The mister and I tied the knot. Here’s my favorite picture from our wedding:
He’s eyeballing my food, a common theme throughout our life together. And yet he still looks the same, and I’m older and fatter despite him eating half my food all these years!
Oh well. Life isn’t fair. But it’s pretty damn sweet if you have good company for the journey. I’m a lucky woman.
Open thread!
Cookie monster
Congratulations, Betty!
gbbalto
Congratulations and great photo!
JPL
It’s a lovely picture and congrats to you and your hubby. Thanks for keeping us sane also. (that’s a stretch but whatever)
amygdala
Aww… what a great picture. Happy Anniversary, you wacky kids! Here’s to many, many more.
Tokyokie
The spousal unit and I marked 20 years of her not slashing my throat in my sleep Sunday. So we’re like twins!
hovercraft
Great picture, you look a little young to be tying the knot. Happy anniversary
Big Ole Hound
Good for you guys. We had our 50th a while back and the second 20 years does by so fast…just enjoy as the best part is coming up.
TheDr
Happy anniversary Betty! My wife and I (a longtime lurker) tied the knot 8 years ago today. Best day of my life other than the birth of our two daughters. Enjoy!
JPL
I just noticed the chain on the railing between you two. That’s perfect!
Baud
Congrats, Betty. Wonderful picture.
Roger Moore
I’m surprised; I think this is the first time I’ve seen any picture of you or any member of your family.
Bill
What a great photo. My wife and I turn 16 on Friday.
Это курам на смех
Did Sergeant Pepper play at your wedding?
John Cole
awwww
Felonius Monk
Happy Anniversary. Nice pic.
Mary G
Happy china or platinum anniversary, Betty & Mr. Cracker!
Baud
@Bill: Wow, you married young.
Mustang Bobby
Mazel tov!
chopper
happy anniversary!
LAO
Happy anniversary Betty (and Mr. Cracker)!
Florida Frog
Congratulations and may you have many more happy years together. That picture is adorable. You have a mischievous twinkle in your eye.
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@Bill:
16? How old were you when you married?!?
;-)
john fremont
Lurker, but I have to come out of the woodwork and say Happy Anniversary!
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
He’s good looking Bette, you got ya self a catch.
West of the Rockies (been a while)
Congratulations, Betty! Many happy returns.
lamh36
Awww…congrats Betty C!
jacy
The happiest of anniversaries to you and the mister!
Immanentize
So very beautiful and sweet like the best of life
My wife and I were married on the first day of Spring, 1998, in a small chapel on the grounds of my University. The President was the priest We married to have a child together and that amazing thing happened in April of 2001. Then everything. Changed?
satby
Super cute picture! Happy Anniversary Betty and hubby Cracker!
And to all the rest of you stalwarts who stayed married and achieved your own anniversaries. Well done, all of you.
moops
well, we have that in common. The same wedding anniversary. I picked the date as a mnemonic device: Married on the last day of May, the year is the reverse of the day digits. May 31 2013.
I need to use this device every year. Thankfully so does my wife.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: One of my dad’s cousins married at 16, his wife was 14 at the time. They were Ozark hillbillies.
@Betty in OP: Molotov!
Juju
Judging from your plates, it looks like you had a pretty decent spread. It’s a lovely picture. Happy anniversary.
realbtl
Congrats Betty, love your writing.
Immanentize
@?BillinGlendaleCA: my immigrant grandfather and his immigrant brother married immigrant sisters who were 16 and 15 at the time of the wedding. There are many more sad and wonderful tales about this, but there you are.
Cacti
@BillinGlendaleCA:
One set of my great-grands got married in 1910 at ages 18 and 16. They stayed hitched for 70 years until he died at age 88.
debbie
Sweet photo! Congratulations!
ThresherK
Congratulations!
I have never wondered what your appearance is like, if only because your nym, sharp-toungued political and social writing, photos of Florida, and tales created a visage that can barely be contained by a mere human form.
debbie
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Eh? ;)
George Spiggott
Congrats and lovely photo. And, no matter what they say, you still rock!
MomSense
Congratulations!!!
scav
May there be many more meals to ogle and share between the two of you!
