Interestingly enough…I started working backwards on this topic. In my experience with Jonell Kirby Cash in the process of publishing her first work of fiction, “A RING A DANCE A SECOND CHANCE” I had many followers ask about seniors getting married. Some people wanted to know about etiquette while others wanted to know about legal issues.
At first I thought….”Well, this is a book about romance and relationships, but not necessarily about a wedding”. Then I asked myself…”Are late life marriages on the rise since people are living longer?” If people are reading the book and are interested in the topic…I need to know! With Jonell at work on the prequel…perhaps this meat needs to be included in the plot…plus everyone loves a wedding! I decided to GOOGLE some of my questions.
For my research I chose phrases such as “senior bride” “late life wedding” and “getting married after 60”. I got information on SENIOR dress designers, LATE in the season wedding dates and music to play at the reception from the 60’s….hmmmm. I see a wide open platform! I changed my strategy and decided to look for information on “mature brides” “second weddings” and “getting married at any age”. My results covered MATURE living choices in housing, surviving heartbreak and why not to get married ever under any circumstances. Well…then I was just plain depressed…
I consulted a wedding planner who “will get back to me”, a wedding magazine editor who has yet to respond and then I went directly to THE source…that’s right…E Harmony. Com BINGO! It turns out that this online resource believes in love or at least they make a great business out of it and so it goes. In fact…they have a BLOG that not only covers the topic but leads seniors to other valuable tools.
Match.com now has a site especially for seniors called “senior people meet”.
Now…as this BLOG posts I have not compiled information on what dress is appropriate to wear or how to invite blended families with the proper format, but I can encourage you that love is out there if you want to find it. It has to be true that “there is someone for everyone” or everyone wouldn’t say it! Perhaps I am the new frontier woman clearing the path for the senior population to find the information they are looking for? With that spirit in mind…I am inventing my own word for Wikipedia as well for this population EPOCHitarian. Definition by Andrea: A person at a new beginning in their life marked by radical changes and new developments. Let’s start using it and see what happens!!!!!!!
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Andrea Williams
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