Photographer Surprises Bride With Wedding Photo Gift

Karen Cline of Mansfield, Ohio in the United States received a precious wedding gift 27 years after she and her husband Mark were married. The pair wed in 1980 in a very simple ceremony. The bride borrowed her sister’s gown and made all of her flowers.

The couple, who were 18 and 19 at the time of their wedding, hired a photographer to take pictures, but after all the bills were paid, there was no money left to pay him. The bride had only a single photograph of herself in her wedding dress, but there were no pictures of her husband or family on her special day. Even Cline’s borrowed dress was later claimed by a house fire.

Cline works as a waitress at a diner in Mansfield, and was visited last week by Jim Wagner, her wedding photographer, now 80 years old. Wagner presented Cline with her wedding photo album as a surprise gift. Cline spent the rest of the day in tears, explaining that many of the guests in the photos have passed away, and the wedding photos are the only ones she has of them.

Wagner had cleaned out a closet in his home a month earlier and found Cline’s wedding album. He knew she didn’t have any money at the time of her wedding and thought she might like to have the pictures now. With no way of contacting Cline, he put the album back into the closet. By chance, he ran into Cline’s step-father, who told Wagner where he could find Cline.

After he presented her with the album, Cline immediately wrote Wagner a check for $150, the price she and her husband had agreed to pay him in 1980. She also bought Wagner breakfast. For his part, Wagner said he simply figured that Cline would like to have her album. He also said that he hadn’t been hugged that much in years.

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