Picture you 56 years ago
The day Barry and Margaret Sharman were married in 1968 the group posed for some portraits, but weeks later when the photos were ready, there was a problem. The Sharmans, who were cash-strapped newlyweds, did not have enough money to pay for the photos. With a heavy heart, they left them at the studio in Armstrong, BC where Margaret grew up. Margaret often thought about the photos, she said, but she and Barry had moved to Vancouver Island and were busy raising two sons. Several years after the wedding, Margaret decided to inquire about the photos, but she learned that W. E. Saby Photography had closed, and she couldn’t track down the owner, who took the photos. “It was disappointing, but I thought, ‘OK, he’s left town, and the photos have probably been destroyed,’” said Margaret. “I just put it in the back of my mind and moved on.”
Margaret had a friend who had been one of her bridesmaids way back in 1968, Sandy Farynuk. Sandy is president of the Enderby and District Museum Society, had just gotten a black-and-white photo of a wedding party from a historical museum. A local historian and Armstrong museum volunteer sent it to Sandy after looking through a stack of photos that had been donated, and thought she recognized a young Sandy in one of them. “I said, ‘Oh my, yes, that’s me,’” recalled Sandy, 76. “I had never before seen that picture.” Sandy showed the picture to her friend Margaret. “It was so emotional to see a photo of our entire wedding party,” Margaret said. “I was stunned.”
Friends took a few personal snapshots at the wedding and gave them to the Sharmans, but they decided purchasing the studio photos was too much of a luxury, Barry said. “I was flabbergasted when I saw the photos – that day is all a blur to me now,” he said. “I have to laugh at the group photo where nobody is smiling. We look like we all came from a funeral. But I know we were actually very happy that day. The photographer is an angel,” she said. “He could have destroyed those photos, and he didn’t. If he is still alive, I’d like to tell him ‘Thank you.’ The photos he took 56 years ago are the most thoughtful, miraculous gift I could ever have imagined.”
Picture this wedding couple
I came home one day. My wife was watching a movie, she kept on screaming at the TV, “Don’t do it, Don’t do it.” I asked her what movie she was watching?
She said, “A video of our wedding day.”
My wife was giving a speech at her parents’ wedding anniversary, and my phone battery ran out in the middle of recording it.
Now I’ll never hear the end of it.
I complimented the waitress on the great looking new menus.
After the meal she asked me how everything was.
I said, “My compliments to the photographer.”
This married couple have a wedding day that is on the same day as the wife’s birthday. When asked about it, the wife said:
“It’s because he convinced me to. He said it’s to make the most important day of my life twice as important as any other normal wedding day. I’m happy that he’s the one I’m married to.”
The husband, when asked the same question: “It’s easier to remember the date that way.”
January 28th Birthdays
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