Couple who couldn't afford to claim their wedding photos sees them for the first time in 56 years

Wedding photos are priceless keepsakes, but this couple who tied the knot in 1968 couldn't afford to have them printed at the time. Years later, fate intervened, and some of their long-lost wedding pictures resurfaced.

It happened when some of the photos from Margaret and Barry Sharman's wedding ended up at a garage sale.

A person who works at a local museum called Sandra Farynuk, the president of Enderby and District Museum Society and a longtime friend of Margaret, and said she should have a look at the photos because one of the bridesmaids looked like her.

Sandra recognized herself in one of the photos and immediately texted Margaret to ask if she had the original copy.

"I said we were never able to pick them up because we didn't have any money," Margaret told CBC's Radio West.

Sandra replied to her, saying she was "looking at them."

For Christmas, she gifted the couple, now in their late 70s, the set of wedding photos including a group shot, a portrait of the newlyweds, and a solo photo of the bride.

"She cried a lot. Happy tears," Barry said of his wife. "She was just beside herself with joy." 

Barry added that he could still remember his wife walking down the aisle in a white gown made by her mother.

"I was just so happy that she picked me," he told CBC.

"I just looked back and how young we were," Barry added. "Marg was 20, I was 21. We've come a long way, and we've had a wonderful time and a wonderful life."

Margaret is nothing but grateful to the photographer who held onto the photos. "He's just an angel for taking the time to keep them and not dispose of them. Every time I think about it I cry."