag":[2416,3741,2141],"class_list":["post-12253","uk-article","type-uk-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","uk_article_category-wedding-news","uk_article_tag-anniversary","uk_article_tag-london","uk_article_tag-wedding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk-article\/12253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/uk-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk-article\/12253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"uk_article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk_article_category?post=12253"},{"taxonomy":"uk_article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk_article_tag?post=12253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}