Pat and Graeme Wignall on their 60 plus year long love

It was love at first sight, both agreed.

"From almost the day we met," Pat said.

"Just everything, we've always been together," Graeme said.

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"It started from a blind date and just stayed there."

Pat's friend wanted to go out with a boy and set up Pat with Graeme because Graeme had a car.

"My friend talked me in to going out with him because he had a car," Pat said.

The first date was supper and a drive in Mornington, Victoria.

"We both lived in Oakleigh, many people would go for a drive there along the coast," Graeme said.

Just four months after this chance blind date for a set of wheels, Pat and Graeme were engaged.

That first date was the night they fell in love.

"The night we went out, it was instant," Graeme said.

Graeme was due for a long trip away to Alice Springs, so he proposed before he left. He way away from May to October and worked as a mechanic around Australia.

"I said you've got to go but we've got to get engaged before you go away. He came back in November and we were married in the April," Pat said.

Despite being proposed to over sixty years ago, Pat still bursts into laughter after their engagement story.

"We got engaged parked at Elwood," she laughed.

"He never let me forget I said 'yes please'."

"It was a carpark, everyone would go down there," Graeme said.

They wrote letters to each other while Graeme was away, but was only able to have a few phone calls.

Pat was so excited when Graeme returned home.

"I was very happy," she said.

"It was work, eat, sleep. It was hard to find a phone," Graeme said.

Pat was 19 when they got married, and Graeme was 24.

They moved to Murtoa 26 years ago. Their house is strewn with photos of their family.

Pat said she gave Graeme a bit of a shock the other day.

"I said if we want to have a family dinner, we have the three girls, their children and our great grandchildren. That's 30 people. I don't think we'll be doing that," she said.

Pat and Graeme had three girls who now have children and grandchildren.

Pat said they enjoyed having their children early; they were able to have fun together.

"Our first one was born on your first wedding anniversary," Pat said.

"We're young enough to enjoy them even now."

Graeme said he believes their long marriage is that they never let arguments grow.

"If you have a blue, you have it and forget it," he said.

"Don't let it carry on."

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