Karam and Kartari Chand (pictured), of Girlington, have celebrated an incredible 89 years of marriage. Friends and family gathered to help the pair celebrate only weeks after they held a joint birthday party for Mr Chand, 109, and Mrs Chand, 102. Their son Paul Chand said he was “very emotional”.
Asked whether they were now looking ahead to a possible 90th anniversary next year, he said every day was a blessing.
He said: “We don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow morning, so let’s enjoy what we have got.”
The couple were married in a Sikh ceremony in the Punjab in 1925 during the height of the British Raj. Their family now consists of four generations with a huge family tree stretching down from Mr and Mrs Chand and including some 30 grandchildren and 30 great grandchildren.
