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“Fit, fun and friendly seeks attractive male” began the Evening News advert which five years on led to marriage.
Ann Jack, 50, placed a personal ad in the paper in 2002 in the hope of finding her dream partner.
With 500 responses and 50 unsuccessful dates she finally met her Rob Jack, 54, and now the couple have just tied the knot.
Mrs Jack, a legal adviser from Munnings Road, Heartsease, said: “It was the first time I had put an ad in the paper and I met 50 of them - sometimes it was for a cup of coffee or a tea and sometimes we went to a pub - but it was always somewhere public to be safe.
“Sometimes the men told a few tall tales of what they looked like. I even walked up to the wrong person a few times because they'd described themselves so differently.”
Rob, a kitchen and bathroom designer, replied to Ann's advert and after talking on the phone, the pair decided to meet. They arranged to get together on a Saturday night in July 2002 at the city's Adam and Eve pub and instantly clicked.
Mrs Jack said: “I was attracted to his friendly voice, we chatted and had a couple of drinks, it went very well.'' After their first date, the pair met again regularly.
Mrs Jack said: “He's a genuine, caring, honest, reliable man who's broadened my horizons.
“Then in July last year I was admitted to hospital with an angina attack and when I came out Rob proposed. When he got the ring he went down on one knee.”
The lovebirds planned their wedding for May 5 at Norwich Spiritualist Church. Mrs Jack chose her dress with the help of her daughter Nicki, 26, and asked her 85-year-old father Bill Bailey to give her away.
Mrs Jack said: “Our reception was at Acle social club as we play crib there. Rob's speech was lovely - he said he didn't believe in angels before he met me but now he had married one.”
By LUCY BOLTON
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