A Kansas City couple is celebrating their 40th anniversary this week and using a long-lost gift certificate to mark the milestone. Tim and Melinda O’Brien were married in 1983 and decided to take a wedding night getaway to the downtown old Muehlebach Hotel. As they were getting ready for their upcoming anniversary on June 25, they realized they had a gift certificate for the local hotel. A room in 1983 was just $38. “I was going through our old wedding album and there was a certificate right there,” Tim O’Brien said. “I wonder if they’ll still honor this.” The exact room the couple stayed in isn’t available 40 years later, but the hotel is honoring the certificate 40 years later. “I can’t take credit for that marketing initiative, but we have some rooms that are very comparable,” said Dustin Holcumbrink, the hotel manager. They plan to use the honeymoon certificate next Sunday on their anniversary and stay at the hotel again. They also plan to make a couple of stops in the downtown area as well, which is also something they didn’t have time to do 40 years ago.
A Kansas City couple is celebrating their 40th anniversary this week and using a long-lost gift certificate to mark the milestone.
Tim and Melinda O’Brien were married in 1983 and decided to take a wedding night getaway to the downtown old Muehlebach Hotel.
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As they were getting ready for their upcoming anniversary on June 25, they realized they had a gift certificate for the local hotel. A room in 1983 was just $38.
“I was going through our old wedding album and there was a certificate right there,” Tim O’Brien said. “I wonder if they’ll still honor this.”
The exact room the couple stayed in isn’t available 40 years later, but the hotel is honoring the certificate 40 years later.
“I can’t take credit for that marketing initiative, but we have some rooms that are very comparable,” said Dustin Holcumbrink, the hotel manager.
They plan to use the honeymoon certificate next Sunday on their anniversary and stay at the hotel again. They also plan to make a couple of stops in the downtown area as well, which is also something they didn’t have time to do 40 years ago.
