Kemp and Doreen McGechie share a photo of them on their wedding day 70 years ago. Photo / George Novak
How many people can say they know a couple who have been married for 70 years? Even buying a 70th wedding anniversary card can prove difficult.
But today, Kemp and Doreen McGechie are celebrating their platinum anniversary with friends and family at the Bernadette Home in Mount Maunganui, where theylive.
Kemp, 92, and Doreen, 89, met in 1949 on a farm in Ōtūmoetai when Doreen went to live with her sister and brother-in-law, who were boarding with Kemp.
Kemp was working on the farm when Doreen moved in and "met trouble".
It was a time when the only thing apart from farmland in Ōtūmoetai was the primary school. "It was all cow paddocks," Kemp said.