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)?

I'd try the vicar or point of contact at st Paul's.

If the couple had some sort of honours or connection with the cathedral or school, they may still be connected or the vicar/ admin may pass on the query for you via another channel (school alumni maybe).

There are a lot of online routes which they may never see but the cathedral feels like quite a tangible place to try having exhausted the obvious initial online routes.

Don't do that! If nothing else they are a fantastic genealogical resource.

Ah, I think the couple you want live in Montecito, in America, now.
They are on X or something, so you can probably contact them that way.

OP do you love close enough to St. Paul's that the couple might have been related to someone from the cathedral community?

Are the bride and groom's names unusual or relatively commonplace? If the surname is say Aldwinckle the perhaps googling Aldwinckle OBE or the other orders might reveal who might have been the person who made them eligible to be married there.

You could do a post on local groups looking for Sue and Tony who for married at St Paul's in 1992. No photos and nothing too revealing.

I was about to say the same! Only a select group of people can get married in the Crypt - I recall also people who are directly linked to the cathedral (I remember it vaguely from running an event in the Crypt years ago)

Estate agent who you bought house from

They would have the sellers details

My brother got married in St Paul's. Whereabouts in the country are you? That might help if anyone else has a relative who got married there.

Snort! (Overlooking that they got married at the Abbey)

I'm not 100% certain where our wedding album is and we're very happily married. I think if they were likely to trigger painful memories they'd have been more likely to have thrown them away than put them in the loft for someone else to find.

Did they really?
Missed a trick there, me thinks.

Please don't post weddings photos of strangers on FB without their consent!

@TwoLeftSocksWithHoles no I am wrong! They got married in Windsor. I knew it wasn't St. Paul's. It was at st George's chapel.

I know someone that got married at St Paul's. Can you give us the initials of their first names OP?

Someone posted someone's wedding photo on a local Facebook group. The couple were found in a day or so.
Lots of people remembered the Vicar too as did I.

So many good ideas- will be surprised if I don't have more info on this after trying some of these. Ok, their names are Elizabeth and Adrian and they got married in 1990. Not posting a picture but they're both white and he's got brown hair and she looks blonde. I'm sure that's enough info for anyone here to recognise if they know them. Both probably slightly greyer now though!

why not contact the people you bought the house from and ask them?

Are they the last home owners?

Oh, I'm finding this a little creepy! I have horror movie vibes! 😱

Surely St. Paul's will have marriage records, don't people sign the register or something?

That's the first thing I'd do. You know their names, so maybe the church can trace them and forward on the pics for you.

I ended up with 1000s of photos when a relative died. So many from their youth with people I had no idea the identity of. I found a relative of one of the main people featuring in so many of them via a local Facebook page (most towns/areas have one). Turns out the chap in the photos died about 5 years prior, and had lost all his own photos in a flood years ago. I travelled to meet his son who was so grateful to have photos of his father in his younger years.

I'd be looking through to find anything that may identify a local area. Would they have lived near where they got married? Is there an rsvp address on the invites? Then find local Facebook groups and post something along the lines of - "looking to get in contact with Adrian or Elizabeth surname, married at X on Y date, or someone who knows them"

I can understand why the divorced couple wouldn't want them but if they included relative who aren't alive anymore these photos can still be interesting to another generation.

I'm a vicar and I have to be honest if someone came to me asking about a couple who got married in my church I'm not sure what help I could give you. Presumably they lived in the house that OP lives in so that would be the address I could give you. We are also supposed to charge to look up church registers for people.

You have the date of the wedding and the location. Ask St Paul's. It's truly scary what churches know.

Commenting as I want to find out the outcome!