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Title: L W Smith and Grace Marion stoppards wedding 1931 (my parents)
Post by: ROSEPIP on Thursday 14 July 22 20:21 BST (UK)

restore and colour if possible please.
newspaper cutting  gives the following info#
bride wore cream satin gown and lace satin shoes , also a veil with orange blossom. bouquet pink roses
3 bridesmaids peach satin frock with matching shoes, lace straw hats trimmed with flowers and matching velvet ribbon. flowers were pink and mauve sweet peas
brides mother work blue lace frock with matching hat (sat on right of photo)
bridegrooms mother wore beige silk frock and hat to match. both ladies wore sprays of cream roses.

nearly 91 years ago when mum was 27 years old.

thanks

Title: Re: L W Smith and Grace Marion stoppards wedding 1931 (my parents)
Post by: ROSEPIP on Friday 15 July 22 20:08 BST (UK)

hope this comes through

Title: Re: L W Smith and Grace Marion stoppards wedding 1931 (my parents)
Post by: McGroger on Saturday 16 July 22 06:04 BST (UK)

My try. :)
I'm a bit colour-blind, Rose, so just a black & white from me.
Peter

Title: Re: L W Smith and Grace Marion stoppards wedding 1931 (my parents)
Post by: japeflakes on Saturday 16 July 22 06:45 BST (UK)

Good job there.

Much better than with colour:

Title: Re: L W Smith and Grace Marion stoppards wedding 1931 (my parents)
Post by: McGroger on Saturday 16 July 22 06:48 BST (UK)

Thanks, JF. :D
Peter

Title: Re: L W Smith and Grace Marion stoppards wedding 1931 (my parents)
Post by: ROSEPIP on Saturday 16 July 22 09:49 BST (UK)

you are a super talented lot.
this will look good to put i my family history file . soo much clearer than the photo

thanks soo much
rose

Title: Re: L W Smith and Grace Marion stoppards wedding 1931 (my parents)
Post by: John-76 on Saturday 16 July 22 21:20 BST (UK)

I'm sure the colors are not necessarily correct. Colors don't always look the same computer monitor to computer monitor. I hope these are close enough.

Title: Re: L W Smith and Grace Marion stoppards wedding 1931 (my parents)
Post by: ROSEPIP on Sunday 17 July 22 09:09 BST (UK)

thanks john 76
. colours are in the eye of the beholder. thanks for your effort , it gives a different perspective to how it might have looked
rose p

Title: Re: L W Smith and Grace Marion stoppards wedding 1931 (my parents)
Post by: tomkin on Sunday 17 July 22 14:47 BST (UK)

Can't fine tune it I'm afraid, mi' eyes are sore and I've got 800 lines of small print to "proof read"


               Ne'er mind eh!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Title: Re: L W Smith and Grace Marion stoppards wedding 1931 (my parents)
Post by: ROSEPIP on Sunday 17 July 22 17:06 BST (UK)

thanks
everyone is being really super doing this.
even if the colours are only what we might think, it really bring s the wedding to life..
hope your eyes are not suffering too much, take care and thanks again
never met any of the grandparents except my mums dad on the right of the picture.
this really makes them have being
rosep