Claire and Robert Palmyre celebrate Golden Wedding |01 June 2020
Mr and Mrs Palmyre surrounded by their three children – Ronny (left), Sandra and Fabian
It was with great joy, happiness, lots of love and much emotion flowing between them that Claire, better known as Isabelle, and Robert Palmyre celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on Saturday May 30 quietly at their home at St Louis.
Speaking to Seychelles NATION on Sunday afternoon, Mrs Palmyre said 50 years down the road they still recall the most memorable and romantic day of their lives as if it was yesterday.
“Oh it was such a wonderful moment for both of us. We were so happy and so romantically in love and on that day we were surrounded by family and friends but unfortunately for our Golden Wedding Jubilee we could not be surrounded by relatives and friends because of health restrictions related to the coronavirus,” lamented Mrs Palmyre.
She said only their three children – Fabian, Sandra and Ronny – and their families were present this time.
Mrs Palmyre, aged 70, and her husband (69) have three grandchildren and today they are happily enjoying their retirement at home.
A former nurse, Mrs Palmyre still vividly recalls that memorable day she met her husband to be when she was aged 20 years and him only 19.
“It was at a wedding reception which I did not want to go because I was working night shift that day. But my brother, who was acting as my father because the latter had passed away some two years previously, was very strict and my mother also agreed that we should attend the wedding even for a couple of hours,” remembered Mrs Palmyre.
She said in the end everything turned out well for her because she met a wonderful gentleman with a very pleasant and attractive smile who captured her heart until today 50 years later they are still so much in love.
Originally from Anse Aux Pins, Mrs Palmyre married her handsome knight who swept her off her feet only some nine months after they met.
Born from a Seychellois mother and foreign father, Mrs Palmyre recalled that Mr Palmyre “was a very brave and frank gentleman who did not hesitate to make his feelings known to her big brother and her mother”.
Their wedding, which took place at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, was an additionally very romantic affair followed by a reception at the Gardenia restaurant situated opposite the Belonie school then.
“In general our married life has been a happy one. He has been a wonderful and understanding husband. We have both tried to understand and make up with each other’s faults and shortcomings which in the end we could overcome to make our married life a happy one,” said Mrs Palmyre.
At one time a prison warden, an immigration officer, among other jobs, Mr Palmyre was a very hardworking man and a wonderful father, his wife remarked.
The couple is living happily surrounded by their children and grandchildren and Mrs Palmyre is keen to have the Golden Jubilee properly blessed during a thanksgiving ceremony at the right time in the near future.
Marie-Anne Lepathy