Oct. 4 (UPI) — An Australian couple was reunited after 57 years with a long-lost video of their wedding in Scotland thanks to a Facebook post.
Terry Cheyne from Aberdeen, Scotland, said he had amassed a large collection of Super 8 films over the years, most of which he shot himself, but when he decided to have his collection put on DVD in April this year, he discovered the scrolls including a wedding between two people he didn’t recognize.
He posted a still image from the film to a local Facebook group, but six months passed without any clues as to the couple’s identity.
The photo was recently shared with a group of residents in the Mastrick area of Aberdeen and came to the attention of Aileen Turnbull.
Turnbull, 77, who lives in Brisbane, Australia, said she had only been a member of the Facebook group for five minutes when she saw her own wedding photo.
“I was looking on Facebook and came across this wedding photo. My husband was sitting here, I turned to him and said, ‘There’s our wedding photo,'” she says. told BBC Scotland.
Turnbull and her husband, Bill, 77, married at Mastrick Church in Aberdeen in 1967 before later moving to Brisbane.
The couple said they watched their wedding video only once before discovering they had accidentally left it in a borrowed projector that they had returned to its owner.
“I messaged Terry and it just grew from there. His uncle was the man we borrowed the projector from to see the movie after the wedding. He worked with my husband,” Turnbull said.
Cheyne sent the Turnbulls a digitized copy of the wedding video.
“It just seems strange to me to see my mother and my father, not just in a photo, but actually moving and walking,” Aileen Turnbull said. “And my husband saw his grandmother and his grandfather, who was 100 when he died.”
She said seeing the video after 57 years was “just absolutely amazing – I still can’t really believe it.”
