Love is in the air! The bride, Ada Laurie Bryant is 97 while the lucky groom, Robert Mitchell Haire is 86. Well, just 11 years difference. A minister and a son of the bride officiated the wedding at the home of the groom, (a chemical engineer who finished from Vanderbilt University) in Delaware, USA. The bride is keeping her name. She was a widow while the groom was a widower. Both met in 2007 when Mr. Haire and his first wife moved into a retirement community in Delaware. Mrs. Bryant had been there since 200, and her first husband died there. In a short while, the two ladies became close friends until she died in 2011 of Lou Gehrig's disease. In August 2011, Mr. Haire asked Mrs. Bryant, an artist to paint a mural of his late wife. She did and he was 'blown away' by the art work. Then he asked her to help select the perfect frame at a local shop (onibara nba ole bo....lol). Then then had lunch in the tearoom only for both to discover they had a lot to say about each other. Ogalagaju!
Then they started to go for regular lunch dates and became quite close with those in the community seeing them as a 'couple'. In January 2012, he slipped a song vowing 'friendship and affection' under her apartment door, and he said it represented how he felt about their relationship as a couple. He was afraid to give it to her personally (Bobo yii o ti e le!). Hear him:
“I was desperately trying to strike a balance between too timid or bold. I didn’t want to mess things up,” he said about the courtship. “I can attest that it doesn’t get easier even in advanced age.”Well, the next morning, his worries disappeared. A note was on his apartment door. It was from Mrs. Bryant. She was very happy with the sonnet and said “she would heartily enter into that relationship.”
One of her daughters, Jane recalled talking to her mum on phone at that time:
“Her voice was kind of glowing. She loved having someone to talk to again. Since my father died, she just didn’t have someone to talk to in the deepest sense.”Then came Valentine’s Day, and Mr. Haire presented her with a sapphire which would be used later as an engagement ring. She turned down the proposal at first but after a few days, she accepted it, but as a friendship ring. Kai! Women sha!
“I said, ‘I’d very much like you to accept it in whatever way you’d like,” Mr. Haire said.
The feelings went deeper and in March, he wrote her another poem and by April 2012, they confessed love for each other. The issue of marriage came up from time to time but he didn't never pushed it.
“I told her repeatedly that whatever care she needed, I’d already committed to,” Mr. Haire said. “She could rely on me no matter whether we married or not.”
Well, she finally agreed to his proposal in August 2012 and they would move later to her apartment after the wedding (close your eyes joor! No be Naija!)
On why she turned him down at first, she says: “There’s a great difference in our ages, as you can see,” she said. “I didn’t think it was the thing to do because I don’t have that many years ahead of me, but he said, ‘That’s all the more reason.’ I like him very much. I love him. So we’re going to be married.”
Then they started to go for regular lunch dates and became quite close with those in the community seeing them as a 'couple'. In January 2012, he slipped a song vowing 'friendship and affection' under her apartment door, and he said it represented how he felt about their relationship as a couple. He was afraid to give it to her personally (Bobo yii o ti e le!). Hear him:
“I was desperately trying to strike a balance between too timid or bold. I didn’t want to mess things up,” he said about the courtship. “I can attest that it doesn’t get easier even in advanced age.”Well, the next morning, his worries disappeared. A note was on his apartment door. It was from Mrs. Bryant. She was very happy with the sonnet and said “she would heartily enter into that relationship.”
One of her daughters, Jane recalled talking to her mum on phone at that time:
“Her voice was kind of glowing. She loved having someone to talk to again. Since my father died, she just didn’t have someone to talk to in the deepest sense.”Then came Valentine’s Day, and Mr. Haire presented her with a sapphire which would be used later as an engagement ring. She turned down the proposal at first but after a few days, she accepted it, but as a friendship ring. Kai! Women sha!
“I said, ‘I’d very much like you to accept it in whatever way you’d like,” Mr. Haire said.
The feelings went deeper and in March, he wrote her another poem and by April 2012, they confessed love for each other. The issue of marriage came up from time to time but he didn't never pushed it.
“I told her repeatedly that whatever care she needed, I’d already committed to,” Mr. Haire said. “She could rely on me no matter whether we married or not.”
Well, she finally agreed to his proposal in August 2012 and they would move later to her apartment after the wedding (close your eyes joor! No be Naija!)
On why she turned him down at first, she says: “There’s a great difference in our ages, as you can see,” she said. “I didn’t think it was the thing to do because I don’t have that many years ahead of me, but he said, ‘That’s all the more reason.’ I like him very much. I love him. So we’re going to be married.”
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