Couple Reunited with Lost Wedding Film After 57 Years

A couple in Australia, Aileen and Bill Turnbull, were joyfully reunited with their wedding video after 57 years, BBC reported.  The couple, who married at Mastrick Church in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1967, emigrated to Brisbane, Australia in 1981, unwittingly leaving the cine film of their wedding in a borrowed projector. The projector's owner, Terry Cheyne, later discovered the lost footage among his old Super 8 mm films.

This past April, Cheyne decided to transfer his collection to DVD and was surprised to find a wedding film of people he couldn't identify. He posted a still image on a local Facebook group, with no responses for nearly six months. It was eventually shared with a group for Aberdeen's Mastrick residents, catching the eye of Mrs. Turnbull. Having just joined the group, she was astonished to recognize herself and her husband in the photograph.

Upon contacting Cheyne, Mrs. Turnbull learned that his uncle had been their work colleague from whom they borrowed the projector after their nuptials. Cheyne sent them a digital version of the film. Seeing their younger selves and loved ones in motion after so many years was especially poignant for the Turbulls.

Aileen reminisced about seeing her parents, as well as her husband's grandparents, caught on film, saying it was just surreal. With almost everyone from the wedding passed on, reliving those memories was incredibly special. Cheyne expressed his happiness in providing a joyful closure for the Turnbulls and hopes to meet them in Aberdeen someday if they visit on holiday, proclaiming it a very happy ending indeed.

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