Minutes after saying their wedding vows Friday afternoon at the Sumner County Administration Building, Lauren and David Blair were wished many happy years of marriage by passersby.

The odds are on their side.

The Hendersonville couple have been married 30 years — and are pros at saying “I do.”

Lauren and David Blair, the world’s most married couple according to Guinness World Records, renewed their vows last week for the 109th time during a ceremony held in the County Commission Chambers in Gallatin.

“The first time we got married was the best time, but each one of our weddings is really meaningful,” Lauren Blair, 63, said. “We allow the minister or whomever it is to write his own vows for us, and some of them have come up with some really great ones.”

The couple, married since May 6, 1984, have exchanged vows at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Ohio, the Tennessee Performing Arts Center in Nashville, a funeral parlor in Kentucky and at a tailgate party before a Titans game at LP Field. They have also been married in Canada, London, Aruba and Scotland.

“It’s incredible,” said Sumner County Executive Anthony Holt, who married the couple on Friday. “This is the first renewal of vows that I’ve done. This couple are truly committed to each other, and I’m just glad to be a part of it.”

After their first marriage, a church wedding for their families a day later and then another free wedding while on their honeymoon in Las Vegas, the Blairs decided to see if there was a world record for the couple with the most weddings.

There was. It took the couple nearly 17 years and the renewing of their vows 56 more times in order for them to break it.

“It’s just something that we’re very much in love, and we thought that this would be one way that we could really share that,” Lauren Blair said. “We just really love each other and David loves looking into my eyes and saying, ‘Yes, I want to marry you again.’ ”

1 ‘no’, 109 ‘I do’s’

Lauren and David Blair first met on Sept. 9, 1982 while in the commissary at Universal Studios where they both worked. At the time, Lauren was an executive secretary and David was a set lighting technician.

“I looked across the counter there, and I knew the first time I laid eyes on her that that was the woman I was going to marry,” David Blair, 61, said about their first meeting. “It was just love at first sight.”

For Lauren, however, the feeling was not quite mutual.

“He wasn’t exactly what I was looking for,” Lauren Blair said laughing. “I’d been with musicians most of my life, and I wanted some guy in a three-piece suit and that is not what he wears.”

Even after moving to sit next to Lauren, David — who had worked with famous directors including Steven Spielberg and stars such as Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton — was speechless.

“I didn’t want to blow any chance that I had,” he said. “I had to think of the right thing to say.”

The two began talking and after a couple of months David popped the question and asked Lauren to marry him. To his surprise, though, she said no.

“I had just gotten out of a 10-year relationship, so naturally I still wanted to get back with him, but David did everything he could to change my mind,” Lauren Blair said. “So, when he asked me to marry him, I said ‘no,’ and then I went to my cousin’s wedding about five months later where I caught the bouquet, and I knew it was a sign.”

No end in sight

Despite holding the record for the most marriage vows renewals, the Blairs say they’re just like any other married couple.

And, yes, they do have arguments.

“We just have this thing of, ‘Well I’m not going to marry you again,’ ” Lauren Blair said laughing. “You can always hold that over his head.”

While the couple haven’t decided when or where they will renew their vows for the 110th time, they said they would like to get married at the Hard Rock in Maui.

“We’re not going to quit. We’re just going to keep doing it,” Lauren Blair said. “It just proves that love is still alive and people can stay married for longer than four years.”