Noel Burgess recalls it was a stinking hot day, 60 years ago, when he and Dot Curwood said "I do".
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"And some bright spark turned your collar back and put confetti down your shirt," Dot reminds him.
"It ruined the shirt," Noel says.
They met as youngsters at Hyde Street Central School. Noel cheekily says he was more interested in Dot's girlfriend at the time, although Dot doesn't think her girlfriend felt the same.
They got to know each other better at church activities.
"We were always together," Dot says. Noel played the euphonium in two bands. He reckons Dot fell in love with the uniform but Dot disagrees, she says it was the music.
After leaving school, Dot did clerical work and Noel a plumbing apprenticeship before joining the technical school system.
He remembers proposing quite clearly. "It was Dot's 19th birthday. I went into the city in the evening to sit a theory exam. When I returned home I went to her house to ask her father if I could marry her, but her parents were in bed."
They knocked tentatively on the bedroom door and Pearl, Dot's mother, nudged Bob, her dad, and said 'Wake up, Bob! Wake up!
Poor Bob was rudely stirred from his slumber and agreed to Noel's request.
"He'd have made it hard if it had been in the daytime," Noel says.
A series of promotions brought the couple to Bendigo. Noel stopped teaching because he lost his voice, then drove taxis for 16 years. "I loved meeting people in different circumstances." Dot worked in the pay office at the Home and Hospital for nearly 10 years.
They've been actively involved at the Woodbury Bowling Club where they are life members, having taken on various administration roles.
"We have a wonderful life," Dot says.
They have two daughters, Jennifer and Wendy, five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Dot says the marriage has lasted because, tongue-in-cheek, "We put up with one another." Noel says "Because I'm so nice."
Both agree you have to work at it. "We've had some bad times, really bad times," Noel adds.
The good times consisted of lots of cruising. They love it. They've been on the QE2 and the Queen Mary.
A 60th anniversary dinner was enjoyed at the Dispensary Enoteca with Jenny and Wendy.