I found someone's wedding photos in our loft!

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Can the power of Mumsnet help me? DH and I were clearing out the loft and amongst the long forgotten junk there was a bag of beautiful wedding photos, along with a copy of the couple's invitations, some larger mounted prints and an order of service. They were married in St Paul's Cathedral! What to do? How to get them back to their rightful owners (hope they're still together!! Way too invested now)?

Do you recognise the name at all? (Like the previous resident)
Or ask any neighbours if they've been there a long time?

Google their names for a start.

There will be land ownership records of the house, which might be a place to start.

Ask the neighbours?

Post a couple of pics and their names to local FB groups and see if anyone recognises them.

I take it you've Googled their names and asked in your local Facebook groups?

Actually it might be best if you list all the things you've tried so far, so we don't repeat/suggest them?

Honestly who puts their beautiful wedding pictures and memories in a forgotten box in the loft? Probably someone who finds the memories painful so please don’t start splashing the pictures all over social media. Should be easy enough to find them if you have a name.

How interesting! What year approx? Might make a difference if we're talking recent, 100 years ago or anywhere in between.

Do you have contact details for the previous owners or could you get them from estate agents? They might pass a message on if it involves personal effects?

Bin them! If they’ve been shoved up in an attic, there wasn’t a happy ending...

I don’t agree it means they split up or there wasn’t a happy ending. My wedding album is in the loft eaves cupboard but I’m still very happily married. It’s just big and bulky so doesn’t fit on a shelf very well. I don’t plan to leave it behind but I can see how it might happen and unless the OP has only just moved in then it’s taken them a while to find it meaning it wasn’t just lying in the middle of the floor.

I was thinking that... my wedding memory box is in the attic simply because its a sensible place to store it. You might put one wedding photo on the wall, but not the whole lot!

No advice to offer, but interested to know how this turns out.

Me too!

You could contact the vicar at St Paul’s. Military people - well sone if they’ve got an OBE have the right to get married in the crypt. Might be relevant or not at all!

It doesn't automatically point to 'painful memories' or unhappy endings.

If that was the case the owner would've binned them, not left them for someone else to sort out.

tell us what you’ve already tried! How interesting

I agree with others. No one willingly leaves their wedding album in the loft of a house for years without realising or trying to get them back. They’re either dead or have split up.

Post a picture of the invitation and a wedding photo on here and see if anybody from the mumsnet universe knows them?

I have a box of some wedding and honeymoon related stuff in my loft. I've taken what I want but I don't want these. Waiting for ex to let me know if he wants them and if not he can dispose of them. I won't be leaving the, behind for the new owners, that's not fair. Probably a mistaken left behind box. Definitely don't post on the more main social media though. I would speak to the solicitor who you bought the house through and they can call them and ask.

I thought everyone shoved their wedding photos up in the loft in and amongst all sorts of random belongings. Would be strange if it was the only thing ever up there.

Most people do which is why they might not have been missed.

Bob and Barbara probably think the other one moved them from the old loft to their current one.

They may not realise they're missing until Barbara sends Bob up to find them, on the evening of their 25th wedding anniversary 😁

You have to have special permission to get married in St Pauls. If you have the date and the name they will help trace them.

Thanks for the ideas! I've already googled, FB searched the names, asked small whatsapp group of families on our street, asked larger FB group consisting of others on our street (not a big street) but wary of posting details further as Fathercrispness says. It's early 90s that the wedding took place. We've been here 7 years but redoing the loft conversion and there's a tiny prism of loft remaining above the rooms up there and we found out when clearing for the work.

Would they be able to trace them beyond the OP's house, though (or wherever they were living when they married)?