Terri Irwin Marks What Would Have Been 33rd Wedding Anniversary with Late Husband Steve: 'Beautiful Memories'

Terri Irwin is marking a bittersweet milestone.

The American-Australian conservationist, 60, shared a photograph of her 1992 nuptials to precocious hubby Steve Irwin connected Instagram connected Tuesday, June 3 — what would person been their 33rd wedding anniversary. The photograph shows nan mates successful their wedding finery arsenic they posed together successful beforehand of a religion altar.

"Today, 33 years ago, Steve and I were joined successful my grandmother’s religion successful Oregon," she wrote successful nan caption. "And it was nan first time of my happily ever after."

She went connected to bespeak connected really her years pinch Steve — who died tragically successful 2006 astatine property 44 aft being pierced successful nan thorax by a stingray barb while filming successful nan Great Barrier Reef — person not been forgotten and proceed to animate her work.

"Every time I aftermath up pinch beautiful memories, truthful overmuch emotion successful my heart, and nan committedness of continuing his unthinkable legacy. I americium genuinely blessed.❤️," she concluded.

In nan comments, nan pair's 26-year-old daughter, Bindi Irwin, wrote: "The champion parents and existent psyche mates. Love you some beyond description. ❤️." She besides reshared Terri's station connected her Instagram Stories and wrote connected nan image, "Happy day to my beautiful mum and dad" and "Soulmates."

Terri's day station comes 4 months aft she marked nan time she and Steve sewage engaged. Alongside a black-and-white photo — showing nan mates embracing and Terri wearing her ringing — she wrote: "It was 33 years agone coming that Steve asked, and I said yes! 💍."

Last year, Terri — who met her early husband, a zookeeper and chap conservationist, while touring wildlife rehabilitation accommodation successful Australia successful 1991 — shared that she had no plans to day anyone.

“I wholly sewage my happily ever after,” she told Us Weekly ahead of nan 2024 Steve Irwin Gala, referring to her emotion communicative pinch The Crocodile Hunter star.

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“And while location are a batch of awesome men successful nan world, tin you spot different Steve Irwin? I conscionable can’t. I’d beryllium like, ‘I emotion that you’re a librarian and nan Dewey Decimal System is cool, but I sewage to spell jump a crocodile and do that.’ Forget that,” Terri added.

She besides told nan outlet that she's contented pinch being alone.

“I had nan champion matrimony successful nan full world for 14 years, and I’m very comfortable pinch nan personification I spot successful nan mirror,” she said. “So I’m okay to beryllium connected my ain now. And I’m lonely for Steve, but I’m not a lonely person, truthful I’m very lucky.”

In an question and reply pinch PEOPLE successful 2019, Terri recalled first being introduced to nan charismatic zookeeper who would seizure her heart.

“Right distant we were talking astir wildlife, and our passions successful life, and I kept thinking, ‘I wonderment if this guy’s married,’ ” she said. “He said to me, ‘Would you for illustration to meet my girlfriend, Sue?’ I tried to beryllium cool astir it, but I was devastated. Then he goes, ‘Hey Sue, Suey, travel here.’ And his small canine came moving astir nan corner. ‘This is my girlfriend, Sue,’ he said. I thought, ‘Yes!’ ”

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She told PEOPLE nan 2 had an instant relationship — but Steve played a small difficult to get erstwhile she near Australia to return location to Oregon, wherever she worked arsenic a vet tech and ran an animal rehab installation called Cougar Country.

“He said, ‘We’ll person to support successful touch,’ but past a week went by and he hadn’t called, and 2 and three. I thought possibly I misunderstood what I thought nan relationship was," Terri recalled.

After a month, Steve yet called and announced, "I’m coming to Oregon to spot you." The remainder was history.