JMG
Thanks for sharing the photograph and happy anniversary. On July 22, it’ll be Alice and my 35th. We got married in NYC at St. Patrick’s in the big room. Her dad was a wheel in NY state Republican politics.
NeenerNeener
Happy Anniversary, Betty.
delk
Congrats!
LurkerNoLonger
My wife’s grandparents are 1 away from 70 years together. 70!
Eljai
What a lovely photo! The number one single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in May of 1997 was “MMMBop” by Hanson. I just thought you’d want to know.
Patricia Kayden
You look beautiful, Betty. You look just like a younger version of Secretary Clinton to me. Congrats on being married for 20 years to both of you.
lurker dean
awwww, how nice! congratulations!
raven
Ah, we were 18 yesterday!
Mike R
May you have at least 20 more as good as the last 20. Congratulations
Gator90
So that was you I saw stumbling out of the Purple Porpoise with those questionable companions back in ’89…
West of the Rockies (been a while)
Anyone else expecting a leak soon? Time seems about ripe for another revelation. Surely some revelation is at hand?
SiubhanDuinne
@Tokyokie:
Happy anniversary to the Tokyokies and the Crackers (also to Raven and his bride, who marked 18 years just yesterday, I think, or maybe Monday).
I was also a May bride — 53 years ago last week — but the marriage didn’t last, so I merely remember quietly to myself :-)
Amaranthine RBG
That’s a lovely picture.
The candid wedding photos are always better than the “posed” ones.
MazeDancer
Congratulations, Betty! Look how beautiful you two are.
And many felicitations to all those posting their own anniversaries. Love is good. Nice to know there is some out there in the world.
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
Nothing wrong with getting older and fatter. My wife and I are coming up on 15. She’s slightly older and more than slightly fatter, but she’s still the best thing that ever happened to me.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@debbie: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/wp/2014/12/10/scott-walker-to-jewish-constituent-molotov/?utm_term=.cd51fdd568ea
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Patricia Kayden:
I thought the same thing.
Virginia
Congrats to the Crackers! Keep enjoying every day. They are all gifts.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@raven: We were all 18 in some yesterday.
debbie
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Too funny. How could I have missed that?
jl
Lady Cracker is so sweet and beautiful. No wonder all the creatures great and small, cute and cuddly, and ugly gross, emerge from the swamp to seek her blessing.
Edit: actually, I don’t know that she is all that sweet. Maybe kind of cranky from evidence at this here blog. But, it sounds better that way.
JPL
hmmm Betty, we might need you to post again this evening. Sorry the celebrations will have to wait
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-administration-moves-to-return-russian-compounds-in-maryland-and-new-york/2017/05/31/3c4778d2-4616-11e7-98cd-af64b4fe2dfc_story.html?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.ad3022b6c2f8
Graham and McCain will feign shock, and then move along.
Tilda Swintons Bald Cap
Ha ha.
marcopolo
Great photo! Happy Anniversary & may there be many many more. My grandparents married at 19 & 17 and managed to get in a 75th before all was said and done. Me, not so much but then I’d have to get married first :).
Baud
@JPL: Gearing up for 2018 midterms.
David Anderson
Congratulations Betty
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.):
Can we assume she doesn’t read this blog?
sharl
Happy Anniversary!
And like so many others have already said, that is a nice photo of you two!
Jeffro
Congrats Betty!
This November…assuming we make it through this week’s ahem “disagreements”..,will be me and Mrs Fro’s 20th as well.
I give it 60:40 odds…
Barbara
Happy anniversary! This year we celebrate our 28th.
jl
sorry, forgot: congratulations on your anniversary.
zhena gogolia
Happy anniversary! You look so sweet.
Major Major Major Major
Congrats!
Baud
@Tilda Swintons Bald Cap: Excellent.
seaboogie
Grrrlllll – you cute – and your hubby too! You are one of my elevator people – if I got stuck in one with you (and I have been in that sitch, with a super-cool old woman), I’d tell the Otis repairmen to take a break and just send down some food and adult beverages. Love your zesty writing, and thanks for sharing your pic – Happy Anniversary!
