Couple find their lost wedding video after 57 years - thanks to Facebook
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Couple find their lost wedding video after 57 years - thanks to Facebook
(Web Desk) - Their love stood the test of time.
An Australian couple who misplaced their wedding video got it back after 57 years.
Brisbane’s Aileen Turnbull tied the knot with her husband Bill in Scotland in 1967 and shortly after their nuptials, they borrowed a projector to view the footage taken of them leaving church on their big day.
Aileen, now 77, said, watching the video after over five decades, it was a 'surreal' experience.
However, the then-newlyweds left the film in the projector and never saw it again - until Turnbull was scrolling through Facebook and noticed a still shot taken from the lost video.
“I was looking through Facebook, and up came this wedding photograph. My husband was sitting here, I turned to him and I said ‘There’s our wedding photograph,'” Turnbull said.
The Facebook photo was posted in a group for Australian natives by Terry Cheyne of Scotland - whose uncle was the man who had loaned the couple his projector more than five decades ago.
“One day he decided he was moving house so I recovered my films. I kept them in my loft for a long time. And then I decided I would transfer them onto DVD, because I didn’t have the outlet.
“The first film that was on the DVD was a mysterious unknown film to me. It was clearly a wedding, in Mastrick Church. I watched it many times, I didn’t know anybody.”
Turnbull said watching it was “surreal.”
“It just seems strange for me to see my mother and my father, not just in a photograph but they’re actually moving and walking,” she told the outlet.
“And my husband, he saw his grandmother and his grandfather, who was 100 when he died. To look back and see these people was just absolutely amazing, I still can’t believe it really.”
