Their love is eternal.
A young cash-strapped couple who couldn’t afford their wedding photos have finally been given the chance to look at them – 56 years later.
“She cried a lot. Happy tears,” Barry Sharman told the CBC of his wife, Margaret. “She was just beside herself with joy.”
Margaret, 77, and Barry, 78, who married in 1968, hired a wedding photographer for their celebration. But when it came time to pay, they had enough to cover his services—not the prints.
“We were never able to get them because we didn’t have the money,” Margaret told CBC Radio West.
The British Columbia, Canada couple kept the memory of their big day in their hearts — as they had no physical images.
However, years later, Margaret’s longtime friend and sister-in-law Sandra Farynuk was shocked when she came across the photographs at a museum where she worked.
Farynuk recognized himself in Sharman’s wedding photo and decided to surprise the couple with a special delivery.
“It was heartening for me to be able to do that,” Farynuk told the CBC.
After retouching the photos, Farynuk sent the images to Margaret and Barry on Christmas Eve.
When the couple received the package, they were excited to see their wedding day. The set of prints included one of the wedding, one of the newlyweds, and a third image of the bride posing by herself.
“I just looked back and how young we were,” Barry said. “Marg was 20, I was 21. We’ve come a long way and had a great time and a great life.”
Margaret is overcome with emotion when she looks at her wedding photos, thankful that her photographer kept the images.
“He’s just an angel who took the time to keep them and not destroy them. Every time I think about it, I cry,” Margaret told local newspaper Summerland Review.
Meanwhile, for Barry, the photos take him down memory lane to the moment he first laid eyes on his “stunning” bride, who was wearing a white dress made by her mother.
“I was very happy that she chose me,” he recalls.
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