Steeplejack
Happy anniversary, Betty!
Fine-looking pair of Crackro-Americans in that picture.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@jl:
Dealing with the likes of you would make anyone cranky.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Great picture, and congratulations!
spudgun
Congrats to the happy couple! (OMG, Betty, you’re so cute!)
SiubhanDuinne
Since it’s an open thread, I want to share something I noticed over at Charlie Pierce’s place but haven’t seen mentioned here (not that I’ve read through all the threads yet).
It seems Joe and Mika have been named Fellows at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government*, per an article in The Hill (link).
That would be weird enough, of course, but here is the entirety of the announcement in The Hill:
The piece says nothing about Joe’n’Mika’s qualifications. It devotes many more words to Mika’s father’s obituary than it does in total to why they were selected for this honour. Not a word about Joe’s Congressional career. The fact that they are engaged and that Zbig died last week seem to carry more weight than any reason as to why either of them is equipped for the job.
Oh.
Okay.
*(CPP identifies the position at being at the Kennedy School of Government; The Hill says Harvard Institute of Politics. I have no idea whether these are the same, totally different, or somehow related to each other, and I don’t feel like poking around the cybers to find out.)
Dave
Happy Anniversary! Love the pic.
Dave in Nevada
NoraLenderbee
Congratulations and may you have many more!
Mike in NC
Congrats on # 20. For us it’ll be 23 years come September.
Odie Hugh Manatee
Congratulations!! The journey through life is good with a trusted companion alongside you, eyeing your dinner plate. ;)
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
@West of the Rockies (been a while): You can. She knows she’s fatter, though. And she’s as lovely asa she was when I met her.
Roger Moore
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Apparently, most states still have no absolute legal minimum age for marriage. Minors require parental and/or judicial approval to marry, but if they can get their parents and/or a judge to sign off on it, they can get married when they’re 12 or younger. FTNYT recently had an article on it.
SiubhanDuinne
@spudgun:
Isn’t she?!?! Adorbs as all get-out.
geg6
Oh, have a wonderful anniversary! Those two young Crackers look adorable.
Dinner, then the Pens game. Exhausting day, spent taking both pups to the vet. Turned into about a two hour ordeal. But they had every test and scheduled vaccines and we got some anti-anxiety meds for Lovey to take on the road trip to Bradenton, so it’s all good. In fact, it seems neither is as fat as I thought they were.
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
@JPL: Yes. Because of course, he is. Russia is just tragically misunderstood and was shamefully abused by Obama. As is Putin.
jl
@?BillinGlendaleCA: But no one has the eerie radioactive Simi Valley glow of BillinGlendaleCA. Sorry you felt slighted by my praise of Lady Cracker’s beauty. Don’t go be jealous now.
Tazj
Congratulations! That’s a sweet photo of you both.
Anne Laurie
Happy anniversary, Betty, and may the two of you share many more happy years!
(Maybe by the 25th anniversary of my wedding next August, I’ll have dug up some pics… )
xane
Sweet foto of two dolls–congratulations on y’all’s years together! ❤️
Aleta
Happy Anniversary. Cute outfit. Beautiful girl.
Kurzleg
Congrats, Betty!
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.):
You sound like a happy fellow — congratulations, sir!
schrodingers_cat
OMG you look so sweet, appearances are deceptive! That’s story with me and husband kitteh too, he is skinnier though he eats more. Sad..
ETA: Happy Anniversary! You look like HRC Jr, you should run for President.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Roger Moore: This marriage was back in the 30’s.
ruemara
Congratulations! And many, many more happy years together. And cake, lots of cake.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@jl: I generally have avoided Slimi Valley, we used to only go there for the drive-in(until TO got one) and Kmart(until TO got one). We always tended to look down on our northeastern neighbors, kind of reminded us of Fresno(or Fresno reminded us of Simi Valley).
hedgehog the occasional commenter
Congratulations! Beautiful pic.
