Photograph
Black and white image includes 6 people, three woman and three men (a bridal party), woman on the left is wearing a knee length short sleeved dress with a floral headband, veil and is holding a floral bouquet, the man next to her is wearing a dark coloured suit with white coloured shirt, dark coloured tie, white coloured pocket square and white coloured carnation? flower on his lapel, the next woman is the bride ( Vivian Anita Sawicki) who is wearing a veil with tiara, a white coloured long sleeved dress with lace neckline and is holding a bouquet of dark coloured flowers, the bride is holding the arm of Ronald Albert Fownes ( the groom) who is wearing a dark coloured suit with white coloured shirt and a light tone tie with a white coloured pocket square and a white coloured carnation on his lapel, the next woman is wearing a floral headband with veil, knee length dress and is holding a bouquet of light coloured flowers, the next man is wearing a dark coloured suit with white coloured shirt, dark coloured tie, white coloured pocket square and white coloured carnation? flower on his proper left lapel; on the back for the photo is a small white coloured piece of paper with, "May 18, 1963 bridal party, (left) Diana Sawicki (15), Marvin Lovberg, Anita Sawicki, Ronald Fownes, Joan Sawicki (18), Dick Tallon", machine printed in black coloured ink; "12" in a circle, handwritten in grey coloured ink; yellow coloured tape marks on the four corners.
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