PHOTO: Couple Recreates Wedding 77 Years Later

• Couple recreates wedding 77 years later after the original wedding didn’t have photos

EKO HOT BLOG reports that a couple who was married in 1944, but wasn’t able to have their ceremony photographed, recently recreated their wedding 77 years later.

Royce and Frankie King married on September 16, 1944, just before Royce left for the war. According to SWNS, the ceremony was not documented because it was a hasty wedding.

The couple from Oelwein, Iowa, made amends in September of this year, according to hospice caregivers from St. Croix Hospice.

Royce, now 98, and Frankie, now 97, met as teens and began dating a few years later, according to SWNS. They became engaged in 1944 and planned to marry soon after, before to Royce’s deployment to the war with the United States Army Air Corps.

Frankie couldn’t find a wedding gown on such short notice. Royce donned his military uniform, while she wore a white outfit she already had.

After the war, Frankie and Royce settled in Oelwein, Iowa, and had their two children, Jim, 71, and Sue Bilodeau, 68. The couple still lives in the house where they raised their children, Bilodeau told SWNS.

“They were and are wonderful parents,” she said. “It was a very happy family life.”

Earlier this year, the couple started receiving care from St. Croix Hospice. According to Bilodeau, one of the staff found out it was Royce and Frankie’s anniversary and asked to see their wedding photos.

When the couple explained that they didn’t have any wedding photos, the St. Croix carers decided to rectify the situation.

The staff got flowers, a photographer and even bought a proper wedding dress from the 1940s for Frankie to wear, according to SWNS. Meanwhile, Royce wore his military uniform, just like at their original wedding.

A St. Croix staff member even played music from the ‘40s while Frankie walked down the aisle in the couple’s backyard.

Bilodeau, who attended the recreated wedding, said it was “the most magical moment.”

“They are just in love as the day they met,” she said. “Dad was very proud to put on his uniform for mom and mom loved being pampered.”

“They were just beaming at each other the whole time,” she added. “It’s wonderful for them to finally have wedding photos, after all this time.”

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