Sixty years later, his wife Glenise (nee Moore) says he most certainly has.
The pair met in the early 1950s at a Bible class get-together in Invercargill.
''I just saw this row of girls and I said to my sister, 'hey, keep an eye on her','' Mr Weir said from their Mosgiel home yesterday.
She, however, had barely noticed the young man.
Time passed and eventually that young man walked in to her workplace - a dental office in Christchurch - and asked her out.
But unusually, for a couple married 60 years, there was never a proposal.
''I really didn't have time,'' Mr Weir (81) said.
He had driven from his home in Oamaru to ask the question, but had been held up by a train sharing the Waitaki Bridge.
''It was getting pretty late that night, by the time I got to Christchurch. So, there were no questions asked. I just said, 'here, we're off to buy an engagement ring'.''
They married in Bryndwr Gospel Chapel, Christchurch on May 28, 1955 and farmed in the Waitaki Valley, before moving to a 600ha unbroken Oamaru farm they called Reremoana.
As a team, they turned the wild land into wheat fields and pasture, farming chickens, sheep, pigs and cattle.
They had five children, Ross, Junelle, Brendon, Deane and Averil.
They eventually moved to another farm east of Milton, before retiring to Mosgiel in 1999.
''I think we've learned to pull together through the rough patches,'' Mr Weir said.
''And life does throw you rough patches. But I don't know if we've ever had a good scrap. I just didn't want anybody else. I got what I wanted.''
Mrs Weir (81) agreed: ''I'm quite satisfied with what I've got.''
They had already celebrated their anniversary with more than 50 family members and friends by spending Anzac weekend in Queenstown.
Their four surviving children live in Australia, Waikato, Christchurch and Queenstown.
They have nine grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
by Craig Borley
