HRH Mrs Jones (Princess Margaret)
Saturday 7th May 1960
THE INTIMATE MOMENTS of a Wonderful Day
Times and language change but the sentiments of a wedding day remain the same.
Take this moment in the lives of a young couple going to the altar, the doting father of the bride and the cheeky younger brother, the proud mum and groups of onlookers enjoy the special celebratory air of occasion.
Reading a newspaper from 1960 brings back evocative memories as long forgotten detail are recalled. Take this newspaper copy from the wedding of Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones.
'They are off on honeymoon - the gay Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong Jones.The Duke [of Edinburgh] was all smiles - in contrast to a sombre, rather serious-looking Queen.Queen Ingrid of Denmark has a quite word with a kilted Prince Charles.Simply beautiful - her dress was a dream in white.'
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The Reporting is a Bit Different Nowadays
Weddings that hit the headlines in recent times are regulated by spreads in popular gossip magazines, besieged by celebrity-hunting photographers, and generally treated as a circus to tickle our jaded palettes.
Almost fifty years ago the talk was gushing and respectful, the crowds added to the atmosphere of celebration, The Daily Mirror, in a special souvenir edition pronounced 'Happy with swarming people, gorgeous with May sunshine, dazzling with colour and scented with a million blossoms.It was intimate and gentle - an astonishingly relaxed blending of panoply and shirt-sleeves, kind hearts and coronets.'
How would you like your wedding remembered? Would you like to recall the '.million blossoms' and 'dazzling.colour? How will you capture your piece of history? Will it just be digital images? What makes a wedding is the couple and their circle of family and friends and the memories they share; the wedding planning, the wedding organisation, as well as the wedding day.
Treasure Trove of Memories 
A newspaper is a compact expression of that history and a treasure-trove of memories. Will your day be captured like this royal wedding of 1960? Fancy reading about your day and marking it with reports such as.
'And in the end, for just an hour, it was just as exactly as Princess Margaret hoped it would be.heart-warming wedding of a man and woman in love.'
Our digital world can capture exact moments but we seem to have lost some of the magic that these newspaper archives relate with their bold headings, their snappy paragraphs, and there rich use of language to liberate the raw emotions of a special day in our lives.
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