American man and Danish woman who married in Dumfries celebrate golden wedding anniversary
dailyrecord.co.ukThe path to true love didn’t run smoothly at first for Harvey and Birgit Shaw. But the pair eventually found their way to Dumfries where they tied the knot at the “town hall” in Buccleuch Street.
The wedding only went ahead after they pulled two strangers off the street to witness the nuptials before taking them for tea at a pub in the town as a thank you for their duties.
That was 50 years ago tomorrow – August 23 – and Harvey and Birgit are still happily married living in Arizona with two daughters and three granddaughters.
Harvey recalled: “In 1971 I was travelling in Scotland with my friend, both of us from New York. “It was pouring with rain one night and we waited in a pub hall until it stopped. “When two pretty young ladies walked in, we started talking and discovered they were from Denmark. “The four of us spent the following days together, enjoying Edinburgh. “I really liked the girl I found out was Birgit, and when it came time for us to leave for London, she gave me a souvenir of a very thin rope like ring and her address.
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