Moray couple Tony and Wilma Anthony from Lossiemouth celebrate Diamond Wedding
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Some family members privately predicted their marriage wouldn't last six months because they were so young.
However, 60 years on, and it's fair to say that Tony and Wilma Anthony have long since proved the doubters wrong.
Still very happily together, the Lossiemouth couple celebrated their Diamond Wedding anniversary on Sunday with their children and grandchildren around them.
Tony and Wilma first met in 1961 at a Saturday night dance in the Marine Ballroom at Arbroath.
She had travelled the 18 miles there by bus from her hometown of Forfar.
He, meanwhile, having been brought up near Blackpool, was serving in the Navy and had been posted nearby.
When their wedding took place in Abroath on April 17, 1962, the groom was aged 23 and the bride just 17.
The following year the couple moved up to these parts after Tony received a fresh posting to the HMS Fulmar naval base near Lossiemouth.
Already in love with each other, they then both fell in love with Moray.
Wilma says: "We like it so much here.
"Lossie has always been such a beautiful little town.
"True, it's not so little any more, but it's still lovely.
"You can't ask for better.
"Both sides of the family have always loved visiting Moray as well.
"So many people have come up here for their holidays that I used to have a sign hanging in our house which said 'Hotel Lossie'."
Tony spent a total of 28 years in the Navy, working as an air traffic controller with the Fleet Air Arm.
The job involved serving on air craft carriers, which meant he could be away at sea for two years and only allowed a month's leave in all that time.
Added to that, there were postings elsewhere in the UK which forced the couple to temporarily leave Moray. However they were always pleased to come back again.
Their longest period away began after 1972, the year when HMS Fulmar was transferred from the Navy and became RAF Lossiemouth.
The next seven years saw them stationed at bases down south in Somerset and Portsmouth, as well as Helensburgh west of Glasgow.
Helensburgh is now home to Martin, the couple's son, who also served in the Navy.
Meanwhile, Morag, their daughter, stays in Elgin.
Both Martin and Morag were in Lossiemouth this weekend to celebrate their parents' big day.
Also there were Martin's sons – Callum (28) and Jamie (23) – as well as Kristy (18) who's Morag's daughter.
