Days Gone By....

Hey, lovely pics Mandspice!!

I've no pics to share but its my folks 49th Wedding anniversary today ***** *****

Am hoping to incorporate some of their pics into our day

This is a rare photo....Yours truly....back in 1982.....Incredibly our tog had won the Kodak tog of the year award the previous year.....how times and styles have changed!!!

Great photo Peter - and here's us in 1983:-

This was in the days of Princess Diana - huge train, huge sleeves and everything floaty and fluffy! Most people then also had just a reception which finished around 5/6pm. It was rare for couples to live together so they didn't hang around after the wedding as they were eager to get away on honeymoon Brides had a 'going away' outfit which she quickly changed into in the toilets at the reception and then everyone waved them off with tin cans trailing on the car and 'just married' scrawled in lipstick on the windows.

That's a lovely idea Doddyclaire. Happy Anniv to them!

And fab pic Peter. I was a bridesmaid for my auntie in the 80s and she wore a very similar dress!

I can't see the pic Rainbow Florist

I remember the tin cans from 80s /90s weddings ha!

Weddings then always seemed less about all the "stuff" you're supposed to have and more about the celebration.

Very true - also there wasn't as much choice in 'stuff' then either so nobody knew any different. I'll try to flash it again, fingers crossed:-

This is my mom and dad with my nan and grandad (1966)

LoveSka your mum is so glam- love the beehive!

I can't get this picture to go the right way grrrr but that is ma and pa in 1981- she was such a youngen' at 19

I hope that you do not mind but I have turned it around and "tweeked" it a little for you

I may of over cooked the upper arm veil area but I wanted to try and get the detail out - looks like lace

That is wonderfull!!! Thank you so much

It is so much clearer- just shows what a pro can do ?

This is my Mum with my 2 sisters, auntie and cousin before she married my Dad. I got ready in the same room 30 years later though luckily the curtains had changed

Thank you glad that you like it. For me detail and colour are king I get so frustrated when I see shots with a white blob where the dress detail should be

Any one else that wants me to tweek their old photos let me know

Oooh love, love, love old photos.

Is there anything you can do with the one I posted?

stand by !

Are the bridesmaids supposed to be pink or peach

Peach I think...it was 1981!

Nope - think ive got it it looks like the small ones are peach and the older ones are pink

Ask your mum if that was it

I also took out the pole thing from the bridesmaids head and shut the curtains left the shadows for now and not cropped.

Same year as my ma n pa!

Bill that looks ace!

My parents aren't married (never have been) and my grandparents didn't have a wedding as such so this is the only photo I have of them, at someone else's wedding I believe.

Sorry it's not uber weddingy.

I think my grandad may well have been Count Dracula though!My nan hasn't changed a bit.

Thats amazing! Thanks very much.

Hope that you dont mind but I could not resist this one

Your welcome

It would be good to find out if I have got the 2 peach and 2 pink right

I am intrigued by those extra shadows top right.......

We know that they are not from the cameras flash as they are in the wrong position for that

I think that they are inside because it is raining, because it is raining it is dark, and they have a lamp on a side table giving the shadows.

Even from a nice roaring fire as it looks a low light and would be in the right position in the room for that shadow.

Or I am guesing that they have a big mirror brought down from the bedroom and the angle of it has caught the camra flash as this may well of been a cube flash which is not as directional

My own guess is a Metz type flashgun which traditionally mounted on the left of the camera and would explain the heavy shadow to the right of the faces.........The other shadows are much less intense which implies another source or a reflected source travelling a greater distance from a low angle, hence it being softer....your mirror idea might explain this.

I wouldnt say it is Not a metz as that is a pro flsah and a pro would not cut off the subject like that and take mostly a picture of curtains.

It dud rain on thier wedding day, it was in September though so doubt there was a fire on.

I bloody love it, you look so much like your mom! That's how I'm having my hair!

Thanks for that --but they did have an open fire then ?

I'm not sure, they do now but I remember a gas fire growing up?

Ok thanks

let me know if the two smaller bridesmaids were peach and if not I will put them back to pink