BP MARKOWITZ, WIFE JAMIE TO TOAST HUNDREDS OF BROOKLYN SWEETHEARTS MARRIED FOR A HALF-CENTURY OR MORE AT ANNUAL VALENTINE’S EVENT

1:00 P.M. – 3:00 P.M.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12
EL CARIBE COUNTRY CLUB
5945 STRICKLAND AVENUE
AT 56TH DRIVE
MILL BASIN

On Friday, February 12, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz and his wife, Jamie, will raise a glass to more than three hundred Brooklyn couples still lovestruck by Cupid’s arrow. The celebration at the El Caribe Country Club in Mill Basin will also feature the sweethearts renewing their wedding vows.

Among this year’s inspiring stories of never-ending nuptials:

• A Canarsie Park couple married for 62 years that will make you do a double take. They are one half of a pair of identical twins that married another set of identical twins at a double wedding—and they’re still going strong. After World War II, the groom and his brother, both musicians, were offered a gig at a mountain resort, where they met twin sisters working as waitresses. Their secret to a long and happy marriage? “Obedience,” he says.
• Two husband and wife teams from Dyker Heights for whom longevity and successful marriages run in the family. Married for 61 years, one couple is neck and neck with their uncle, who has been hitched to his bride for 65 years. Together they will celebrate more than a century of wedded bliss.
• She was only five years old when she stole his heart. Of course, it was many years later—after dating one another off and on—that fate and the stars finally aligned, and this Sheepshead Bay couple tied the knot. Now, 53 years later, these childhood sweethearts owe their five-plus decades of happiness to “persistence, patience and unwavering devotion.”
• Under the archway of Erasmus Hall High school, this Prospect Lefferts Gardens couple met as teenagers, fell in love and have been life partners for 52 years. They truly live up to their vows of “in sickness and in health,” as they both battled cancer together and survived to become stronger and more united than ever—not to mention avid jet skiers!