SOMBA K'E/YELLOWKNIFE - After an 18 year probation period, 76-year-old Ann Enge-White and 62-year-old Charlie White finally tied the knot last month.

Newlyweds Ann Enge-White, 76, and Charlie White, 62, have never been more in love. The couple were pictured at their home on Sunday. - Charlotte Hilling/NNSL photo

"I was thinking, well, it's time to settle down with him," said Ann.

The couple were married at Hot Shots Pup and Grub, Oct. 17 after a five year engagement and 16 years of living together.

The pair met in 1991 at the Royal Canadian Legion where Ann liked to go dancing every Friday.

It was the beginning of Labour Day Weekend when Ann saw Charlie sitting by himself.

She asked him to dance because she though he would be a good dancer, from the look of him.

Ann's expectation were not met, but she was willing to look past this minor flaw, especially since he was a quick learner.

"She taught him in no time at all," said Audrey Enge, Ann's daughter.

They moved in together in 1993, and five years ago Charlie proposed to Ann on Christmas Eve.

"I got down on one knee and I said, will you marry me?" he said.

"And she never did till now," he added with a laugh.

Last September Ann broached the subject of a wedding date.

"I said, what about it?" said Ann. She added, "sure, I've been waiting for this a long time, Charlie said."

Charlie told her to name a date and he'd be there.

"I said, how about October 17? I just picked it out of my hat," she said.

It then fell to Ann's daughter, Audrey, to organize the shin-dig in just a few weeks.

Friends and family packed Hot Shots for the wedding and reception. The couple shared their first dance as newly weds to the song, You Are My Flower, one of Ann's favourites.

Ann's illness, rendering her increasingly immobile, did not stop her enjoying the occasion.

"I just love that song," she said. "After I left the dance area I said, don't forget to sing that song at my funeral."

But has marriage changed the couple?

"I think it's changed them, just by watching them. I've never seem them so lovey-dovey," said Audrey.

"They're always calling each other and saying, oh husband, and Mrs. White."