A SILVER Couple Gets Their Last Wedding
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D.C. It was good for “one teaspoon, one place knife and one place fork in ‘Rose’ by Stieff.” In an interview with Present 50 Years Late
Traditionally, the 25th wedding anniversary is the “silver anniversary.” But Maryland couple George and Cathy Jones celebrated their 50th anniversary with silver when they redeemed a gift certificate they’d received in 1969. Last November, George and Cathy Jones celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. A few weeks before the big day, they pulled out their wedding album and took a walk down
their local news station, the Joneses revealed that
they’d been building a set of Stieff Silver for years. They had always meant to redeem the gift certificate but never got around to making the almost hourlong drive from their home in Anne Arundel County to D.C. Though the certificate had expired, George decided to try his luck when he learned Bensons Jewelers was still open. George emailed the store owner, Ken Stein, who was delighted to honor the gift certificate. The factory that once produced the utensils had stopped making silver in 2007, but Ken was willing to buy the utensils from a reseller. “Oh, I lost money,” Ken admitted in an interview. “But I’ve gained a customer and I gained a good story out of it. I think it’s a cool thing to do.” To celebrate, George and Cathy broke in their new silverware at dinner with their great-granddaughter. Talk about a late wedding present!
memory lane. Among the photos and other mementos, they found a wedding present they’d long forgotten: a gift certificate for three pieces of silver.
The certificate, which had been a gift from Cathy’s then-boss, was from Bensons Jewelers in downtown Washington,
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