Woodrowfan
a sweet photo. Happy Anniversary..
seaboogie
@SiubhanDuinne: Maybe think of it as the Harvard equivalent to Kindergarden “Graduation” ceremonies. I guess we silly humans need a reason to place meaning and have a ceremony where none really belongs just to have something to do. Did Harvard honor Zbig when he was alive? (Too lazy to google to challenge this comment right now…)
Woodrowfan
@schrodingers_cat: she can’;t, I hear she uses email…
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@SiubhanDuinne: from vague memory, the Kennedy School of Gov’t seems to give those positions to a lot of media people. Pretty sure O’reilly had one, maybe tweety
jl
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Well, you were under the influence of Simi Valley How about radioactive Simi Hills glow? that OK. BTW, .the feeling of contempt seems to be mutual. I hear vague insults on both side of the hills toward those low class plebs on the other.
Now, off with you, lad. I’ll be admiring Lady Cracker a bit more, then I have to do some errands.
HinTN
@ a href="#comment-6405551″>ThresherK:
This!
Also, coming up on 23 in August.
Congratulations all around!
Craig McMahon
congratulations!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@jl: I never saw the hills glow, but I did feel the rumble and shaking when they’d test out the Saturn V rocket engines.
No, there is no truth to those insults from our northwest neighbors, ALL LIES!
mai naem mobile
Congrats Betty. Nice pic. You basically look like what I kind of expected you to look like.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Al Franken.
Yoda Dog
Congrats, Betty!!!
JPL
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.): I assume that the golden showers tape won’t be released now.
btw .. I asked my son what that meant, only so I could tell a friend who was curious also.
Iowa Old Lady
Congratulations, Betty. I love how happy you look in that pic.
A Ghost to Most
Happy 20th, Betty.
Martha
We just celebrated our 20th so many, many congratulations to you!
trollhattan
Congratulations! May you have twenty more and another twenty after that. And boxers and chickens. Also, too.
Olivia
Happy Anniversary! Wishing you many more happy years. Thanks so much for being here, you keep me sane!
ingrediorum
Gee Ms Cracker, you sure know how to make a man look good in a tuxedo… Congratulations!
Mnemosyne
Congratulations! ????
divF
Happy 20th, Ms. C (and Mr. C) !
tobie
Congratulations Betty and Mister B on your 20th anniversary! Celebrate the good times had and the good times to come.
Calouste
@Это курам на смех: Coincidentally, it’s 50 years ago tomorrow that Sgt. Pepper’s was released.
But I don’t think the Lonely Hearts Club Band was getting a lot of wedding gigs. Unless they played under a different name.
low-tech cyclist
Congrats, Betty! And congrats to your mister too!
My wife and I celebrated #26 (the playing-with-half-a-deck) anniversary a couple weeks back. This marriage business is a sweet thing indeed, if you’re going through life with someone wonderful.
Another Scott
Happy anniversary Betty, and everyone! (Ours is in December.)
I always pictured you as a brunette, probably due to your “it’s a casserole, silly” profile picture. ;-) Pictures of happy people are always welcome, and that’s a great one.
Cheers,
Scott.
Omnes Omnibus
Congratulations!
Rosalita
Happy anniversary to you! Wishing you many more ❤️
Happy also too to have a face to go with the pen name, you’re just as I pictured you.
Lapassionara
Happy anniversary! you rock!
eclare
Late as usual, congratulations!
Bill
@Baud: I like the cut of your jape, sir.
The Fat Kate Middleton
Lovely, lovely photo – and such a darling couple! Congratulations! I remember our 20th – I said to my husband, I think we’re really married now. And now it’s been 52 years – so *really*married. It does just get better and better from now on.
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
@West of the Rockies (been a while): I am indeed happy. Sometimes it almost scares me how lucky I’ve been in my life.
Roger Moore
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
And except for Loving and Obergefell, most states’ marriage laws haven’t changed much since then.
mainmata
Pretty damn nice looking woman you are and, fortunately for your hubby and the rest of us also a great wit and analyst. Yours truly, a fan
Ocotillo
Wow, congratulations. I really enjoy your writing. Best wishes and love to you and the Mr.
