DAD WORE THE PAPER TIE HIS DAUGHTER MADE AT 5 TO HER WEDDING

A Wisconsin dad wore a laminated paper tie his daughter made him in 1997 to her wedding, just as he had joked he would when she was five. Glenn Becker had told his daughter, Megan Becker-Towns of Appleton, that the tie was lost in a move, but he had been hiding it in his toolbox the whole time, Metro reported.

Megan made the tie in an art class in 1997, using paper and crayons. It was a Father’s Day gift, and it was laminated to keep it looking sharp before she handed it over.

Glenn took the gift very seriously. He joked that he would keep it forever and wear it to her wedding day.

“When I was little, I would get excited again that he liked it so much he would wear it to my wedding,” Megan said.

A joke that outlasted her teenage years

Glenn hung the tie over his bedroom mirror, next to family photos, and it stayed there for years.

The joke did not age as well as the lamination. Megan, an email marketing specialist who was 29 when she shared the story, said she was not a fan during her teens.

“When I was a teenager I thought it was silly and would roll my eyes at him,” she said.

It did not help that her father had a reputation. “My dad is a big jokester, he always has been,” Megan said.

Then came 2018. Glenn and his wife, Jeannette Becker, moved homes, and when Megan visited she noticed the tie was no longer in its usual spot.

She asked her dad about it, and he told her it had been lost in the move.

“I was a little disappointed, but I did not think I was being pranked,” Megan said.

She let it go. The following year, she and her now-husband, Travis Towns, got engaged.

Glenn, as it turned out, had played the long game. The tie was not lost. He had tucked it away in his toolbox.

The wedding took place on October 29, 2021, according to Fashion Times.

Before the father-daughter dance, Glenn briefly slipped away. When he came back onto the dance floor, he was wearing the tie.

Megan did not catch it right away. She first noticed that her dad had changed his shoes.

“He came to the dance floor for our dance, I saw he had changed his shoes and I said ‘oh you changed your shoes already’,” she said.

Then Glenn left the dance floor again, and when he returned, the tie was on. “I was surprised and cried!” Megan said.

By the time he put it on, Glenn had kept the tie for 24 years, Onedio reported.

Megan said she decided to share the moment because of how it landed with the guests.

“So many people were touched at my wedding, I thought other people would be as well,” she said. “I just want to share what my dad did for me.”