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Minnesota couple celebrates anniversary. They were married in Gulfport — SEVENTY years ago

Alexander Santos, his wife Heather, and their two-year-old son Noah eat wedding cake after the couple was married at Piedmont Columbus Regional’s Midtown Campus Wednesday afternoon. 07/20/2023
Alexander Santos, his wife Heather, and their two-year-old son Noah eat wedding cake after the couple was married at Piedmont Columbus Regional’s Midtown Campus Wednesday afternoon. 07/20/2023

As the 70th wedding anniversary of Carl and Muriel Ruffalo of Rochester, Minnesota, was approaching, their children decided they wanted to mark the occasion by putting on a big party.

That only seemed appropriate. Seventieth wedding anniversaries are exceedingly rare with only one in every 1,000 couples — or 0.1% — reaching the milestone. But the kids took it a step further to make the event even rarer: They invited and gathered together the entire wedding party from the nuptials held in 1955.

Now that’s a party.

To read more, visit the Rochester Post-Bulletin.

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