John Weiss
Congratulations for picking well. It took me four times to get it right, but any time is the right time to get sumptin’ right. R and I are celebrating our 34th this year. Indeed, life can be sweet with the right companion. Good on both of you, good fortune and a clear horizon to you all.
jw
mainmata
@SiubhanDuinne: Harvard has a disgusting habit of hiring Republican “safe” Establishment people for the Kennedy School. Of course, their Business School is famous for graduating some of the most Randian, corrupt business executives round.
StringOnAStick
Congratulations! On your marriage and on your cartoons because how you’ve drawn yourself (the tree frog post especially) is exactly what you look like here; both are things to be proud of.
Manyakitty
Mazel tov to you and the mister! Wishing for many more happy years together!
HRA
Happy Anniversary!
We celebrated our 33rd on May 26.
dexwood
Love the picture. Thanks for sharing. Congratulations. Coming up on 42 years for us this summer.
RSA
Congratulations! You guys look adorable.
Betsy
What a darling picture. Congratulations and felicitations! And many, many happy returns of the day.
Gravenstone
Best wishes on your anniversary, Betty. Unfortunately, my memories of the date are much darker. Take pleasures in your life where you find them.
Doug!
Adorable picture!
Peter H Desmond
that picture is wonderful. best wishes for scores more of anniversaries!
Betsy
@?BillinGlendaleCA: @Cacti: @Immanentize: My gggg-grandparents were not married particularly young, but were first cousins. And one of their grandsons married a woman, had children with her, then after he was widowed married her sister and produced a second set of offspring with her. She also raised her sister’s kids and they called her “Aunt Mother.”
Tehanu
Happy anniversary to my favorite Saltine-American! Gosh, you look pretty. And I bet you still do. Congrats!
Brachiator
Wow! Very cool photo. So sweet. Congratulations!!
SFBayAreaGal
Happy Anniversary to the both of you. I hope the both of you have many more.
J R in WV
Betty,
Congratulations, you young’ens.
And many happy returns!
JR
Lyrebird
Late to the party again, but couldn’t miss a chance to wish the two of you twenty and twenty and however many more happy and healthy years together! Thanks for sharing your writing gift with us!
Mnemosyne
Anyone up for a discussion of our favorite wedding photos (from our own weddings)?
My favorite is of my matron of honor (aka my BFF of 15+ years at that point), me, and my groom (G) standing on a dais during the MOH’s toast. She has her hand to her forehead as she describes one of our college road trips, I’m laughing so hard that I’m almost falling over backwards, and G has a look like, Oh, crap, what have I gotten myself into?
stinger
Congratulations to Ms. and Mr. Cracker and the whole Cracker family! Great pic and great story!
Olivia
@Mnemosyne: My favorite photo of my wedding is the one with my grandpa in it. I don’t think I have another one of him before he was gone 10 months later. I have his diary and in the entry for that day he just wrote that it was my wedding that day and he danced danced all night. He was the smartest man I ever knew and he had to quit school in the 5th grade to work on the farm with his elderly father. He is the one I would choose to be stranded with on a deserted island because he could survive anything.
JGabriel
A Belated Happy Anniversary to you and Bridegroom Cracker, Betty!
Elizabelle
Happy Anniversary, Betty! You and the Mr. are an attractive couple. And life seems to have worked out well for you two.
Yeah, you do have a little bit of the young Hillary look, also young Molly Ivins. 3 formidable women. And you’ve got the NFLTG persona down (you beat HRC to it, in person, but she’s there now).
Amir Khalid
Somehow, I’d already figured out you wore glasses. ;) You look so sweet in that wedding photo, and the mister looks a handsome fellow.
Why do people say that glasses make a woman less attractive? As far as I have ever noticed, they don’t.
HeartlandLiberal
Congratulations on the milestone. Hang in there, aim high. My wife and I just celebrated #53 together.
P.S. you look just like my beloved Aunt Madeleine, so that is more evidence you are a good person.
Wyatt Derp
Happy anniversary Mr. and Mrs. C. Thanks for all you do.
PS It’s cute you think he’s checking out your “food”.
LAllen
Me and my spouse have been together for 44 years, she asked me out first cause my grandmother told her that I didn’t get to go places much. I think you were cute.
SWMBO
Belated congratulations! OldDave and I are at 39 last February. Many many more to you and Mr. Cracker!